Perception
Perception is an award-winning narrative thriller about a blind woman’s journey to uncover the truth about the mansion from her nightmares, or else become one of its victims. Using sound as her sight, Cassie explores the Estate at Echo Bluff, desperate to unravel its sordid history. But she’s not alone; a deadly entity called The Presence stalks the mansion’s halls. Cassie needs sound to be able to see, but every noise she makes draws The Presence closer. A careful balancing act is required if she wants to discover why she’s there, and why the house won’t let her – or anyone – leave. Game Features: • "See" using echolocation. Every sound creates a visual. • Engage in a deadly game of hide and seek. • Trigger radical change at the Estate at Echo Bluff each time you solve its mysteries. • Travel back through history to exorcise your own nightmares.
Steam User 19
The game has an interesting concept, the sound work is excellent, the plot is passable, but the implementation is poor.
Steam User 3
It reminds me of a similar game, dark echo or beyond eyes, something about using sound to navigate the environment is pretty exciting. It was the coolest mechanic i've seen, but it didn't necessarily live up to that, it's still nice, and the fact that the one thing that can kill you plays as if it's also blind is very nice, both of you use sound to navigate, and sometimes, it could be sitting next to you, or hear you from across the hallway.
Steam User 0
This game is pretty solid! I had a great time playing, it was spooky and challenging. Only issues I had were some occasional bugs where I had to restart from checkpoints and the achievements are bugged out.
Steam User 0
Buena historia y una jugabilidad de lo más original e interesante. Me ha gustado mucho.
Steam User 1
Perception delivers a unique narrative horror experience that is fully dedicated to its creative premise, following it through its tensely atmospheric highs but occasionally suffering its monotonous lows.
Set in a haunted house, you play as Cassie who's blind and must use echolocation to navigate her surroundings, but the very sounds that guide her also what attracts the haunting enemy's attention. It's a great premise and naturally leads to plenty of frightening moments but it has its limitations, such as when you're waiting out the danger period from making too much noise for the nth time.
What propels you through is the narrative and voice-acting, which I was pleasantly surprised by. Neither too cheesy nor hiking up too high the horror trope tree, the on-going story adds a sustained tension throughout rather than relying on just the occasional jump scares. It's only the occasional staged scenarios I found that it can grind a bit for me.
Generally though for all its minor faults, it's still a fairly fine game so if the premise genuinely draws your curiosity I can recommend giving it a try.
Steam User 2
If you've seen Daredevil (Ben Affleck or Charlie Cox, take your pick), then you surely knew Matt Murdock. He uses his enhanced hearing, which is often described as a "radar sense" to perceive his surroundings, which functions similarly to echolocation. While this ability allows him to create a 360-degree mental map of inanimate objects through sound, he primarily uses a combination of sounds like heartbeats and breathing to track living beings in a fight. This more nuanced approach allows for more dynamic combat scenarios in the show or the movie.
This game is just like that. But no combat action, just the echolocation.
The protagonist named Cassie Thornton is a blind woman, who perceives the world using echolocation. She must use her unique skill to explore a large mansion in Gloucester, Massachusetts and uncover its dark secrets.
There are no physical weapons to defend yourself; only sound and wit. When alerted, Cassie must simply run, hide and hope you can outsmart the entities.
This is quite a unique horror game unlike many that mostly similar and rely too much on cheap jumpscares. Nothing like that. It's a fresh take of a new kind of gameplay. Similar to other games like Stifled, BlindSide, Muffled Warfare, Pulse, Blind.
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I love the plot and though not too scary at all, it still delivers the chill and give you goosebumps at the very least.
Chillax, no spoilers!
It's a great game to enjoy after all of the scariest horrors from books, games or movies.
Yes, sometimes we also need to enjoy horror games that seems mild yet delivers deeply, piercing into your mental state. Deep within the brain cells to ponder on things, right after you finish it.
Thank you so much, The Deep End Games.
Me likey!
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Steam User 0
A fine game