Maid Of Sker review
Maid Of Sker has a creepy story and great music, but in trying too hard to be scary, it ends up less so.
- Developer: Wales Interactive
- Publisher: Wales Interactive
- Release: July 28th
- On: Windows
- From: Steam
- Price: £20/€25/$25
is a first-person survival horror game, which makes the name a bit confusing because it’s pronounced like “Made Of Scare”. Sadly, this isn’t a very good description of Maid Of Sker, because although there are some good and creepsome bits in it, this isn’t a game made for jump scare compilations on YouTube, nor it is suffused with a creeping, lingering dread.
Instead, it lands somewhere in between the weird keys and puzzles of Resident Evil, and the quiet, existential dread of something more like Soma, resulting a lot of waiting around as opposed to making you feel properly afraid – though the music and imaginative adaptation of a Welsh ghost story are both extremely well done. It might have done better leaning more into those aspects, perhaps, than towards straight horror.