Scientist Creature is a horror game with one simple objective, i.e., to find a way to escape Dr. Henry Hoismer’s weird research facility cum mansion while simultaneously maintaining your distance from a mysterious, creepy, and alien-looking entity that might injure you gravely. The game is extremely short and can be completed easily within an hour. We played ‘Scientist Creature,’ and it felt like a mild-flavored snack that deserves a chance from you. It is a little different from the cookie cutter horror game formula that most indie horror games apply. Here’s our review of Scientist Creature.
Scientist Creature Review
1. The clues will disgust you
You will find multiple clues in the game that are written by the evil scientist who entrapped you in his maze-like mansion. These clues are barely clues as they are mainly the confessions of the scientist’s evildoings. You are going to get demoralized after looking at them. The statements written in those papers are creepy, threatening, a challenge to your mental fortitude, intimidating and meticulously crafted to make sure that you die of horror way before the lurking monster rips you apart and feasts on you. These clues reek of guilt, subtle arrogance, and evident sadism.
You are going to feel like you deserve a Nobel Prize after you hear what the scientist has done in those papers.
2. A splash of occasional gore
The muddy textures of the carpet ruined by the stains of blood add a more viscerally gritty and heart palpitating horror element to this otherwise not-so-scary-looking game. A lot of splattered blood on the beautiful marble, a stretcher with red stains, and the reddish glistening of the blood-stained floors make things look extremely terrifying and vomit-inducing, to say the very least. You are going to feel as if you are trapped in the house of the mutant creatures of the Wrong Turn series, as everything is just out there without even the intention of hiding it. ‘Scientist Creature’ begins to look very disturbing quite early on during the gameplay.
3. A haunting ambiance to set the mood
Creepy paintings that somehow capture dread and sadness, weapons engraved on the wall, nail scratches that look like attempts at breaking out, a beautiful interior that gets ruined by the bloodstains, an eerily peaceful vibe that resembles the vibe of a lonely psychopath’s house, and an occasional earthquake are some of the few things/reasons that make ‘Scientist Creature’ an immersive, atmospheric, and extremely unsettling experience. If the huge mansion in the game was being sold to you at one-fourth the price, you still wouldn’t want to buy it, as something just feels off about the place in a haunting sense. The mansion in the game feels claustrophobic despite being massive.
4. An evil mastermind’s failed project
The mansion in ‘Scientist Creature’ is the playground of the sadistic criminal scientist, Dr. Henry Hoismer, who kidnapped multiple children to carry out his weird experiments. The majority of his victims didn’t survive but one of them did, and he became a monster who lurks in the mansion like a madman. The doctor is now afraid of his own invention (the monstrous entity) and warns you (the player) to stay as far away from him as possible. The remnants of Henry’s cruel experiments will send a shiver down your spine. The climax of the game is a satisfying escape from the psychological prison that is Henry’s cage-like mansion cum research facility.
Overall, it’s a decent game. We would rate it a 2.5 out of 5. The plot is paper-thin and boring, but the atmospheric horror arrives and saves the day. If you like mild horror, then you can try this game.
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