Slender: The Eight Pages

Market this as a cat and mouse game where the cat is allowed to cut corners and I might be able to take this seriously. “Slender: The Eight Pages”, unfortunately, tries to market itself as a horror game, taking all of the shortcuts it can to startle the player and hoping they are dumb enough to mistake that for horror. There is a basis for a good system of play here, but the design of the level and the gameplay don’t work together to conjure scares—this may as well take place in an empty field. Forgettable, dumb, and overhyped.

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