Cursed

Even the scariest places can appear less horrible if you have a good reason to be there. Fear can be ignored if you need to save someone else, which is how every character in horror movies manages to resist all the terrors. Naturally, you can enjoy the same experience with video games, and some of them are more than capable to cause a few nightmares.

Cursed is an adventure game with horror elements and regular hidden object mechanics, although it appears to be slightly more complex than most games in the genre. This is because the puzzles feature fewer explanations, but the truth is that they are just as simple if you have any experience with similar games. Even so, there’s plenty of fun to be had with Cursed if you have the right state of mind.

The story is nothing out of the ordinary either, depending on how susceptible you are to plots that involve romance. Hence, the main character is on a mission to rescue her beloved fiance, although this mission takes her through a land full of monsters and other horrors. Not many plot twists await you, but then again the journey itself should be enough.

As mentioned before, the puzzles appear to be a tad more challenging than usual, but that’s merely an illusion caused by the fact that there are no hints on the screen to direct your clicks. Hence, the mechanics and the solutions are usually the same ones you might be familiar with from other games, but newcomers might have a tougher time understanding them at first.

Lastly, the artwork is worth of a special mention as well, because the artists did a wonderful job when it comes to colors, level design and special effects added on top. Each scene feels more like a painting, and the animations are quite nice as well, albeit short. The voice acting is not the worst out there, and the background sound effects work their magic without being overly annoying.

When it’s all said and done, Cursed can easily captivate you from start to finish, depending on your experience with the genre. However, it must be mentioned that some of the mechanics are rather repetitive and annoying in the long run.

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