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White Night

Adventure

Developer OSome Studio

White Night is a 2015 survival horror puzzle video game developed by French indie studio OSome Studio, and published by Activision. On 3 March 2015, it was released on Linux, OS X and Windows, and was later released on Xbox One on 6 March 2015. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

203 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 20, 2026 · last updated Oct 21, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

65
Fresh

124 positive · 67 negative
95% range 58–71%

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Steam's own rating
Mixed
137 of 205 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

66% recommend · 126 yes, 66 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 192 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (300 of 412 positive).

Players praise the game's unique black-and-white art style and atmospheric horror. [1][2][3] Many reviewers complain about frustrating controls and camera angles. [4][5][6] Some players note technical issues like crashes and bugs. [4][7]

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  • [9]Steam user Steam user …3025Steam review · Jan 19, 2016 · Not recommended

    Let me start with the good. - Great atmosphere - Great art style - Great music - Good spoops - Decent voice acting And now the bad. - Hilarious dialogue/terrible grammar in some places - Infuriating controls - Cheap deaths - Strange save system - Predictable but strange ending I will say that playing this game would be hilarious fodder for a "Let's Play" video, simply because of the dialogue and written pieces that …

  • [15]Steam user Steam user …8772Steam review · Jun 4, 2017 · Not recommended

    There is this awesome little metagame on Steam called Pony Island. It's a about a game designed by Satan himself to torment sinners in Purgatory. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that such game really exists. It's called White Night. It's been a while since I've seen a game so deliberately frustrating, so hostile to the player. Camera. It's fixed and it's even worse than in the old Alone in the Dark games. Half …

  • [4]Steam user Steam user …6406Steam review · May 10, 2015 · Recommended

    + Great music and voiceacting. + Pretty scary. Soiled myself. + Awesome noir theme. + Good puzzles. +/- Used 5 hours to beat it. +/- OK story. +/- Above mediocre. I won't play through it a second time. - A couple of cheap deaths. - The camera and controls can be very frustrating. - The game crashed about 4-5 times. - I had to synch the game a couple of times, because a lot of the objects didn't show. This resulted …

  • [12]Steam user Steam user …3500Steam review · Mar 5, 2015 · Recommended

    Absolutely amazing experience. Throw back to old static (partially static) camera angles. Terrifying unknown. Pure classic survival horror. A must for any fan of Clock Tower or Alone in the Dark. Can't wait to replay this gem again. Top notch presentation and even better sound. Just an engrossing storyline told very cleverly. Excited to see more from this studio.

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …0594Steam review · Mar 6, 2015 · Recommended

    Game seems to be going a bit under the radar so thought I'd shed some light. White Night is a horrorish adventure game with a minimalist art style, almost all in black and white. Everything in the game is pure darkness unless illuminated by a light source, and so it often creates scenes oozing with style, especially when couples with the fixes camera angles. While the game has some obvious survival horror roots, it …

Summarised from 34 of the 205 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made

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66% of the 192 Steam reviewers we collected recommend White Night. The complaint that keeps coming up: frustrating controls and camera angles. Deal-breaker or nitpick?

Critics, per Wikipedia

IGN praised the title's atmospheric and eerie atmosphere, though felt the aesthetic design compromised the title's exploration and puzzle-solving. Destructoid felt that the game falsely advertises itself as a "traditional survival experience of limited resources against considerable odds", whereas it just takes some gameplay elements of survival titles while centering on exploration mechanics. GameSpot made comparisons to Resident Evil due to its fixed camera angles.

From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6406Steam reviews · May 10, 2015 · 6 h played

    + Great music and voiceacting. + Pretty scary. Soiled myself. + Awesome noir theme. + Good puzzles. +/- Used 5 hours to beat it. +/- OK story. +/- Above mediocre. I won't play through it a second time. - A couple of cheap deaths. - The camera and controls can be very frustrating. - The game crashed about 4-5 times. - I had to synch the game a couple of times, because a lot of the objects didn't show. This resulted in being blocked by invisible walls etc. - Very unoriginal and predictable…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3025Steam reviews · Jan 19, 2016 · 2 h played

    Let me start with the good. - Great atmosphere - Great art style - Great music - Good spoops - Decent voice acting And now the bad. - Hilarious dialogue/terrible grammar in some places - Infuriating controls - Cheap deaths - Strange save system - Predictable but strange ending I will say that playing this game would be hilarious fodder for a "Let's Play" video, simply because of the dialogue and written pieces that you pick up along the way. I'm familiar with the noir style of dialogue, but…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5576Steam reviews · Jun 2, 2015 · 12 h played

