Scorn is a game of wonderfully horrible atmosphere and smart, hands-off puzzling, just undermined by some awkward checkpoints and slightly wonky combat. Our review:
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, Scorn is ripe with phallic imagery and actions. Our protagonist - a half-dead husk of a humanoid roaming around a deserted alien world - endlessly thrusts their weapon into mysterious holes and sinks their fingers into fleshy control panels. There are holes and tubes and thrusting pistons - enough to make Freud blush - all openly inspired by the nightmare dreamscapes of the grimly delightful H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksiński.
That's not to say Scorn is a horror, though; it's not, at least, not in the way some think of horror these days. There are no cheap spooks or jump scares, and instead, it relies on an ominous soundtrack and its environmental cues to ratchet up the tension. To be clear, this isn't a criticism - I'm never happier than playing a jump scare-free horror - but combat aside I never felt uneasy. Grossed out? Sure - there was plenty of that. Scared? Nope.
Some will be environmental. Some require tools, things that have been fashioned from muscle and sinew and slot into fleshy machines that hang expectantly on the wall. Sometimes you'll know what you have to do, if not quiteto do it, and those are some of my favourites. You'll puzzle in tight hallways and cavernous cathedrals and marvel at the bioengineering this mysterious civilisation has constructed all around you. Some you'll work through methodically, step by step.
For those wondering, yes, I did try Scorn on Steam Deck. I wanted to double-check if using the Steam Deck's controller gave me better results than the"partially supported" one I was using, and I promptly wished I hadn't. In fairness to the development team, it's made no claims that the game is Steam Deck Verified and my brief foray suggests it's very definitely not. A shame, really, but something to bear in mind.love Scorn.
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