A Place, Forbidden

A Place, Forbidden

Steam Deck · unrated

Poison The Inkwell · Horror · Jun 25, 2020

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

It's free to play.

85%
Very Positive
454 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 78 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 46 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 17 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 454 player reviews · updated 7 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
83% of themes are praise17% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Surprisingly well written story!
78 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
It has PS1 style graphics which is cool but why am I getting a terrible frame rate when I can run 360 and early PS4 era games?
46 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Gameplay: Yeah
17 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
i love the art and the sound effects
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
It's clearly very poorly optimized.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters78 reviews
Graphics46 reviews
Gameplay17 reviews
Audio8 reviews
Optimization7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty10 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
85%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
10
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.