You Will Die Here Tonight Review (Steam)

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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You Will Die Here Tonight:

Official website.

Developer: SpiralBound

Publisher: SpiralBound

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Steam