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Explore Shaw Well Manor, solve puzzles, and evade the creatures your character created in this first-person survival horror game.
Released 29 Jul 2019
Explore Shaw Well Manor
Face Your Creations
Solve Manor Puzzles
Chapter 2 is OUT NOW! The first chapter of an unforgettable survival horror experience. Solve puzzles and work your way through this terrifying place. You may be more familiar with it than you initially think.
Developed by CBGames · Published by CBGames
The Designer’s Curse is a first-person survival horror game set in Shaw Well Manor. You explore the mansion as a character confronted by beings they created.
Search the manor for a way forward while creatures hunt you. The game combines exploration and puzzle-solving with encounters that require avoiding the pursuing threats.
Puzzles involve interacting with objects around the environment, including keys and mechanisms. The experience is presented as the first chapter of a larger horror story.
Players who enjoyed the game often describe it as tense and scary, highlighting its creepy atmosphere, sound, and monster encounters. Some also appreciate the straightforward puzzles and compact playtime. Others find the experience too short or basic, and report frustration with enemy encounters and unclear navigation.
Chapter 2 OUT NOW!
From the young developer of Games such as "Overnight 2", "Buried Beneath" (Floating head game) and "Slender Adrift" comes a new experience.
This was made by a 15 year old.
“The Designer’s Curse”, a First Person Survival Horror Game inspired by the works of the most influential old school horror games, such as Amnesia and Penumbra, this game allows you to delve into the depths of Shaw Well Manor, finding your way through the castle reminding yourself of what you have created. With help of Original Soundtrack by Mikko Tarmia (Composer for Amnesia and Soma), this game really creates an atmosphere of fear and dread.
Explore the depths of this mansion knowing the fact that you are not alone, and you’re being hunted by the most terrifying beings, created by the protagonist himself.
Controls are listed in the games main menu and pause menu. Note, this game has no controller support, a mouse and keyboard is needed.
(IF YOU EXPERIENCE SCREEN TEARING, TURN ON VSYNC IN THE GAMES SETTINGS)
Note, this game does not have support for 21:9 ultrawide monitors. If you wish to play on such monitor, you must download the game from gamejolt.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Controller required | No |
