Grade: A-
A top notch short horror experience.
In this game, you start in a pretty barren tent by a big ‘ole pyramid. The perspective is first-person, and you have basic controls to look around. The game starts you out with no guidance, and you have zero or quests laid out. You are simply a person who has a tent, and the tent is near a pyramid. The rest is left up to the player. I imagined my character as an Indiana Jones type, but it could be any adventuring archeologist.
I gave myself the quest of getting inside the pyramid, and thankfully, this was the right way to go. You get through the first part of the game, finding some items lying around the desert and a few open chambers laid around the outer edges of the pyramid. Going through these puzzles gets you to the entrance of the pyramid. There’s a couple of foreshadowing moments in the early going with some eerie sounds, but it seems pretty chill so far.
As we get into the second act of the game inside the pyramid itself, you realize soon that you have become utterly trapped. They really ramp up the horror of the game at this point. My heart skipped a beat at some of the jump scares, and I realized I was no longer solving puzzles but simply trying to survive.
The ambient music was spooky and spot-on. While Pyramid’s graphics were 90’s style and just one step above Wolfenstein, the game was still well done. A solid and memorable one-hour of play.
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