Dying of Thirst is a short 5 minute game which was an enjoyable and creepy experience. As a student of Vellore Institute of Technology, Bhopal Campus, India, we, students of the Game Development branch were made to post a detailed review of a game of our choice on a public platform as an activity, and this will be an in-depth review of the short game.
The game’s concept is pretty simple and to the point as we should expect from a short game. The player in a first person point of view wakes up in the middle of the night as he realizes that he is thirsty and needs to drink some water. So leaves his room to get water from his fridge in the kitchen of the house. Along the way the atmosphere of the home is pretty creepy which gives a scary element to the game that I thoroughly enjoyed.
The thing which I liked the most from the game is its choice of sound effects. They were as good as it gets and helped a lot in setting up the scary element of the game. The controls were easy with the WASD keys moving the player and the mouse to look. The only aspect of the game that lacked impact on me was the last scene which was meant to be a jump scare but the visual of the ghost/monster wasn’t captivating enough to scare me even though the choice of sound effect was good again.
Overall, I’ll say that the game was an enjoyable short play and that it was able to keep me creeped up for the 5 minutes, the audio and sound effects being the highlight of it. So I’ll rate it a 7/10.