Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2022

  They tried to change things up a bit but it didn't make things better. Instead of looking at camera footage you walk around with a cellphone taking pictures. This sounds more intuitive as you don't need to describe anything, but the walking is slow, the camera angles don't work sometimes, and it's easy to walk into a room just to forget what you were doing. The themes and difficulty are the same but this change of form makes it the odd one out for the wrong reasons. It's still part of the worldbuilding in these series, so fans might still want to try it. But alone as it is, it's not the best way to spend your weekend.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 8, 2022

  Absolutely fricking terrifying, thank you. This is the only one of these games I physically cannot play lmfao
• gamedeal user

  Mar 27, 2022

  ~ DIFFICULTY ~ ▢ No Difficulty ▢ Easy ▢Normal 🟩Hard ▢ Impossible ~ PLAYER BASE ~ ▢ Everyone ▢ Kids ▢ Mature 🟩 Casual Players ▢ Tryhards ▢ Pro Players ~ GRAPHICS ~ ▢ What Is This? ▢ Acceptable ▢Good 🟩 Great ▢Beautiful ▢ Masterpiece ~ SOUND/MUSIC ~ (Using Headphones) ▢ Bad 🟩 Nothing Special ▢Good ▢ Great ▢ Beautiful ▢ I´m Gonna Cry ~ STORY ~ ▢ This Game Has No Story ▢ Like Playing "Candy Crush" For The Story ▢ It´s Alright 🟩 Well Written ▢ Epic Story ▢ Thinking About It, When I Sleep ~ PRICE ~ ▢ Free ▢ Underpriced 🟩 Perfect Price ▢ Could Be Cheaper ▢ Overpriced ~ LENGTH ~ ▢Very Short (0-2 Hours) 🟩Short (2-20 Hours) ▢ Average (20-50 Hours) ▢ Long (50-200 Hours) ▢ VERY Long (200-... Hours) ▢ Multiplayer/Neverending ~ FUN ~ ▢ I´d Rather Watch Grass Grow ▢ Hard To Enjoy ▢ Repetitive ▢ It´s Okay 🟩 Fun To Be Had For Sure ▢ The Kind Of Fun You Will Remember ▢ Life Changing ~ WORTH BUYING ~ ▢ No ▢ Wait For A Sale 🟩 Yes ▢ I Can´t Recommend It Enough ~ FINAL SCORE ~ 8.3/10
• gamedeal user

  Apr 2, 2022

  Sadly I don't feel that this game works as well in a 3d walk around way. But I appreciate the developer for trying, not as bad as people say and definitely worth a try for only like 2 bucks.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 7, 2022

  Not the same as the first or second, but instead it puts you INTO the house that you are observing, and that can be unnerving in its own right. Plus there's a VR version of it. Take pictures of anomalies, submit the pictures, don't die. Give it a chance, you'll like it. I'm glad I did.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 23, 2022

  Observation Duty 1, 2, and 4 are recommendable, this one is awful though. Taking the game to first person doesn't really work the same as the fixed cameras, it's not as spooky, and (perhaps worst of all) the FOV and camera are insanely nauseating. I'm not normally super sensitive to FOV and bad cameras, but this one made me and everyone else on stream nauseous, I had to shut this one off due to sheer physical discomfort. Don't get this one unless you wanna make yourself nauseous to like, get out of school or something lol.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 26, 2022

  It's more immersive now since the anomalies can appear right in front of you instead of just on the cameras. Though, the intruders start to look pretty goofy up close once you've seen them a couple of times. I still can totally recommend this game!
• BETTA

  May 12, 2022

  You need a lot of patience and attention to details to not get bored. Best to buy pack of all IOOD games
• gamedeal user

