Разработчик: Hooligans Entertainment
Описание
You find yourself in a house, a house unlike any you've ever seen before. You quickly realize that this is no ordinary house, but rather a mysterious structure built out of your own doubts and fears. And you are trapped.
You are wandering and looking for a way out, but something terrible stands in your way. You strive for light, but the darkness won't let you go. You need to pass a series of tests, a series of challenges that will test your wits, your will and even your sanity. Open the doors to break out from the dark corners of your soul. Be persistent and courageous and endure to the very end! Can you endure the dark journey into The Emptiness?
Warning! The game is not recommended for people with an unhealthy state of mind, nervous disorders or heart disease. Experience The Emptiness and discover a psychological adventure game unlike anything you've ever seen before!
Features
- A unique and thrilling psychological hidden object quest.
- A dark and brooding atmosphere that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
- Live actors and professional voiceover for the ultimate story presentation.
- Multiple ways to solve the mind-bending puzzles thrown in your path.
- Two difficulty modes for the perfect level of challenge.
- Multiple game endings. How will your story end?
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista®, Windows® 7, and Windows® 8
- Processor: Pentium processor (or equivalent AMD® processor) 1.6 GHz or faster
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX® compatible video card (minimum supported resolution is 1024х768)
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX® compatible sound card
Отзывы пользователей
I have to say I don´t understand the bad reviews, I really enjoyed the game.
This is a psychological horror game simulating a mental disorder, so you can not expect your average HOG.
It has a creepy atmosphere, great visuals and sound, and some well-placed jumpscares that really gave me the creeps.
It´s true that there is some backtracking as the whole game plays in the rooms of a single house, but this backtracking is related to the story, as you get more and more rooms to visit while you progress, and some of the rooms also change while the story progresses. Some of the riddles are really tough and some objects hard to find, so you need a certain amount of patience to enjoy the game.
For me it was worth the while and I would recommend it to everyone who likes a creepy, slow, challenging game. Get it when it is discounted, as the full price of 9,99 is pretty steep.
I don't remember when or of I bought this but it's definitely not my kind of thing. I have no interest in horror themes, jump scares, etc. so it was never going to impress in that way. I also have to agree with other reviewers that this is very repetitive, making you search through the same areas over and over, albeit extending the rooms progressively, and doesn't ever get beyond that. Some of the puzzles are OK but also very frustrating. I didn't find much to recommend it, I'm afraid. Finally, it's not a HOG in any way that players of the usual HOGs would understand the term so don't get it assuming that that's what you're getting, which is what I assume I did, It's a very repetitive room escape game with endless searching.
If this is deluxe, I can hardly imagine how bad the normal version was
This game is one of the worst games that i have ever played:
- irritating sound effect that come with every move you do in the game
- the story if can even say the game have it is the worst story that i have ever seen in computer games
- game is just going on the same locations searching in the same places for letters, sometimes items
- the items sometimes show only if something happened in the, so you will do and check every place hundreds of times
- complete lack of logic, you need water and there is water in the bath, but the tap is broken and you must fix the tap and take water from tap XD. Water is for fire extinction, and the water in the bath is normal
- the ending of the game is one pure stereotype
- at the begining you have hints, later no hints, you just must to look on the same screens for hours and look for differences to find letters, with hint - it could make sense, without it doesn't make any sense
I can see any good things in this game - and the worst part:
At the begining game looks quite playable and you enjoy it. For first 30 minutes - then You are just angry.
This game is not worth any money.
I'm really enjoying this game. It took a moment for me to adjust to what the game was really asking me to do, it's not so much a hidden object game as a way to waste time and have some jump-scares once in a while. Kind of reminiscent of The 7th Guest or Phantasmagoria. The kind of game you can play while wasted in the dark and have a really good time playing.
Terribly slow pacing kills any mood the story tries to build, all the while most of the scares are low quality 'jump-scares' that didn't really even startle me.
