Go Home Annie from developer Misfit Village and publisher Nordcurrent Labs is a horror title with a SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) theme. The game certainly looks quite creepy so is it worth picking up if you’re a fan of the psychological horror genre?
Go Home Annie!
In Go Home Annie, players will take on the role of the titular Annie. The game kicks off with a very disturbing radio program playing while you drive yourself home during a dark stormy night. You eventually park your car and quickly realize that something is not ok at home.
You can’t enter through the front door and will have to find another way in. This is how the game onboards you with barely any tutorial or information. You’ll have to learn how to move and interact with the environment within the first few seconds of playing the game but once you get the idea, it’s extremely straightforward.
Players will pick up items in the game world and then use those items to progress further by interacting with objects in the environment. It’s extremely standard fare to be honest. If you’ve played any self-respecting puzzle solving first person game, Go Home Annie will feel right at home for you. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the game isn’t a pure horror title. It’s at its core, a linear puzzle solver with a dark psychological horror theme and a very creepy SCP vibe throughout.
The story of Go Home Annie, without spoiling too much, involves traversing your environment as a test subject involved with SCP research. At first you won’t know this though and the opening segment of the game really sets the tone for what’s to come. It’s super creepy and oddly reminiscent of Outlast to be quite honest. This is also emphasized because of the fact that you have access to a video camera.
As you progress throughout the game, you’ll immediately notice that Misfit Games have really invested a lot of time into their environmental storytelling. Solving puzzles involves carefully examining your environment to piece together the puzzles required to progress. For example, a very early puzzle involves you rearranging items in a room to perfectly match what was recorded on a video camera tape. Fairly simple content like this throughout.
Graphically, Go Home Annie looks great with the environment and the environmental effects really elevating the game. While it may not be scary due to its actual content, the game does have a very eerie atmosphere and the horror undertones are definitely used in-game but not to such an extent that it will scare you off wanting to complete the title. The soundtrack in Go Home Annie features some decent voice acting as well as some great ambient sounds that add to the disturbing atmosphere.
Circling back to the game’s actual gameplay. Go Home Annie is rather short, coming in at just under 5 hours long so do keep that in mind if you’re going to pick it up at full price on Steam. The puzzles in the game aren’t exactly hard but there are a few later on in the game that will require you to use your brain a bit more than the earlier ones. Overall, I found the puzzles to be just the right level of difficulty for a game like this.
Final Verdict
Go Home Annie is a short and sweet psychological thriller puzzle solving adventure game. The horror content is not there to scare you off but rather just add to the game’s SCP theme. If you’re a fan of “Walking simulators” or games where the environmental storytelling tells you everything you need to know, Go Home Annie will certainly be worth checking out. Misfit Games have done a fantastic job here creating a psychological thriller dripping with SCP content.
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