- October 20, 2025
- markuwaaaaa
Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker
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Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker is a single player action game with a horror theme. It was developed by markuwaaaaa and was released on October 20, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.
Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker is a psychological horror game where you follow 19-year-old Steve Jackson house-sitting in a quiet town that soon reveals dark secrets. Explore atmospheric environments, interact with NPCs through dialogue, and experience tension-building sound effects and a unique VHS aesthetic. Choices you make will shape the chilling narrative.
- The game has a great atmosphere and successfully captures the eerie vibes reminiscent of Fears to Fathom.
- For a first game, it shows promise with unique mechanics and engaging gameplay, making it enjoyable despite its short length.
- The storytelling feels personal and immersive, with a slow-burn tension that effectively builds dread.
- The game is very short, often completed in under an hour, leaving players wanting more content and depth.
- It heavily borrows elements from other games in the genre, making it feel predictable and less original.
- The plot is considered bland and lacking cohesion, with some players feeling it resembles a tech demo rather than a full game.
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The story aspect of the game has received mixed reviews, with some players finding it lacking in depth and coherence, describing it as a collection of disjointed elements that fail to deliver a compelling narrative. Others appreciate the personal and immersive storytelling, noting its psychological horror elements and effective tension-building, despite its short length and reliance on familiar tropes from other indie horror games. Overall, while some find it engaging and well-executed for a debut title, many criticize it for being underdeveloped and unoriginal.
“Good story and fun playthrough, worth.”
“For the developer's first game, I must say it's a pretty solid short little horror game which, at the potential of coming off as annoying, is pretty inspired by the 'Fears to Fathom' series. The game's horror is built off a true story, which adds to the whole psychological horror aspect. The slow and steady buildup towards the 'jumpscares', the tension, and the natural building paranoia that comes when the 'jumpscares' are false flags, along with the meta jokes when you do something your character obviously would not do, like jump in front of ongoing traffic, and quite a bit more. It does add its own little additions like the whole epilogue cutscenes, which I like quite a bit.”
“The storytelling feels personal and immersive, and the pacing pulls you in with that eerie, slow-burn tension.”
“It doesn't even take me an hour and there isn't really a story anyway.”
“There is almost no story, almost nothing happens.”
“The plot is bland and stitched together like three unrelated creepypastas someone dropped on the floor; the 'scares' have the intensity of a wet paper towel, nothing is cohesive, nothing is interesting, and the scariest part of the whole game is realizing you spent money on it.”
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Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker is a action game with horror theme.
Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker is available on PC and Windows.
Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker was released on October 20, 2025.
Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker was developed by markuwaaaaa.
Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its atmosphere but disliked it for its story.
Overcome Your Fears - Caretaker is a single player game.
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