Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2016

  Fun little game that have you jumping in your chair when you get shrieked! Recommended!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 26, 2016

  tl;dr version: Is this the kind of game you'll play for ages and have ranked tournaments with months from now? No. Is it $5 worth of Halloween entertainment for the next month or so? Absolutely! Hide and Shriek is a very well balanced 1v1 scarematch game where you have to either outscore or outscare (or ideally both) your opponent. The fact that resources are randomly distributed - even the runes you use to craft spells are randomly chosen at the start of the match - means that there's no one preferred location or ideal loadout you can use. Having to continually scramble about looking for resources and never quite having the right spell components in place keeps it from being too comfortable at any point. (It is admittedly true that sometimes the RNG blesses you with abundant resources of exactly the right kind for your strategy but you can never count on this being true.) The way the match feels will vary wildly depending on the chosen tactics of the two participants. For example, two people who enjoy turtling or ambushing will feel very lonely and a bit silly after a while if they don't switch tactics. But this is part of the appeal of the game. It prioritizes thinking on your feet and making use of what's available and adapting to your opponent rather than twitch reflex competition. The benefit from skill plateaus quickly - beyond a basic knowledge of how the game works that's required to compete at all, greater skill simply doesn't give you the overwhelming advantage it does in other games. You still face the exact same limits as your opponent. While this game does have some jump-scare elements, I've found it's pretty rare to be totally surprised. It's more often an "oh **** I hit a trap nooooo" and then the other player finishes me off while I'm stunned. The fact that you're able to strike back on equal terms suppresses a lot of the overwhelming sensation of some jump scare games. To get back to the tl;dr, yeah, this is probably not a game I'm going to play for more than a couple of weeks around halloween. But I definitely feel I'm going to get my money's worth from it.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 27, 2016

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_Eau_Ib1Y I'm not sure what I expected from this game, but I love it way more than I thought I would. I'm already a fan of he Secret World, and while this game is only mildly related to The Secret World, it holds up FAR better as its own game than "The Park" did. There's a lot of replay value in finding other peopleto play against, and seeing their reactions, and hopefully we get some updates tossed in from time to time. Well worth the, at it's most, 6 dollar price tag.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 27, 2016

  Fun AND Scary game. There are heaps of different spells, traps, to beat your opponent. someimes the game gets really intense haha. Though It takes awhile to find an opponent,maybe because there aren't many people playing this game. I recommend that everyone plays this game, so fuunnn
• gamedeal user

  Oct 29, 2016

  Hide and Shriek is a 1v1 game about two students at opposing schools being invisible and having a game afterhours. The game play with scoring by either tricking your opponents with traps (via rigging them along the ground, doors, cabinets, etc) and by finding your invisible opponent and shrieking them, 3 shrieks in a row and you win automatically! Each match lasts 10 minutes and all 10 of those can be filled with tense searching and hoping that your next touch isn't going to throw you across the room by a gust of wind, or that cabinet you touched might electrify you, or even that noise you heard is your invisible rival opening something right next to you unknowingly. It's a fun little game, an added bonus if you're a fan of The Secret World in which this game has goodies for, the only downside is possibly the lower population of players further down the road after halloween. Edit: As of late November I've found the game a bit more difficult to find players with. So having a friend to play with you would likely be the best idea!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 26, 2016

  It was okay. Jumpscares, but they are cheesy. Admittedly, I jumped a few times, but the effect wears off quite fast and I haven't play it that long. It had a weird learning curve and is still fun if you play with friends that get scared, but if no one screams then it's not rewarding.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 14, 2017

  you can't find anyone when u go on public match
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2017

  Game is dead, let the Youtubers play it, if they still are.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 20, 2017

  This game had so much potential, sadly the devs pretty much stopped working on it after they launched instead of possibly creating new maps, runes and spells and even different game modes. Now that the game is free to play, it's definitely a good play with your friends every now and then.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 28, 2018

  I think this game is a riot. So fun and it's got a great premise. I'd pay money for more maps. Maybe bigger ones that could support more players. It's still awesome even with the lack of content though.