The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

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  1. WalQ
    Sep 1, 2023
    6
    Man of Medan lacks the campy charm of Until Dawn, but still offers an unnerving horror adventure with consequences that felt directly linked to my actions.
  2. Empyrea
    Aug 12, 2023
    6
    I don't like scary/horror games but I do like games with good graphics and those where you can make decisions. What I enjoyed the most were the first 2 hours. It took me about 4'5 hours or so. I think the game was too short and the ending goes too quickly. Also, when you finish the game there's still unsolved questions. I played this game in normal mode and I didin't lose any character soI don't like scary/horror games but I do like games with good graphics and those where you can make decisions. What I enjoyed the most were the first 2 hours. It took me about 4'5 hours or so. I think the game was too short and the ending goes too quickly. Also, when you finish the game there's still unsolved questions. I played this game in normal mode and I didin't lose any character so if you are used to playing games I recommend you to play in normal or maybe even harder. Also, I think these kind of games would reach more audience if there were less scary and nasty moments. I played the demos of the other games (25-45 minutes each) and I think the best would be the House of Ashes.… Expand
  3. Warrior_of_Doom
    Jul 19, 2023
    5
    The overall score is based on how much fun I personally had with every component of the game
    and the overall experience.
  4. Kannibal
    May 14, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Holy crap this is horrendous. From having trophy notifications pop up in the middle of QTEs numerous beginners traps that make no sense uncanny valley animations and They would have had a better vocal cast if they would have just asked random passers by to rid the lines. Irredeemable… Expand
  5. eva3si0n
    Apr 16, 2023
    6
    The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan is the first part of the antalogy. And as a debut project, there should be somewhat low expectations for it. But Supermassive Games has already released Until Dawn. And if you have previously tried Until Dawn, then only one disappointment remains from Man of Medan. Man of Medan, first of all, does not scare or surprise at all, there is literallyThe Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan is the first part of the antalogy. And as a debut project, there should be somewhat low expectations for it. But Supermassive Games has already released Until Dawn. And if you have previously tried Until Dawn, then only one disappointment remains from Man of Medan. Man of Medan, first of all, does not scare or surprise at all, there is literally not one memorable scene. Secondly, as an ordinary FMV game, it is also mediocre, elections have little effect, the plot is linear and boring, and due to plot restrictions, the environment is monotonous. Although Man of Medan has great graphics and good facial expressions. But how can you evaluate this graphics when you literally walk around monotonous cabins for 6 hours. Man of Medan is the weakest part of The Dark Pictures Anthology at the moment, it can only be recommended to fans of the genre. As a separate independent work, this is a secondary game, fortunately for it they ask for the appropriate price.… Expand
  6. OttoInTheVc
    Apr 16, 2023
    6
    I heard an awful lot of criticism about this one, but after my incredibly pleasant surprise with The Quarry, i decided to simply play it with no expectations and no assumptions. And, I mean... it was better than people made it seem. The plot is really solid, I got invested in the mystery and the plot twist actually got me (even though it makes things much less interesting). The choices youI heard an awful lot of criticism about this one, but after my incredibly pleasant surprise with The Quarry, i decided to simply play it with no expectations and no assumptions. And, I mean... it was better than people made it seem. The plot is really solid, I got invested in the mystery and the plot twist actually got me (even though it makes things much less interesting). The choices you make and the paths you take branch out nicely, but there is little space to where they can branch out since the game is about 4 hours long. Most of the characters are annoying, everyone is really stupid for some reason and the dialogue makes me question if there were actual people involved with the making of this game (not only people, but the same people that were previously involved with Until Dawn). And yes, it does do well on the scare department... before the plot twist. Still, if you want to have a game-movie night with your friends and/or if you think you're able to ignore the cringe dialogue, give it a go, because the mystery and the tension are pretty good here.… Expand
  7. MaxieZeus
    Mar 25, 2023
    2
    Horrible acting predictable story and **** choices makes this game a boring D list horror movie.
  8. danield80
    Feb 27, 2023
    3
    Man of Mrdán is an interactive film that tries to convince you it's a story with several different walkthroughs and outcomes. This is not true of course since every possible playthrough consists of the same levels. The only difference is when you kill a character their scenes are cut out therefore, making the game an incoherent mess.
  9. Manx2K
    Jan 11, 2023
    7
    Man of Medan is good, much better than House of Ashes but not as good as Little Hope and The Devil in me.
  10. Joe2539
    Jan 3, 2023
    10
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  11. drlowdon
    Dec 24, 2022
    6
    A group of divers discover a sunken WWII plane in the South Pacific, and soon find themselves facing dangers from local fisherman as well as other more supernatural entities.

    Man of Medan is largely a narrative lead game with player interaction involving making decisions for the characters and the odd QTE. Unfortunately failing the QTEs (which can appear suddenly and easily catch you    A group of divers discover a sunken WWII plane in the South Pacific, and soon find themselves facing dangers from local fisherman as well as other more supernatural entities.

