I explain a little more in the video but I really liked the ability to make choices in dialogue but just wished there was a little less dialogue overall. Liked the game!
This isn't terrible, but it isn't quite unique. The story is fairly predictable, the pacing let's you predict the jumpscares, and there is far too much of 'telling' not 'showing'. I think this is a good start into making games of this genre, but don't be afraid to break the mold! Experiment. Try different ideas out! Don't be afraid to get bizarre. The stranger, the better. Looking forward to seeing what else you guys make!
This is an excellent story driven horror game. It lives up to the high standard of story telling Crux Games have, this is a worthy successor to their past projects. And it's great to see a studio innovate and develop their style and abilities. If you like a spooky story, you'll like this and the other games by Crux as well which are also very impressive.
Amazing game, I loved the story. It is so difficult to imagine to have a partner with those mental problems, but you made me feel it: the guilt, the feeling that it is one's fault, when, in reality, it isn't, you just got put in the worst possible scenario.
It was an interesting way to tell a story. I liked how we slowly found out about all the past events as we moved on through the game. Jump scares were good too 👍
This was really good! Great use of audio to keep the atmosphere nice and spooky. A couple of the jump scares got me pretty good. The story is a bit heavy, but I think that added to the gloomy nature of the game as a whole. Great work!
The Hospital was SO scary. I really enjoyed the deep story and the scares were on point and perfectly timed. Really loved the sound design in the game as well and can tell that you put a ton of work into it. I highly recommend it for anyone that wants to play it. My only gripe was the excess of text. The story was great, but I felt like the amount of text could have been decreased for a horror game with jumpscares such as this one and still got the richness of the story across. Just a personal opinion though. All in all, I had a blast with this game and one of the most fun ones I've played in a while. Great job Crux!
I really wish itch.io had a spoiler tag because I want to give an honest opinion to the dev without spoiling fellow gamers. So
SPOILERS:
I am not a fan of jumpscares and there were quite a few that felt forced. Especially the first few because they were only triggered by sound and not the situation.
There was one room in the game that I really liked. Where you moved through objects that made sounds behind you and, so I walked backwards to watch them.
Hi there, thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your feedback. Your feedback is insightful; we'll be sure to take that into account in future productions.
Спасибо, что играете в видеоигру. Спасибо, что поделились своим видео. Приносим извинения за баги. Мы их исправим. Надеемся, вам понравилась видеоигра.
I didn't think it was too scary but, a of couple jumpscares did get me. I liked how the ending was ambiguous/open-ended; it definitely wasn't what I had expected. The narrative was well done and I enjoyed playing through the game.
Your game was amazing! The atmosphere, ambience, and the storyline came together to make an awesome horror game. I will be following your work and can't wait to see what else you put out.
Thank you for the kind words; we're happy that you enjoyed playing The Hospital. Thanks for sharing your video; it was fun to watch your reactions and hear your thoughts.
This was amazing! It leaned a bit too much on the jumpscares but other then that it was good! it had a really good story with nice ambiance and told the story it was trying to tell well!
This experience was really well written! For a short experience,
there was a lot of depth and had me really question what I would do in a situation that the character went through. Plus, one of the jumpscares got me to injure my foot. Well done dev!
The game's narrative is excellent, the graphics are good, but the exploration part was due, in my humble opinion. There could be a way to explore the other rooms in the hospital, including looking for items that could contribute to the story of the game, even the story could have more body, more content. Nevertheless, it is an interesting experience. Keep it up.
I'm gonna have to be "that guy" that goes against the grain here...I originally recorded a fairly decent length review for this game, but after I watched it I realized that I don't feel comfortable sharing it due to the specificity of the protagonist's ailment at the start of the game.
I am lucky to not have lost anyone close to me to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are millions of people around the world who cannot say the same, and to have the early part of the game focus specifically on the pandemic seems (from the first 15 minutes of the game) not to serve a direct purpose in terms of the story. Based on what I saw, you could have the protagonist just catch a generic illness and get the same effect.
Having them obviously be infected with COVID-19 combined with some of the monologues in the game could serve to cause players to experience an actual sense of fear (outside the confines of the game), and could actually cause them to experience grief and/or mental trauma if they or someone close to them was infected / killed by the virus. Video games should be an escape from reality, not a stark reminder of it.
