The Bathhouse Review: It’s Creepier Than The Annabelle Doll

The Bathhouse Review: It's Creepier Than The Annabelle Doll

The Bathhouse is an atmospheric horror game where you play as a tenant and employee of a bustling bathhouse. You have to fulfill the duties of cleaning & customer management and on top of that, you have to ignore & survive the spine-chilling horrific stuff that has happened to uncountable bathhouse cleaners before you. We completed the game in a single sitting and found it deeply unsettling, like walking alone in a graveyard at midnight. The main thing is we liked it for the sheer disconcerting nature of the game, and how easily it pulls you inside its eerie atmosphere. Here’s our review of the Bathhouse game.

The Bathhouse Review

1. Creepy would be an understatement

The Bathhouse Review

The characters of the Bathhouse have a perpetual, upside-turned, creepy grin; they gaze through you like a vile psychopath who has marked you as his/her next conquest, and their faces have a menacing calmness on them that sends a chilling sensation from the tip of your toes to the very last hair on your scalp. In simple words, you’re going to feel as if someone is trying to intimidate you just by their presence, and as if each molecule present in the air around you is telling you to run as far away as possible from the suicide mission, i.e., your job at the bathhouse.

There’s a peculiarity suspended in the air throughout the game; a gloomy vibe that symbolizes oncoming death. There’s not even a drop of warmth, hope, or joy that you’re going to find in this game, but in a great, cinematically inclined manner.

2. A depressing work environment

The Bathhouse Review

Seeing the hanging lights & depressing walls daily and performing the same mundane tasks one after the other will bore the living daylights out of you; it will remind you of your job, except it’s ten times more horrifying & depressing. The overtly silent nature of the bathhouse can drive you insane; the atmosphere is extremely saddening. Although it’s extremely scary, you are going to feel as if you are marinating in the gravy of despair, and there’s no hope that some spice or even salt is going to be added soon to this depressing gravy.

The visuals make you feel lethargic, like a lion trapped in a zoo who is too depressed to even imagine the jungle from where he was captured.

3. Demonic visuals that reinstate your belief in horror

The Bathhouse Review

After a while, the bathhouse starts looking like an abstract room where the demons from hell gather together to discuss what type of pitchforks & cauldrons to use to maximize the torture of residents of hell. The visuals look less scary & psychedelic as well; it stupefies you as you can’t comprehend whether to run or appreciate this satanic aesthetic’s absurd visual appeal. A creepy face staring at you for an uncomfortably significant amount of time, feeling no warmth despite being surrounded by humans, splashes of blood, and jumpscares that make you scream like a 3-year-old girl whose crayon just broke – your heart is going to beat faster than usual just like it does on the roller coaster.

It’s a beautifully sculpted horror game that just hits the right notes without missing.

4. A terrifying climax

The Bathhouse Review

Just when you think you’ve escaped the abyss, only then the abyss starts pulling you intensely towards it – you are going to experience the same nerve-wracking horror in the last few minutes, so much so that you will be shocked to see how inhumane humans can get when they lose their sanity. You’re going to witness the worst of horrors that a person could imagine or have seen in a horrid dream that wakes them up at midnight, profusing with sweat and hardly breathing. If you’re a fan of the innovative eliminations shown in the Hitman game series, then you’re going to love this game’s inventive climax.

5. Breathtaking visuals

The Bathhouse Review

The Bathhouse has one of the shiniest, smoothest, and sexiest visuals that you might have seen in the most expensive AAA games or dystopian movies. The glistening of the water puddles in the street and wet leaves swaying in the rain, the wooden and glass textures, and the incredible realism of the graphics add up to create an extraordinarily immersive experience. Overall, The Bathhouse is an enticing visual tale that sends jitters down your spine till the very last second of the climax.

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