You Will Die Here Tonight Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published November 10, 2023 · Updated November 9, 2023

For this, You Will Die Here Tonight Review, we explore top-down retro aesthetics and face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall in pulse-pounding first-person combat. Scavenge for supplies, solve puzzles and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive, but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.

You Will Die Here Tonight Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
2.66GB download size.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – resolution, v-sync, fullscreen, and brightness slider.
Controls settings – Invert the Y axis and lock the cursor.
Cutscenes are a mix of FMV and in-game sequences.
Resident Evil vibes from the locations, story, and graphical style.
The movement looks unique with its pixel art slow walking but it’s fully fluid and smooth.
At doors, you can look through the keyhole to get a limited but handy look at the room.
A really cool shooting mechanic where you go into first-person and shoot at advancing zombies. It looks and plays really well.
When grabbed by a zombie you can shrug them off and punch them.
Shooting zombies is satisfying as you can cut parts off them and explode headshots.
Fantastic soundtrack with a really good impactful implementation.
Anything Interactive will have an icon pop up.
Assign items and weapons to quick equip slots on your d-pad.
It does use the setting and general beats of the original Resident Evil game but it twists everything so it doesn’t feel rehashed or just deja vu, it’s really clever.
There are a lot of puzzle elements throughout the game.
When shooting you can move around 360 degrees and enemies can come from anywhere.
The game loop is you have a team of 6 characters and when you die you choose who to play next, all progress in terms of unlocks and weapons carries over.
Has a roguelike approach to it.
Find new weapons.
Each character plays differently from running speed to traits like being able to use the weapon bench to upgrade weapons or create health kits.
New enemy types appear over time.
Every new run of a character will add new random enemies and locations of them.
When a character dies they will then be a zombie in the game, well if their body is able to be turned that is.
The Resident Evil feel is actually a bit of every early Resident Evil game.
The diary you find then allows you to find pages to fill it in.
Every puzzle in the game generally has a clue or riddle to help you.
Very playable.
Gets quite addictive as the story unfolds.
Each character will react to findings in unique ways.
Multiple endings with each of the six characters having their own.
Brilliant-looking locations/rooms.
You can unlock shortcuts.
Save points can be found and used.
Boss encounters.
A few jumps are chucked in.
Great writing in places.

You Will Die Here Tonight Review Cons:

You cannot rebind controls.
No Steam achievements.
Basic graphics settings.
No voice work with all the characters.
Never sure when you hit a checkpoint or respawn point.
Doesn’t do a great job of directing you.
It takes a while to get used to the mechanics.
You end up having to do a lot of walking back to where you died.
Having everyone die and getting a game over isn’t that drastic instead it’s just a screen or two.
The combat is fine, but it gets annoying and clumsy when dealing with loads of enemies.
Cheesey writing in places.

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