Don't live Alone is a very straight-forward, very scary, and very loud video game.
Osama M.S.A comes back with another short PSX horror adventure, complete with a solid little environment where you can be chased by a scary monster, full of many jump-scares. The monster this time around is pretty scary looking, and the mini jump-scares that prelude it are pretty good at building tension, since you don't actually engage with the antagonist for about 60% of the game, which fills you with some very, very misplaced doubt about the experience.
The gameplay starts off with some "Slender: The 8 Pages"-style fun of placing posters throughout a city, which you get to via air balloon. One more time in case you didn't understand: you fly to this city from your remote island via air balloon to line the telephone poles with newspapers. It's really slow and features way too much backtracking. Intentional or not, this is a slight fake-out as, spoiler alert, the actual fun doesn't begin until after you finish the objective.
I use the term "fun" very loosely because, unless your definition of fun is getting your eardrums and headphone speakers absolutely ravaged by an extremely unforgiving PSX predator on a small Jordanian island, then you might not have fun. This segment took me a few tries until I realized I was just going the wrong direction, I think. FUCK ME, was it loud. It really spoiled the experience for me personally—like, I had to lower my gameplay audio from 100% to 9% to make it bearable in the recording. The ending was really wholesome, though.
Also, I couldn't find anywhere else to mention this, but from what I found, this game is written in Python and runs on the Blender-based game engine UPBGE, which is interesting. I've never played any other game like that.
Overall, for a free, short, PSX-style horror game, I had fun! It was really scary—the scariest game I've played this month, actually. Just lower your volume before the last island segment.
Full Playthrough: https://youtu.be/hJ1E0lyitFM
itch.io: https://osamamsa123.itch.io/dont-live-alone
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