It would seem the game is more focused on building up this sense of atmosphere through music and visual style, rather than forcing the player to struggle through complex puzzles. Likewise, puzzles succeed in being stimulating despite not being particularly difficult, with most solved through locating a certain lever or pushing objects to reach high up platforms. Nevertheless, exploration is not marred by the deaths that the player might rack up due to this, as checkpoints are frequent and very forgiving. Platforming is straight forward with no particularly big jumps or quick movements needed but can be finicky, in the occasional difficulty of aligning characters with the specific platform being jumped to. You will traverse a range of environments, from infested abandoned mines to disgusting monster lairs, and each location is splendidly depicted with mysterious misty backgrounds and curious objects scattered about. Each character is unique from the last, and features play styles distinct enough to make every section of the game enjoyable, with every shift in the narrative back and forth between characters being a welcome change of pace. In the meantime, we see the knight rapidly slice, drop and grapple hook his way across the landscape meanwhile a small child clumsily explores the dreary recesses of a home rife with disturbance and things which do not sit well.

The man, arguably the character with the most screen time, stumbles and jumps his way across dark hellscapes moving toward - or perhaps away from - an ambiguous target. The player journeys through the stories of three very different characters across the span of the game, who each exemplify three different types of gameplay.

Storm or not, Inmost delivers on immersing the player in a darkly atmospheric experience, one which offers a largely engaging story and the occasional fright.

Inmost reviews