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The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors

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77%Game Brain Score
atmosphere, music
100% User Score Based on 28 reviews

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The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors is a single player survival puzzle game with a horror theme. It was developed by CB_Games and was released on April 8, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.

Now free! <3 You don’t need to have played the first chapter to enjoy this one. At 15 years old, I released my first survival horror game on Steam, The Designer’s Curse, inspired by influential old-school horror titles such as Amnesia and Penumbra. Now, after finally finishing uni, I'm excited to bring you Chapter Two, Forgotten Horrors.  Explore Shaw Well Manor once more, uncovering its dark sec…

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Audience ScoreBased on 28 reviews
atmosphere10 positive mentions
  • Excellent atmosphere and sound design that create a deeply immersive and terrifying horror experience.
  • Unique and well-designed puzzles that make good use of physics and fit well with gameplay.
  • High-quality monster design and reactive AI that keeps tension and fear throughout the game.
  • The game is relatively short, leaving players wanting more content and longer gameplay.
  • Some players found the final puzzle and chase sequence frustrating and less enjoyable.
  • Minor technical issues such as occasional crank wheel interaction problems and some ineffective sneaking mechanics.
  • atmosphere
    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's atmosphere is consistently praised for its immersive, tense, and terrifying qualities, enhanced by haunting music, sound design, and ambient effects. Players highlight the effective combination of lighting, level design, and reactive monsters that maintain suspense and create a deeply engaging horror experience. Overall, the atmosphere is regarded as a standout element that significantly elevates the gameplay.

    • “The atmosphere is absolutely masterful, combining perfectly crafted sound design, lighting, and level layout to deliver a deeply immersive horror journey that kept me on edge the entire time (in the best way possible!).”
    • “This game delivers a genuinely terrifying experience with incredible atmosphere, tense pacing, and psychological scares that linger long after you stop playing.”
    • “The designer's curse chapter 2 is a noticeable step up in quality over the first chapter, with great atmosphere, ambience, tone and personal flair.”
  • music
    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music is consistently praised for its immersive, haunting quality that greatly enhances the game's atmosphere and horror experience. It effectively complements the sound design and environment, making key scenes memorable and contributing to the overall impact of the game.

    • “The atmosphere is great, the music is hauntingly good, and the physics are very fun and the puzzles are quite clever.”
    • “The sound, music and more really immerse you into the atmosphere.”
    • “I praised chapter 1 as being a fantastic addition to the horror genre, with its wonderful music and creepy atmosphere.”
  • gameplay
    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is praised for its smooth mechanics and engaging physics-based puzzles, creating an immersive survival experience. The eerie environment enhances the tension, contributing to a solid and well-rounded horror game.

    • “The mechanics in the game were very smooth and really made it feel like I was surviving.”
    • “The physics in general make for very fun, engaging, and clever puzzles, and I think the game made use of its mechanics quite well.”
    • “From the sound design, music, graphics and gameplay (including decent puzzles) this is an all round solid horror game!”
  • graphics
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are generally praised as decent to fantastic, contributing effectively to the game's immersive and eerie atmosphere. Along with sound design and gameplay, the visuals play a key role in enhancing the overall horror experience.

    • “The artwork is fantastic.”
    • “The sound design, visuals, and the puzzles all work together to create a sense of dread that’s hard to shake.”
    • “From the sound design, music, graphics and gameplay (including decent puzzles) this is an all round solid horror game!”
  • story
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story is praised for being interesting and engaging, featuring a unique amnesia-themed narrative with distinctive monsters and puzzles. It is considered one of the game's strongest aspects, especially appealing to horror fans.

    • “It has unique monsters, a nice story, unique puzzles, and an amnesia vibe.”
    • “This game has a really great story and some of the best puzzles I have ever seen within a game, if you like horror.”
    • “Interesting story.”
  • humor
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game is well-executed and genuinely funny, especially in the later parts, providing an enjoyable and polished comedic experience without feeling amateurish.

    • “There's also a funny back-and-forth in the later part of the game that I really enjoyed!”
    • “Doesn't feel amateurish at all and it was even really funny at times.”
  • character development
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users appreciate the improved character development, highlighting it as a standout aspect that enhances immersion and contributes to memorable moments in the game.

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The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors is a survival puzzle game with horror theme.

The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors was released on April 8, 2025.

The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors was developed by CB_Games.

The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors for its atmosphere.

The Designer's Curse - Forgotten Horrors is a single player game.

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