Memorizing the enemy’s attack patterns is key, but after a few bouts with each enemy type they become very predictable and the challenge fades. Your follower’s gear improves with yours and they have their own proficiencies. You have a basic attack, power attack, parry, and dodge. Granted you do get fire and explosive arrows later on in the game.
Most other weapons are a simple upgrades of those two. Though I found it simplistic, you have a bow and a sword, that’s really it. The combat system is pretty smooth, the animations are nice for both your own character and the creatures. Each of them is a bit unhinged, as you would expect given the theme of eldritch survival. They are fully voiced with backgrounds and story-lines for you to discover.
The antagonist could have easily been faceless, the fact that it’s always with you to remind you of your insignificance is nice. The Eldritch Horror itself speaks to you, constantly mocking you, threatening you and downplaying all your efforts. One exception is the voice of the eclipse. The voice acting is poor and the facial animations are awful. It follows a storyline told with sparse cut-scenes, character dialogue and dream sequences. The game isn’t a traditional survival sandbox. You can select what buildings to construct and where. The bigger nests are outposts that provide you with a home away from home with access to your stash, fire and a teleportation crystal that lets you move between home base and other outposts.
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By cleansing these, which you do by seemingly absorbing them into yourself (and mashing a button) you can free up nearby resources. There are numerous corruption nests around the map that fill an area with red pulsating webbing and other icky horrors from the far realm. You can build a kennel and use rescued wolves to pull you around on a sled It’s fun but somewhat buggy and awkward to use. It’s quite large and would take a long time to get around purely on foot. The snowy landscape is as beautifully depressing as an eternal winter should be.
The creature design and atmosphere are very Lovecraft inspired and there are enough tentacles to make certain adult videos red in the face. However, you can obtain shards which boost your stats such as health and stamina, and boons that allow you to carry certain aspects over to your next run.įade To Silences plays on its themes very well. These are essentially lives, lose them all and it’s game over. Fade to Silence also features a form of permadeath, you have a number of flames of hope and you can find or craft more. If you have a friend, they can join you as one of your followers in online co-op. Your followers aid you by building structures, crafting gear, harvesting resources and they can even accompany you on your expeditions. You also combat creatures with Dark Souls-like combat system complete with dodging, parrying, light and heavy attacks. You explore the world while collecting everything you can to keep your base safe, warm and your people fed. To survive you must gather supplies, craft tools, recruit followers and cleanse the land of corruption while combating monstrous abominations, the freezing cold, and starvation. You play as Ash who is one of the few that has survived the end, along with his daughter.
I don’t want to say you’re wrong, but Fade To Silence backs me up by having a Lovecraft inspired Eldritch Horror end the whole world with eternal winter while constantly wielding it as a weapon. But I would personally rather die in a pool of my own sweat than ever see another snowflake again. Look, if your one of those people who can’t wait for summer to be over, I don’t begrudge you that. Overviewįade To Silence is a hardcore survival game that acknowledges one of the worlds many truths, winter is evil. This review was conducted on a standard PlayStation 4 console by Joseph Pugh. It is available on Steam & Humble Bundle for $39.99, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 for $49.99. Fade to Silence is a survival action game developed by Black Forest Games.
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