Betrayer Reviews
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Betrayer knows exactly what it’s doing. Adventurers are weak amidst a cast of angered ghosts and mysterious events. Penetrating sounds keep tensions high. Isolation is strengthened by frustrating, esoteric design. Removing color takes away what little solace it could bring. Nothing is safe. Anything is dangerous and the chance for survival is slim. Olden days were tough.
Betrayer is a hugely atmospheric and unique game, with a cool exploration/survival thrust that never gets frustrating thanks to some excellent sound and visual design, but it’s really let down by these two major flaws. It desperately wants to be scary but never manages it, but most importantly it gets way too repetitive way too fast. A game that relies on exploration needs to have a lot of surprises to spring on players, and Blackpowder only manages a handful. This is just plain dishearteni...
I wash ashore in 17th century America at the border of a desolated British colony. Water, sand, and forest are stark greyscale, shadows turned up to black and the sky washed of detail. Wind howls, then dies. I imagine it carries the scent of Virginia’s fir trees on the back of a foreboding chill, and then I swipe my knife at a wooden crate, collapsing it with a cartoonish bonk on the side.
Betrayer’s unique setting, style, and grim stories that pepper the journey all make this a game that’s eye-catching at first glance and briefly emotional. But the things you actually do in this world rarely come across as anything other than uninspired. Dry combat and shallow objectives waste the potential.
The monster designs are unfortunately quite uninspired and don’t lend much to a horror look, with repetitive enemies which you’ll probably get sick of by the time you’re a couple of hours in. It’s a shame, because these enemies need to carry the bulk of the horror/action part of the game, and it’s something they just cannot do. Not on a presentation point, nor in a gameplay perspective.