Trick & Treat started off well enough. It establishes some decent lore and has some creepy vibes. The music was pretty good at bringing outTrick & Treat started off well enough. It establishes some decent lore and has some creepy vibes. The music was pretty good at bringing out those vibes. I couldn’t help but notice though that I didn’t like any of the endings at first. They just felt quick and not quite right. I did some digging and found a guide to all of the endings and it turns out that you don’t get all of the available choices the first play through. I don’t mean that you can’t see everything because you went down a different story branch, I mean that they literally don’t show up the first time through. Reloading a save and going back through confirmed this for me as I had options that I didn’t previously have. I can’t say I’m a fan of this mechanic. I am all for needing to go back and make different choices to see different endings but this is different, this is having to replay through the same choices to see something different for no good reason. Apparently there is even an ending that you only see if you have completed all other endings. I prefer it to be that the endings I got was a result of my choices not due to grinding or which number play through I’m on. The art was decent and I liked the characters of Lillian and Ashley. I liked the story outside of what I had to do to advance it.
I played Trick & Treat on Linux. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. You can manually save at any time and there are 36 save slots.
Game Engine: Ren’Py
Graphics API: OpenGL
Save System: Manual (any time)
Disk Space Used: 121 MB
GPU Usage: 0-77 %
VRAM Usage: 646-711 MB
CPU Usage: 2-4 %
RAM Usage: 2.7-2.8 GB
Overall while I liked what the game had to offer I really didn’t like how they handled the choices or the endings. Hopefully the developer chooses to ditch that mechanic in future games because they do have talent otherwise. I finished my first play through in 30 minutes.
My Score: 6.5/10
My System:
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 21.1.2 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Manjaro 21.0.7 | Mate 1.24.1 | Kernel 5.12.9-1-MANJARO… Expand
