Shelley Manor

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Shelley Manor is a single player action adventure game with fantasy and thriller themes. It was developed by ESAT and was released on July 5, 2024. It received neutral reviews from players.

Find your way through a puzzle filled manor while barely dodging human-eating monsters. You wake up in a dark room with one objective: escape those sharpened teeth. However, you should not worry; you will meet friends along the way.

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Audience ScoreBased on 37 reviews

graphics4 positive mentions

gameplay3 negative mentions

Great art, atmosphere, and visual design that effectively create a spooky haunted house experience.
Interesting and fun puzzle and stealth gameplay with a well-made, engaging story despite its short length.
The game is fully free with no microtransactions, making it accessible to everyone.

Clunky and frustrating controls, especially the movement and camera system, with frequent issues when camera angles shift.
Numerous bugs and glitches cause crashes, softlocks, and progression blockers, severely impacting gameplay.
Game is very short and feels incomplete or abandoned, lacking polish and content depth.

graphics
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features generally impressive and immersive graphics with a distinctive art style, contributing to a haunting atmosphere. However, some users find the visuals passable but not outstanding, noting issues with darkness and visibility despite graphic settings adjustments. Overall, while the graphics are praised, they are not consistently matched by the gameplay experience.
- “The graphics in this game are really great and complement the sounds perfectly.”
- “From the eerie visuals to the spine-tingling sound design, the game immerses you in its haunting world.”
- “Decent game with good art style and fairly meh gameplay.”
- “The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better.”
- “It's too dark even after adjusting the settings, making it hard to see where I am.”
- “The visuals combined with poor controls make gameplay frustrating, especially with tank controls and item placement issues.”
gameplay
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay is widely criticized for feeling unpolished and repetitive, with uninspired puzzles and clunky mechanics such as awkward throwing controls and locked camera angles. While the visuals receive some praise, the gameplay fails to deliver an engaging or polished experience.
- “A thriller that trips over its own mechanics.”
- “The puzzles lack creativity, and some mechanics, like throwing an object at a painting to make it vanish, feel random and unpolished rather than clever.”
- “Classic movement mechanics and locked camera angles (i.e. sometimes you're pressing down to run left and vice versa).”
atmosphere
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The atmosphere is widely praised for its incredible art and masterful direction, creating a perfectly immersive and visually striking experience, especially in terms of atmospheric horror.
- “Shelley Manor is a masterclass in atmospheric horror.”
- “The art and direction are incredible, and the atmosphere is perfect.”
- “The art and the game atmosphere are honestly pretty good.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users feel the game lacks sufficient background music, especially during key moments like when being spotted, suggesting the addition of eerie or suspenseful tracks to enhance the atmosphere. They also report occasional absence of music, which diminishes the overall experience.
- “The grunting and brief lines are cool, but adding some scary, eerie music could enhance the feeling of trying to get away.”
- “More music throughout the game is needed; I played good parts of the game without any background music, so it was just loud footsteps for me.”
- “There needs to be music for when someone sees you.”
- “There should be more music throughout the game because, I don't know if it's a bug, but I played good parts of the game without any music in the background, so it was just loud footsteps for me.”
story
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story is engaging and unfolds with a compelling sense of mystery, complementing well-crafted puzzles that balance challenge and satisfaction. While the game can be somewhat frustrating to complete, it offers an enjoyable and well-made short narrative experience.
- “The puzzles are well-crafted, striking a perfect balance between challenge and satisfaction, and the story unfolds with a gripping sense of mystery.”
- “The story is nice and the whole game is really well made and fun to play.”
- “The game was a bit annoying to complete but overall it is a fun short story to play.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game experiences stability issues, including glitches that occasionally cause crashes or require manual resets. These issues can disrupt gameplay but do not appear to be frequent.
- “Glitches that can either result in a manual reset or a fatal error making the game crash (happened to me once, and had to manually reset twice).”
- “This game is also kind of buggy.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding in the game is perceived as tedious rather than engaging, detracting from the overall thrill expected in a puzzle-based horror experience.