    Man of Medan is largely a narrative lead game with player interaction involving making decisions for the characters and the odd QTE. Unfortunately failing the QTEs (which can appear suddenly and easily catch you out) seems to have more of an impact on what happens than any of the decisions you make, and along with a cast of mostly unlikeable characters, it doesn’t make for a particularly satisfying experience even when played co-op.    … Expand
  12. Crysouls
    Dec 23, 2022
    5
    Prós:
    - Gráficos
    - Razoavelmente divertido Contras: - Desenvolvimento fraco - Jogabilidade, a movimentação é bem ruim - Pouca liberdade de escolhas no cenário - Falta de consequência nas escolhas - Bugs: em certas partes as falas iniciavam antes das cenas começarem Conclusão: Game muito mediano, caso queira jogar já vá esperando algo simples pois o game não se propõe a    Prós:
    - Gráficos
    - Razoavelmente divertido

    Contras:
    - Desenvolvimento fraco
    - Jogabilidade, a movimentação é bem ruim
    - Pouca liberdade de escolhas no cenário
    - Falta de consequência nas escolhas
    - Bugs: em certas partes as falas iniciavam antes das cenas começarem

    Conclusão: Game muito mediano, caso queira jogar já vá esperando algo simples pois o game não se propõe a desenvolver uma história realmente interessante e personagens de carisma, da pra zerar num dia só sendo game super curto porém pra quem quer acompanhar a franquia Dark anthology talvez valha a pena dar uma olhada.    … Expand
  13. xShoalKing
    Dec 1, 2022
    0
    The game can't be completed in the "Movie night" mode after the "Storm" chapter and the Curator scene, indeed, it keeps loading forever, this problem has been encountered by various players and it's well documented on Reddit, the Man of Medan developers, Supermassive, answered on Reddit that they are working for a fix 8 days ago, even if the problem is around from much more time,The game can't be completed in the "Movie night" mode after the "Storm" chapter and the Curator scene, indeed, it keeps loading forever, this problem has been encountered by various players and it's well documented on Reddit, the Man of Medan developers, Supermassive, answered on Reddit that they are working for a fix 8 days ago, even if the problem is around from much more time, nowadays, the game is still not playable.

    You can also see how many players completed it in "Movie Night" mode by checking the trophy section, where only the 0.3% of players achieved that Bronze common trophy    … Expand
  14. Edu-Wolfeinstei
    Nov 26, 2022
    10
    This game was very good, I played with my daughter and we loved so much...
    Thanks
  15. DangerDave1409
    Nov 3, 2022
    7
    Not as perfect as "Until Dawn" but still amazing. Played it two times and can only recommend it. Graphics are bad, but I didnt expect something else. German synchro is **** too
  16. KoverSamolet
    Oct 28, 2022
    8
    Do sincerely suggest.
    I very much enjoyed Until Dawn, even more i did with Detroit: Become Human. Then i got to Man of Medan. I just wish the game would be a few more hours longer, it finishes too fast in my opinion. Also it felt easier than Until Dawn - wish it was more challenging gameplay wise - it felt like input windows were longer here.
    Nevertheless I had really great time playing,    Do sincerely suggest.
    I very much enjoyed Until Dawn, even more i did with Detroit: Become Human. Then i got to Man of Medan. I just wish the game would be a few more hours longer, it finishes too fast in my opinion. Also it felt easier than Until Dawn - wish it was more challenging gameplay wise - it felt like input windows were longer here.
    Nevertheless I had really great time playing, living through Man of medan. Mindgame was great, but once again, when it felt like everything just has started spinning suddenly you see credits - it is shorter than Until Dawn. Will def see further into this anthology.    … Expand
  17. Kesorevo
    Oct 18, 2022
    1
    Просто все зависло после второй главы, бесконечная загрузка на всех консолях нового поколения. Разработчикам настолько похер на игру, что после матча если игра не работает, их
    Это не особо интересует.
  18. johnnypiede
    Oct 18, 2022
    0
    Random, really random i think they had a bucket and picked what was going to happen. The game is just terrible. It's like a movie but it's supposed to be a videogame.
  19. Vahradrim
    Oct 9, 2022
    1
    NOT WORTH $30 AT ALL!! That's the first game I ask a refund for. The game will literally bug in the middle of it with an infinite loading you can't do anything of. The story is so disappointed and finishes by an explanation that let's you wonder why you're playing to such an non-scary "scary game". All the characters are annoying and you play 40% of the game doing side tasks that don'tNOT WORTH $30 AT ALL!! That's the first game I ask a refund for. The game will literally bug in the middle of it with an infinite loading you can't do anything of. The story is so disappointed and finishes by an explanation that let's you wonder why you're playing to such an non-scary "scary game". All the characters are annoying and you play 40% of the game doing side tasks that don't even matter (why bothering about the radio when we just leave on the boat anyway?? So useless!!) 1/10 for the graphics, waste of timeeee!!!!… Expand
  20. Gosticouilles
    Oct 2, 2022
    0
    I was enjoying this game, I get a black screen everytime I try to load my file after the storm chapter. I litteraly can't progress any further and this game have been out for years...?
  21. Simosonic
    Sep 29, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game doesn't last more than 4-5 hours and the endings don't make any sense to me, the choices aren't well explained and very often characters die for this, the game lag as hell during quick time event and freeze a lot.
    Needless to say graphics are really good but there's nothing else, i played this game in co-op as it was meant to be played, and still didn't like it, can't imagine in solo.
    Overall a very bad game.    … Expand
  22. AhmedMobis
    Sep 25, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. اوك ختمت اللعبه و الله أن تقييمات ميتا كريتك كثير عليها مره WTF ليش كدا يعني اللعبه التحكم فيها سي تعابير الوجوه مره سيئه أداء الصوتي للشخصيات أكثر من سي كثير من الخيارات يكونو الخيارين غير منطقين اللعبه رعب و ما في رعب بس چامب سكيرز رخيصه حتي مو چامب سكيرز متعوب عليها ادا تقني لك عليه كل هذا و قلنا ماشي هذه لعبه قصه المهم القصه نبغي نشوف القصه و نهايته و تنتهي القصه و ما تعرف في النهايه ايش كانت تريد نهايه غريبه و ما في منها أي هدف كل هذا بس علشان تقولي ايش هو الدهب المنشور هذا طيب ترا عرفت ايش هو من بعد ساعه او ساعه ونصف في القصه… Expand
  23. DrSargeX
    Sep 21, 2022
    8
    Game itself resembles until dawn, Story driven title with alot of different fates depends how you play and progress through the game.
    Totally different genre that most of gamers didn't like but definitely a decent pick for some one looking for a story rich game to play
  24. Jackthegamer
    Sep 15, 2022
    6
    Step back in comparison to Until Dawn. Boring characters and it's pacing isn't great either
  25. Al3xcooki3
    Sep 11, 2022
    0
    Orribile, uno dei giochi peggiori che abbia mai giocato, non sono riuscito nemmeno a finirlo, fa acqua da tutte le parti, scrittura PESSIMA (sembra fatto da un bambino di 7 anni), Personaggi completamente anonimi, tutto quello che accade all'interno del gioco è fatto malissimo. Non lo consiglierei a nessuno.
  26. 613th
    Aug 15, 2022
    3
    It was horrible.

