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it’s coming, March 22, 2023by dogdennings You are home alone, but not entirely alone. In All Alone, you play as a struggling artist who is currently living in a sub-basement apartment. Your significant other is at work, and you have settled in for the night to watch some television when a news report about a serial killer comes on. And suddenly the phone rings. While not technically a one-room game, the entirety of All Alone takes place in a very claustrophobic apartment. The gameplay is puzzleless with a focus on exploration and object examination. It is a short game, but the author does a great job of ratcheting up the tension. And the level of object interactivity is really impressive. Almost everything in your apartment can be examined. It is hard to talk about All Alone without discussing the ending, and it is hard to discuss the ending without revealing spoilers. While I did enjoy the ending, I will admit that it left me with more questions than answers. Maybe that was the point. Maybe the underlying message of the game is that your emotions can distort your sense of reality. Maybe, but I honestly don’t know. All Alone is a genuinely scary game with an impressive level of detail and a plot that plays with your expectations. I highly recommend it. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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6 people found the following review helpful:
Perplexing but atmospheric, May 8, 2019by Bosch While very effectively evocative of an atmosphere, it's hard to know what to make of this game. A lot of little clues and faint hints and traces allude to elements that never see any kind of resolution. By the end, it's not entirely clear what happened except in a fairly broad sense. But it's well done, and some minor narrative branching makes it worth replays. I've banged away at it repeatedly and I still feel like I'm missing something that would bring it into sharper relief. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A short, easy sound-enhanced horror game at home, May 9, 2016by MathBrush This game is a fairly popular horror game. With sounds on, late at night, it is pretty creepy. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Atmospheric, brooding, but yet another generic horror victim, November 22, 2015by verityvirtue (London) You're alone in Harvey's apartment. It is raining. The news is on: the ‘Slicer Killer’, who has young women living alone as his prey, has claimed another victim. Harvey will be back soon. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Meh., January 2, 2015by Chai Hai (Kansas City KS) It wasn't BAD per se, but it wasn't exactly thrilling either. Just your run of the mill horror story. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Effective in its aim but low on interactivity., December 5, 2011All Alone is a very short horror game riffing on those urban myths about what can happen to women who are unfortunate enough to receive a creepy phone call late at night. You play one such woman fielding one such phone call; you're alone in your apartment when the call arrives, a storm's moving in and the TV news is yelling at you about the local serial killer. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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9 people found the following review helpful:
Bad IF, good F, October 11, 2010by BladeL Only 3 stars, but mostly because it's not really a game. A short cast. It's not bad, really. Play it, it won't take more than five minutes. Although I think this is the kind of game which you should make with sound effects and music in the box. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (2) - Add comment
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Great atmosphere, lousy plot, September 22, 2010by Victor Gijsbers (The Netherlands) All Alone actually scared me. Oh, it used a cheap trick to do it, but it was effective and very diegetic: my reaction of "Whaah! Oh, wait, how stupid to be scared by that" is exactly the same reaction the protagonist has in this situation. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Short and Creepy Horror Piece, September 13, 2009Short and creepy ”literary” horror. You are a young female artist waiting for the break-through and recently moved into your boyfriend’s small, shabby apartment—just big enough that you can’t see all of it from any one place. It’s a dark and stormy night; a serial killer stalks the streets; you’re all alone. The phone rings. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Cold Sweat, July 25, 2009by AmberShards (The Gothic South) Although it is set in an apartment, All Alone is head-and-shoulders above other such room-limited games, because it successfully induces all of the claustrophobia that other games only hint at. Here, claustrophobia, paralysis, and isolation, all spiral together into a cold sweat of undiluted terror. On the analytical side, this is pure stalker-horror with the player as the potential victim. The setup uses the limitations of the setting and even of IF itself to bring the aforementioned emotions into play. It's quite effective, and the emotions are compromised only by the profanity towards the end. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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