MADiSON

Release Date: July 8, 2022

Adventure, FPP, horror, indie games, PlayStation VR, singleplayer

7.4

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MADiSON is a FPP adventure game with horror atmosphere. The player explores a mansion tormented by a vicious demon and solves logic puzzles.

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7.4

OpenCritic Rating

Game is Recomended by 60% of Critics. There are 51 Critic Reviews.

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Gaming Nexus: 9.5 / 10 by Henry Yu

Bloodious Games has been developing MADiSON since 2016, and it's incredible to see a project of this magnitude come to fruition from a team of only two people. MADiSON creates a harrowing experience for fans to feast on, with its outstanding atmospheric tension, eccentric camera mechanic, and psychedelic puzzles. Apart from being a horror game, it also showcases some truly artistic stages and mythos. There are some beautiful landscapes to explore and investigate as you plunge into a spiral of insanity. After all, you are the Mad Son.

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COGconnected: 75 / 100 by Lou Sytsma

MADiSON is a solid, polished indie horror game. It struggles with pacing because of the mechanics involved with the puzzles. For collectors and completionists, you may find some replay value as you can collect camera skins and special photos.

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Push Square: 5 / 10 by Liam Croft

Maybe you'll find something to like if you've never played a horror game like this before, but for anyone well-versed in the genre, the ground MADiSON covers is very well-worn.

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MADiSON is a first-person psychological horror adventure game. The project was developed by Bloodius Games studio, and one of the inspirations of the authors was PT, the cult demo of already deleted Silent Hills.

Plot

Player takes on the role of a man named Luca who wakes up with his hands covered in blood in a dark room in a large mansion. He soon discovers that he has become a victim of a vicious demon named MADiSON, who has forced him to perform the next stage of a bloody ritual that began decades ago.

Luca will have to complete the ceremony and survive the demon's torture. By the way, he will learn the history of previous victims of this creature.

Game mechanics

MADiSON is an adventure game, in which we observe the events from first person perspective. We explore locations, collect items, interact with objects in the environment and solve puzzles. All this we have to do carefully so as not to attract the demon's attention.

We spend most of the time in a dark mansion. However, the demon's tortures, when he gets us, affect Luca's perception of reality, allowing us to move to other locations and learn related stories. Such sequences, however, are dangerous for the protagonist and the player can interrupt them by using the instant camera (i.e. printing a copy of the photo right after it is taken), allowing us to see the real surroundings of the character.

An additional attraction is that many events are activated randomly. Also, the puzzles change all the time. Thanks to that we can play the game many times without feeling bored.