    Another hard night in Steam Town. I peer into the streets looking for a little fun, but the sight hits me like a Mack Truck full of garbage: Boss Activision has the city tonight. A hundred Call of Duty hatchet men; the gunfire's so thick you'd barely be able to see the movie tie-ins pimping their wares if they didn't swarm like the bugs under a June streetlight. Distinguished old names walk with 'em, but I shake my head in disgust. I see the bruises and I know old man Activision already…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0594Steam reviews · Mar 6, 2015 · 6 h played

    Game seems to be going a bit under the radar so thought I'd shed some light. White Night is a horrorish adventure game with a minimalist art style, almost all in black and white. Everything in the game is pure darkness unless illuminated by a light source, and so it often creates scenes oozing with style, especially when couples with the fixes camera angles. While the game has some obvious survival horror roots, it is mainly an adventure game, never really involving any sort of combat. The…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8736Steam reviews · Feb 20, 2021 · 3 h played

    After years of keeping this on the backlog, I've recently picked it up to try and finish it, but I don't think this is going to be one I see through to the end. The core gameplay loop of running around to pick up matches and solve puzzles is overly strict, punishing, and random. It does a big disservice to the absolutely gorgeous art, and in many cases is worsened by it. The fixed camera angles and darkness sound like excellent horror game mechanics on paper, but as you continually run into…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0343Steam reviews · Apr 10, 2019 · 9 h played

    Film Noir I have had the opportunity to play some great noir games in recent years. Calvino Noir was an excellent sidescroller while Blues and Bullets was a great adventure game in the vein of Telltale Games. The former was closer to the classic crime category while the latter included horror elements. White Night is a horror title. It is not for the faint of heart. Unique Monochrome Design Normally, these games come with black-and-white design. What makes White Night unique is that it's…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1270Steam reviews · Mar 11, 2020 · 9 h played

    Good game with a great atmosphere and interesting story. Although some of the game mechanics were a little bad.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0340Steam reviews · Feb 8, 2016 · 3 h played

    Extremely annoying controls, stupid camera angles and ridiculus save system. So no matter how nice and artsy the visual part is, it doesn't compensate for all the above.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4805Steam reviews · Mar 5, 2015 · 7 h played

    UPDATE: Beat the game. A really great but flawed game. The contrast of the white and black really makes things more tense than most spooky games. I feel like these devs are really big Silent Hill fans, as they take a lot of cues from the series: the helplessness, the atmosphere, and also the technical issues. This has a weird control issue; when you move from one camera angle to another, the direction you are pressing sends you into wherever that direction is as opposed to the direction you…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9204Steam reviews · May 18, 2015 · 3 h played

    While the concepts are solid, the execution is substantially lacking. The save system is trash and the AI is sporadic as all hell, meaning sometimes you'll breeze by the scary ghosts and other times they will trap you against your objective for an insta-death. And because your character isn't immune while interacting with the environment (even for plot necessary events), this means the ghosts have a major one-up on you, meaning cheap deaths galore. I write this review out of rage having gotten…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3500Steam reviews · Mar 5, 2015 · 8 h played

    Absolutely amazing experience. Throw back to old static (partially static) camera angles. Terrifying unknown. Pure classic survival horror. A must for any fan of Clock Tower or Alone in the Dark. Can't wait to replay this gem again. Top notch presentation and even better sound. Just an engrossing storyline told very cleverly. Excited to see more from this studio.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8772Steam reviews · Jun 4, 2017 · 15 h played

    There is this awesome little metagame on Steam called Pony Island. It's a about a game designed by Satan himself to torment sinners in Purgatory. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that such game really exists. It's called White Night. It's been a while since I've seen a game so deliberately frustrating, so hostile to the player. Camera. It's fixed and it's even worse than in the old Alone in the Dark games. Half of the time you don't see where you're going or what you're looking at.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5504Steam reviews · Aug 11, 2015 · 6 h played

    White Night is kinda like the film noir of horror games. Its deceptively simple black and white graphics highlight the importance of light as safety... because you never know what lurks in that deep blackness! It can get really disorienting at times which adds to the creepiness of the atmosphere. The music is phenomenal, art direction incredible. My only complaint is the changing directional controls when the camera changes on your character. It makes running away from Margret MUCH harder!

