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Release Date | 3 September 2013 |
Release Type | Freeware |
Content Advisory | Occasional, mild | None | None |
Operating System | Windows |
Setting | Contemporary |
Genre | Horror |
Story | Original |
Play Length | Short Game (can be completed within 30 minutes) |
Language | English |
Graphics | 320x200, 32-Bit Colour |
Downloaded | 2,198 All Time |
Sepulchre is an adventure short from Owl Cave, written by Ashton Raze (Richard & Alice) and drawn by Ben Chandler (everything ever), and with other awesome contributions from lots of lovely people.
It's a game featuring horror, trains, and huge bags. It should take most people around half an hour to play through.
Sepulchre is free. That means it doesn't cost money. It's like stealing... but legal.
Lewis | Author |
Masked | Everything except the music |
Richard & Alice | |
The Charnel House Trilogy | Programming |
Fans of Poe and his likes will appreciate the mysteriously horrific Sepulchre, a short freebie by the makers of Richard & Alice.
Sepulchre is basically the gothic novel distilled - there's no slow build-up, no state of normalcy from which the plot can depart, just a short but steady stream of symbols, cryptic, ominous monologues and some Victorian death photos added for good measure.
Graphics and voice acting are superb.
One wishes that this was only the final chapter in a longer game - one in which you would learn to know the protagonist and place him a context that makes sense. This genre typically lets the protagonist slowly lose his sense of reality - in Sepulchre we get to enter when he's already there.
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The end was predictable from the beginning but I loved it anyway!
Short game, but that's fine. Voice acting's good, wish they'd use the same equipment to record all the voices, it's like listening to Google Hangouts. My feet are weary of all the walking back and forth -- unnecessary. Horror game? What horror??? Poe fans will enjoy this 15 min game. Splendid animations and sprites and background etc etc. Recommend it to all who's life isn't short enough to play mediocre games.
A solid short adventure game that had me spooked. I didn't think the game was predictable at all as one commenter claimed; in fact, I'm not even sure I fully understood it. Perhaps that is one flaw of the game - things are not fully explained and it'll leave you scratching your head at the end wondering why it happened, or maybe there was something I missed.
The game is rather easy. I didn't get stuck once. There was also a minor mistake in the game, when you talk to one of the characters your back is turned. I'm surprised it was not discovered during testing since it is pretty obvious and an easy fix. But I'm nitpicking, the game overall was really good and professionally done.
I just love when somebody has an interesting and spooky story to tell through a game medium. It was like reading a good short horror novel.
It's not difficult to guess what happened, but it's horrifying anyway.