- Publisher: BLOODIOUS GAMES
- Release Date: Jul 8, 2022
- Also On: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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Jul 21, 2022Numerous jump scares, logical and challenging puzzles, and psychological horror that shake your mind. It is worth considering that MADiSON has the best core elements among recent horror games. However, the links between the narrative and puzzles may not be easily found due to lack of hints.
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Aug 22, 2022All in all, MADiSON is a good game but a mediocre horror. I have some serious issues with it, but I can’t dismiss the potential. I believe the next game will be able to compete with Visage, and I’m already waiting for it impatiently.
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Jul 14, 2022Very classic in content as in form, MADiSON will not really succeed in standing out from its models but still has robust qualities: a horrifying atmosphere that keeps you on the lookout and surprisingly clever puzzles that will make you take out your pencil and a piece of paper.
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Jul 13, 2022Madison is a creepy crawl through a twisted haunted house with enough genuine out-of-your-seat scares to leave you shaken like a Polaroid picture.
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Jul 27, 2022Madison loses itself to out-of-place flights of fancy during its middle periods, allowing you to time-travel as you solve a series of colour-coded painting puzzles that do little to advance the overall plot of the game, and feel more like placeholders than real, mechanically or thematically-relevant puzzles. It says a lot about the audio and visual design of the game that this lack of self-control doesn’t actually impact the experience too much. That said, if you’re the kind of person who gets easily hung up on inventory puzzles, Madison may test your patience as much as it tests your nerves.
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Jul 11, 2022Madison works up a solid premise and uses its camera mechanics effectively as a means of communing with the supernatural. Its multipart puzzles are also often a highlight. As a horror experience, however, it falls back on a handful of simple tricks, detracting from subtle psychological concerns for the sake of easy thrills.
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Jul 12, 2022MADiSON is simultaneously one of the most tantalizing, yet enraging horror experiences I’ve ever played. The atmosphere and story are rich and engaging, and the scares are turned up to 11. But the puzzles are so baffling that it’s tough to recommend this game even to devoted horror fans. That said, I’d love to see Bloodious Games take another stab at a horror project with more streamlined gameplay.
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Aug 10, 2022Madison is not without its faults: it abuses jumpscares too much, it's not very good in terms of gameplay, nor is it surprising in terms of story. However, it achieves what it sets out to do: terror. One of the scariest games of recent times.
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Jul 8, 2022Madison is a little too clever for its own good. For all that it can be a bit ridiculous (in an endearing way, at that) it does some genuinely great things, and really takes advantage of everything the in-game camera can offer. But at least an hour of your six-ish in the hell-house will be you swaggering back and forth angrily interacting with things you already found, until you stumble on the solution you need. This massively undercuts the pacing, to the point that the well-crafted scares and monstrous monsters stop being as effective. I'd still recommend it to a horrorficionado, but the rec isn't as full-throated as it could have been. If the puzzle bits were a little easier, the horror bits of Madison would be able to properly shine.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 499 out of 617
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Mixed: 12 out of 617
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Negative: 106 out of 617
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Jul 13, 2022Me cagué encima jugandolo. Juego argentino encima. Tremenda calidad papá! Aguante argentinaa