{"id":388800,"date":"2025-10-29T19:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes-review-caught-between-a-video-game-and-a-movie"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:17:55","slug":"the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes-review-caught-between-a-video-game-and-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes-review-caught-between-a-video-game-and-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes review &#8211; caught between a video game and a movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes-review-caught-between-a-video-game-and-a-movie.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nHouse of Ashes, the third game in Supermassive Games&#8217; The Dark Pictures Anthology, is the best game the studio has released since PS4 exclusive Until Dawn. The Sony-published game just hit all the right notes and was a huge surprise on its release. House of Ashes suggests the studio still has what it takes, but for whatever reasons it&#8217;s still not quite back to that level that enabled them to create a horror video game classic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor me, House of Ashes&#8217; biggest problem is tied to what it seemingly wants to be: a movie and a video game. This is a video game, but it&#8217;s one of the least interactive I&#8217;ve played in a long time. It feels a lot like a 3D point and click adventure, with the occasional QTE thrown in or a cursor you need to move to aim at an enemy. This is a game anyone could play, which is something you can rarely say, but because of this I found it rather outstays its admittedly already brief runtime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a user-friendly game, and one that you&#8217;re encouraged to play with friends, the horror tale told here is too long. Supermassive was no doubt keen to deliver a campaign of reasonable length, but as a video game the basic mechanics simply aren&#8217;t interesting for that length of game. Cut the whole thing down to a snappy two hours, trimming off scenes of reflection, and this might just have been a brilliant interactive horror movie.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes-review-caught-between-a-video-game-and-a-movie\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-dark-pictures-anthology-house-of-ashes-review-caught-between-a-video-game-and-a-movie\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Ashes, the third game in Supermassive Games&#8217; The Dark Pictures Anthology, is the best game the studio has released since PS4 exclusive Until Dawn. The Sony-published game just hit all the right notes and was a huge surprise on its release. House of Ashes suggests the studio still has what it takes, but for whatever reasons it&#8217;s still not quite back to that level that enabled them to create a horror video game classic. For me, House of Ashes&#8217; biggest problem is tied to what it seemingly wants to be: a movie and a video game. This is a video game, but it&#8217;s one of the least interactive I&#8217;ve played in a long time. 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