The fact that the Slender Man can appear anywhere, the lack of what many games would consider mandatory features, and the absence of save points mean that you're never safe even for a moment. Slender Man: The Eight Pages is all spike. Horror is all about spikes and valleys - the rush of endorphins at a scare and then the high of a comedown in between. All of these elements tie together to create a tone that's discomforting and disorienting throughout the whole experience. The only other resource to consider is your stamina, which allows you to sprint away from Slendermam but which rapidly decreases while running.
Searching the environment for the randomly placed page adds a significant air of tension to the hunt, but it also forces you to spend extended periods of time fumbling through the dark. Making things more difficult is the fact that the flashlight runs on a battery and regularly needs to be charged to continue working. The flashlight you carry can help you read the environment around you, but it's easy to be shocked by the sudden appearance of the Slender Man in your beam of light. It's a smart way of obscuring the monster in a genre where creepy monster designs eventually just become cannon fodder for your increasingly well-equipped hero. Getting caught by the Slender Man won't end your life immediately, but it will drain your sanity - and the longer you look at Slender Man, the faster your sanity will drain. Instead, your only real option is to run. There are no weapons or ammo to pick up, and there isn't even an attack button. Unlike the visceral and meaty zombies of Resident Evil, this is an entity that you can't stop. Complicating matters is the fact that the Slender Man is hunting you. Your objective is to wander through a dense and dark copse of woods at night and recover the eight pages of a manuscript. In terms of gameplay mechanics, there's not a whole lot to learn to properly play Slender. It's that distinct sense of atmosphere that has made Slender: The Eight Pages a popular choice for Let's Play videos. The results are a lo-fi approach to horror game design that largely strips out character development in lieu of an experience that plays like a surrealist dream sequence. This indie survival horror game strips the genre down to the basics, and the sense of surprise that elicits creates a sense of tension that few other horror games can manage. You don't see Slenderman chasing you, you just randomly die and there is no apparent way to evade him.Īll the things that would make this interesting, like the multiplayer that it claims to have in the first paragraph of the description, isn't there yet.Īs of right now, Slender - New Hope is simply a buggy, poorly designed, worse version of Slender - The Eight Pages.The Slender Man myth may have been born in the domain of creepypasta stories, but Slender: The Eight Pages really brought the character to life in perhaps the most vivid manner yet. The game will randomly play some spooky sound effects, and then pops up the Slenderman screamer, which stays there for an uncomfortable amount of time after the animation finishes, before booting you to the main menu. Worst of all, as far as I can tell, Slenderman doesn't have any physical presence. The issue with this is that if you're running away, you'll just run into an invisible wall, with no indication before you hit it since it just looks like normal forest beyond the wall. I found myself running into invisible walls every minute, with a little message that says "Coming in a future update," as if just adding some basic forest terrains and a fence around the edge of the play field is all that hard. The game is incredibly slow, even on a good PC, the visual effects are completely overboard, it feels as if they just clicked all the buttons in Unity because they thought it made their game look "good." This game is completely free to play but you can support the development of future games by donating :) This game contains: jumpscares, flashing lights, loud noises, scary and disturbing content. All revenues are considered as a support of the game developer & for new content. This is just a fan made game and it is not intended to make money. I do NOT own any rights of "Slender: The Eight Pages" and this is NOT an official "Slender" product.
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