The Monastery

Hellooooo! And here we are for another Halloween Horror adventure.
Ok maybe not really a horror, more a sort of dark mystery and still a very interesting game.

The adventure starts with Harold (you can change the name, but why bother?), a man that is lost in the woods and he's trying to go home. A spirit (that looks like a sort of will o' the wisp, a floating flame or light) calls him and lead the lost wanderer... to a hotel? No, of course, to a MONASTERY! See the title? Ok, the place is obviously cursed (thanks a lot!), I mean where there are spirits of those that once were people there is something wrong, of course!
But at least the friengly spirit tells that there is a way to escape, even if this require to find three items located in three dangerous areas, but luckily they can help us not to get killed, so Harold's escape won't be too difficult... maybe!
But is there a way to break the curse of the monastery? Probably, anyway good luck finding the way home!


This game features a doggo. OBVIOUSLY! He is very helpful since thanks to him there is no game over! Except... after a perticular event!

The Monastery is an adventure without combat but with lots of chases: the three areas that Harold must explored are infested with different monsters, werewolves, succubi and zombies. The forest with with the werewolves just requires our hero to be quick and I did it on my first try... too easy? Well that's what I believed, but I was totally wrong. The succubi are faster than the werewolves, but they can be killed using some crystals to make them defenseless, while the zombie infested area (that looks oddly like a modern location) has some boulder puzzles, but in meantime Harold has also to dodge the slow moving undeads!
And I won't spoil you the fourth optional part with the demons! As I said before, good luck! Mind that someone made some circles of protections here and there, that can be traversed by Harold, but they act as barriers for the evil creatures.

Harold begins the game with three lives, that means that he can resist two attacks and recieving the third one means that he's in trouble and Doggo, the only friendly werewolf, will drag him to the monastery while he can restore his lives at the fireplace. Oh, during the game there are also other fireplace to heal (wait is this Dark Souls?), but you can save anywhere and anytime so you can take advantage of this. Especially if you plan to get the golden/true/happy ending.

Visually the game is ok: it's a RTPs only game but I do not mind because it's obviously a game where each map is a puzzle or level that has to be solved to progress. So maps are ok, serviceable and well done, I mean it's simple understanding what you have to do, but it's not always easy to do that. Mapping and graphics are ok, but I liked a lot music that together with the gameplay are the best aspects of this game.


Run Harold! One life left and three demons behind us! It's almost the end of the game, and of the review, so let's got to the...

Final Verdict
The Monastery was a pleasant surprise (since it was made for a) with an unexpected series of features: you start running away from wolves, then facing the succubi that you can kill using the crystals, then the zombies with the boulder puzzles (that can be also solved in different ways) and finally a (totally optional) final part that mixes all of these things!
Strangely I found more challenging the second part (snowy area) than the rest of the game, except for the optional final area, of course. But as you can guess, I had fun, I got first the simple ending and then the best one (that often requires to replay the three areas).

What I liked a it less is how the the story is presented: I mean you will learn that as you play and fully only if you explore every area and solve every level (so that you will see some cutscenes that will explain several things about the Monastery)... anyway it's strange since I don't remember Harold suffering of amnesia. I may be wrong, but this is my only complain except maybe for a typo I noticed in a dialogue (in the optional part of the snowy succubus infested area), otherwise, all good. A little game, made in a short time but that is entertaining and challenging. Yes, probably it's a shame that there are no more levels since the concepts are pretty well though out and realized, it was challenging but addictive (I could not stop until the end, took me about 1 hour to complete)

A simple, but enjoyable fun mini adventure!