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2018 · Action-adventure · Adventure

Crying is not Enough

Crying is not Enough is a Third-Person Survival Horror Game.The player has to face enemies, using weapons and other survival mechanisms. He has to solve various puzzles and make progress by slowly unfolding the story.

Released: 2018
Platforms: PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One macOS
Genres: Action-adventure Adventure Horror Indie
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Survival
Country: Greece
Languages: English, German, Russian, Spanish (Spain)

About

Crying Is Not Enough is a survival horror action-adventure video game developed and published by Greek independent developers Akis Olsey Mila and Konstantinos Poulis under the collective name of "Storyline Team". The story follows 35-year-old Jacob Helten as he tries to unravel the mystery of his wife's disappearance after a horrific car accident. The game was developed over the course of five years and was released on Steam on 15 June 2018.

›Story

The game is about the story of a 35 year-old Jacob Helten and more specifically with his experiences after his wife’s serious injury to a car accident. A few weeks after the accident Claire’s health begins to improve significantly, but before getting discharged, she disappears mysteriously from the hospital. The same evening, an unknown woman approaches Jacob, claiming that she knows where his wife is, while declaring her willingness to help him. At this point, a dark journey begins, in a mysterious distant place, where soon the central character will understand that the disappearance of his wife is nothing more than a small incident of a puzzle that has yet to be unfolded. Soon he will find himself entangled in a game for harsh players, full of hatred, fear and intrigue, which although he is not the center, he is forced to adapt and survive, or at least he thinks so…

Keywords

violence
gore

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Gameplay

The player controls the protagonist, Jacob Helten, from a third-person perspective, and has to traverse through a bizarre, death-filled world that is home to grotesque monsters. Players use firearms in order to defeat enemies, reminiscent of the Silent Hill series of games. Apart from gathering weapons and battling the mutated patients inhabiting the island, players are also tasked with solving Resident Evil-style puzzles.

Story

The game tells the story of a 35-year-old man named Jacob Helten, whose wife Claire is being treated in a hospital after suffering a serious injury in a car accident. As Claire's health continuously improves over the next few weeks, and she is about to get discharged, she vanishes from the hospital. Following his wife's disappearance, Jacob is approached by an unknown elderly woman, who claims to have knowledge of Claire's whereabouts and offers to help Jacob find her.

Jacob boards a helicopter on the roof of the hospital and soon finds himself on a mysterious distant island filled with nightmarish creatures and toxic waste. He is faced with a series of puzzles to solve in order to make progress and slowly uncovers a far darker plot, filled with hatred, fear and intrigue.

Development

The game began pre-alpha in 2013, when two friends, Akis Olsey Mila and Konstantinos Poulis set out to create their own video game. At the end of the year they had their game cleared the Steam Greenlight process.

In 2015, due to the developers' limited resources and disappointing pre-alpha test results, Mila and Poulis, decided to keep up with the technological requirements of the latest generation consoles, starting the entire development from scratch. The game was eventually released on Steam in June 2018. Reportedly, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions were being planned for release on the third quarter of 2018, but have since received no official release date.

Reception

Reception for Crying Is Not Enough has been mixed. The game was well received in its home country, where it received the "People's Choice Award" during the Athens Games Festival, as well as being voted as "Greek Game of the Year" by Greek media and entertainment website GameWorld.gr users in its annual Game of the Year Awards 2018. On the other hand, it received mostly negative reviews upon its release on Steam, while American YouTuber Angry Joe listed Crying Is Not Enough at third place in his "Worst Games of 2018" list.