In Brief
House of 1000 Doors: Evil Inside was given away on September 26th last year where it garnered a 89% positive rating from 28 votes with 17 comments. We've previously had two other games from this series i.e. Family Secrets and The Palm of Zoroaster.

You can see all the previous comments and my first review via the following link:

https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/house-of-1000-doors-evil-inside/?preview=1

Key features (according to the distributor):

• Captivating character
• An edge-of-your-seat story
• Simple gameplay
• Decent artwork and animation
• Challenging achievements
• Bonus content.


The Game:
The fan-favourite House of 1000 Doors series is back! But this time, it is developed by Alawar and Logris Games, rather than its original developer, Five-BN Games. A strange meteorite has crashed into a small town, spreading a deadly virus and infected everything in the town, including the House of Lancaster, Now that the House has let Emily, the last relative in, help her use her special power to bring back the peace.

With the switch in development team, we did not expect things to remain the same with this fourth instalment. Unfortunately or not, we are right! Although Evil Inside still has the same gameplay structure as the previous three games, as well as the same portal-travelling concept. It is irrefutable that the series has lost its charm.

Instead of exploring the house as the title of the game might have suggested, Evil Inside has you travelling from here to there through countless fantasy locations. We kind of missed the realism aspect that was so well done in the previous instalments, Evil Inside ended up being just another dark fantasy HOPA game.

Nonetheless, the game is still pretty entertaining. The gameplay does feel a little clunky, but it is definitely well put together, The hidden object scenes are not very frequent, they are not terribly difficult nor dead easy – many of them featured some cool interactions as well. The puzzles are not bad, although they could have benefited from some more creativity and a higher level of challenge.

We hold nothing against the artwork; each and every single scenes looks stunning on our screen, with amazing colours and suitable lighting. At the same time, we do feel that the animations and the scene transitions are not as smooth as we liked them to be – these lead to the slightly clunky gameplay we mentioned before. As for the music, the soundtracks are great and play softly in the background. The voice overs are fine, nothing special.

Despite all the flaws, Evil Inside has an impressive length! It took us over five hours to finish the main game, plus an hour of bonus gameplay. Other extras include wallpapers, achievements, making of, cutscenes, soundtracks, concept art and collectibles that are well blended into the scenes

Reference based on the CE version accessed via the following link http://links.giveawayoftheday.com/s/allaboutcasualgames.com/2015%2F03%2Fhouse-of-1000-doors-evil-inside-review.html on the 24th September 2021, originally posted by All About Casual Games on March 25, 2015; originally re-posted by whiterabbit on the 26th Sept 2021 and again 2nd June 2022..

If I find the time, I'll post some video's and images later. :)