Got too bored to even try finishing it.
I think the reason for the mostly negative reviews according to the overall ratings is that this game is more cerebral and psychological, perhaps even some emphasis on the spiritual side of ourselves. This is not a hidden object game or really a puzzle game in the traditional sense. I think this game takes patience and a willingness to take their time on this game because you will be in a 'house' going through the same rooms many times to discover what you need to discover.
Basically your trapped within a 'house' though this is just really within your own mind. You won't have other characters to interact with however you have a couple of 'guides' that essentially introduce you to the next 'puzzle' or 'mini-game'.
The puzzles are spell words.
The idea is to search the various rooms of the house and find each letter to the spell word which will open up a new door.
If you think this very simple then think again.
While some of the letters you search for may just be easily found by really going over each room with a fine tooth comb, others will prove more difficult and take time and patience to figure out.
sometimes you need to find something first ( an object of some kind to fix something for example) in order to progress because you need to finish a task in order to start your search for the letters of the spell.
If your looking for a story here there really isn't one. The story is about you.
This game has a warning at the intro about playing this game for the faint of heart or easily scared or something but don't be to overly excited about that. I think it's just more an atmospheric narration to help with the feeling behind the reason why your there (the 'house' in your mind) and while there are some creepy sounds and sprinkles of some creepy visuals here and there it's not too mind blowing or scary. There are far more scary games that really need a warning before playing but this isn't one of them.
that said I thought some of the unexpected sounds or visuals that jumped at me time to time were pretty fun but I'm a fan of the scary in games and other media so in a game it has to really amp up it's creepy sounds and visual for me to get my heart a jumping or make me want to look behind my chair in the darkened room.
This is another game I feel I would purchase if I want something a little different but found it on sale or in a bundle which is how I obtained the game so it was super inexpensive and I have no regrets playing it or having purchased it.
The hint system can be limited but also I kind of liked it that way. I could click on the ? to only reveal a vague hint and get another click on same hint after the timer is done to reveal more so I didn't have the answer reveled right away and could see if I could do it myself with the little info I had.
The reviews that said there were no hint system or skip buttons I can only assume were players who had this game when it first came out and since then the developers changed that because there is a hint system and skip buttons in the game. You also can skip the intro when you start the game after having already played it. Basically if you come back to the game the intro starts and just click your mouse to go to the 'resume' game screen. I think that may have not been available at the time too as I read in some reviewers something about not being able to skip the intro.
The 'mini' games that are sprinkled about required patience as well for the most part but there is a skip button. Once you click that you do get the chance to decide to not use it so if you still want to give that game a try just click NO.
happy gaming~
Definitely not recommended. Animations/transitions take way too long and are unskippable, and you can't do anything until they're done. Plus, you keep having to go back over the same sections repeatedly because what you need to complete a section doesn't become available until you click where you need to use it, and then you have to go back all through again to find what's needed.
Quite slow game in terms of clicking and moving about, got frustrated with this so stopped playing
I wanted to like this but It was pretty bad..... however I endured to the end.
Pros:
Some human acting
Jump scares
Cons:
Repedative
No puzzles really (just finding letters)
Very poor story line.
No fun...
Same door opening sound with every click
Cant skip intro...
Hints take too long...
Whole house is covered in shitty story
It was ok point and click game with jumpscares. Got in in bundle with other games. 3-5h to play
Well named game. It's just the same quest over and over with poorly made jump-scares. Boring.
Normally, I could fire up a Mystery Masters game and expect a good time. Not here - repetition bogs this game down far too much to for it to be that enjoyable.
Ugh... This was something completely macabre and unnecessary in my humble opinion. I've played some really disturbing horror games before, and enjoyed some of them to their inhumane depth. I played tons of HOGs, that one would think that I'd get sick of the genre by now. But by no means have I ever played a HOG that masquerades as a horror game before, until The Emptiness.
