The No Sleep Gamer

Heavy Rain made with a cheap video recorder is a good way to think of this game. The video footage is blurry on the small screen but in fairness, as a Minis title it has to be a small file size and it’s a lot of footage compressed into 80MB.

This ‘interactive (college student-esque) movie’ has you playing as a potential murder victim from a first-person perspective. Everything is shot on camera with no real graphics to speak of. The ‘story’ is simple, escape from captivity and get out of the woods before the hooded axe murderer catches you.

You get the feeling this is an idea they had and shot all in the same afternoon before rushing back to the office and splicing in some quick time events. Your input ranges from a choice you need to make such as cutting the tape that’s binding your wrists or look around the room, go left or right, hide or move on. Some are obvious others not so much. You’re really just selecting which video to play next. If you choose the wrong one you’re getting an axe in the skull, which means you’ll have to replay the last few choices to try again. Occasionally you’re asked to press X or O, usually to move some branches or climb over a tripwire. It only really gets tough right at the end, which is less than an hour away.

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