The viral anomaly horror, The Cabin Factory, had finally found its home on consoles, and I was lucky enough to be given the keys to explore these terrifying cabins. I want to thank Feardemic, International Cat Studios, and Future Friends Games for the review opportunity!
The Cabin Factory puts you in the role of a worker at The Cabin Factory, a company that makes life-sized “Haunted” cabins for attractions and movies, but due to recent complaints claiming that the cabins are indeed haunted, the company has hired you to inspect the cabins to ensure they are not haunted…
Now, onto the game itself! When it comes to the game’s controls, well, there are only two functions: you press a button, or you run. That’s it, you don’t have to do anything else. I wish there were more options for the sound, as it’s pretty loud and not optimized for headphones. Other than that, the sound design is great.
I’m shocked at how great the graphics are for how cheap (I mean it respectfully to the game’s price), and the lighting is amazingly haunting. When it comes to gameplay, it’s relatively simple: you go into a cabin and explore it, try to find anything that’s “moving” or different that tells you that the cabin is haunted, get the answer right, and you move on; get it wrong, you start all over.
What makes this interesting is that there is an underlying story being told as you play, and randomly, you have different events that give you a window into what happened to the family that haunts the cabin. I found myself getting a lot of my guesses wrong. I was getting pretty pissed at first, but now I understand what I was doing wrong… I was trying to get in and out of the cabin quickly, missing the subtle changes within the cabin. This is the genius of the devs: if you want to proceed further in the game, you MUST explore the cabins and inspect every inch, basically opening yourself to getting scared.
Overall, for the price tag of around $3, this is a decent little mood-setting horror game! I think that’s what shocked me the most is the price and what you get. There were games I’ve reviewed that were heading towards $60+, and the graphics were not as good. I’ll admit I would not mind seeing this game being redone someday, where the story is longer, but if that does not happen, I would actually be quite OK with that.
On my scale of 1-10, with the audio being the only issue, I give The Cabin Factory a 9.5/10!
The Cabin Factory is out now on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
