Blameless Reviews

  • The Horror NetworkThe Horror Network216,846
    16 Jun 2017
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    If you're looking for a quick horror game to play today, look no further than Blameless; a short 20-60 minute puzzle-solving mystery game that has a unique tinge to it. You're a freelance journalist who has been led by a potential client to a house that is under construction. As you follow him into the seemingly abandoned home, you're hit over the head with a metal bar and knocked unconscious, only to awake a few hours later. Can you free yourself from your dark confinements, and escape your pursuer?

    There's a tight aura of relentless tension that will surround you from the beginning until the bitter end with this title. The entire time you're left questioning if you will run into your captor while exploring the small, unfinished corridors and rooms of the house. Your first task is to escape the basement that you were left in, and it's in those few minutes that you will understand that Blameless has a different take on investigation and exploration. It takes some critical thinking and scavenging to solve the few puzzles that are present, and it's all very reminiscent of the game INFRA; although the atmosphere here is much more sinister.

    The optimization of this game is excellent; it ran at 60 FPS at all times for me on my GTX 1080/i7 6700k combo. The assets and textures look crisp and fresh, the overall title looks really good. Even the voice acting for the intro, ending, notes, and dialogue is extremely well executed; a rarity for a free horror game. There have been some in-game bugs and glitches that've marred the experience of some players, but the developer is very active in the community and a day after the game launched he released an update patch. I played the game after this update patch, and I can confirm that I did not encounter any bugs or glitches during my playthrough.

    At the end of Blameless, we are led to believe that this short ride is part of a much bigger project, and that this is a test to see how well it would do on Steam. For one, I think that we need more titles like this on Steam, as the only real "investigative" games that we have are Murdered: Soul Suspect and INFRA; neither of which have a horror element to them like Blameless. So I say to the developer, bring it on! Please do, in fact, as this set-up has left me craving more. To you I say give it a shot, you've got nothing but 20-60 minutes to lose.

    Rating: 4.0/5.0 - Excellent, highly worth playing.
    The Horror Network
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    4.0
  • transyotransyo23,843
    13 May 2017 13 May 2017
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    From developer and publisher Vaclav Hudec comes Blameless, an indie horror-adventure game released October 13, 2016. In this game, you play as a freelance exterior designer who is attacked and kidnapped, and must find your way out of your place of capture.

    When I first downloaded this, I wasn’t expecting much from it. It was an indie horror game, it had four achievements, and it just didn’t seem like it was going to be a decent game. After finding that the YouTuber Markiplier had played it, I decided that I would give it a go, and went ahead to download it and give it a play.

    The only problem I had was that each time I quit the game, I had to uninstall and redownload it to open my previous save and get into the game again. I have knocked a star off for this, because it was really a lot of work that shouldn’t have needed to be done. I don’t know if anyone else had problems like this, or if it was just my laptop (which is getting relatively old), but it was so much work and it was really infuriating to have to wait for it to redownload every single time I wanted to play it.

    The one problem that I had aside, this game is beautiful. It’s a really well done and well made game. The controls are easy enough to grasp, and although things can seem a little confusing at first, and there’s a lot of “what do I do now, where do I go” that goes on, you really get into it and things start to click a lot quicker.

    The ending was brilliant. It really took me by surprise and Hudec definitely gave this a really unique twist. I was gobsmacked. A really, really well done ending.

    For an indie horror game, this is really, really well done and I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. I’d definitely recommend this for horror lovers, achievement hunters (three of the four achievements are picked up progressing through the game) and people who love indie games as well.
    4.0
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