I am by no means a "snowflake" or someone who believes in hugs and participation trophies for everyone, but even I realize that this game needs (at the VERY least) a trigger warning on the page and/or in the game. I don't know your personal history and this may have just been a game, or it could have been a cathartic experience for you based on things you have experienced, but I would just say, consider how this will affect your players. Again, you want them to be scared by the game, not by the harsh realities of the world we find ourselves in every day.
That being said, you obviously possess a good instinct for how to build an environment, use the assets available to you, and even caught me off guard a couple of times when I thought "X" would happen and instead I got scared by "Y". Fundamentally, you've built a great short horror experience (from what I've seen) with a bit of a Japanese horror movie vibe, and I would have no qualms calling this a good or even phenomenal game were it not for the issue I laid out above.
Sorry to preach, please consider what I've said, and if you were to update the script to be less specific about what I outlined above, I would love to be able to review and share your game in the future.
Hi there, Thank you for your feedback; we appreciate the time you took to play our game and to post your message.
Be assured that we did not frivolously use the premise you take umbrage to; members of our team have lost a much-loved colleague to this disease. It has impacted our lives personally and in many cases brutally. To us, using this premise was not a gimmick but (as all art must) a means of exploring and processing the painful world we live in today:
What goes on in the minds of those caught unexpectedly by this disease as they lie in isolation, struggling to comprehend and come to terms with the idea that they might soon die? The most humane thing we can do, as artists and story-tellers, is to put ourselves in the shoes of those who suffer and try to see through their eyes and render that experience as honestly as we can. We do this out of a sense of our shared humanity; art helps us to 'be the other' and stand with them, sometimes in the only way we can.
We acknowledge and respect your concerns, however, and we appreciate that you expressed it in such a thoughtful and respectful manner. In these difficult times, when there is so much strife and miscommunication, the best we can do is to listen to each other's views, even if we don't always agree. We have added a trigger warning to the game's description.
Thank you again for playing the game; we hope you'll update your rating/review now that you know our intentions behind the premise.
On top of everything that was listed above, I believe you should have added some sort of an additional illness to the protagonist, like a chronic respiratory disease, heart problems or obesity, probably even made him an elderly male, that would have made the most sense, considering his fear of actually dying from the virus. The majority of people who are supposed to be concerned about actually perishing from it, not just experiencing its minor effects, are those with already existing severe ailments, and the fact that 78% of people who were in need of hospitalization or died from the virus were obese or overweight proves it...
Hi MarshalandMike, thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your playthrough. You have a great voice by the way, especially when voicing the parts of the main character. :)
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I explain a little more in the video but I really liked the ability to make choices in dialogue but just wished there was a little less dialogue overall. Liked the game!
Hi there, thank you for playing The Hospital and for your feedback. We'll keep that in mind for our next title, coming soon.
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This isn't terrible, but it isn't quite unique. The story is fairly predictable, the pacing let's you predict the jumpscares, and there is far too much of 'telling' not 'showing'. I think this is a good start into making games of this genre, but don't be afraid to break the mold! Experiment. Try different ideas out! Don't be afraid to get bizarre. The stranger, the better. Looking forward to seeing what else you guys make!
Thank you for playing our game and for sharing your video and your feedback. We'll be sure to keep it in mind for future productions.
The story was really interesting and I enjoyed it. I kinda wish there was some more unique jumpscares. But besides that, not bad.
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Thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your video.
I loved the storyline of this game and the narrative, Some of the jump scares got me.
Was a very fun and scary game.
I hope to see more from you.
Thank you for making this.
Thank you for playing the game and sharing your play-through. It was fun to watch :)
Played it for my 3 ghetto games. Promised i wasnt gonna flinch...failed
Thank you for playing the game and sharing your play-through.
Thanks for giving The Hospital a play! We're glad you like it.
really creepy game
Thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your play-through!
This is an excellent story driven horror game. It lives up to the high standard of story telling Crux Games have, this is a worthy successor to their past projects. And it's great to see a studio innovate and develop their style and abilities. If you like a spooky story, you'll like this and the other games by Crux as well which are also very impressive.
