Those Who Remain

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  • Summary: As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont.

    Whispers of disappearances carry through the town as a burgeoning, uneasy and irrational fear begins to spread and darkness comes to be an unwelcome reflection to Those Who Remain. Some mistakes    As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont.

    Whispers of disappearances carry through the town as a burgeoning, uneasy and irrational fear begins to spread and darkness comes to be an unwelcome reflection to Those Who Remain.

    Some mistakes should never happen, not when your life is complete – and yet they do. Edward had the good life, a beautiful wife and the perfect little girl, yet finds himself several whiskeys down and driving through the night of Dormont to end his secret affair – in a bid to fix his mistakes.

    As Edward pulls into the Golden Oak Motel, he is unaware just how much this night will change his life…

    The horrors and darkness that thrive in the corner of every eye are torn loose…

    Those Who Remain places you in an up-close, psychological horror story set in the sleepy town of Dormont – a town in a spiralling split from the fabric of reality, warped by darkness and the deeds of the Citizens who reside.

    Confront the uncomfortable horrors reflected by the darkness and survive the night of Dormont as Edward is confronted with a test of his sanity, morality and the shadows of evil that lurks below.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. XBLA Fans
    Jun 15, 2020
    80
    Those Who Remain, in particular, is about self-reflection in forgiveness and makes you realize you can judge someone on their mistakes yet never seem to consider the sins you’ve carried out. Don’t like all that psychology? The good news is, that ideology is placed in the background and at the core is a great creepy adventure with interesting monsters and clever puzzles.
  2. Generación Xbox
    Jun 20, 2020
    75
    Under the appearance of a game of terror as the canons command, there is an experience that promises to test our capacity for judgment while bringing out our greatest fears.
  3. TheXboxHub
    Jun 4, 2020
    60
    Those Who Remain on Xbox One is a decent exploration horror that will take you around seven hours to complete. I enjoyed the story, the characters, and what the game was trying to achieve through the narrative. The gameplay - with its focus on light and the alternate reality - has a unique selling point that is intriguing enough to delve into. But the stealth sections and the overriding motion sickness let the whole thing down.
  4. Critical Hit
    Jun 2, 2020
    55
    There’s a good game buried within Those Who Remain’s many shortcomings, but it blunders the final hundred meters of its dash for survival like a sorority girl outrunning a slasher in a forest filled with tree roots. Repetitive scenarios of item-hunting tarnish the more ingenious puzzles you’re presented with, horror clichés sour an otherwise wonderfully tense atmosphere and a control scheme from hell drags a promising game back into the shadows, never to be seen again.
  5. SomosXbox
    Jun 29, 2020
    50
    On the technical side, Those Who Remain is a disaster. An unplayable game that must be updated as soon as possible to enjoy it at all. In the other hand, we find a proposal that does not create anything, but proves to be interesting
  6. GameSkinny
    Jun 4, 2020
    50
    Those Who Remain won't stay with you for long, but with some good scares and a story that twists more than I expected, it's a decent horror story for an evening.
  7. Xbox Tavern
    May 29, 2020
    48
    Those Who Remain puts on a passable front, but once we get past that there’s nothing here that’s worth getting worked up over. With a dull story, tedious searching of areas using unresponsive inputs, scares that never really come and some technical hiccups that make it feel like a last gen title, you’re best off looking elsewhere for your pulse racing thrills.

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  1. Xbox_Alive
    Jun 1, 2020
    6
    Those Who Remain is a First-Person Horror Adventure. You are Edward, and you've come to this ramshackle motel near the town of Dormont toThose Who Remain is a First-Person Horror Adventure. You are Edward, and you've come to this ramshackle motel near the town of Dormont to break it off with your mistress and try to make right the life you're destroying with your family. You arrive to find her bags in the room, and the shower running, but she's nowhere to be found. Edward now sets out on foot to the nearby town to find everything is all wrong. Figures with glowing blue eyes linger in the darkness, greeting you with long knives if you dare enter their shadows. Seriously, walking into a place that's just a bit too dark is rewarded with instant death. With your checkpoints few and far between, this can make gameplay frustrating as you could be sent back to have to replay quite a bit, and you sidestep one time into a shadow and have to do it all again. The game plays hard on this darkness, as a lot of the game's puzzles will have you dealing with it, like knocking things out of the way to let light pass or finding a small object in a darkened room. The reticle has it's tricky moments, and you will be digging through a lot of drawers, that if you aren't pointing precisely at the object, you'll likely close the drawer. There is a ton of fun and inspiring concepts that are unfortunately lost in the frustration the game can induce. The game has multiple endings based on the decisions you make along the way. A decent horror game can be found here beneath the frustrations that fans of the genre should appreciate.… Expand
  2. GamesTranslator
    Dec 8, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As a horror fan, this game caught my eye for its interesting premise and really eerie atmosphere.

    The first few levels are nice to play, with "the others" being really creepy and ominous.

    However, as you progress, the game becomes more dull and suddenly quite more difficult for no reason whatsoever.

    I finally decided to quit playing on the chase scene of the post office level, after more than two dozen retries.

    If it weren't for the very ineffective interface, lack of instructions and ridiculously difficult "boss" levels (in which your sole objetive is getting an item to progress through the game), this might have been a very good game.    … Expand
  4. Benjaminblue
    Dec 13, 2020
    4
    The developer def gets A for effort. This was one of the hardest games for me to complete because of how broken it is at times. I gotThe developer def gets A for effort. This was one of the hardest games for me to complete because of how broken it is at times. I got through the whole game as I wanted to see the rest of the story. I cannot recommend this game to anyone. I was however terrified for most of the game due to the mother glitching and how I was not able to progress due to unintentional obstacles at times in the pursuit areas.… Expand

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