    it is not a good game, it is not a good movie, it is not an interesting story. It is bad technically (I don't remember worse optimisation than here), the characters are very very bad in all aspects.

    If you don't play it, you will not loss anything.
  27. BiggieZeke
    Aug 15, 2022
    5
    Good
    * Interactive storytelling
    * Pretty good visuals

    Bad
    * Clunky tank controls
    * Short game
    * Story itself is bland
    * Characters are bland
    * Besides a few jump scares, nothing scary in general
    * Just like Until Dawn, feels like “Traits and Relationships” doesn’t really change anything within the story
    * Wouldn’t play this game for more than $20. Luckily it was free
  28. ilya_zotov24
    Jul 25, 2022
    7
    _Good game _
  29. boris_out
    Jul 17, 2022
    6
    Проходное интерактивное кино на пару вечером вечеров с друзьями. Одному играть категорически не советую.
  30. Jujalag
    Jul 13, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Esta de pinga controles muy malos diálogos forzados y que no encajan tiene puntuación de 1 por el apartado gráfico todo lo demás es muy malo el juego va con lag y nisiquiera por jugar al online en el modo jugar a solas va con lag y en este tipo de juegos es imperdonable. Los personajes son horribles todos son imbéciles y lo mejor que puedes hacer es ver un recopilación de muertes para verlos morir, los finales todos son aburridos y predecibles una trama aburrida una perdida de dinero ydinertiempo prefiero cortarme partes de mi cuerpo a juzgarl… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 70 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 38 out of 70
  3. Negative: 3 out of 70
  1. Carole Quintaine
    Jan 29, 2020
    75
    Even though Man of Medan is far less inspired than its studio predecessor Until Dawn, it offers an enjoyable horrific atmosphere, with good ideas and well thought out sequences. Unfortunately we would have appreciated more surprises and an extended lifespan, which would have given us the time to be really afraid. Everything is going too fast and we have the feeling that the story is sloppy. Too bad because this first chapter of The Dark Pictures has a good potential, but all it does is just scratch the surface.
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  2. CD-Action
    Oct 25, 2019
    60
    Supermassive’s newest work is a step back from Until Dawn on every level – including visual design which, though solid, ends up monotonous in comparison. [12/2019, p.58]
  3. Gaming Nexus
    Oct 11, 2019
    70
    Man of Medan starts out well enough but just falls apart towards the end leading up to a pretty anti-climatic ending thanks to a twist that was given away at the very beginning of the story. It's not terrible but it's not nearly as good as Until Dawn. Still, as a fan of Until Dawn, I still enjoyed the story for what it was but I didn't really have a desire to go back and play through it again after finishing it the first time.
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