Thank you for sharing your playthrough here :)
Amazing game, I loved the story. It is so difficult to imagine to have a partner with those mental problems, but you made me feel it: the guilt, the feeling that it is one's fault, when, in reality, it isn't, you just got put in the worst possible scenario.
Thank you for the kind words and for sharing your video.
Thank you for playing The Hospital and for your kind words.
Thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your play-through. It was a pleasure to watch.
interesting scary game. I like it! if you are interested, here is video of this game:
Thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your video. We appreciate the kind words.
The Hospital was SO scary. I really enjoyed the deep story and the scares were on point and perfectly timed. Really loved the sound design in the game as well and can tell that you put a ton of work into it. I highly recommend it for anyone that wants to play it. My only gripe was the excess of text. The story was great, but I felt like the amount of text could have been decreased for a horror game with jumpscares such as this one and still got the richness of the story across. Just a personal opinion though. All in all, I had a blast with this game and one of the most fun ones I've played in a while. Great job Crux!
Thank you for playing the game and for your kind words and your feedback. We enjoyed watching your playthrough — the editing was slick!
Thanks for sharing your playthrough. It's great to see it running well on a Mac M1. Apple's new chipset rocks :)
I really wish itch.io had a spoiler tag because I want to give an honest opinion to the dev without spoiling fellow gamers. So
SPOILERS:
I am not a fan of jumpscares and there were quite a few that felt forced. Especially the first few because they were only triggered by sound and not the situation.
There was one room in the game that I really liked. Where you moved through objects that made sounds behind you and, so I walked backwards to watch them.Hi there, thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your feedback. Your feedback is insightful; we'll be sure to take that into account in future productions.
Очень прикольная хоррор игры, снял обзор на него, оцени)
Я русский ютубер который играет в хоррор игры, моя оценка 4 /5, потому что короткий, и есть небольшие баги.
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Very cool horror game, took a review on it, rate it)
I am a Russian youtuber who plays horror games, my rating is 4/5, because it is short, and there are small bugs.
Спасибо, что играете в видеоигру. Спасибо, что поделились своим видео. Приносим извинения за баги. Мы их исправим. Надеемся, вам понравилась видеоигра.
Конечно, жду продолжения)
I didn't think it was too scary but, a of couple jumpscares did get me. I liked how the ending was ambiguous/open-ended; it definitely wasn't what I had expected. The narrative was well done and I enjoyed playing through the game.
Thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your play-through here.
Obrigado por jogar nosso jogo. Nós esperamos que você tenha apreciado.
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Your game was amazing! The atmosphere, ambience, and the storyline came together to make an awesome horror game. I will be following your work and can't wait to see what else you put out.
Thank you for the kind words; we're happy that you enjoyed playing The Hospital. Thanks for sharing your video; it was fun to watch your reactions and hear your thoughts.
No problem at all! I hope you make more awesome games and can't wait to play them.
played during my stream here's the gameplay starts at 1:13:09
Thank you for playing and sharing your stream.
This was amazing! It leaned a bit too much on the jumpscares but other then that it was good! it had a really good story with nice ambiance and told the story it was trying to tell well!
Thank you for playing our game and for sharing your video and thoughts. We'll keep your feedback in mind for our next title.
Thank you for playing the Hospital.
This experience was really well written! For a short experience,
there was a lot of depth and had me really question what I would do in a situation that the character went through. Plus, one of the jumpscares got me to injure my foot. Well done dev!Hey Migs, thanks for the kind words and for sharing your play-through. We hope your foot is better now :)
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DAMN SO CREEPY
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The way the story unfolded in this was perfect, nicely done with the scares too! loved the game keep it up, hope you enjoy my gameplay:
Hi Shaun, thank you for playing the game and sharing your video; we enjoyed watching your reactions and commentary.
The game's narrative is excellent, the graphics are good, but the exploration part was due, in my humble opinion. There could be a way to explore the other rooms in the hospital, including looking for items that could contribute to the story of the game, even the story could have more body, more content. Nevertheless, it is an interesting experience. Keep it up.
Hello, thank you for playing The Hospital and for your feedback. We'll surely take your feedback into consideration when producing our next game.
Great story and atmosphere
Thank you for playing and for your kind word.
Well done, I didin't feel safe the whole time
Thank you for playing The Hospital.
