Sanity of Morris (2021)

Sanity of Morris is going to be remembered as one of those kinds of ironic and unintentionally funny video games. While it is not quite Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, the lack of quality control and effort suggests the developers leaned heavily on their concept. The idea of a grounded stealth/horror experience, with adventure-style puzzle-solving is an easy sell to a lot of people. The only problem is that Sanity of Morris does not even try.

How to define Sanity of Morris? It would probably be most appropriate to describe this game as a psychological thriller linked by the emotional bond between John and Hank, with hidden elements shrouded in a fog of mystery and clever puzzles. While it's an interesting title in terms of story, the gameplay here is rather lacking. The game has two possible endings and it's up to you to decide how this story ends for John and Hank.

So is it worth the approximately 5 hours it lasts and its money? The answer is closer to "no" than to "yes", purely because anything of interest is either incomplete or does not end up somewhere

Sanity of Morris proposes us an interesting concept focused on paranormal and X-Files-style mystery thriller; unfortunately, though, it also puts our patience to the test due to an unsatisfying implementation. Graphically poor and artistically not very apt, with a slow and cumbersome gameplay, you'll have to arm yourself with a lot of patience to get to the end of an already very short story.

Although Sanity of Morris may have some interesting ideas for plot and gameplay mechanics, it fails to execute any of its concepts. Throughout its three levels, the game fails to keep an atmosphere of suspense or provide any consistent scares, to the point where boredom, rather than fear, will stop you from playing.