Dementium: The Ward

GameSpotLark Anderson

7.5/10

Dementium is a handheld mixture of Doom and Silent Hill that is about as scary as a game played on a 3-inch screen on the bus can be.

Worth PlayingChris Lawton

6.5/10

Dementium: The Ward tells a twisted story with gruesome 3D visuals and FPS gameplay. The game's interactive narrative reveals the puzzling nature of a strange hospital frozen-in-time, and introduces a cast of peculiar characters.

Nintendo World ReportJohn Rairdin

5.5/10

I’m extremely disheartened by the evident lack of care that went into this Switch release. Even the most basic Switch conversions of classic games have included a resolution bump if not a full overhaul. Nintendo’s own N64 library on NSO, which also has its roots in 240p, manages to run at 720p on Switch. Add to that a broken element of the game's basic features and this version becomes much harder to justify. I like Dementium a lot. This and Renegade Kid’s next DS release Moon were staples of this era for me. While I appreciate that I can access it on a new platform, seeing it dumped her…

WayTooManyGamesLeo Faria

5/10

There is nothing wrong about re-releasing an older game on a newer platform, especially when said game is not legally available anymore in any platform. The thing is that you usually expect for this re-release to feature something new, or enough improvements to make your investment feel worth it. You want your purchase to be more than a means to preserve a game, more than just tackling a novelty. With the closure of the Nintendo 3DS’s eShop, Dementium: The Ward is now only available on the ...

Dementium is not even slightly entertaining and all the developer has achieved with this re-re-release is broadcast that their original game wasn’t ever anything more than a gimmicky novelty. What an incredible own goal when Dementium did actually have something of a legacy from people nostalgic for the DS.