I recently got the game in the Halloween Humble Bundle and I booted it up for exactly one second before realizing my mistake and mashing the escape key repeatedly. I'm very easy to scare and even now that I'm pretty used to the uncanny valley factor of the animatronic characters of the game, I cannot deal with a full screen only game involving them. I do, however, think that the lore and mechanics of the game are both pretty interesting. I like the idea of being more or less stuck in the middle of a game of Pac-Man and having to keep enemies out. That's kind of novel and I'd probably enjoy it more if the game's atmosphere did not terrify me into hiding under my desk.



Small things irk me, though, like how the animatronics have skeletons that look nothing like an actual animatronic skeleton with "skulls" that are very obviously just designed the way they are to look a little creepier. Then there's the teeth. What designer in their right mind decided to give all of the characters teeth? Even the chicken has teeth. Why? It shoots them right down into the depths of the uncanny valley, something that you really don't want from a practical stance. And they have functioning legs. Unless these things came from a Disney park, which I would find very hard to believe, that's not a thing that's really feasible. I do find it funny, though, listening to Fechter talk about maybe eventually having animatronics that can walk and now this game depicting animatronics that can walk, but with the most terrifying results possible.



In short, I can't play it because it scares me half to death, but as a game, it seems pretty good. There are nitpicks certainly, but it's hard to deny that the idea and execution are really solid for a game created entirely by one man.