The Hat Man: Shadow Ward

An unpleasant find in my Steam play history. Found with 5 minutes played.. It was barely worth completing all achievements~
Pros:
-If you haven't bought this game. You've won.
Cons:
-The game has deteriorated from the initial debut. Or at least the version of The Hatman that I once saw Markiplier praise. Rooms and items around the building are repetitive. All walk-through were from 2014 and did not resemble the "end product".
-Game saves are easily corrupted. One game I returned to had an item that I had already collected appeared on the floor. When trying to pick up this item for a second time, it would display a message telling me that I can not collect an item already in my inventory. (Had to restart.) In another game the save plunged me into darkness, where I was unable to move and left to restart the play-through.
-Pressing a key may result in nothing. (Seriously) Trying to switch between item in your bag can take up to 12 button presses before anything happens. Imagine pressing space to jump and the character does nothing. Repeat and the character might jump, after 10 attempts. Maybe~
-Listening to advice from you journal does not help. It will advise you to hide, but the monster does not leave. The Hatman will wait outside the door for you. Turning off the flashlight does not make a difference.
-Playing the father or mother character offers little change. They offer different voices for each of the parents, but if you die as the father. You still get the mothers death scream.
-May unaddressed bugs~
-Often trapped by the one-hit monster with dead-ends. Tasks needing to be complete were not always clear.
-Don't waste your time.

Achievement Hunters
If you find yourself faced with this hot garbage. I wish you the best.
(If you can get the jump button to work, you slide down stairs really fast.)

this feels like aimlessly wandering through a world that isnt very interesting or scary, not a fan

O bicho atravessa as parede vsf

This game is terrible. It's a walking simulator at best while you wait to be killed by the titular "hat man".
Do yourself a favor and stay far away from it.

boring holy hell

This game is by far one of the worst I have ever wasted any time on, The graphic settings are so basic, it had really bad tearing issues, then changing my control settings, it kept unassigning my buttons so it was really annoying, then wow trying to use the inventory was just so ridiculous, it would not allow me to equip the axe to even get through the first segment, the ghost thing is just really poor quality, this game was clearly hashed together.

The Hat Man is a basic Slender clone. You just run through a maze of five or six repeating rooms, while looking for journal entries and avoiding a slow and cartoony shadow man that creeps after you. Visuals are pretty bad, especially in the beginning before all the shadow filters are applied. There are no settings, not even a volume slider. And the worst part is it is not even scary. This is definitely not worth $10. Only recommended if you can get it for under 20 cents and only for connoisseurs of impossible spaces.

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