SO BELOW

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SO BELOW is a single player and multiplayer survival action adventure game with horror and mystery themes. It was developed by Eonia Studio and was released on October 25, 2022. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Gear up, hunt, adapt, survive. Engage in a co-op survival horror experience with up to 4 players online. Explore the haunted location, find the clues and tools needed to complete the ritual and defeat the entity. Will you be able to survive?

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70%

Audience ScoreBased on 44 reviews

atmosphere15 positive mentions

story3 negative mentions

Excellent atmosphere and sound design that create a spooky, immersive ghost-hunting experience.
Fun and engaging multiplayer co-op gameplay, especially with friends, offering satisfying tactical elements.
Well-designed maps and entities with creative visuals and lore, showing strong potential for future improvements.

Numerous bugs and technical issues such as entities and quest items getting stuck, frequent crashes, and game-breaking glitches.
Confusing and poorly designed tutorial and UI, making it difficult for new players to understand objectives and gameplay mechanics.
Unpolished controls and repetitive, sometimes boring gameplay with minimal challenge, impacting overall player engagement.

atmosphere
21 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game is consistently praised for its strong and immersive atmosphere, characterized by excellent sound design, lighting, and eerie visuals that effectively enhance the ghost-hunting experience. While some reviews note flaws in gameplay or tutorials, nearly all agree that the atmospheric elements are a standout feature that significantly contribute to the game's appeal.
- “The atmosphere and audio design are the highlights to me.”
- “This game truly nails the atmosphere for a ghost-hunting game.”
- “Fantastic audio design, very atmospheric setting and wonderfully creepy ghosts and monsters to run away screaming from.”
gameplay
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
23%
54%
23%
The gameplay receives mixed feedback, praised for its atmosphere, variety of maps, and challenging mechanics, but criticized for being repetitive, buggy, and lacking depth. While it has potential for replayability and diverse elements, many feel it needs significant improvements in pacing and mechanics to fully engage players.
- “Has promise, great atmosphere, but needs some serious gameplay tweaks before I can recommend the game.”
- “The game has enormous potential as far as replayability and more types of exorcisms and other gameplay elements.”
- “The ghost models are awesome and the gameplay is good. You will die a lot in this game until you get used to it and understand the mechanics and how every ghost works.”
- “But the gameplay itself is boring, buggy, and repetitive.”
- “It ended up feeling like a tedious fetch quest in a setting that could have been amazing if someone had really focused on the gameplay mechanics and pacing.”
- “The game has fantastic visuals and very compelling horror, but still needs to mature gameplay wise.”
graphics
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features outstanding, highly detailed graphics and lighting that effectively enhance its eerie atmosphere. Its creative visuals, custom maps, and haunting occult art contribute to a compelling and immersive horror experience. Overall, the graphics are widely praised for their quality and ability to elevate the game's ambiance.
- “The graphics and lighting really help to carry the atmosphere of the game and are top notch!”
- “The graphics are outstanding, the maps are custom and super detailed.”
- “New visuals, new environments, new ambience as ghost and places.”
- “Creative visuals and I really like the look of the entities and the occult art of the levels themselves - crazy writing on the walls, unsettling art, strange altars that you can only guess at the purpose of - very haunting.”
- “Graphics: --- No further detail given, making it unhelpful for evaluation.”
story
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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38%
The story aspect is criticized for feeling like a tedious fetch quest plagued by numerous bugs, including inaccessible quest items and random mission completions, which disrupt immersion. Additionally, some missions, like the "nun mission," feel disconnected from the overall narrative, further diminishing the story's cohesion and engagement.
- “It ended up feeling like a tedious fetch quest in a setting that could have been amazing if someone had really focused on the gameplay mechanics and pacing.”
- “Required quest items spawn stuck and can't be picked up no matter what (like the wendigo's heart on the wall), entities get stuck on nothing and remain there for the rest of the game, and 1 in every 6 games after doing nothing my friend and I would just randomly get a 'quest successful' and the mission would end.”
- “The nun mission feels like some standalone game, disconnected from the main story.”
stability
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's stability is a major concern, with frequent bugs, glitches, and clipping issues that disrupt gameplay. While some users remain hopeful that updates will address these problems, the current experience is marked by persistent technical flaws.
- “But the gameplay itself is boring, buggy, and repetitive.”
- “Still buggy.”
- “With these updates, the game has become a bug-ridden mess with ghosts getting stuck, clipping through the map when crouching.”
grinding
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding in the game is seen as tedious and poorly paced, resembling repetitive fetch quests, which detracts from the potentially engaging setting and gameplay experience.
- “It ended up feeling like a tedious fetch quest in a setting that could have been amazing if someone had really focused on the gameplay mechanics and pacing.”
- “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
music
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music is well-crafted and effectively enhances the game's creepy atmosphere, complementing the art and sound design.
- “There is a lot of work that has been put into the art, the sound design, and the music.”
- “The music is well done and does a great job adding to the creepy nature of this game.”
optimization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's optimization has significantly improved since its initial release, resolving previous issues with heavy lag and frame drops, resulting in smoother performance and better streaming capability.
- “Performance-wise, it has been improved since the first time we played. We experienced heavy lag and frame drops, making it hard to stream the game without issues. These problems have been fixed.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game offers strong replayability potential, with varied types of exorcisms and additional gameplay elements that encourage multiple playthroughs.
- “The game has enormous potential in terms of replayability, with more types of exorcisms and additional gameplay elements.”