The Park

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6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 87 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 87
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 87
  3. Negative: 27 out of 87

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  1. carnivorCactae
    Jul 3, 2016
    0
    A Shooter on Rails without the shooting.
    And without the enemies.
    In fact without anything of interest. The trailer gives the misleading impression, "The Park" is a Horror game. But its clearly not. Its just another walking simulator. With no pay off or big twist or even anything interesting happening, and a really, really bland and "story". Stop advertising your "artsy    A Shooter on Rails without the shooting.
    And without the enemies.
    In fact without anything of interest.

    The trailer gives the misleading impression, "The Park" is a Horror game.
    But its clearly not.

    Its just another walking simulator.
    With no pay off or big twist or even anything interesting happening,
    and a really, really bland and "story".

    Stop advertising your "artsy experience walking simulators" as games already!    … Expand
  2. iozay
    Jun 28, 2018
    0
    Horrible game company that tends to suspend their players at random and refuses to give players a reason (Except: Sorry, its extremely busy we can't answer)). I highly recommend to not deal with this company.

    Funcom games are also in general extremely buggy but every game does has its unique flavor. Its just that the company is too horrible that I can't recommend any of their games.
  3. Dejakritz
    Oct 27, 2015
    4
    The Park relies heavily on story. It does a good job of building mystery and has some good jump scares. But everything is overshadowed by a sudden, arbitrary end which renders your formerly interesting journey meaningless.
  4. cZONE
    Oct 29, 2015
    1
    Langweiliges Horrorspiel lohnt sich nicht unter 1 Stunde durch Null Spannung da gibt es bessere Spiele!Story ziemlich wirr und langweilig eindeutig Fehlkauf...
  5. Zer0TheHer0
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    could be a decent game, but the lack of keyboard binding options makes it absolutely unplayable. the lack of rebinding options is absolutely lazy and something that is not to be tolerated in this time and age
    also the bonuses given to the secret world players make that game now a pay to win and it's unacceptable
  6. vwh187
    Nov 2, 2015
    0
    The single-player short offering from Funcom falls very short of expectation, particularly given all the hype around this supposed "game" from the troubled games company. It's not a new concept, it's not particularly innovative and it's definitely not worth the price of admission.
    Graphically, the game looks pretty good, but you do need a super-optimised system in order to run it.    The single-player short offering from Funcom falls very short of expectation, particularly given all the hype around this supposed "game" from the troubled games company. It's not a new concept, it's not particularly innovative and it's definitely not worth the price of admission.
    Graphically, the game looks pretty good, but you do need a super-optimised system in order to run it. Gameplay-wise, it's all on rails and is basically an over-glorified storybook told from the perspective of a protagonist who's behaviour and monologues aren't consistent with a woman looking for a lost child. Shouldn't she be running around looking for her child instead of going on rides and being nostalgic???? Hard to buy into her story.
    Really disappointing given that this is the same company that had created The Longest Journey, a comparatively much superior and well thought-out product.
    To Funcom management, do us fans a favour and go beg Ragnar Tornquist to come back and start producing amazing games again, not those lousy MMOs that you have been making lately and certainly not shameless promotional tripe like this.    … Expand
  7. TitaniumDragon
    Nov 21, 2017
    0
    The Park is a first person horror walking simulator made by FunCom, the makers of The Secret World. The game is about Lorraine, who returns to the titular park to search for her son, Callum, who has run off into the park in search of his teddy bear.

    Well, maybe. This is one of those games that relies rather heavily on mind screw, and at the end, it isn’t really clear what is real and    The Park is a first person horror walking simulator made by FunCom, the makers of The Secret World. The game is about Lorraine, who returns to the titular park to search for her son, Callum, who has run off into the park in search of his teddy bear.

    Well, maybe.

    This is one of those games that relies rather heavily on mind screw, and at the end, it isn’t really clear what is real and what is fake, or even what actually happened. The protagonist is clearly going crazy and being messed with by The Park, but in the end, the whole thing feels slightly pointless – you walk around the park in a disguised linear loop, but while you see stuff and get to know Lorraine a little bit, ultimately I was left feeling cold. Why should I care? What greater context is there? Some bad guy built an amusement park on bad land and something bad happens as a result. All of the horrible stuff doesn’t really touch me because I’m left wondering why I should care about any of it; there’s no greater connection to the world, and Lorraine isn’t a particularly sympathetic protagonist.