Our pessimistic little game starts with a booming male voice, announcing a state of depression, while a pretty, oh-so dark girl sits in complete darkness. We are informed that we are trapped in a "symbolic" house that consists of our deepest fears and unresolved (!) feelings. We should master the secrets of this 4 room apartment, collect letters of some obscure spells to open doors, redefine ourselves in the process and earn our right to leave this place. I suspect that our main character must be a sociopath rather than a sole depressed person, 'cause this is no way an ordinary subconscious with fears.
In my defense, I'm not in expectancy of great graphics for games. Heck, I love basic unity, I'm alright with games hailing back from 90s and I'm accustomed to playing many 16 bit games even. But this was basically lazily done modelling of the same 4 rooms over and over again, with cheap animations thrown around. We have only two characters in the game - a FMV demon and an angel - and they seem and sound like two-dollar whores rather than clashing aspects of our soul. I'm not gonna even start with the voice acting, because it seems acting itself doesn't exist for those two.
Let's take a close look on the gameplay itself: we are given a made-up word which is supposed to sound mystical, we go through the same rooms over and over again in hopes of finding the letters of the given word around. When we collect the whole word, we unseal a new part of the house, which is rarely that new, and never that interesting. We go through this ordeal with the occasional appearance of a very run on the hill, cliché puzzle - which is supposed to present an element of choice in some deeper meaning of life for us - and voila! We complete the game. The game keeps using the same gameplay over and over again, also using the same concepts - like lights on, lights off - until it becomes nauseating.
Here comes the actual question for a game which tries so hard to be scary: is it scary? No, it's not. It's only cheap. It is a collection of the most common and distasteful jump scares ever encountered. The game actually starts with the disclaimer of "not recommending for the faint of heart"! That "disclaimer" is the most pathetic presentation of self-importance that I've ever encountered in a game, I tell you! Avoid this game like the plague, because if you are obsessive on completing a game that resides in your backlog, finishing this gonna be a chore.
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I can't, in good conscience, recommend this game.
I love hidden object games. Really love them. I've played so many of them it's stupid. But this one, I only got through about twenty minutes and the idea of playing any more makes me cringe. I will probably go back and finish, just because I have a complex about leaving things unfinished, but it will be when I have played through every single other game in my library. Twice. Because god, this was so bad.
Gameplay feels extremely repetitive and boring. You essentially wander around the area looking for letters to form a word that will unlock a new area, and then you go back and wander around again looking for the next group of letters in the same area to unlock another new area, and lather, rinse, repeat. So it appears that you'll spend the whole game reexploring the same few rooms over and over again.
Jumpscares are frequent and gratuitous. They are startling but not scary (there is a huge difference) and after several in a row, they stop being even startling. The warning at the beginning about the game not being suitable for people with heart disease and nervous disorders is possibly the most flagrant example of dripping self-importance I have ever seen.
Video sequences do not synch to the sound, and that plus sub-par acting makes those sequences painful to sit through. Sound can be jarring in places. A lot of places, actually.
Overall, it makes me immensely sad to not recommend this, because I had high hopes from the preview pictures and description. I was expecting something that was on-par with the better developers out there, and instead I got a game that it's going to be a chore to finish someday (and I have NEVER put aside a hidden-object/point-and-click game unfinished before, so I hope that impresses on you how awful I feel this was).
So please exhaust your other HO game options before you get this, if you feel you must try it. And even better, wait for a sale if you do want to subject yourself to it, or you're really going to be mourning the ten bucks you tossed on it.
I have played dozens of hidden object games and have to say that The Emptiness ranks as one of the worst.
Within the first moments of the game, you are introduced to the two main problems with it: horrible video sequences (the actresses' mouths don't even sync with the dialogue) and clunky controls that make walking around the room a project in itself.
Instead of getting with the 21st century and letting you walk around freely with the familiar WASD control scheme, you have to maneuver around the house by clicking on arrows at the edges of the screen. This would be tolerable if not for the fact that exploring a corner of the room sometimes takes multiple clicks, then you have to go backwards before you can move through the doorway that takes up half of your field of view in the corner you're mindlessly clicking around in.
