Puppet House Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · October 31, 2024

Puppet House Review, Puppet House is a puzzle-adventure horror with escape room elements. Sense of unease is perfectly balanced with a touch of B-movie horror humor that evokes the charm of classic 80s and 90’st horror movies and games. A freak ritual creates a killer puppet, murdering anyone who enters the ventriloquist’s mansion. Detective Rick, seeking missing locals, will soon face his greatest horror.

Puppet House Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
6.15GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Horror adventure gameplay.
Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity slider.
First-person view.
A full 3D game world.
Good voice work.
Button prompts and interactive markers help learn the controls.
Subtitles – on/off.
In-game cutscenes and interactions.
Puzzles throughout the game.
The game world is a house that is said to be haunted along with the surrounding area and outhouses.
Your camera is used to take pictures of clues to help with puzzles.
Find drawings to get some basic story info.
Very atmospheric.
You are trying to find your friend who went missing but also to debunk the myths of the house being haunted.
Quick time event sequences.
Occasional jump scares.
The game is a lot of finding a clue and then taking it to the puzzle and then using your picture of the solution to solve the puzzle.
Your character narrates his actions and story as you play.
Excellent lighting.
Lasts about five odd hours.
It is satisfying when you nail the puzzle or sus where the clues are.
Fantastic works of art around the world.
Overall I found the game very intriguing and it had just enough going on to keep me engaged, I mean I played through the whole game in one sitting.

Puppet House Review Cons:

The voice acting is not good, it’s like he wants to do the best Batman voice and doesn’t quite pull it off.
You get very little guidance.
The story flows well except for every two or three puzzles you will just come to an abrupt halt as you struggle to find what to do.
Having any sort of break from the game is not wise as you don’t have a detailed itinerary of events so you have to rely on remembering where and what to do.
Short game, only a handful of hours.
The jump scares and appearance of the doll is very telegraphed.
No replay value.
Doesn’t offer any sort of level selection or way to go back in after finishing the game, annoying when you only miss one item for the Platinum trophy!