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  • Steam user Steam user …4245Steam reviews · Apr 27, 2015 · 7 h played

    Possibly one of the best Noir themed games I have ever played and I really enjoyed every minute of it. Well when I wasn't freaking out and hiding behind my desk chair. ~[url=http://gamers-haven.org/haven-reviews-white-night/]Gamers-Haven

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  • Steam user Steam user …1933Steam reviews · Jul 10, 2024 · 8 h played

    If there was a "neutral / buyer beware" option I'd choose that. I knew about the criticisms, and judged the art style, noir setting and intriguing gameplay worth a little fighting the controls, but the flaws really are too severe to recommend this outright. The sad thing is the game's flaws are also its strengths: - infrequent saving builds tension - burning through matches places pressure on the player - sudden intentional camera changes suit the noir style and make it a challenge to…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6264Steam reviews · Aug 25, 2022 · 11 h played

    A test in patience rather than a game. I was originally drawn to „White Night” based on its unique art style, so I guess I’m partially to blame for the cruddy experience I ended up having; I should know by now that visuals don’t make for a good game. But I figured the different graphics meant the developers would bring something different to the table mechanics-wise and the description in the store supported my hopes. What „White Night” turned out to be was a collection of pretty standard…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5168Steam reviews · Dec 14, 2018 · 9 h played

    TL;DR: A frightening ghost story accompanied by equally frightening game-breaking bugs. Do Not Purchase Unless It's Fixed. Seriously. White Night is a nightmare-like haunted house story with a grisly story told through scattered journal entries, newspaper articles, along with cutscenes in between chapters. As someone with low standards, it exceeded my expectations and I was thoroughly enjoying it. That being said, the experience is unfortunately ruined with a few kinds of game-breaking bugs,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4498Steam reviews · May 26, 2015 · 6 h played

    Frank Miller, old-school survival horror, and even OLDER-school adventure gaming had a baby. In other words: SHEER ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWESOME...er...apart from some small technical problems... Firstly, any remapping you do of the controls doesn't seem to be saved the next time you start up the game. This isn't a real biggie, though, considering there's so few controls that redoing them takes no more than ten seconds of your time, once you get the hang of it. Then there's the save…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2620Steam reviews · Mar 9, 2015 · 7 h played

    A throwback to the roots of 3D survival horror. Channeling the 1992 Infogrames classic "Alone in the Dark", White Night shares many aspects of the original: Mostly puzzle-driven gameplay with a large, derelict mansion to explore; Crooked, static camera angles Sam Raimi himself would be proud of, and a large part of the story told via books and diary entries. Both games even feature the same Camille Saint-Saëns' composition - A nice little touch. Not being bound by 90's technology, White Night…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9761Steam reviews · Nov 5, 2021 · 1 h played

    It was easier to find the exit button than to find the firewood.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8519Steam reviews · Mar 19, 2015 · 1 h played

    This is a visually arresting throwback to the bad-old-days of game design; frustrating camera angles, unbearably plodding gameplay, and uninspired narrative (to read: "total lack thereof" - ironically, considering how much time the game spends spelling itself out for you) combine for a magnificently beautiful disappointment. www.bestlinuxgames.com

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  • Steam user Steam user …7637Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2025 · 14 h played

    A cliche story with a deranged atmosphere, detailed environments, and in-depth collectibles. I suffered through horrible transitional camera switch ups and a poor camera perspective that makes navigating areas with certain dangers very difficult just to be let down by the ending. Due to its downsides, saving is crucial whenever possible. However, it's worth trying out just for the journey.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6540Steam reviews · Apr 27, 2025 · 2 h played

    I really wanted to like this. The setup, aesthetic, and vibe are great. The music is excellent, and what starts as a bit of a ghost story and mystery quickly turns into a lot more as you start finding out about the inhabitants of the house - not all is what it initially seems. God, I wanted to love it, but the devs, I'm assuming to pad out the game time, basically make every step of progress a super tedious hard fought battle. And no, it's not because the game is pitch black with fixed…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4559Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2023 · 10 h played

    This game has an interesting presentation and a couple of decent moments but is held far back from a full recommendation from me due to countless frustrating deaths that can often lead to lost progress. One section later in the game was so frustrating it nearly made me quit outright but I managed to complete it. I also encountered a save ruining bug where I saved at the save point in the planet room and the camera would no longer change when switching rooms, I barely managed to save my…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7940Steam reviews · Dec 30, 2018 · 1 h played

