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Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry.
Scorn is a gore, horror and atmospheric game
developed by Ebb Software
and published by Kepler Interactive.
Released on October 14th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 29 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Arabic and Thai.
It has received 15,500 reviews of which 11,887 were positive and 3,613 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: QuadCore AMD Ryzen 3 3300X / Intel Core i5-8400
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (3 GB)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 50 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD (Solid State Drive)
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I have many mixed feelings about Scorn. In many ways, I love it. It's a dark journey through a haunting nightmare realm, heavily inspired by the unsettling works of H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Every building and machine is a disgusting yet oddly beautiful amalgamation of technology and living flesh, and traversing the game feels like a biomechanical fever dream. The sound design is on point as well, from the sickly squelching of inserting a key to the muffled cries of a disfigured humanoid. Honestly, Scorn is one of the most visually and audibly distinct games I've ever played, and I applaud Ebb Software for creating something so unique. However, the actual game-play of Scorn is... Not the best. There's no map, so it's easy to get lost in the labyrinth of hallways. Many of the puzzles are quite hard, and you can spend hours trying to solve them and never get anywhere. And don't get me started on the combat. Why do enemies take so much health? Why do you have so little ammo and healing items, and why are the refill stations single use only? I know survival horror is all about feeling helpless against horrific monsters, but there's a big difference between feeling helpless and actually being helpless. All in all, I feel that while Scorn suffers from a lot of bad choices in game-play, it's a good start for a new studio. Ebb Software had a clear artistic vision, and they definitely achieved it. I would say that I high hopes for this little Serbian game studio in the future, but unfortunately it seems like they've been shut down since November 2023, which is a damn shame, since I would have loved to see what they do next.
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This game is like snorting a bunch of ibuprofen and caffein pills while high and having a fever. Then trying to solve a rubix cube
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in scorn, you can feel like a sentient cow experiencing the horrors of being slaughtered by machines that are beyond your understanding. the horrors you witness are beyond your control or input, and you can't comprehend their cause or meaning. and this game makes me physically ill, and i mean that as a compliment. from the beginning to the end, every detail, including the concept, visuals, animation, sound design, and implications, is terrifying and that's great. it almost feels like the most messed up interactive art gallery in existence.
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Is it a great videogame? - probably not. BUT, I can't help but admire the work and artistry (and philosophy maybe?) behind this game. As a piece, it's intense and atmospheric. It's a walking simulator and an intense horror survival game at the same time. You walk around as a parasite-infested newborn biomechanical humanoid creature, admiring the landscapes and wondering wtf is going on while trying to not to die while acid-vomiting chicken are after you. While Scorn has stunning visuals, the sound design is mad good too and it's used really really well for the storytelling; you press a button, don't know what exactly it does, but you can hear some sort of machinery activating somewhere in the background. Different surfaces make different sounds and the soundtrack is dynamic. The gameplay sometimes has funny logical faults; if the protagonist knew how to do just a liiiittle bit of climbing and jumping, the story would've progressed a lot more faster and smoother. The puzzles are mostly difficult and rather infuriating, but sometimes they're well placed to give the player the feeling of frustration and despair that really fits the plot (not sure if intentional, but hey it works). Play it through, look at the artbook and maybe vibe to the soundtrack too. If you aren't that sort of person, maybe skip Scorn.
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I really wanted to love this game. I think I hyped myself up too much for what this turned out to be, but my feelings about it are more complex than that. Scorn is beautiful, and unusual, and twisted. I love the atmosphere, the textures, the ambient soundtrack... there's a lot of visual appeal to enjoy. Granted, Scorn isn't going to be for everyone. Some people are going to be upset by the imagery, and that's okay. Some people are going to play it just for the "weird tourism" factor, in the same way that people went and watched David Lynch's "Eraserhead" for the first and only time when it released theatrically. Scorn reminds me a lot of Cronenberg's 1999 movie "Existenz" that already draws influence from other media (as others have mentioned, Hans Ruedi Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.) This game uses very wet orifices to transfer "data," or in this case, abilities. You can tell that the team who put this together spent a lot (A LOT) of time on details and contextual world-building. Graphically and aurally Everything feels intentional and nothing feels frivolous. If Steam let you put scores for games in several areas, including visuals and audio I would give both of those sections the max score, 5/5, 10/10 whatever. However. The game suffers in playability a lot. It makes me wonder how the game was developed. Was all the ambiance developed first, and then they had to shoehorn gameplay into it? Was it developed as a game first? Most of the game elements feel either like an afterthought, or from people who don't play a lot of games. It has the same vibe as weirdo games from the 90s and 2000s that also have bad gameplay mechanics, like all the creative energy went into all of the art and the people who were responsible for making the game work *as a game* just had no idea of how games are supposed to be fun. Many times I had to take a break because of the level of frustration I was experiencing. The core mechanics were not good enough to enable my high interest hyperfocus. It's hard to say that the game mechanics were "adequate." Playing this game was a struggle, but I doubt that was the intent or the point that the developers wanted to elicit. I definitely played the game through to the end because I wanted to see how it played out. I *had* to finish it. There's a lot to think about what's going on here, but all good art is subjective to the person experiencing it. I think as an art game, Scorn gets a 10/10. As a game to play and enjoy by virtue of being a game, 5/10. I've seen at least one person rate this game at a 7/10, and that feels about right. If they had intended to make the game challenging due to the overall short duration, there were other ways they could have done it besides just making the mechanics the way that they are (checkpoints, weapon changing animations, unusual firing modes, restrictions on the basic weapon, enemies feeling "cheap".) I always feel like any game design shouldn't punish the player. The TL;DR I guess is, is Scorn with your money? If it's on a deep sale, yes. I don't think this is a $40 dollar game. Just know what you're getting when you choose to buy it. I think the art is worth the struggle, but only at a price you feel like you can endure.
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Scorn is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
Scorn is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Scorn received 11,887 positive votes out of a total of 15,500 achieving a rating of 7.52.
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Scorn was developed by Ebb Software and published by Kepler Interactive.
Scorn is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Scorn is not playable on MacOS.
Scorn is not playable on Linux.
Scorn is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Scorn. Explore additional content available for Scorn on Steam.
Scorn does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Scorn does not support Steam Remote Play.
Scorn is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Ebb Software
Publisher
Kepler Interactive
Release
14 Oct 2022
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