Unreal Engine - Completed - Halls of the Pale Widow [v1.0.8] [Krasue Games]

I'm mixed about that one and I hesitate between giving it a 3 or a 4.

The game does what it says, you're in a mansion, you have to find 5 keys then escape.

Or die trying.

For each run, you make money, if you succeed or die. You can use that money to unlock H scenes (when you get killed or purify the ghost), improve your life and stamina, unlock new skins or outfit.

And finally, the big prize, "free mode" if you just want to fool around with... 3 scenes.

It takes a lot of grind to unlock things.

You need 5 keys, each key is worth 50 point, you get a small bonus if you manage to escape. You also need 2500 points to unlock purifying. Another 2500 to unlock H scenes.

That's a lot of replay you need to do to unlock the adult part of the game. And that's if you succeed.

Winning is "hard", the ghost can be brain dead to the point you can follow her for a very ling time and she will never find you, or she will be tethered to you, no matter where you will go and try to hide, she will find you.

The environment is bland. There are 3 or 4 pieces of furniture, 3 or 4 statues, and some paintings here and there, but they are arranged in a way that make no sense.

There are no special rooms like dining room, office, bedroom, library or other you would expect in a mansion.

There is no lore, no secrets, no anything, just you trying to find keys and a ghost.

About purification, the only times I managed to do it was either when the ghost pathfinding was broken or when I had the health glitch that makes you immortal.

The medallion is supposed to stun the ghost, but 99% of the time, when you don't have any of the bugs mentioned above, it doesn't work and ghost just slash at you nonstop.

Overall, the game is entertaining, and I feel the dev put a good amount of effort in it.

I wish them good luck for their next projects and hope they will have more content.

Also, if the dev read this, may I suggest putting an optional payment method on their itch.io page?

I'd gladly pay 15 bucks for it, but I don't like using patreon.

Most polished horror nsfw game out there. Great animations as well. I really wish the dev continues working on games like this and adds more animations. So far everything feels so good and the crouch jumping makes the grinding not only bearable, but actually fun

I really like the game.
The grinding is a little bit annoying,
So far, the bugs I encountered are not game breaking bugs.
I really like the game, but there're only 3 sex scenes currently. I wish there's more contents.

Maybe add an item or throw 2 bottles at her to her dazed and falls for 30 secs. Player can use this opportunity to either run away from her or take advantages of her, but will make her angry and always know where player is for2 mins.

You're doing a good job dev, let us have more fun with her. She deserves it.

Despite its flaws, brevity, familiar concept and small serving of features, this game does more than enough right so much so that it's the only game I've ever felt compelled to review on this site.

It lacks polish but this game is very engaging if a bit unbalanced and repetitive. Very few 3D first person nsfw games exist in a complete state with an emphasis on mobility and horror. When that music hits, getting chased by a lustful murderous Sadako phantom woman is legitimately horrifying and equally erotic when you're treading more carefully to the sound of her taunts. There's also good progression with shop cosmetics and upgrades that incentivize you to win but its also fun to lose. It has solid animations in its handful of scenes, simple but effective character design, decent voice acting, and some procedural level design and item placement to keep things fresh long enough.

Looking forward to what this dev puts out next. I wouldn't mind if they even iterated on this concept again or added more to this project. More scenes, characters, and cosmetics would be a huge plus but might require overhauling the gameplay loop so it doesn't get stale.

the way the ghost lady talks to me makes me want to lose on purpose, she's so sweet

Although the gameplay gets repetititive in a few rounds, it's pretty well made. The ghost lady is hot and it keeps you hooked on long enough to make you want to grind credits just to unlock content in the shop. The creator made a really good effort to combine the aspect of horror and erotic elemtents. Good game

This game is a true masterpiece.

You're dropped into a random procedurally generated world, you collect keys, get chased by Dommy mommy ghost girl akin to Sadako, but older/taller, and she stabs and kills you, or you escape. You get gold for collecting items, being chased etc. Then you can buy upgrades to help you progress, unlock NSFW scenes.

Great game, I hope the dev adds more scenes, outfits, etc.

This is a fun little game.
I like the fact that you gather points for upgrades that are actually meaningful. You actually feel rewarded for enduring to be chased by an insane ghost chick with a knife.

Personally, I typically don't like this kind of game since I am easy to scare. However, horniness let me overcome this weakness.
Since I am a good soul I simply had to "purify" her.

It's really good, I wish it had more animations and character customization as well. A freecam mode would be good too, for taking screenshots. Very short, can get somewhat repetitive, I'd suggest that the AI has a bit more complexity to it - e.g. being more perceptive to sounds, additionally, player movement sounds could be adjusted in volume (i.e. when crouching); the Widow could also try to trap the player when they're stuck at a dead-end.

Every map is randomly generated. You can load into a map with door frames on solid walls so you can't win... eh? That alone makes this game pretty dang annoying on its own unless you randomly get infinite health, which I did and I don't know how.

The porn content isn't worth it, it's not exactly innovating on the genre because every indie horror game is something like this, so this falls into a place where it's like fast food. This isn't horrid, it's not good, it's mid, and that's okay. It's a good stepping stone and the dev has room to grow.

Commendable effort, using Unreal and the game actually running at all is impressive to begin with. Needs more playtesting on them door locations though.

GAME WELL DONE, really good no bugs, no lags, good game play, good physics. even trying cracking the game was a hard time to change values, some dude really have done a really good job om making this game.
hope to see more of his project looks like he know what he is doing.

an actual finished game that knows what its doing. Good style, good scenes although a bit more variety with hscenes would have been appreciated, this is better than 90% of the unfinished messes recently.