March 2, 2024 - Day 427 - NewPlay Review
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Game: The Beast Inside

Platform: Steam
Released: Oct 18, 2019
Installed: Aug 13, 2022
Unplayed: 567d (1y6m18d)
Playtime: 38m

The Beast Inside is a first person horror survival game.

There's a particular kind of horror movie referred to as "torture porn". I know people watch movies like the Saw series, and Hostel series, and I genuinely cannot understand why. I'm already put off by horror movies, but the idea of that kind of movie comes close to triggering an anxiety attack.

As if the cover graphics weren't a giveaway, this game's opening cutscene movie (no pun intended), feels like it verges on torture porn.

I'm not even going to describe it beyond "VAW", because it would require trigger warnings. The scene ends with something like "One week ago...", meaning that your entire gaming experience is building towards that horrifying moment.

It did not put me in a good mental space for enjoying the game. The game is set in the 1980's, and the story and puzzles that followed were OK; the game is broken into chapters, with an interesting time-shift into the 19th century, in the same house, but I have absolutely no desire to see how the game plays out.

The Beast Inside is an absolute:

1: (HELL) NOPE

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