Behind The Door

B.T.D. short length is a blessing in disguise.
A walking sim through and through, the games story, gameplay, and conclusion are all but interesting, branding the game as one of the most boring games I've ever played.
It runs well on Steam Deck, but, the question lingers: should you try it?
The answer, you can guess.

If you want to check how it runs on Steam Deck by pressing the link below:
https://youtu.be/JX-limY7Pso

Not worth $5. story was really short and I was unable to save the game despite clicking on the savepoints.

This game was super short, no good instructions, not scary at all and NOT worth the price.

The environment is well detailed and the textures look nice. The visuals are what drove me to buy it. Great use of sound. There are some weird decisions like the lettering on the buildings in the first location, they seem out of place.

Not surprising because there is NO story here. All you get is a little intro, I don't like the idea of doing it typewriter style. The gameplay is good, the puzzles are not difficult, there are a few oddities or even incomplete moments. Like several sound options for the steps, when I heard the second one it freaked me out a bit, but it turns out I was the source of it. I don't really understand the idea of notes being left for us, if they are for us at all.

Actions are highlighted with a gear symbol, when as items that can be picked up are not, which may well lead to a lack of items needed for progression in future locations. On the other hand, this could be an intentional decision. But in the end it leads to you just clicking on everything in a row. Sometimes items appear AFTER you have clicked on an empty space. Atmosphere is reminiscent of the seventh Silent Hill. The ending made me sad though.

There were a couple of good moments like turning off the lights in the room with the locked box. Or knocking on the door in the basement when you have to pick up a crowbar after every broken board, which is very cool done. Still don't understand why the bag in the attic was coughing. Like the man in it is still alive? And that cheap trick with the bloody footprints. Decent "Slavic junk" indie horror that lacks the presence of plot and a little tweaking.

The popular tags for this game include puzzle and horror. I found very little puzzling to do in this game. Its setup to be creepy, but overall feel very horror-light. Didn't make me pause or wish for a save point or to walk away. Finished the game in less than 30 min.

I mostly can't agree with the negative reviews. From someone who plays a lot indie horrorgames, this one is not bad. It has a few jumpscares, it's really short and the puzzles are, except from 1 time, logic and don't take much. But it made me feel scared a couple times and even when the story is not the best, it's totally worth being played. I liked it, but I got it on sale, probably wouldn't buy it for the full price.

This is basically a 3D point and click game where you have to find objects to use on parts of the environment. A lot of things that should work on things don't, and at least one puzzle is very difficult due to be very unrealistic/nonsensical. The end also leaves a lot to be desired. The atmosphere is pretty good, but the game as a whole is not.

played the game twice - so i guess it's an ok horror experience !

I have mixed feelings about this game nothing major like game crashing or freezing but it says Press To Save Game PRESS WHAT and some of the interaction with objects could be better but more annoying was the ending and there was no jump scares and no spirits seen.

For 99 cents this game wasn't terrible but there wasnt really much to go on as far as story went not to mention most of the time this game had me searching for a part I couldn't find. But all in all the game wasn't half bad I have played worse games for a higher price than this.

❤ Audience ❤
☑ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☐ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

👽 Suitable For 👽
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Human
☐ Alien

💻 PC Requirements 💻
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Rich boiii....

☼ Graphics ☼
☐ Bad
☑ Decent
☐ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic

♬ Music/Audio ♬
☐ Earrape
☐ Bad
☑ Not too bad
☐ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic
☐ Eargasm

☠ Difficulties ☠
☐ Easy
☑ Average
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Insane
☐ Unfair
☐ Difficulty?


§ Bugs §
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Few Bugs
☑ Nothing encountered

☯ Story ☯
☐ There is none
☐ Bad
☐ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

⚔ Gameplay ⚔
☐ Just don‘t
☐ Frustrating
☐ Sleepy
☑ Boring
☐ Fun
☐ Challenging

۞ Game time / Length ۞
☑ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☐ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☐ Long (40-60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☐ Very Long (61-100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

$ Price / Quality $
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ Wait for Sale
☑ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money
☐ Don't buy
☐ Refund it if you can

For this genre of dollar horror it does well. I go with an hour per dollar and this game hits that goal at about an hour. Dont expect the world and you will enjoy it.

Too short, too boring, no storyline, stupid "screamer" in the end. I don't recommend anyone to buy this game. It would be better if you spent your money for icecream. :)

First off I really enjoyed the game for the price aswell very good.
Atmosphere was spot on thoguht the puzzles weren't to hard either.

Feel free to check out my gameplay if you have time maybe you have a different opinion.

https://youtu.be/bPA5BcO4pMs

Steam's binary system fails me again. I recommend this game on a big sale(75%+). I picked it up for $0.99 and I feel ok with what I paid for it since it always takes me forever to finish games. But a lot of people would probably want to get it for much cheaper.

This game is REALLY short.

I was a little worried because I heard about the problems with the flashlight regarding the battery life and a black circle in the center. I'm pleased to say that there is no longer a black circle in the middle of the flashlight so that has been patched. I didn't have a problem with the batteries either because my monitor has night vision mode.

There isn't much of a story outside of the details provided in the beginning, but I found the atmosphere to be solidly spooky. The spookiness didn't last long however since I learned that not everything has a 'cog' to indicate that it can be interacted with, a lot of my time was spent wandering around the house mashing 'E' to try and figure out what to do next.

I spent a really long time being lost in this game for three reasons(minor spoilers here):

1. There was no indication that I needed to find a mug and use it on the leaky pipe in the bathroom
2. I thought that I was supposed to find something to clean off the dirty picture with the final number of the code.
3. I'm a goofball and didn't realize that I could push objects out of the way.

