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Boogeyman, in its early days, knew how to play with that idea. A 2010s indie horror title that, like many others, rode the wave of Five Nights at Freddy’s: survive the nights without moving much, defending your small corner of the world with light and quick reflexes.

And it worked.
It didn’t need more.
We didn’t want it to be more complex. We wanted fear, not side quests.




Then came the updates.
The changes.
The attempts to make it bigger, to break the mold, to make it more unique.

And that’s fine, really. I’m not criticizing it from a place of hate. I get it. We all want to evolve.
But sometimes, in that attempt to be more, a game can lose what made it good in the first place.

They added stuff: leaving the room, searching for batteries, walking down dark hallways with the tension that at any moment you could die.
And while that may sound interesting, to me it felt more like a nuisance than an improvement.

Maybe it’s just me.
Maybe I’m just an idiot who prefers these kinds of games to be simpler, more contained, more focused.
But there was something beautiful in that original formula: staying still, watching the corners, listening for the creature, and trusting that your flashlight wouldn’t fail.

It was pure design, pure timing, pure fear in small doses.
Now, it feels like things have spread out too much. The game stretches further than it should. New mechanics don’t add as much as they should.




Don’t get me wrong. Boogeyman is still a good game.
It has a creepy atmosphere, effective jump scares, and flawless sound design.
I’m not trashing it or writing it off.

I’m just saying that, for me, it was better before.
Not more complete, not longer, not more replayable.
Better in its humility, in its focus, in its concentrated fear.

There’s value in not trying to do everything. In knowing when to stop. In not overloading a game that already worked like a broken clock, imperfect, but perfectly scary.




The problem isn’t the game, it’s me.
Because in its effort to grow, Boogeyman left behind that intimate horror that caught me the first time.

It’s still worth recommending.
It still delivers fear.
But if you played the first version, maybe you’ll understand what I mean.