    I wanted to love this game, I really did, but I just can't. It has great sound, voice actors, good animation. The developer definitely cared about this game. But it's just not a good game. The controls and camera angles guarantee you will die at the hands of the one hit kill enemies. It probably wouldn't be so bad if you could take multiple hits or if the dev fixed the camera. But as it is now I don't plan on finishing it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3791Steam reviews · Sep 19, 2017 · 9 h played

    Hmm.. where to start with this one. White Night is a game that is just very unique from the beginning. Set near Boston in the latter years of the Great Depression (1938), White Night tells a pretty creepy horror tale with noir trappings and ghosts. This game is easily listed as one my hidden gems on steam as far as horror games goes. There's definetly some H.P. Lovecraft elements scattered throughout this gem of a title. Half mystery, half horror and full of black and white atmosphere,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8090Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2017 · 1 h played

    Props for attempting to go big with the visual style, but it ends up making it impossible to see half the game, frustrating attempts to find necessary items to solve puzzles and any attempt to navigate properly. Bumping around the same hallway a dozen times trying to find things and move forward really kills the mood, especially when you accidentally run into a ghost and actually get killed, needing to start the whole process over again.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4170Steam reviews · Sep 14, 2015 · 2 h played

    Beautiful. Haunting. Stays with you like a bad dream. Grab it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7319Steam reviews · Oct 10, 2015 · 11 h played

    ♥♥♥♥ this game. This guy said it best: "Darkness, and the fear of what might be lurking in the shadows, can be terrifying. Or, it can also be deeply annoying – as exemplified by White Night, the adventure-game equivalent of banging your shins on a coffee table." Daniel Krupa http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/03/09/white-night-review I still would like to finish it, but it's taking so long because the camera ♥♥♥♥♥ out all the time, the save points are ridiculous. I liked the atmostphere at the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5163Steam reviews · Mar 24, 2015 · 10 h played

    Well, The puzzles are not really challenging... and the ending is a little bit predictable actually(not in full moon nights)... But cool graphics, cool game mechanics, cool music, cool story, cool everything. Come on, this game is cool, what else could I say? Read some other reviews, I'm just here to click the recommend button, oh and, to recommend you to play White Night. If you're interested in experiencing some special designed adventure games, here's one.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0377Steam reviews · Oct 13, 2017 · 16 h played

    Synopsis: The year is 1930, where unquestionable and deplorable predictions are overshadowing a dark spot in this insoluble decade of retroversion. A light puff of his bitter cigar and a brief direction are given by the unexpected appearance of a mysterious lady leading him to stumble on his way. Unconscious as he covered his eyes at the sight of the alarming floodlights seen on a strange gate, he staggered to find help, where he found a large old mansion in which the worst of nightmares lurked…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1448Steam reviews · Dec 28, 2016 · 5 h played

    One of the most disappointing games I ever played. It has potential but it is squandered away by terrible design choices. The art style is awesome. But the gameplay is centered around a gimmick (lighting matches that last very little time) and the novelty of it wears off soon. Then it becames frustrating. Not challenging, only frustrating, because there are times you will die repeatedly due to the poor controls and placements of camera angles. You will run into monsters in areas almost pitch…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6221Steam reviews · Nov 29, 2024 · 1 h played

    The noir style is great, graphic artwork is beautiful, ambient sounds and music are well chosen and they create a gloomy atmosphere. It's a shame that it. is. very. boring.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4015Steam reviews · May 30, 2024 · 1 h played

    White Night is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is a film noir themed adventure mystery that uses the godawfully bad stark black and white graphics as part of the game mechanic. You need to use matches and other sources of illumination to explore a dark house. This doesn't work nearly as well as it looked on the back of the coaster they drew this game up on at a bar. Gameplay here is…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5660Steam reviews · Dec 2, 2020 · 3 h played

    On the first glimpse it looks so intriguing, so remarkably new. Right from the start, it was clear that the control would be exhausting with these constantly changing camera angles, but the music, the darkness, the mystery, it draws you in. Surely, the logic of this camera angle switching annoyance will show it's reason soon, it will be revealed, why it makes sense in the story, in the art, in the gameplay... So I thougth. So I kept stumbling around in the dark, running against furniture I…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0429Steam reviews · Oct 7, 2018 · 1 h played

    Decent story and ambiance, but missing far too many quality of life features to recommend. I wanted to keep playing, but had to replay sections far to often to be worth continuing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7256Steam reviews · Jan 15, 2017 · 15 h played