After watching a couple video walkthroughs, I was able to complete the game. The ending wasn't great. I felt a little disappointed after all the effort of exploring and solving puzzles that it suddenly ended like that.

That being said, the translation was solid but there could be a better indication of how saving works. It just says 'Press to save'. Press what? I assumed it was 'E' but there is no indication that I have saved once I press it. *shrug*

Ok Indie game. has good creepy vibes. But way to short. May need to keep the price point at the sale price of $0.99 as I feel its not worth more than that. Took me a lil longer to figure things out as I love puzzle games, just not very good at them. For a good puzzle solver this game would take them about 30 minutes to complete. Hopefully the next game made by this developer will be better.

It's not terrible, but ultimately playing it isn't a very fulfilling experience.

Gameplay consists of exploring an abandoned house, spamming your E key hoping to find the item you need to complete the puzzle you're confronted with. Some of these items are easily spotted and even have icons suggesting they can be used, while others don't, for whatever reason. Providing you find the right items though, the puzzles won't test you in the slightest. Saving, however, proved to be challenging.

Visually, the game looks pretty decent. If you've ever played a Unity horror game from Gamejolt or Itch.io, chances are you'll know what to expect. Audio is okay, with some basic ambient noises and sound fx adding a little extra creepiness to the experience.

Is the game scary?
Not especially. Don't listen to that "No screamers" bit in the description.

Completing the game will probably take you around 20-40 minutes, after which you'll probably regret becoming in any way invested.

I've paid for far worse, but overall, I still wouldn't recommend this unless you've really run out of other games to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1sXaIZKBHY

For a full playthrough please see my youtube video below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwqkBIOynHE&feature=youtu.be

TL:DR - Behind the Door is a decent little game, considering it is made in Unity, and I feel it's worth the price.

It's a bit short, and assuming you got lost like me, can take up to 1 hour to complete. The graphics are OK, would prefer if they were higher definition but again, Unity game. The sound design is pretty good, the effects are crisp and well chosen.

The gameplay itself is standard fair. Go here, find an item, use the item on object and receive spooks. The atmosphere is average again for a horror game, very dark, and the flashlight doesn't help a great deal. The 'batteries' for it to me seem mostly useless, because it's such a short game, the batteries only last for like 5 minutes. Would suggest using batteries like this for much longer games.

The spooks mainly come from the atmosphere and anticipation of things lurking in the darkness, but I would like to warn people, while the game description states it doesn't have 'screamers', it DOES have jumpscares. They don't happen often and are placed pretty well at the end of atmospheric segments.

The story is almost non-existent, with there only being a brief mention at the start of the game. You never really find out what happened and why. Would advise to add more story elements to the next game.

There are a few bugs. The first is that 2 crucial items (the cup and leaky pipe in the bathroom) do not have a cog icon indicating they can be used. The second is the flashlight having a black splodge in the centre, but the developers have said they will fix this in an update.

Bought this game pretty much immediately after it was released. Can't say I expected much, but at least i was hoping for an enjoyable kill-time little game. Risks were calculated But oh man was I bad at math .

So The game plot setting seems a little cliche : detective, muder, supernatural element, ghosts, investigation in the middle of the effing night (who does that ?! ). But it promises me "deep horror experience" and "no screamers" and puzzles. Sounds interesting enough.

( First time set-up took me 20 minutes. for a 500MB game that's pretty long, but it just could be my potato computer. )

Thus I was thrown to this abandoned seemingly haunted house with a flashlight, which was probably a luminated donut because it has a big black spot in the center of the lighting. I had to examine things from the corner of my view, otherwise i can't see sh*t. The amount of batteries are very limited, and they burn faster than Usian Bolt. Is this intended for added horror experience ?

The tutorial and hint style is somehow familiar, then I found a twinkling book that read " PRESS TO SAVE PROGRESS". Press what to save ? PRESS WHAT TO SAVE? I tried almost every key on the keyboard, also my mouse. Nothing worked. I feel trolled.

Also, everytime I go through a door the game throws me at an weird angle. Sometimes I am facing the door i just came through, sometimes forward, sometimes to the left. It's just very confusing.

Puzzels in this game aren't strictly "puzzles", most of the time you'll just be running around checking every nook and cranny for items, then use these items on obvious places. It doenst seem that the devs put too much effort into puzzel design. I mean cmon, a flash game could do better than this !

After 20 minutes of gameplay, I couldn't save, ran out of batteries, in-game sound dissappeared, and i was bored to my skull.

Dio Alias Games does an okay job with casual sim games like Battle of painters and Joy Pony, and it might be a brave move for them to step into a new genre. But sorry, this game is just not good at all , it's not even sincere, It feels like a quick money grab. And it certainly not worth 1.7 bucks.

P.S. "No screamers " is a lie

https://youtu.be/eaRrBkLU_8Q

So basically so far this game has been the usual unity 'horror' fare. You plod around at at agonising pace looking for items to interact with. Yes there is a torch. Yes you need to find batteries and yes the batteries burn out faster than a speed runner on crack. However this torch works opposite to most - there is a large black blob in the middle where light should be forcing you to hold the torch up above the thing you wish to illuminate.

The 'puzzles' so far have all been find the item needed to progress. However even this mechanic is iffy - some items have a clear icon showing there is something to interact with, sometimes they dont - leading to a fun game of hunt the pixel with a torch that does not work and bleeds batteries.

So atmosphere? Well the vivuals are halfway decent, but nothing outstanding and there are certainly better looking games out there. Audio is sparse and adds little to the game.

So my experience so far has revealed the only thing behind the door is a tedium. Some doors are better off left shut.