Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Dec 4, 2021

  better than poppy playtime, no nfts
• gamedeal user

  Feb 4, 2022

  I got scared.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 14, 2022

  I jumped in this game cuz my gf said it'd make me poo my diaper. not only are my cheeks caked and my chair irreversibly stained a reddish brown like a taco bell texas chainsaw massacre crossover, but my heart is impacted and my eyes are wide. this blessing of a game is so rich in content and 100%-ing it is a grueling task that will keep you occupied for HOURS. if you love horror, if you love games, or if youre constipated, get this HOLY GRAIL of steam. i recommend with my whole being.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2022

  funny pixel face guy helps me cope with my abandonment issues and question my life 10/10
• gamedeal user

  Jul 9, 2022

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• gamedeal user

  Oct 13, 2022

  imscared really is an underrated gem of a game, and is by no exaggeration the forefather of meta-horror in the PC game realm. It has laid the foundation for moments in fantastic games like Undertale and Dok Doki Literature Club, and I think its sad that this game has not received as much attention as these ones. It was originally released in 2012 and scared the pants off of many people who, at the time, had no clue what this game was, why it was messing with their files, or even why it began to pop up all over their screen acting as if it were a virus. In lots of ways it was similar to the movie The Blaire Witch Project, a movie that presented itself as a collection of lost video footage with the intentionally fake goal of trying to find these missing students - it even went so far as to create a website to gather information on the subject. It was marketed as authentic, and this game did the same. It truly sold the thought that maybe this game wasn't just a horror game, but rather a virus developed with intentions unknown - some took what it said at face value and even began to think something was wrong with the game, as if it were alive. It preyed on that fear in spades within the extremely short 10-15 minutes it held. Now that we talked about the history, lets talk about the updated game here on Steam. To do a remake of something like this is already difficult due to the fact that the gimmick has been discovered. Additionally, with such a simple premise it would be hard to evolve from that without straying too far from its roots. Ivan Zanotti had to find the right balance to make sure he didn't lean too far to either side, and he tread the line exceptionally well. Although much of the core elements of what made the game scary remained the same, a newfound lore and story began to surface, one that is shrouded in vagueness, yet with intent. And at the very end of the game, a specific location reveals a bone-chilling secret that doesn't announce itself with noise, with effects, or anything. Its silent, and its just there - but the things that are placed there have so much symbolism that when you see it, your skin crawls. Its incredibly powerful and disturbing. And yet there it lays before your eyes, no audio, no nothing. And you have to deal with it. In certain ways, the ending itself is more disconcerting than the entire game, which is surprisingly astonishing considering the amount of fear, tension, and terror one feels when they come across the antagonist. Let's talk about that. The main antagonist, who I'll name as X to avoid spoilers, is a very unique one. When you think of a monster, or something terrifying, you think of something aggressive, monstrous, or beast-like in nature - but X isn't like that. He's terrifying in a completely unique and unexpected way, one that doesn't specialize in an initial shock that shortly dissipates once you know he's there - but one that sends constant waves of pins and needles shooting down your neck and back, making you shake in disturbing vulnerability. And yeah - it makes you scream too, but it doesn't just dissipate once he finds you - that feeling remains there every moment he remains on screen. X is absolutely disturbing without even trying to be - and you'll see what that means near the end of the game. Part of what makes this game so great is how it doesn't feel like it tries to be this grandiose immersive world - it understands the environment, this pixelated map. And it embraces it. It embraces the lack of definition and uses it as a tool in horror. In some ways it pushed people in the direction of the polygon graphical horror. Moreover, the sound design was absolutely brilliant and further leaned into this aesthetic by using intentionally bit-crushed sounds. The visuals and sounds harmonized to truly amplify the horror experience. IMSCARED is truly a pixelated nightmare. Both literally, and figuratively. Of course the graphics look terrible - and that's the point. Horror isn't about ray tracing or high quality graphics - that stuff can be great and is an amazing new tool, but in and of itself is just that, not a replacement for fear. This game proves this, as it doesn't matter what kind of material you're working with, whether its Unreal Engine 5 or a simple ancient version of Gamermaker Studio, if you know what you're doing, you can make something absolutely fantastic. The one single complaint, the only one that I could ever possibly come up with - and it is a rather big one - is that there is a choice that is made at the end, and depending on what that choice is, you either get your ending, or you get effectively nothing and restart. While the latter truly makes sense within the context of the story, it forces you to replay events if you wish to get another ending, and I don't think it makes sense to have a player replay about 1-2 hours worth of the exact same thing to get back to that choice. I believe it would have been fine if there were variations or things that shaked up on the replay, but sadly its not the case. Everything I said here will make sense when you get to the choice, so I don't have to spoil what the decision is for you to know what choice to choose. If you're curious on what happens if you make the choice that restarts your progress, just look it up, its quite literally 5 seconds long. That's all I really have to say. This game is a phenomenal masterpiece and even among games like Amnesia, I truly believe this is my personal favorite purely because of how it effectively helped kick off the start of 2 genres - both low-res horror, and meta-horror. It embraced the unknown among the large pixels and the bit-crushed rasps behind your ears. It never tried to veer away into being something fancy, it knew what it was. It knew what it wanted to convey and specifically how it wanted to go about it, and it wasn't afraid to embrace what was at the time an unpopular style. It grew in the shadows and behind your back. It knew when to attack and when to bide its time in the dark. It knew when to tell you things that you really wish you didn't read. And most of all, it fed on our most vulnerable and primal fear: the fear of things we don't understand. This is IMSCARED. And it truly is... A Pixelated Nightmare.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2022

  Coom lady.
• MamaGoat

  Jan 8, 2023

  P-p-pretty ghost lady.
• Andromeda8008

  Feb 6, 2023

  i wanna fuck the ghost
• gamedeal user

  Mar 11, 2023

  scarey