While this doesn’t detract from the game itself too much – at least nowhere near as much as the hilariously weak voice acting – it makes parts of the Book of Rituals a lot harder to understand than they should be. For starters, coming from a small French developer, the game has clearly had some translation issues. Unfortunately, as fun as the game is at its best, a lot of its elements routinely keep it from reaching that point. Between the spooky art design and the legitimately great sound that the whole experience is steeped in, it does a fantastic job of drawing you into the experience. It really tests both your comprehension and your friendships.Īnother point in the game’s favor is the atmosphere, and it absolutely oozes atmosphere. The game periodically mixes them together into a single level, getting progressively harder as you rush to complete more puzzles in the same amount of time. One minute you might be figuring out the demon’s name via a Ouija board, the next you’ll be casting runes to figure out what designs you need to draw on stones, just to name a few. The fun largely comes thanks to the puzzles, which are varied and genuinely interesting. There are also lots of laughs to be had as you and your friends struggle to understand each other.
As I mentioned before, the core conceit of the game is great there’s an inherent tension to needing to vaguely describe a bizarre, eldritch puzzle to someone while they frantically scan through pages of bizarre text to find the solution that won’t get you killed. Let’s start this review off by saying I legitimately had fun playing Exorcise The Demons with a few different friends. Instead, another person looks at the “Book of Rituals” (which you can actually download as a PDF and even print if you want to be fancy) and uses the myriad information in there to guide the player through each puzzle, hopefully without either of them making a mistake.
The trick is, they don’t actually have access to any of the important information needed to solve them. The idea of two or more people having to swap vague information to solve a tense, timed puzzle is a great one, and clearly the folks at Midnight Games EIRL agree.Įxorcise The Demons puts one player in the shoes of a man tasked with performing rituals to banish a demon trying to break into the human world. It’s kind of surprising that despite the success of Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes, we haven’t seen more games take on a similar concept. You ever wake up one night only to find out you’re trapped in a floating hellscape, and a demon’s trying to break through to your world? No? Do you want to?
Exorcise the Demons by Midnight Games EIRL
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