Horses Reviews
Santa Ragione delivers a subversive, sometimes shocking, often funny first-person narrative horror that, while perhaps a little insubstantial, remains an engagingly unconventional exploration of some timely themes.
Horses is an affecting first-person horror game that, despite some repetitive tasks and signposting issues, delivers a harrowing story you won’t forget in a hurry.
Disturbing and outside of any canon: horses is a journey into the loss of innocence
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And, indeed, the skuzzy and harrowing Horses gains much of its power through its linearity, shepherding you through your own complicity in a cycle of dehumanization with scarcely an option to offer a word of protest. The lack of meaningful choice makes the very act of playing the game feel practically unbearable, what with players themselves being led forward like animals.
Horses is the kind of experience that doesn't look for compromises and has no interest in pleasing everyone. Santa Ragione plays with incendiary material and does so with a confidence that's almost disarming. It's a "small" title, one that inevitably divides, because it demands from the viewer the willingness to look exactly where we usually turn away. And that's precisely where its value lies: in its ability to dig, provoke, unsettle and, above all, leave a mark.
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