Review: Infliction: Extended Cut (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S. 

Indies love horror, and it's easy to understand why. Horror is reasonably within the means of smaller developers from a scope perspective. It presents an opportunity to limit the scale of an experience - a single house can be a playground for exquisite horror. You don't need so many moving parts - in fact some of the best horror games don't feature more than one enemy and an awful lot of walking around. Finally, horror is one of the rare genres where players don't have the expectation that a game runs for 30 or more hours. A solid, intense horror game that runs for five hours is sufficient if it's pitched right. Infliction: Extended Cut throws the best pitch it can to be one of the many excellent indie horror games that are out there. Sadly, though, it misses the mark, and does so by a considerable margin.

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