Benjamin Rivers

Worse Than Death

A New Horror Adventure from the Creator of Home! Worse Than Death is a scary, emotional thriller about a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong. You play Holly, a tough, smart, 28-year-old who returns home to confront her past, only to face a nightmare she could never imagine. As she runs for her life, desperate to rescue her best friend Flynn from a terrible force that's hunting them both, Holly must survive unexpected truths about her home town, her friends, and even herself. A Hair-Raising Adventure! Run, leap, crawl and hide through eight chilling locales in this pulp horror adventure game. You'll solve puzzles, use items that you find, and unearth terrible truths. But watch out! You'll have to make careful use of your environment to slip past the unseen horrors that now haunt the halls of your wretched home town. Make too much noise near a monster and it'll hear you, sending you fleeing to the next room for safety.

Released: 7 October 2019
Developer: Benjamin Rivers
Publisher: Benjamin Rivers
Engine: GameMaker Studio 2
Perspective: Side view
Age rating: PEGI 12 · ESRB M
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · iOS · Mac · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch
Genres: Puzzle · Adventure · Indie

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Player rating: 85
Critic rating: 3
Ratings counted: 77.9%
Steam reviews: 30
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Crossplay System requirements 2 GB RAM Download size 0.7 GB

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Single player

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Action
Horror
Thriller

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Reviews and languages

77.9% of 68 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Mostly Positive”.

1 languages in the interface, 0 of them with full voice acting. English is supported.

Publisher's content notice

As a horror game, Worse Than Death features depictions of violence such as: low-res pixel-art gore within the environment, dead bodies (both low- and high-resolution), blood-splattered walls, dripping blood, and sounds indicating violence (squishy pulpy sounds, screams, etc.). In one scene, the player finds another character hanging by her neck from a rope, swaying back and forth. The player never sees a violent act being committed (e.g. you never see someone dying, just the aftermath). Though the game got an ESRB descriptor of "sexual themes," these are limited to: allusions to an affair between two characters; one character's confession of possible love for another. No sexual acts are actually depicted. (We've checked "Sexual content" here to be honest with the process; we're not sure if what we've described would qualify.)

Worse Than Death