    I have a hard time deciding whether or not to recommend this. The visual style is quite interesting, and the story is alright, though a little strange. Some of the puzzles were interesting and the overall flow of the game was good. There are, however, a number of major issues I had with the game which is why I'm not sure to recommend or not. First of all, the Resident Evil 1-like camera angles are quite frustrating and create several situations where manouvering through the environment was…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0236Steam reviews · Feb 14, 2016 · 6 h played

    Loved it. The game does more than enough differently within the horror genre to stand out...the eyecatching stylised black and white art style, the noir setting, the light and shade puzzles, the actual main game mechanics of matches / electric lamps, the stealth games of cat and mouse with the ghosts, the novel system of saving involving illuminated couches, on top of all that it's hugely atmospheric....everything that it brings to the genre is high quality, some of it even feels fresh. The…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7232Steam reviews · Mar 13, 2015 · 1 h played

    Note: It says I've only got an hour on this game, but I played most of it offline so that I didn't get pop-up messages telling me my friends were playing Civ 5 (There's probs a way to turn this off, but I'm lazy. And the reason I didn't want those messages was because I was recording footage for the video you should hopefully be able to see below. Anyway, onto the important stuff and for that matter the rather straight to the point stuff. For $15, White Night is a very good horror adventure.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5045Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2015 · 2 h played

    White Night is a horror game in the film noir style. Here's the video review: http://youtu.be/lqk4Vm3x_wU And here's a little tl;dw with some good points and flaws in the game: +artstyle and music add to the tension of the game and are nicely done +Narration and voiceacting is very well done +puzzles have been easy enough yet combined with the atmosphere they've delivered a good experience +straight up horror without unnecessary jump scares ~Drops at times below 60 fps, but most of the time…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9232Steam reviews · Apr 30, 2024

    Was enjoying this, but the save system is so stupid it took all the wind out of my sails after I lost all of my progress.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3365Steam reviews · Mar 3, 2019 · 35 h played

    This has to be one of the most player-unfriendly games I've ever played, and a lot of it has to be deliberate - why else would you make all the enemies in a black and white game black shadows, rendering them mostly invisible? Why else make any damage a one-hit-kill? Why else have these awful wonky fixed camera angles that mean you change direction when transitioning from one scene to another? Gameplay is mostly trial-and-error, running into ghosts and dying repeatedly until you learn their…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3311Steam reviews · Feb 11, 2019 · 7 h played

    The game looks like Alone in the Dark in black and white, with some noir elements thrown in. A match made in heaven. Sure, most of the reviews mention the bad controls and the one-shot enemies, but it can't be that bad - or so I thought. You see, this game has your character moving relative to the camera (as opposed to using so-called tank controls). So you press right - your character walks rightwards. Simple enough. At the same time, the game uses fixed camera angles, with several cameras…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3362Steam reviews · Dec 27, 2016 · 2 h played

    An honorable mention goes out to the game’s visual style. Short of that, it’s just not that interesting. The noir-styled story is rather naive and with the awkward save system and the endless running back and forth and instant deaths while dodging the ghosts and… I ended up watching the rest of it on YouTube.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9105Steam reviews · Apr 17, 2016 · 7 h played

    I really would reccomend this game because first of all its got a good feeling to it and a quite a good story though in parts it is annoying. The good; Art style Game play is smooth The camara angles help to give the feeling of the game and part Now the bad things about it; The camara angles can really mess it up in parts such as in chapter 2 and 3 theres a ghost girl and its easy to walk into her because of the camara angle Some of the puzzles that you have to do are annoying as well as…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0811Steam reviews · Sep 24, 2015 · 25 h played

    So, if you like having to redo lengthy sections of the game because a match went out randomly, this is the game for you! Love, love, *love* games with terrible save systems and random deaths. Garbage. The only "horror" in this trash is the occasional jump scare, too. Very pissed I spent money on this.

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  • Chronis @chronis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2026

    It's #RandomGameSaturday & I'm picking something a bit... Random. A digital release that I feel has been forgotten over the years. White Night is one of the earliest PS4 games that I purchased. It's a spooky puzzle-adventure game. The stark black and white color scheme makes it look really cool.

