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Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a shooter, horror and third person game developed by Invader Studios and published by Leonardo Interactive and 4Divinity.
Released on August 30th 2023 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 746 reviews of which 552 were positive and 194 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for 12.57€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle into these genres:

Shooter Horror Third Person Survival Horror Female Protagonist Action Exploration Adventure Old School Singleplayer Combat Story Rich Gore Violent Military Survival Zombies

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: WINDOWS 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
Processor: Intel®Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300 or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x with 2 GB Video RAM
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 23 GB available space

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March 2025

With 14 hours in the game and all achievements unlocked, I think it's time I gave it a review. Short version; is it worth the money and should you get it? I would say Yes to the latter, but I would honestly price this game a little lower, or just pick it up on a sale. Longer version; The game play of this is an improvement from the first game, I quite enjoyed it. Puzzles aren't difficult they're very straight forward if you're stuck it usually involves examining an item or just reading the last document you picked up. The story isn't the best and there are still things I'm confused about but I can't explain it without spoiling it. The voice acting is pretty decent however at times their tones don't even match what's happening, and it feels like the characters at certain points have short term memory loss, as they hate people then like them, then hate them again, it's a bit of a messy roller coaster. The animations on things like characters talking need some tweaking too, it weird not seeing the lips move properly when talking. Whilst on the subject of talking, PLEASE stop with the *When she talks-she walks*, you'll be running through and you'll have some pretty good momentum, and then out of no where there is some unnecessary communication that will force her to walk and also prevent you from interacting with objectives. I would say that for every 10 to 15 minutes of game play there is a cutscene or one of those boring talks. There was one instance where you literally enter a cutscene, end up walking and talking, to then get locked into 2 more cutscenes and then another talk, all of this is Back-to-Back. There's also a part where she's shocked to find out she works for Hexacore, which is weird considering the H in H.A.D.E.S (the team she's a part of) is for Hexacore. There are moments and areas that look like they were made for boss battles, but it just turns into killing regular things, When you finally do meet the thing that you'd assume to be the boss, you don't get to fight it either. There is only 1 boss in this game and that is at the end, the design of it is cool, but the boss battle itself is so annoying, you don't kill it, you just shoot it until it leaves you alone to them walk a bit more before it appears again. If it get to close to you, it will teleport you somewhere else leaving you to travel to the final location once more, and if you keep getting teleported, the locked doors that you unlocked become locked again. There are a total of 4 different enemy models and 2 different variants for 2 of those enemies, so you have Basically a zombie that's blue or red, a monster with a belly again either blue or red. Some flying thing called the sparker and then the end boss. The Red and Blue are the variant I just mentioned... So nothing special. Ammo consumption is something I had to keep track of, but at the end, they just give you a load for the "Boss battle" and then once you complete the game, you just get infinite ammo, if you want to play it again, if you complete the game without dying you get infinite liquid nitrogen too. The game setting is kind of bland, it's just all underground, the only areas that I thought looks cool was the Residential Area and the Apartment building which has a cool RE inspired puzzle with the diamond/heart/space and club key. I want this game to have an area, I know it is it's own game, but build on a place and make it iconic for the series, RE1 has the Mansion, RE2 the Police Station, familiarity with an area is always nice. All that being said I did enjoy the game, I personally would recommend it especially if you enjoyed the first game. But please read both positive and negative reviews and decide if you want to buy this or not.

Dec. 2024

Super cool game, loved the prequel and would love to see more in this series, but how is it for two games in a row the ending boss is absolute ass, It's cool to have a tough boss it's not cool to have a lame end boss, please consider a better final boss in the third

Oct. 2024

Well, for me it was a chill time, a game that can be finished in like 5-8h, for me it took 10, cuz Im well.. slow? a Graphical improvement from the previous game, and overall played better. Just the Cutscene Human models werent that great. And the final boss was a pain... not hard, just a pain! Foe me its a 7/10 game, cuz overall I had a enjoyable slow paced action horror experience. But give it a try yourself, ya may like it, or not, but if I need to compare, its like Resident Evil 2 remake, but budget version. Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/mnjauthecat Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@MnjauTheCat Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mnjauthecat Day of Streaming without skipping a day - 1398

Sept. 2024

Loved it, honestly, I'd say my only complaint is the moments where you're doing nothing but walking for a good minute and a half till you reach the next bit of gameplay. But in a sense, this game is more of a visual spectacle than its predecessor, to the point where even my beefy rig will chug on frames (Looking at you medical area.). I really hope we get more games in this universe, Invader is cooking with the lore and I'm a sucker for anything that feels and plays like Resident Evil.

Aug. 2024

lets get the obvious out the way with... this isnt a AAA budget so the cut scene acting is a B movie Horror film. The main 2 guys in the Story both look like the went to a blind plastic surgeon but after that... no complaints. Unlike Daymare 1996 THIS game plays as smooth as RE2, 3, 4 and 8 remake. it looks great and has boat loads of superb little details and Easter eggs in it from 1994. Youd actually be forgive if you thought it was running on the RE engine. The aiming system has had a VAST upgrade since 1996 and works like a dream on controller. Enemies appear from nowhere which always keeps you on your toes and the different sections of the game so far have been visually superb. Clearly a lot of work has went into this, ive seen games from EA and Square Enix in recent years where you can tell the DEV team did'nt care about the game and it was a money spinner but not here, i feel care and attention was taken to make the game play nice and smooth. Story is ok, its a survival horror but overall id say solid 7.8-8 / 10

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