You can tear through these rooms pretty quick about 350 of them in a 45 minute. Just keep running and hope there are no locked doors! They only happen in specific rooms and sometimes the rooms are empty, but it still gives that dreadful feeling.

You have health that does replenish over time and these big moments are rare and easy to avoid.

If they touch you three or so times you’re dead. Sometimes they can float over the gaps, other times they’re stuck trying to walk at you from across the gap so you can get a good look at them when they’re harmless. There’s no way to fall into the dark chasms, it acts as if they were walls, but with this open room you get to see a specific creature that might be following you. Even the game’s crescendo encounters in a vacant room with walkways. There are a limited amount of rooms and I started to memorize them all. Some rooms are coated with slime to slow you own while others have holes in the ceiling as if to give you a feeling of dread that something could pop out. There are purple dungeons, green sewers with glowing scum. The themes of the rooms begin to change from the mundane almost Wolfenstien 3D-esque corridors to metal asylum rooms that give you a flashlight to find your way through. A few times you’ll need to search for a key in a different room, but the other ninety-nine percent of the game is leaving rooms behind forever. There are plenty of written notes here and there. The game excels in the sound department and makes good use of music, ambient sounds and foot steps following you.Īs you delve deeper through the doors of this dank dungeon, you’ll uncover more frightening things and points of intreege. Some of the sounds are silly and unfitting other times its screeches to drive chills down your spine. Jump scares are rare and at first it comes in the form of adorable cardboard cutouts of pumpkins, ghosts and skeletons that pop out of the wall accompanied by a sound. On the surface the game has a clean, chipper almost cartoon low budget charm to it. There are still things every fifteen or so rooms to keep your interest and at the end of fifty rooms you’ll find a save point, but nothing can save you from permanent death at the hands of the foul creatures that live within. Even then one thousand rooms is still a feat against tedium and needless repetition.

Each room is no more than a few seconds thanks to a sprint key and the fact that each door counts as a new room. You are tasked with the daunting duty of surviving one thousand rooms in this endless first person perspective runner. Somewhere between light hearted, happy parody and being afraid of the dark lies Spooky’s House of Jump Scares.

Spooky's house of jumpscares game play