The Beast Inside Review

It’s 1979, tensions are extremely high as a covert war takes place. You play the role of Adam, a cryptanalyst who is tasked with decoding some of the most difficult coded messages that the CIA has captured. Hoping to get away from the city of Boston, and perhaps from prying eyes, you and your wife Emma, who is expecting, move to a house that has been in the family for a very long time. The place needs some updating but it's just something you need to help focus on and give Emma a place to relax and rest. It is on the day of moving in that you, Adam, find a journal from a relative from the past that plunges you into a twisted mystery that may be reaching into the present day.

The Beast Inside is a first-person adventure game where you will be navigating the areas around the family house and discovering that there’s more than you originally bargained for. To really get things going, the open cinematic has Emma tied to a chair in a dark place where a man grabs a knife, perhaps to kill her, or maybe threaten her into revealing a secret. This is definitely a horror game. There are plenty of things that creep in the dark of night, and many of them will kill you if you give them the chance. You will spend most of your time unraveling the mystery surrounding the journal you found, and as you progress through the game you’ll find additional pages that will reveal a terrible event that cursed the writer of the journal and his family.

Through most of the game you will be collecting items that will help you move through the game, some of the items might not seem important at the time, but they might ultimately unlock new parts to the story that Adam becomes infatuated with. Through most of the game your chance of dying is pretty slim, there are going to be certain events (mostly quicktime events) that will end your game if you’re not paying attention. Thankfully there are checkpoints in the game and usually you’re not too far removed from where you ended up dying. Overall I enjoyed the flow of the game, and the story was definitely filled with twists and turns. There were a couple of places where I didn’t know where to go next, but after wandering around for a little bit I was able to get the story back on track. This game definitely isn’t for everyone, but there’s definitely enough game here that you’ll get your money’s worth, personally I squeezed out about 8 and a half hours.