A trench warfare against painful memories (and bugs)
This year seems to have been favorable to horror games placed in a WWI setting. The trenches of the Great War are scarry enough by their own, but adding a personal tragedy on top of it, pushes the entire experience over the edge and turns Ad Infinitum into a real psychological horror. But is the dark atmosphere and constant gunfire enough to create a memorable experience?
Ad Infinitum is a traumatizing experience for the German soldier you will control, who will need to face their worst nightmares. He will never know for sure what is real and what isn’t, the horror of wandering through the trenches, being made even harder by reliving painful memories of their life from before.
Welcome to Ad Infinitum, a game that scares you from the beginning, partly because at first you cannot really figure out what’s going on. As you progress through the story, the aforementioned duality becomes more and more evident.
You will almost feel the pain and despair of your hero while deciphering the clues thrown at you together with the connections between the horrors of the war and the even bigger ones of your life before. Despite its linearity that story is quite gripping, but making sense of it requires you to explore the game and gather all the notes and collectibles.
Although you are playing as a soldier, Ad Infinitum is in its essence and adventure game, so you will have to face your fears most of the time equipped with nothing else but your wits.
