- Adventure, Indie, Action, Horror
Slender: The Arrival is the official continuation of the series from the original game creator Mark Hadley, teamed up with the writers behind the Marble Hornets series and the development team at Blue Isle Studios.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and bleak.
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- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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GameSpewRichard SeagraveApr 20158/10The audio is impeccable – all the locations have a foreboding ambience that is heightened by excellent use of sound effects to put you on edge
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GameSpotDaniel StarkeyApr 20157/10With the move to current-gen consoles and a few new levels, horror hit Slender continues to offer up scares, but at the cost of its own mystique.
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Nintendo LifeJoel CoutureOct 20157/10When you're not getting annoyed at being unable to find the final item in a given area, Slender: The Arrival is an excellent horror game that will leave your pulse racing. It's terrifying to be chased by these relentless enemies - frightening to see them no matter where you turn as you lose yourself deeper and deeper in the game's maze-like environments. It's just a shame that it can get so unbearably annoying to have to find a single scrap of paper hidden in a forest while enemies seem to guard its location over aggressively. If you can tolerate these moments, however, you'll experience a truly frightening game that will leave your guts in knots as you try, and fail (and fail, and fail), to stay alive.
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Arcade SushiAlex LangleyMar 20154/10Are you looking for something to chill your bones? Something to make the shadows seem that much longer and the night that much darker?
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TwinfiniteNov 20132/5Slender: The Arrival pulls this nonsense time again, it wants to give new life to the fiction but it can't resist showing off the goods. It delivers a variety of levels and even a new enemy, but there's no subtlety, no faith in Hitchcock's old adage: 'There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.' Some say Slender: The Arrival is just regurgitating what The Eight Pages had. This is partly true, but it's also forgotten that in horror, less is more.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Blue Isle Studios, Parsec Productions
- Publisher
- Midnight City, Blue Isle Studios
- Released
- March 26, 2013
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Virtual Reality
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 2 h main story
IGDB rating 6.6/10 from 70 ratings.
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