  Jun 8, 2022

  By far the scariest of the Observation Duty game series to date, and for one simple reason: You are no longer sitting in an office somewhere flipping through camera feeds while you sip on your coffee from Starsmucks. Nope. You are there, ground zero. Enjoy walking through the house and finding everything that has changed-and watch the corners behind doors-and the ceilings-and the floors near heavy furniture. Just saying. There is no combat, no run and hide or searching for missing family members or friends or looking for clues or keys as to the cause of all this. You are not a warrior or an exorcist. You are not a victim or other protagonist of any kind. Nope. You, my friend, are the poor damned NPC who took this job to pay the bills so...try not to die. To avoid dying, just do you job. find and report any and all anomalies.Be fast-and be very, VERY thorough. Who knows? you might just make it. That said-you may find it preferably to move away from a few of the more disturbing visitors you will get. Especially when they start looking back at you. if you find you literally cant look away..well, all the more reason to get filing those reports down to a quick science. Best of luck. you WILL need it.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 3, 2022

  Highly underrated, but I can also see why: it's a big change from the first two games, which will already turn off plenty of players from wanting to try it. The decision to allow you to roam in this game, as opposed to flipping between camera shots, was a brave one and I really admire trying something new, but it comes with both pros AND cons. Firstly: it definitely changes the tone of this game from the first two. Being behind the cameras in the first game did give you somewhat of a sense of safety since that meant you were in no "direct" danger, but it also made you feel somewhat restricted, which added to the overall uneasiness and dread. (Some anomalies in those games would even trap you in one room until you either reported them or they ended you, making your fixed camera setup no longer a safe haven. That's not something that applies here, obviously.) In this game however, the fear is very different: the ability to move means you have the ability to run, which makes you feel less trapped, but at the same time it makes it so much more intense when someone/something is actually there with you. Particularly as there's at least one anomaly that will chase you, which isn't something that can be said of the other games. I think there's merits to both kinds of fear, though, so I guess it all boils down to what you specifically are looking for in your horror games. The free-roam format also makes the game very challenging. That in itself is not a bad thing, since these games aren't meant to be super easy by any means, but I'm not quite sure that the ability to free-roam works with the game's formula as well as the fixed cameras. The camera angles give you almost a bird's eye view of every room, so every detail you need to see is in-frame. However, the free-roam setup means having to look around a lot more since your view of things is much more up-close now, and the variation in angles makes it all the more difficult to know if something has changed or if it's just a matter of perspective. Moving from that to my biggest complaint: the Headquarters level. It would be a great level in either of the first two games, but frankly in this one, I think it's perilously close to being too much for a single player. As in each game and level, a lot of the anomalies are quite small and subtle, (some, I daresay, ridiculously so; seriously, keep an eye on the picture in the employee lounge, because I would literally never have seen that one if it hadn't been pointed out to me) which on a big map with a lot of objects to pay attention to gets very overwhelming very fast. While I think the Headquarters level has easily some of the spookiest Intruders and anomalies, I'm just worried how many people never saw them because, like me, they got in for the first time and were instantly demotivated due to how vast the map is, and how many, unlike me, didn't come back and keep trying at it. I'm not suggesting that we pitch all the subtle anomalies on the Headquarters level, because the subtle anomalies do serve a purpose: they force the player to pay close attention to the game, which means the really big and more in-your-face anomalies are all the more alarming. Nor am I suggesting that the Headquarters level be scrapped, by any means, because it's not as if it's impossible to beat, and a lot of the scares in this level are genuinely scary. Not to mention, it's great just to get even more of a background and lore behind the series. So I'm not sure what the solution to this problem is, to be perfectly honest. The best advice I can give, to potential players at least, is: if you decide to play it, try not to let the scale of it intimidate you. It looks huge and impossible, but with effort and patience it is quite possible. This level really does have some truly magnificent scares now and then, and it would be a shame if you missed out on those, so I'd say it's worth trying at least a couple times, even if you decide in the end that beating it would take too long or be too frustrating. Overall, I think it's still really fun, just like the first two games, and it truly is admirable that the developer wanted to try something new instead of just rehashing the same formula mindlessly over and over. We're in a period at present where far too many triple-a studios are terrified to try anything new, so experimentation like this from an indie developer shows a lot of care, dedication, creativity, and bravery. However, it's probably for the best that this is so far the only Observation Duty game to feature free-roaming. It just doesn't work as well as the fixed cameras do in a "spot the difference" game like this. With that being said though, if you're reading this, developer: please don't ever stop experimenting and trying new things. The gaming community needs your innovation!