4.5
Hektor's procedurally-generated shifting rooms ultimately hurts the gameplay more than it helps it.
Hektor
Rubycone · Mar 13, 2015
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Hektor is a first-person, psychological horror game where nothing ever stays the same for long. Explore a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn, as corridors shift and change before your eyes. Uncover cryptic clues to help you find your way and elude the horrors that only madness can conjure.
You were a subject at HEKTOR, a now defunct, covert research facility buried deep beneath northern Greenland. Forgotten in its dark corridors with only a lighter and flashlight to guide your way, you must overcome a psychosis brought on by years of torture and confinement to escape.
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6.5
Critic reviews
- 4.5Hektor doesn't look horrible overall. Most of the time I was looking at very dark, bare rooms, which is not a tall order technically or artistically. Some assets, and in particular one out-of-character poster that jokes about tweets, repeat way to often, but I don't mind that too much. Have you ever been in a hospital or a prison? They recycle art assets in real life too.
- 6.0There's a common adage that applies to Hektor: the first game someone makes usually isn't that good. Hektor accomplishes much more than most people's first games, and for that Rubicone should be very proud of its accomplishment. With some fine tuning, they it could create a title that is truly among some of the best horror ever coded.
- 6.5Overall, Hektor is a good horror game. It does what a horror game is supposed to do; scare you. It has its faults, but it’s still an enjoyable experience. Whilst the game is far from perfect -especially for £14.99- the areas in which it succeeds make up for the ones where it fails.
- 5.5Los chicos de Rubycone pretenden aportar sensaciones nuevas al manido género del terror indie, aunque el resultado no llega a atraparnos por varios problemas de planteamiento. Lejos de aterrorizarnos, sí logra mantener la tensión gracias a un apartado sonoro que se destapa como lo mejor de un título demasiado simple, a pesar de la intención de volvernos locos con el sistema procedural de generación de escenarios, algo que logra sin duda gracias a unas pistas caóticas y que poco aportan a la resolución de los diferentes enigmas.
- 4.7Hektor klingt mit seinem Konzept der zufälligen Aneinanderreihung von Passagen zwar interessant, doch sorgt die kleine Auswahl an Vorlagen schnell für Langeweile und Abnutzung. Macht der Einstieg noch neugierig und entfaltet auch dank des gelungenen Soundtracks eine beklemmende Atmosphäre, weicht das Gefühl einer allgegenwärtigen Bedrohung schnell der ernüchternden Erkenntnis, dass einem bis auf wenige Ausnahmen eigentlich nie etwas passieren kann.
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