Burial Game Review

I’m a fan of psychological horror, and when this game came across my radar recently as such, it was an instant buy for me.

But, let’s see how it holds up.

Let’s get into it:

Starting off, the game is in Russian with English subtitles. A man gets a job as a videographer to film a wake in a apartment building. Creepy premise, but weirder things have happened in games. Okay, let’s get this money and skedaddle.

We climb many stair steps to find that the apartment is locked. An older man gives us the task of taking out his trash before he tells us where the key is to the room is. Afterwards, he only tells us to look closer at the flower pots. Already, I’m wondering how much our character is getting paid for this gig as he does mention that the pay was good.

We move flower pots and after finally finding the key under one of them, the older man yells at us to not go into that apartment as a warning to us. Common sense would say to listen to him, but that’s not why we’re playing this game, is it?

Searching the apartment, we get a little too comfortable and we get a jumpscare that actually isn’t cheap, as it makes sense and adds flavor to the story. We set up our equipment, and get going with the filming and that’s when the spooks begin to occur, such as a wheelchair rolling on it’s own. Interesting.

Looking around some more, our character gets spooked and contemplates going home, before he sees a decapitated head. Appropriately, he uses profanities that I will not repeat, but I’m enjoying this experience so far. Then, a whole lot of nope happens when an apparition appears in the hall.

I would leave. Just leave. Just like that. Straight up leave and tell the client thank you for the opportunity, but nope.

We get an interesting and creative puzzle in one room, in order to get a flashlight and observe another dark room. The dark room reveals tapes where recordings were made by different women. The revelations are that a teenage girl was kidnapped, then an older woman, then an elderly woman who experienced something horrible.

Eerie music begins to pick up as the body of the deceased is now missing from the casket in the living room. I would definitely be leaving this place of residence at this point, but I’m way too invested in what’s going on. At least, that’s my reasoning as to why this man hasn’t booked it out the door yet.

As we continue to explore, we find ourselves in the basement of the complex, and we hear the wails and moans of women. Upon closer inspection, our character realizes that the hauntings in the apartment were not harmful, but warnings from the deceased to the man who was hired to film. A loud speaker plays as we hear a man’s voice talking about a past time that he enjoys, that brings yours truly to sickness. The game ends when the man reveals himself, and we get credits.

Conclusion

My run time for this game was an hour respectively, and for such a short time for a game, I really enjoyed the experience. The scares were not obnoxious and loud, they made sense, and the only thing I couldn’t make sense of was the random cat in the game, but apparently, it might belong to the bad guy in the game.

Right now on Steam, you can get this game for $5, and I honestly believe it could be worth more, especially considering this isn’t the first nor the last title from this studio, Revvalution. I look forward to playing more games from this creator.