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  • Vasco @silencingtrees.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2024

    Had White Night in my switch backlog for a couple of years now and finished it in two days. It's a puzzle horror game focused on light management and stealth (groundbreaking), but I really liked the monocrome aesthetics, and the story was very well told

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  • Steam user Steam user …5523Steam reviews · Mar 15, 2022 · 6 h played

    A noir horror game where the scariest enemy is the fixed camera angles and the protagonist needs both hands to answer a phone plus his trenchcoat has a maximum space of 12 matchsticks. No wonder why Activision decided to publish this game, it had to have enough bugs and clunkiness in order to get their seal of approval.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7703Steam reviews · Sep 7, 2020 · 8 h played

    White Night shows a wonderful art direction and an old, but still intriguing, concept: stay in the light... or well, at least bring some matches. While the gameplay itself is nothing original as it simply evolves around exploring the mansion, solving puzzles and trying to dodge ghosts, the black and white tone fits really well with the atmosphere and mechanics. The noir ghost story is well narrated with surprisingly good voice overs. Unfortunately it is also quite predictable, especially if you…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9884Steam reviews · Nov 22, 2018 · 208 h played

    White night is a bichromatic horror noir adventure. Absolutely unique art design, not so great game design. It's engaging enough to play through once or twice, but the main reason to play this is how good this game plays with light. Far from perfect, but perfectly enjoyable.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8094Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2018 · 1 h played

    This game looks gorgeous and sets a great atmosphere in the first part of the game. Unfortunately, fairly early on I got instakilled by a ghost and realized I'd have to replay about fifteen minutes of exploration, reading and so on just to get back to that point. I quit at that point and haven't played it since. I think the survival horror aspect could have been better balanced -- to have enemies take a few hits to kill you, rather than instantly kill. Instakill enemies aren't scary so much as…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1445Steam reviews · Jun 1, 2017 · 8 h played

    If I had to describe White Night in one word, it would be "solid". Not terrible, but not great either. At its core, White Night is a survival-horror game in the vein of Resident Evil. This means fixed camera angles, sluggish character movement, and an emphasis on limited supplies. The most impressive aspect of the game has to be its art style. It's full of sharp lines and a vivid contrast between light and darkness. The game has a very stylish and appealing look (although the character…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7929Steam reviews · Oct 20, 2015 · 8 h played

    I really tried hard to enjoy this game but there were too many frustrating elements masking the pros of this game for me to thoroughly enjoy it. I usually don't post reviews but felt it was neccesary for White Night. To be honest there wasn't much I liked about the game, I love horror, mystery games but there was something about this that just didn't pull me in. What made this game really hard to play was it's poor saving feature. Many times too often svaes are too far in between. You're…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1875Steam reviews · Mar 7, 2015 · 6 h played

    Running at about 6+hours this was definitely unique little experience that, despite a pitfall in pacing here and there, is still completely worth the price of admission for atmosphere and story alone. It's an interesting setting and art style for this genre which surprisingly holds up the whole way through and doesn't feel "gimmicky" at any point while working it's mechanics into the art style in interesting ways. The game is more of an adventure title, as exploration, puzzle solving, and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2427Steam reviews · Mar 5, 2015 · 9 h played

    My initial thoughts after watching the trailer was "Oh, nice. A horror puzzler with interesting graphics. Hopefully this will not disappoint me like MURDERED: Soul Suspect. Eh, I'll take a chance and try it out." I'm at the tail end of the second chapter. I know I have plenty left to go. And yeah, I know... I probably shouldn't write out a review until I have completed the game. However, This game has really left such a good impression on me that I felt the need to give a little praise. Guys.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3663Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2015 · 2 h played

    White Night is a suspenseful adventure game. Everything that it does from the graphics, to the voiceovers builds on that suspenseful feeling. It's a good game. Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAozMD-CtIw&feature=youtu.be What is it? White Night is a Noir-horror adventure game. The game plays similarly to a Telltale game, where the player wanders around a place looking at things and trying to solve various puzzles. The main difference between this and a Telltale game is that…

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  • Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    The game is White Night and it’s frustrating and incredible, I do not care about your crime simulator

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  • Steam user Steam user …3170Steam reviews · Dec 26, 2024 · 2 h played

    This visual style of this game is really incredible, it looks amazing and adds a lot of tension in dark places, the sound design is also pretty good, the writing is a bit awkward and stiff in a lot of places, english is clearly not the writer's first language, which is fine, and the general plot seemed to be going in a "my mom was abusive and now I'm traumatized and murder women who remind me of her" direction, I get it, you watched Psycho, which I wasn't really into, but I'll never know where…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6131Steam reviews · Mar 25, 2022 · 2 h played

    I really liked this game but haven't finished due to the punishing saves or lack of.

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