It’s got its moments, but the overall experience is one of mediocrity. And for a story-driven game, the writing here isn’t really that good. It exemplifies everything that is wrong with the genre, including the tedious gameplay, tacked-on chase scenes, forced stealth sequences, and the shoddy puzzle design. To put it simply, Those Who Remain is not a good horror game, not even an average horror game. 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. 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. I’m sure a lot of work went into this experience (I say this a lot, but I mean it), but unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything keeping this game safe from the gaping maw of irrelevance. Edward is a fine protagonist, the eerie atmosphere starts out strong and devolves to fine, and the gameplay is fine. It’s not terrible and doesn’t deserve to be hate-played or mocked or anything like that. The puzzles are simplistic yet fun, and how this game challenges your moral compass makes it more impactful than many other games in the same genre. The developers of Those Who Remain have crafted a game that excellently takes advantage of atmosphere to enhance the horror. It offers good story and interesting puzzles, and throws some decision making your way, but also suffers from many technical and design issues that prevent it from being good enough for all tastes. Those Who Remain is a good horror experience in a genre filled by many similar games. And the fact that you have to act as a judge feels in the game as a fairly strong moral weight that affects you too, psychologically speaking.Īlthough it had some good ideas at the start, Those Who Remain feels like the most cookie cutter horror game possible that barely manages to present anything fresh enough to keep you interested across the six hour playtime. Its gameplay mixes puzzles with novel elements such as research with the purpose of putting both the living and the dead on trial, according to their actions. The mixture of all its elements make it cause real terror. But what Those Who Remain does best is create atmospheres. The story, without being original, has many interesting elements that leave out the common place and offer you food for thought. Those Who Remain is a first person horror game that offers a quite remarkable visual and sound proposal. Those Who Remain is choking on its own mediocrity.
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