All Of Our Friends Are Dead - Dear god what am I playing...

This is the least disturbing thing in the entire game.

I first heard of this on a paranormal message board.  It was talking about creepy games, and with a name like All Of Our Friends Are Dead, I thought it sounded like it was worth a look.  After a bit of looking, I downloaded it, then proceeded to get ready to play.  Waited 'till night, turned off the lights, put on headphones, and sat to play something neat.

I have rarely been more poorly prepared.

THE BULLETS, THEY DO NOTHING!

The game is very, very surreal.  the visuals are gritty and low-tech, but they take away nothing from the hysterical fever-dream horror.  It plays like a Silent Hill infested version of Metal Slug, with a hefty machine gun spitting a almost solid beam of ammo.  It should say something that all that firepower gives you ZERO sense of security.  The odd, grinding pulse-noise that comes off a dead enemy is almost worse then letting them live.

The levels are odd, switching between basic platforming to puzzles and back seeming at random.  One of the first "boss" things, a jittering red...thing, with a wide mouth and glitch-flickering tentacles, appears to fight by belching bleeding, spinning fetal monsters at you.  At no point does the sense of horror ever, ever let up.  It just goes from high-octane horror to subtle mind screw, then back.

This is either a boss, or what God made because you touch yourself at night.  Maybe both.

There is a built-in quicksave feature, and I suggest you use it OFTEN.  One hit is death, and trust me when I say you will die a LOT the first go-around.  It's not a very long game, really, but it packs a lot of creepy, mind-screwy madness in to that small package.  What strikes me the most is that sections seem like...glitches.  Like something you weren't meant to see or get to.  Do a quick little google search for creepy game glitches to see what I'm talking about.

I very much recommend this for any fans of creepy stuff, and for lovers of oddball games in general.  Grab it here and get strapped in.  For best effect, use the dark/headphone combo, as the audio is great as well.  Electronic pulses, rumbling ambiance, it all just adds to the strangeness.  Whats more, a sequel, Au Sable is now out, so if you like this, you can keep the shuddering, mind-twitching horror rolling.

Have fun...hell, you weren't sleeping anyway, right?

And then, sometimes, it just decides to screw with you.