Remorse: The List Critic Reviews

Remorse: The List is a game that needs to be on everyone’s radar. Some little annoyances aside, the feelings you will get from this game, with its unique atmosphere and genuine spooks, make for a fantastic horror experience.

If you just want to be creeped out first and worry about story second, then Remorse: The List might just be worth adding to your “to-play” list.

Up close, the combat is somewhat lacklustre and the tense musical accompaniment doesn't save it. So the horror rather comes from surviving such situations and being able to fully immerse yourself in the game.

I do appreciate the effort that went into Remorse: The List. The developers had a strong vision and did their best to execute on it. On a technical level, I also found it to be quite impressive for the Switch. There are much bigger games that struggle to lift to this visual and mechanical quality on that hardware. But, unfortunately, at the end of the day, this is a horror game where its enemies – which it relies on far too much to carry the experience – are more likely to make you giggle than sweat. That’s a death knell for any horror experience.

We should always approach indie games -especially those made by a few persons- with a sense of indulgence, but in the case of Remorse: The List for Nintendo Switch, there is no silver line. It is a game, one step away from being unplayable.