The Ritual on Weylyn Island

Overall, I quite enjoyed The Ritual on Weylyn Island. The game mixes itself up and comes off as a low-budget attempt to make an interesting sort of cinematic horror experience, one that has actual diversity in gameplay, setting, tasks, and knows how to pace itself and keep things interesting. A few scenes can even be startling or unnerving. This all comes with an edge of low-budget elements, including some wonky...

33 found this helpful, 2015-12-05

Most indie horror games on Steam that are/were in early access tend to be riddled with incompetent gameplay, feature underwhelming length and show poor execution all around. Fortunately, The Ritual on Weylyn Island only suffers from one of those problems. With a current price tag of $9.99, "Ritual" offers only about 90 minutes of game. There is no replay value - the single collectible in the game is always in plain...

32 found this helpful, 2016-01-11

I'll be damned if I know which "classic horror movies of the early 80's" the devs of this game are claiming to be inspired by on their Store page, given that I've seen just about every horror film from that period, and the two movies this reminds me of the most are "The Wicker Man" (1973) and "The Blair Witch Project" (1999). But let's not be pedantic, and just try to review this as a GAME in its own right, eh? Or,...

35 found this helpful, 2015-08-08