![]() Between the small screen and the environments in which many people play, the tension is all too easily broken. Horror on mobile is a hard thing to pull off. Moving by tapping the next spot you want to travel too makes exploration easy, while also letting you examine every eerie detail just by dragging your figure around the screen. ![]() Every deserted corridor, dank dungeon-like medical area, or disjointed supernatural dream-scape looks sensational on your handheld device. This not only filled in the story, but also the horror as you discover what has happened to your companion's mind while trapped with the terrors.ĭark Meadow's detail, stunningly brought to life in the Unreal Engine, also add to the atmosphere. Every time you entered a room lit with sunlight – a safe room – your guide would further elaborate the fiction, with dozens of lines of dialogue. This disembodied voice was the highlight for me. Across multiple scenes he reveals the nature of the world, including your constant reincarnations, and explains his own desire to escape the hellish abandoned hospital in which you're trapped. After dyeing at the hands of a glowing girl you reawaken in a room, alone except for the voice of a man talking to you over a PA. Also, Dark Meadow’s RPG elements do help to keep things fresh, as you level up your hero’s stats and purchase better weapons and protection with looted gold – or if you are impatient in-game currency.Īfter Dark Meadow is done with its introduction, things settle down. ![]() The pattern of the action is repetitive, but the evolving enemies ensure that it never gets dull. Great mobile action and tight controls, but not what I came to the game for. Once they arrive you dodge or block until you see an opening and then you randomly swipe at the screen until they – or you – die. You then fire a volley of crossbow bolts, desperately trying to hit the jittering Eldritch horrors and inflict damage before they close the gap. The creature randomly appears at the other end of a corridor. ![]()
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