    As a walking simulator, the only gameplay is walking around and clicking on stuff; there’s a few dozen interactive objects within the game, including a few rides that you fade to black to get into rather than organically climbing into them for whatever reason. There’s a couple weird scenes that feel kind of inconsistent with everything else and make little sense until you get towards the end, and even then, you might not realize what it meant unless you think about it (I didn’t realize what a certain scene involving electricity meant until I was writing this review).

    As there isn’t really any gameplay, and the story is confusing and kind of hollow, I’m not really left with a whole lot here. The game looks nice enough – the parking lot at the start of the game looks nice, as does the park at times (especially when first entering), and there is a nice “blood running down the walls” effect, but the game is a rather generic haunted park, and while some moments are nice visually, on the whole there’s nothing particularly memorable about the game.

    As a fan of The Secret World, I did enjoy the nod towards that game in the ending, and indeed, the whole game takes place in a location in that game (or at least an analogue thereof), but, really… I just couldn’t bring myself to care about this game.

    My recommendation? Avoid this.    … Expand
  8. Topfpflanze
    Sep 13, 2021
    4
    One of the most disappointing games of my life. A logically confused walking simulator in which nothing, but absolutely nothing, is remarkable.
  9. Mnkyofthefamly
    Jun 5, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Honestly I’m trying to think of one good thing about this game to provide, it’s not terrible it’s just utterly forgettable. Think of it as a mixture of PT and Five Night’s at Freddy’s mixed with a dash of the incomprehensible twist building of M. Night Shyamalan. The problem is the twist they keep building seems like it’s going to go one way and have the game make sense, but then the game hightails it in a direction that doesn’t have anything to do with everything they just built.
    There were moments when I was truly invested in the story with the main character trying desperately to find her child.

    Sometimes, when the game played it right, my heart truly ached for the character and I found myself hoping that she would find her son alive and well. Even when I knew she wouldn’t and the events in this story were all in her head.

    There were moments, like repeatedly beating you over the head with the story of Hansel and Gretel and the fact that the main character clearly needed medication, that you believed that in a fit of insanity and desperation she killed her son and cooked him. That would have been a truly terrifying experience to get to the end only to realize it’s just her trying to rationalize with herself what she had done to her child. Instead the “twist” ending we find out that she killed her kid at an abandoned amusement park.

    I don’t know what this random a-hole in a chipmunk suit, or the freak in the top hat had to do with anything. They really didn’t add much to the story. Apparently they belong to another game, which shares the same connected universe as this one, and I’m sure if I played that one I would understand. But if you’re going to throw to random characters into a game to promote another one could you at least give us a little background on them first so we know what the bloody blue hell is going on?

    In the meantime, we’re distracted by a walking simulator that goes from point A to point B, with a semi-coherent story with nothing else to add to it but the occasional jump scare. Other than this woman prattling on and on, that is.

    Perhaps I am judging the game just a bit too harshly, but I love horror games and so when a friend recommended "The Park" I was very excited. Knowing that it wasn't a "AAA game" I didn't expect it to be overly long and complicated; what I did expect however was a thrilling and disturbing tale. Right off the bat the game lets you know that it will "mess with your sanity." However, all it “messed with” was whether or not I was fully invested in the story or cared. By the end the constant change of pace and tone only caused me to progressively hate the main character and her whiny attitude more and more.    … Expand
  10. GreenPufferFish
    Jan 12, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was very disapointed i bought the game for £2.99 on steam the plot doesnt make any sense at the end a monster gives you something and you stab your son the monster looks terrible as your looking for your son in a park you go around on amusment park rides not scary at all the only good bit was the hansel and gretel bit near the start if you are instersted its probably worth £1 because £10 for the most boring 70 minutes of your life is wayyy to much.… Expand

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67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 25
  3. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. IGN
    May 4, 2016
    70
    While the first half of The Park tends to lean a bit too hard into the horror tropes of a spooky carnival, the final act does a really great job of developing a character with the pathos that comes from being a mother who’s having a tough time dealing with the impossible stress that comes from being a parent. Sure, it’s some of the same ground that Silent Hill games have covered in the past, but that doesn’t diminish its effectiveness.
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  2. CD-Action
    Jan 12, 2016
    65
    Norwegian horror walker drowns in overused clichés but has some really scary moments. [13/2015, p.57]
  3. Riot Pixels
    Dec 29, 2015
    40
    The Park feels like a typical soulless tie-in game, only it promotes a MMORPG instead of a summer movie.
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