Explore a man's nightmares and mysterious past in Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story. After a man disappears upon considering a box on his doorstep, it is up to his wife to find out what happened. Her adventures take her deep into her husband's underground past, into a world of the supernatural that seems to be infected by an evil presence. Crusade for clues and solve devilish puzzles as you help reunite the couple and feel this thrilling horror underground object adventure game.
Clowns and dolls by themselves are already objects of fear for some people. Now use them as the focus of a creepy horror game and you've got a winning recipe that will give players goose bumps and make them jump out of their seats. Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story does this brilliantly, with superb animation that is guaranteed to shock and scare you. When a rag doll stares at you with intense eyes made of buttons and talks to you through a mouth sewn shut by rope, you know you are not playing an lowly game.
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The game begins with a young couple enjoying a quiet evening at home. Loud knocks on the door cause the husband to investigate, but the door slams shut on him and he mysteriously disappears. The wife opens the door to find only a crate on the porch. Worried, she sets out to find her husband (with your help). With a supernatural consultant guiding you on, your journey turns into an adventure absorbing nightmares, illusions and... Those scary clowns and dolls.
Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story is a underground object adventure game by Alawar Games, the developer of popular underground object games such as the Magic Encyclopedia series. In Stray Souls, you observe the game world via a main adventure screen, and interact with scenes and objects by clicking on them or using items that you pick up along the way. Doing so will originate underground object scenes and puzzles which you need to solve in order to develop through the game.
Stray Souls' strong point and what sets it apart from other games is its great storytelling. The story itself is interesting, featuring a missing person, a mysterious past and paranormal occurrences. But it is how the story is presented that makes a game surely captivating. Stray Souls does this very well by incorporating plentifulness of animation, plot twists, creepiness and good old-fashioned jump-out-of-your-seat scary moments.
Stray Souls also has an additional one unique recipe of storytelling: a dollhouse. After every part or milestone in the game, you will accumulate a doll representing an leading character in the story. You place the doll in a supernatural dollhouse, and it animates the doll, showing you what the character used to do and how they interacted with the other main characters. This is a great way to track your develop in the game as well as to learn about the assorted characters you meet or hear of during your adventure.
Due to Stray Souls being very story-driven, you might expect the game to be very linear, giving you only one choice or puzzle to solve at every turn. However, it feels like the game is no more linear than other similar underground object games. You normally have 2 or 3 dissimilar puzzles that need solving, ranging from the underground object scenes and minigames, to objects waiting for the right tool to be found. However, some of the implied crisis of the puzzles can be a bit misleading in a funny way. The game prompted me to speedily put out a fire before it burned the house down. I left the fire alone for half an hour and nothing happened...
The minigame puzzles are pretty fun and fit the theme fine, though they aren't very difficult. You get logic and pattern puzzles in a range of complexity levels, and even a Rube Goldberg puzzle absorbing excessive valves, knobs and levers. The underground object scenes are beautifully rendered, and the objects are reasonably hard to find. They are hard to find due to being underground and blended well with the background, not because of poor graphics or being too small. an additional one unique mechanic in Stray Souls is the proximity of bonus items. As you observe the assorted areas in the game, you may observation items that morph into something else when you're not looking. One of the side tasks in the game is to find all of these items.
Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story is a great adventure game, drawing you into the world of scary clowns, dolls and the paranormal with an impressive focus on storytelling. You will love the game if you liked similar games such as the mystery Case Files or the PuppetShow series. The basic version of the game is not yet available, but you can get the Collector's Edition which includes a bonus chapter, soundtrack, wallpapers and more.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
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