Not every spooky season experience must scare players. Starting with well-known tales for example Scooby-Doo to delightful stories including Over the Garden Wall, many spooky-season titles provide fun without needing raising your heart rate. There’s also, a increasing selection of eerie-charming releases featuring autumn atmosphere, but not the truly terrifying level of fear. Gloomy Eyes arrived in the fall, and acts as an excellent comfortable choice to the deeply scary titles of 2025.
A Distinctive Collaborative Solo Quest
Known as a solo collaboration puzzle game, Gloomy Eyes pairs up a undead youth known as Gloomy and a mortal child named Nena as they start an mission to bring the sun back to their shadowy realm. Their design evokes collectible figures combined with the figures from a animated feature. The fair-toned and baggy-eyed appearance borrows heavily from the visual style of Burtonesque cinema, and the narrative is a quintessential suitable for everyone adventure. The duo develops an strong bond over the duration of the game’s multiple stages as Nena strives to demonstrate to her clerical relative that, look, perhaps the undead aren’t half bad.
Creative Problem-Solving Features
The “self-coop” description comes about from the game’s world-based challenges. Once Gloomy and Nena encounter each other, you’ll swap among the recent allies to complete challenges and progress through the stages. Being a zombie, Gloomy can’t walk through the brightness of a streetlight, while Nena can be captured by loitering creatures without a light is focused on them.
It's necessary for them to cooperate closely — in practice, players control them simultaneously — to advance through areas. Nena could adjust or temporarily shut off lights to clear paths for Gloomy, while the intellectually curious youth will employ his undead power to rearrange objects in the world, revealing ways for Nena.
Captivating World Building
These challenges bring to mind a touch of The Gardens Between, in the manner the levels are floating, model-like structures that the camera rotates in sync with your heroes. Gloomy Eyes’ environments are highly entertaining, leading the duo around a amusement park and through a ghostly building, including other locales. The game includes a “diorama view” button that permits you to pull back and spin the areas, both to appreciate the visuals and hunt for ways that may not have been clear.
Minor Issues and Complete Experience
This represents one of the only hiccups with Gloomy Eyes. Comparable to other games with a static view, occasionally it's confusing where the protagonists are able to move. You may need to randomly encounter a several various items to figure out which ones are interactive, as clues aren't consistently provided.
However, those minor speedbumps don't hinder of a ghostly-charming enjoyable experience. Gloomy Eyes is relatively brief, with roughly several hours worth of challenges. Subsequent stages blend together light stealth and exciting moments with the puzzle solving, as Gloomy Eyes progresses to a rewarding — and slightly unexpected — conclusion.
Accessibility and Summary
Those avoiding the frights of intense horror games won’t want to miss Gloomy Eyes. You can find it on Nintendo platform, PS5, PC, and Microsoft console, and is currently on sale for 25% off on online stores.
Gloomy Eyes is available on several consoles and delivers a enjoyable choice for players in search of autumn enjoyment without the intense scares.
