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Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Lamentum is a survival horror, blood and exploration game
developed by Obscure Tales
and published by Neon Doctrine.
Released on August 27th 2021 is available on Windows and Linux
in 14 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Portuguese - Portugal and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 726 reviews of which 643 were positive and 83 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 3.79€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad 2.7 Ghz, AMD Phenom(TM)II X4 3 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 260, Radeon HD 5770, 1024 MB, Shader Model 3.0
- Storage: 5 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 / SteamOS
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad 2.7 Ghz, AMD Phenom(TM)II X4 3 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 260, Radeon HD 5770, 1024 MB, Shader Model 3.0
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS + the game has pretty nice and simple pixelarted graphics, which gets quite detailed during cutscenes and is a big "highlight" of the story in combination of enviromental storytelling ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't + personally don't like much if a game forces you to limited ammount of saves, so it's pretty nice that you get an option to turn off limited saves + the game is quite heavily inspired by Resident Evil (especially in the world progression style, inventory limitation) and Silent Hill (combat) + decent ammount of weapons for its gametime, which each new weapon basically being an upgrade of previous weapon (some can be slightly more hidden) + quite big variety of enemies throughout the game +- first half of the game felt great, but personally wasn't the biggest fan of the garden areas, the roof and some parts towards the end +- slightly clunky combat (hitboxes) - having to equip ink every time you want to save is rather annoying ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf +- most of the game, you'll hear either background effects or save room theme, but there are few simple tracks +- more of a warning, some effects can be really loud ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma + although the game is pixelarted, it includes quite a lot of blood, nudity and cosmic horror ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer + the game has pretty low hardware requirments ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard rive ☐ You will want an enitre hard drive to hold it + the game is only 1.75gb ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Medium ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls + never really found myself getting frustrated on any enemy (playing on medium difficulty) +- enemies are usually pretty easy to defeat or to dodge them and don't respawn, but some are replaced through story progression └> MC also has asthma around enemies, you run out of stamina pretty quickly - kinda forgot that dodge roll is even a thing (never really had to use it) - quite easy puzzles ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second live for grinding + nothing to grind for except endings ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Bizarre ☑ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life + the story is quite classic, but still interesting, set in mid-19th century New England and inspired by cosmic horrors, especially by H. P. Lovecraft and Silent Hill 1 (kind of) ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond +- took me 3 hours 50 minutes to finish two endings (Cowardice - early ending and Redemption ending). Could be a bit longer, but it has two more endings, adding into replay value ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money +- the game is 15,19€ off sale, would probably wait for sale, unless you really like horror games/this style ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ☐ Hollow Knight +- found a bug where going between two doors would get me stuck in "unloaded" version of the main hall, but otherwise no bugs except some enemies ---{ 7.5 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 7.5 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Although I'm not the biggest fan horror games, specifically survival horror, and there were quite few things I had issues with, it was still a really enjoyable game. Will have to wait and see how INANIMA, the developer team's upcoming game, turns out.
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A 2D Survival Horror title, taking place in mid-nineteenth century New England, playing as Victor Hartwell, bringing his wife to the halls of Grau Hill in search of a cure for a fatal disease she has contracted. Lamentum has a strong foundation in survival horror in terms of its game play mechanics; requiring inventory / supply management, combining items, notes for lore, seeking out NPCs which still roam the grounds, and finding puzzle items in order to proceed. Combat is pretty simple, with a variety of both melee and ranged weapons to be found should you go looking, enemies dropping to a few swings of an object. Ammunition is quite plentiful, still finding myself saving it for boss encounters to breeze on through. Healing comes in the form of bottles of laudanum, which can be found whole or in halves, to be consumed or combined into a full bottle. Much of the strength of Lamentum comes from the fantastic pixel art / sound work, rendering the halls of Grau Hill and the creatures within in such a great way that builds a strong atmosphere / world. The world of Lamentum feels quite Silent Hill inspired, due to a nightmare world slipping its tendrils into the mansion / surrounding grounds, along with the slight eldritch vibes coating the experience. Creature designs are really on point, being great pixel representations of twisted humans into monstrous forms of body horror. There are four different endings to be found, one requiring the collection of Strange Coins and Teeth throughout the entire play time, with all four able to be nabbed with the right dialogue choices at key points in the game, along with reloading a save towards the end. I was surprised with how much I ended up enjoying Lamentum, being a pretty fantastic experience at the end of the day. I would easily recommend this to fans of survival horror. Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45701624/]CthulhusMonocle - That Next Fest Guy for more game and Steam Next Fest demo reviews.
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Lamentum is an excellent sprite-based Lovecraftian puzzle-horror game that takes elements from many games and blends it into something uniquely its own. The combat takes some getting used to, but once you understand the ideal mechanics (keep distance -> time melee swing to connect as soon as enemy moves within striking range -> frame-cancel with evasion move to retreat out of range of enemy -> repeat until dead) it's pretty straightforward. The puzzle gameplay is where Lamentum excels. There are a wide variety including pictograph/cipher puzzles, item combination puzzles, memory puzzles, and even some items that can be used exclusively for specific solutions, giving the game some replay value to see all there is to see. Not extremely challenging but still satisfying. However my favorite aspect of the game is the lore. The history, trying to piece together events and identifying who wrote messages, and deciphering the Lovecraftian language to solve messages adds a ton of texture to the game. I kept an open notebook where I tracked numbers I came across, symbols, tried to work out event chronology, and just genuinely had a great time exploring the game world. I'd recommend the game for this alone. My only complaint would be that there are conditions that need to be satisfied for the various endings, and one in particular involves finding hidden items that do not all have the telltale "glint" that indicates most other items in the game that can be looted. To amplify this, several of these hidden items are in areas that the player cannot back-track to or revisit, meaning that if you miss one you are locked out of that ending for the current playthrough. It would be nice if there were some sort of equipable item or some other method of detecting if such an item is present in the current room/area, for example. Maybe something to consider if the developer makes a sequel. All-in-all, great game. 8/10
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The real terror comes not from monsters but from a cramped inventory and the precious few chances to save.
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Had to do quite a bit of work to get this to work on the Steam Deck. It says it's verified but the buttons did not correspond to the Deck's buttons. I had to program them manually. Once I did though the game was enjoyable as a little Silent hill/resident evil inspired romp through the mysteries of Grau Manor.
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Lamentum is currently priced at 3.79€ on Steam.
Lamentum is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 3.79€ on Steam.
Lamentum received 643 positive votes out of a total of 726 achieving a rating of 8.33.
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Lamentum was developed by Obscure Tales and published by Neon Doctrine.
Lamentum is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Lamentum is not playable on MacOS.
Lamentum is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Lamentum is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Lamentum. Explore additional content available for Lamentum on Steam.
Lamentum does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Lamentum does not support Steam Remote Play.
Lamentum is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Lamentum.
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Obscure Tales
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Neon Doctrine
Release
27 Aug 2021
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