- October 3, 2024
- Matt Hutchings
Retro Horror Story
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About Retro Horror Story
Retro Horror Story is a single player survival action adventure game with horror and violence themes. It was developed by Matt Hutchings and was released on October 3, 2024. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.
Step into the eerie, pixelated world of the 90s with Retro Horror Story, a chilling first-person survival horror game inspired by classic retro games. After playing a cursed cartridge, you find yourself stranded inside a maze-like liminal space that has claimed the lives of many before you! Navigate the twisted maze, solve puzzles, uncover the mystery of the labyrinth, and escape a terrifying en…
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Reviews
- Effective nostalgia trip with retro PS1-era graphics and atmosphere combining pixelated textures, low-polygon models, and neon lighting effects.
- Engaging gameplay featuring simple puzzles, intense monster chases, and fun boss fights that deliver classic survival horror thrills.
- Short, concise game length makes it an accessible and enjoyable experience, ideal for a quick horror gaming session, especially during Halloween.
- Very short gameplay duration, which may leave players wanting more content or depth.
- Minor technical issues such as cursor remaining active on a second monitor, occasional game stutter, and somewhat flawed AI behavior.
- Some generic elements and repetitiveness, with occasional problematic audio containing offensive language during monster attacks.
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10 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe story of "Retro Horror Story" offers a classic, straightforward survival horror experience reminiscent of slasher movies and early stealth horror games, featuring a nightmare maze setting where players escape a pursuing monster. While simple and short, it includes decent dialogue and multiple characters trapped alongside the player, providing a nostalgic yet engaging narrative.
“Retro Horror Story is a short, simple but relatively well-made horror game where you must run from a monster while trapped inside a nightmare maze based video game.”
“From the classic plot (that reminded me a little bit of A Nightmare on Elm Street) to the simplistic but fun and effective gameplay, this game is a well-executed throwback to classic slasher horror movies and to the first stealth-driven horror games from 10 years ago.”
“There are other kids that are trapped like you; try and make it out to tell their story.”
“Same story, other place.”
“Retro horror story is a short, simple but relatively well made horror game where you must run from a monster while trapped inside a nightmare maze based video game.”
“+ decent little story/dialogue”
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Retro Horror Story is a survival action adventure game with horror and violence themes. Common tags for Retro Horror Story include first-person, indie, linear, psychological, exploration and others.
Retro Horror Story is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.
Retro Horror Story was released on October 3, 2024.
Retro Horror Story was developed by Matt Hutchings.
Retro Horror Story has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Retro Horror Story for its graphics but disliked it for its story.
Retro Horror Story is a single player game.
Similar games include The Night of the Scissors, Fear the Spotlight, The Door in the Basement, BrokenLore: DON'T WATCH, The Count Lucanor and others.