sleep awake review an all timer horror premise is let down by tired stea...
Sleep Awake has a great premise and certainly knows its creepy imagery, but its fiction is too dense and the mechanics feel a bit played-it-all-before. Compared to contemporaries like Still Wakes the Deep, Sleep Awake struggles to set itself apart when it comes to cinematic stealth horror, even if some late game imagery begins to impress.
Pros
- Some of the nightmare imagery is distinctive and imaginative
- A late-game enemy is legit scary
- Stronger second half
Cons
- The actual game is an unremarkable stealth jaunt
- Flavor text is too dry to make learning more about its world compelling
- You spend most of it with its dullest enemy
