The door buttons look like they trying to predict my moves.

Please link your door buttons! It's annoying to see a door closed with a green button, and a door open with a yellow button!

When i do jump in vents i go to voids.

I somehow got stuck. I got to the room with the 4 buttons, everything is opened (well, except what says ERROR or BLOCKED) and I am unable to progress. I literally ran around for over 30m afterwards and not able to go anywhere. What the hell? Am I bugged in?

i feel like the Portal 1-style twist where you're actually in a game and you get out should come sooner, or at least have more story hooks because i kinda zoned out just running around all these mazes. also, like other commenters, i just fell out of the vent section and the last save was so far back i couldn't be bothered continuing.

that being said, you actually worked to build up a creepy atmosphere instead of just using the proxies for a cheap scare, so well done! the eldritch horror was a cool concept, but because it can't attack you and you can just walk into it, it doesn't work too well as more than just a jumpscare. maybe having it behind a window with several voices calling out to the player because it's multiple people merged together? looking forward to seeing episode 2.

Good mechanics and new gameplay from the original game. Story is a bit simple but ok to keep you going. Maybe some overuse of mazes.

very fung

Its very nice,.i like it

Felt too much like a maze sometimes, otherwise a great mod!

I just finished it and enjoyed it a lot! Thanks!

At the level where you have to begin by crouching (after around 30 min of play or so), i just crouched and fell into nomand's land, outside the map :-(. Couldn't get a proper save to get back so i couldn't play till the end :-(.

don't work.

Pro: Interesting idea for a story, mostly good level design, reasonable length.

Con: Having to navigate a maze on almost every level started to become extremely grating on my nerves after a while, and the section where you have to stack boxes to climb up to another duct was poorly designed and extremely frustrating to try and complete.

Some of the best environments seen in the engine, esp. the horror areas. Good sound design.

Vape

After story mode i will definely play in your maps, looks awesome.

I thought I was done after the campaign but mods are bringing me back 😊

Great mod. Really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Good level design
Voice characters are improving (based on previous mods)
Track was decent in invoking dread or mystery

Protagonist voice acting was dull...Sounded more like he didn't have the right change for a vending machine, thea stuck in a lab/game show from hell. The fathers was hilarously bad.
Story - Confusing and not laid out well enough for people to engage
Near the beginnning, you're walking on dirt ground, with metal effect footsteps (specially when jumping)
Some box building puzzles are faffy
Protagonist can lift lumps of concrete with iron rods in them, but an office chair is HEAVY
Someone should report the Proxy's in this mod to the IOC, for doping. They walk faster than their sound file and constantly run in to walls
Fell out the world in the vent/crouching area. Checkpoint too far back for me to have the energy to go through the Proxy's again.

Decent effort though

Games was interesting, but I can't say I liked it too much.

Too many points go unsearched and ignored, and left me in questions most of the time, a few:
1) How does the PC know about these "games?"
2) What "prize" is the winner rewarded?
3) Is there any explanation other than "SHE LOST!" for what happened to Oda? How'd she become a monster?
4) Why do these games exist? Does law enforcement not know about this?

Anyway, the mod felt almost rushed to a sense. Greater exploration and more time should've gone to world and ambiance building, along with moreso "Games" part to it.

I also recommend adding the ability to *go back* to certain sections; I missed a few things and didn't think I'd be shoved on to the next area so quickly, nor was I able to go back.

Overall, meh. The experience was alright. The stealth with Oda was fun, but its "buffed" speed is atrocious. Oda got stuck on so many walls and objects it was very annoying. Proxies, IMO, are supposed to stay slower.

Yes, there are several monster encounters in this mod.
Ps. Thank you everyone for trying Games out and commenting!

Quick question: Are there any enemies? I accidently dropped a fire extinguisher on the ground and heard a proxy trapped it a room screaming, can it get out?

VA for the medical worker here. Personally I don't think this was your best custom story as I found it rather too slow-paced, but I do like the simple story telling that it had and the level design, while still very much corridory, wasn't as linear as some of your previous custom stories.

6/10

really good mod we see that you put a lot of work in it and hope you do more content like that :)

Aarons voice actor here. Any and all feedback is appreciated :)

(Spoilers)

Review:

Disclaimer: This review is subjective and is not targeted towards anyone personally (this includes the mod makers themselves).

Games is a mod about a man named Aaron who partakes in 'The Games': a relality TV with a dark underline to it in order to pay the fees it would take to save his ill father.

The mod developer Damned Husky has proven himself to make a mod that puts story first and gameplay second (as well as his signature design choices of large, minimally created maps and longer than usual mod lenghts). His mod The Search really blew me away with its ambiion but his follow up mod Caught was very much underwheling so I was quite interested to see what he would bring to the table with his most recent mod.

Games was definetely an improvement on Caught but it had major boots to fill left behind by The Search but the major thing I got out of it was that it was the first SOMA mod in a while that actually scared me. Granted many of the scares either came out of no where or had poor timing but you have succeded when you've made me hesitant walking down a dark hallway. This is partially credited to the mod's awesome sound design and some pretty cool ways the mod gets under your skin.

Unfortunetely after Damned turns the lights off in the room for the Nth time you start from crawling on the ground peering behind every corner in fear a chicken nugget will chase you to freely running around expecting nothing to jump out (which usually is correct, give or take a few flying-naked-men-esque scares such as a chair thrown away for no reason whatsoever).

Granted the mod does make up with its lacluster gameplay with some pretty decent map designs: while a lot of the detail work is either minimal or non existant, the amount of variety in map styles and layouts is pretty commendable: one moment you could be running around a cold, blue facility and the next you could be parkoring in a burning room filling with smoke. My advice is to make less levels but to polish it to such a degree where it's the best it can be (such as Draugemalf's mods).

Minor complaints that dont really effect the score are a few glitches (includuing one where I had to restart a good 15 mins of gameplay after I fell through below a flight of stairs and the game didnt autosave before hand), the enemies when they appear look wonky with the fast movement and dont come off as threatening and some of the voice work being fairly wooden (such as Aaron and his father).

Overall it is a flawed but welcome addition to the workshop, being one of the few mods that actually scared me. Varied level design, decent story but with a few bugs and general lack of polish.

7/10

sure, ill try it :P

Hello folks, I'm the VA for Quinn. Let us know what you think :)