Grazie per aver giocato al nostro videogioco e per aver condiviso il tuo video :)
Thank you to both of you for playing the game and sharing your video :)
Hi there, thank you for playing The Hospital and for your kind words. We're glad you enjoyed the game.
I'm gonna have to be "that guy" that goes against the grain here...I originally recorded a fairly decent length review for this game, but after I watched it I realized that I don't feel comfortable sharing it due to the specificity of the protagonist's ailment at the start of the game.
I am lucky to not have lost anyone close to me to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are millions of people around the world who cannot say the same, and to have the early part of the game focus specifically on the pandemic seems (from the first 15 minutes of the game) not to serve a direct purpose in terms of the story. Based on what I saw, you could have the protagonist just catch a generic illness and get the same effect.
Having them obviously be infected with COVID-19 combined with some of the monologues in the game could serve to cause players to experience an actual sense of fear (outside the confines of the game), and could actually cause them to experience grief and/or mental trauma if they or someone close to them was infected / killed by the virus. Video games should be an escape from reality, not a stark reminder of it.
I am by no means a "snowflake" or someone who believes in hugs and participation trophies for everyone, but even I realize that this game needs (at the VERY least) a trigger warning on the page and/or in the game. I don't know your personal history and this may have just been a game, or it could have been a cathartic experience for you based on things you have experienced, but I would just say, consider how this will affect your players. Again, you want them to be scared by the game, not by the harsh realities of the world we find ourselves in every day.
That being said, you obviously possess a good instinct for how to build an environment, use the assets available to you, and even caught me off guard a couple of times when I thought "X" would happen and instead I got scared by "Y". Fundamentally, you've built a great short horror experience (from what I've seen) with a bit of a Japanese horror movie vibe, and I would have no qualms calling this a good or even phenomenal game were it not for the issue I laid out above.
Sorry to preach, please consider what I've said, and if you were to update the script to be less specific about what I outlined above, I would love to be able to review and share your game in the future.
Stay healthy, and stay safe out there.
Hi there, Thank you for your feedback; we appreciate the time you took to play our game and to post your message.
Be assured that we did not frivolously use the premise you take umbrage to; members of our team have lost a much-loved colleague to this disease. It has impacted our lives personally and in many cases brutally. To us, using this premise was not a gimmick but (as all art must) a means of exploring and processing the painful world we live in today:
What goes on in the minds of those caught unexpectedly by this disease as they lie in isolation, struggling to comprehend and come to terms with the idea that they might soon die? The most humane thing we can do, as artists and story-tellers, is to put ourselves in the shoes of those who suffer and try to see through their eyes and render that experience as honestly as we can. We do this out of a sense of our shared humanity; art helps us to 'be the other' and stand with them, sometimes in the only way we can.
We acknowledge and respect your concerns, however, and we appreciate that you expressed it in such a thoughtful and respectful manner. In these difficult times, when there is so much strife and miscommunication, the best we can do is to listen to each other's views, even if we don't always agree. We have added a trigger warning to the game's description.
Thank you again for playing the game; we hope you'll update your rating/review now that you know our intentions behind the premise.
On top of everything that was listed above, I believe you should have added some sort of an additional illness to the protagonist, like a chronic respiratory disease, heart problems or obesity, probably even made him an elderly male, that would have made the most sense, considering his fear of actually dying from the virus. The majority of people who are supposed to be concerned about actually perishing from it, not just experiencing its minor effects, are those with already existing severe ailments, and the fact that 78% of people who were in need of hospitalization or died from the virus were obese or overweight proves it...
I quite enjoyed the story. The writing wasn't too much or too little for me while keeping a nice explanation of what was going on.
Hi MarshalandMike, thank you for playing The Hospital and for sharing your playthrough. You have a great voice by the way, especially when voicing the parts of the main character. :)
I appreciate that and I look forward to checking out future projects from you!
Hello, I played this game and I liked it, it had good creepy environment, good work :)
Thank you for playing The Hospital and for your kind words. We're glad you enjoyed it.
Really good.
Hello, thank you for playing the game and for sharing your playthrough here.
Very tense atmosphere.
Hi, thanks for playing The Hospital and posting the playthrough here. We're glad you liked it!
looks good
Hello, thank you for playing our game and posting your play through here!