Game: In Fear I Trust

I've seen some reviewers refer to In Fear I Trust as a survival horror game. I've also seen the App Store's description describe it as "polished, compelling, and instantly unsettling."It is none of these things.The game does nothing to dispel the rumors of its horrific nature, but I can assure you that this is a visual novel at heart. Personally, I like visual novels quite a lot (Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward has one of my favorite video game stories of all time and Device 6 proved that the genre has a place on iOS)."Perhaps Chillingo and Turn Me Up Games didn't think a Western audience would be receptive to a game marketed as such, because the app's page is quick to point out the "danger" and "creepy jump scares" found in the game. Unless you count the danger of encountering one of several dozen bugs and glitches in the game's decidedly unpolished first two chapters (the game is episodic and, at the time of this review, only the first two chapters are available) you're in no threat of dying - ever.Rather, the game is presented as a series of locked rooms and the illogical puzzles needed to open them. Occasionally, you'll encounter a tape recorder or journal to fill out the story or trigger a flashback cutscene. That's pretty much the whole game, and if the puzzles weren't so poorly designed, the story so disjointed and confusingly written, and just about everything else riddled with technical issues, that would be enough.