The "jump scares" in the game become so frequent that you end being more surprised when they DON'T happen. They're completely pointless and you can't click on an object that you need to pick up until a few seconds after the animation is finished playing. It's as if each scare is a video file instead of a seamless part of the game. It destroys the immersion.
Then there are the so-called puzzles. Nothing screams CD-ROM more than the puzzles in this game. They are too easy to be anything but a nuisance and the biggest challenge is figuring out which pixel on the screen you're supposed to click on to make something happen.
One puzzle requires you to lure a sinister shadow into a dead end of a labyrnith. Sound exciting?
The shadow ends up being a still video image of a woman in black, and you "lure" it by shooting a stupid little orb to make the image move backwards. If you get stuck, you simply shoot her through the wall and she ends up behind you. You can't turn around, though! No...each turn puts you in a different room, so you actually have to walk around the whole damn maze to get back where you need to be. If you're old enough to have played games like 7th Guest and Myst when they first came out, you'll feel like this game is a step backwards from what those were like.
Stay away from this multimedia nightmare. "Gone Home" is a far superior (and scarier) house-exploring game. If you want inexpensive hidden object games on Steam, I recommend the "Nightmares from the Deep" series.
Genius. Never has there been a more appropriate title for a game than this. I found myself wading through a sporadically bearable hidden object puzzler when the lights went out, plunging me into darkness. I fumbled my way to a box in the basement where the game asked me to locate a missing fuse.
There may or may not be a fuse to find. I am long beyond the consequence of that scenario. I wander these same six rooms, checking the same drawers, turning on the same radio, looking behind the same curtain for the fuse. I am empty now. The game clock reads one and a half hours but it feels like this is the only game I have ever played. Maybe the fuse only appears to the truly insane by which point it is impossible to comprehend as an object of use, perhaps appearing as a talking fish or the screaming face of a loved one. Who can say. I am empty now. 10/10. I am empty now.
Here is a log of my empty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Do0M_J2Oyo
This is a hidden object game that tries to hide that it's a hidden object game.
To it's credit, it doesn't follow the traditional pattern. The game has a single location that expands as you unlock doors and get access to other rooms, but you will continually find yourself looking through the same rooms and in all the same corners and shelves trying to find hidden clues and hidden letters to open up a new door that will give you yet one more room to look through when you reach the next door... and so on.
There are also some puzzles, and again to the game's credit, they are different variations of familiar patterns... a switch-15 sliding puzzle that has tiles that can rotate along 4 different facings, a series of identical-looking room labyrinth puzzles... but they are the same kinds of puzzles that these games frequently use, and if you know how they function, the newness of the variant fades quickly.
As far as the atmosphere, well, that's actually fairly cool. The game has a good number of weird moments and jumpscares that happen very suddenly and have little to no warning. There are some trap instances where you walk into a room and suddenly you are warped into a puzzle, good uses of noise, light, and darkness, and some of the strange moments are just plain creepy... but the warning hype that the game tries to give of how this game is dangerous to those with heart conditions, and don't play this if you've an unhealthy state of mind... yeah, no. That is prime huckster talk, coaxing you out of your money to see the mighty egress or man-eating chicken sideshow farce.
Get it on sale if you like puzzles and creepy-weird games, but know that beneath all the hype, you're buying a hidden-object game that wants to give you a fun little scare, and that's all it will do.
Nice Puzzle/Adventure game.
Not Scary But still very enjoyable
With a vague hint you find letters to spell magic word that opened sealed door.
Each door that you opened warps you to a new puzzle
Puzzles are nicely executed and are skippable
So Far all were differents
Graphic are nice.
Don't be scared to try it you might enjoy it.
Worth the small asking price
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Hooligans Entertainment |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 32% положительных (22) |