Review by Shock-Shatter - The Stairwell ( SCP 087 )

There are many things I like about this game and I say like because I can't stop playing it. The mood is near perfect in the way it is displayed. You picked the perfect music for it and the music adds immensely to the atmosphere. The only things I didn't like about it are the lengths of time in between the scares. I feel that the pauses were way too long and could have been shortened a bit. Also you lack one part of the scare factor. The sudden noise that comes with seeing an apparition. You could have done one of those quick jerky noises to add even more scare to it. Seeing a translucent figure flying at me alone is enough to give me a little fright but if you have added in the sudden noise to accompany it, I would have been more scared. Also some of the apparitions that appeared on the wall disappeared too quickly to be scary. If they had remained there for at least 3-4 seconds it would have been more scary. Also instead of complete silence during the time where there are no scares currently happening you could have done something like put in some ambient incoherent voices in the distance or something. Silence isn't really scary. Another thing that you could have done is make it so that sometimes, the apparitions that fly at you, follow you for a few more minutes afterwards. Another thing about those apparitions as well, they could have been a bit more humanoid, (NOTE: I understand completely if they weren't humanoid because you didn't have the people, skill, or time necessary to make that happen) just seeing a random translucent figure flying at me is not enough to scare me. That is all I have to say about your game that is bad. Other than those things, everything else about the game was either perfect or near perfect.