Devour (2021) Download Torrent

Release date: 2021
Genre: Action / Games 2021
Developer: Joe Fender
Game version: 1.1.1 + Multiplayer
Interface language: Russian, English, Multi
Tablet: Sewn (Goldberg)
Publication type: RePack by Pioneer

Game Review

Devour, by indie devs Straight Back Games, is a co-op survival horror game that has you attempting to stop a possessed cult leader called Anna before she drags you to hell. Available on PC and with no two playthroughs being quite the same, are you up for the challenge?

Gameplay

Ok before I go completely out of my comfort zone here are some cool facts about the devs that made Devour.

Straight Back Games was set up by Joe Fender and Luke Fanning back in 2019 with their first game being The Watchers which was released in January of last year. With their passion for tricky puzzle games as well as exciting co-op experiences they have involved the family in bringing their games to life. Devour is their second game to be released and features The Watchers cult once more.

Right, I can’t put it off anymore, lets robe up and take on Anna!

The game opens up with a short video getting you up to speed with the story. You and upto three other players are members of The Watchers cult whose leader, Anna Puerta, has been possessed by a demon called Azazel having thought that she could summon and control the demon overlord. It is down to you to break the spell.

Devour is an online game best played as a four-player co-op but can be played single-player if you are crazy. Once you complete the game there is a Nightmare mode that I am guessing just turns it all up a few notches, not that it is necessary! Select out of the four available characters and away you go.

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You begin your adventure outside of a large wooden house in the middle of the night armed simply with a torch that also has a UV mode, useful for burning demons and briefly holding up Anna. Hopping over the fence into the garden you discover a curious-looking altar and begin to gain entry to the house via the basement. Along the way you discover Anna’s diary entries, giving some further back story to what is happening.

Playing in first-person, the controls are very simple to get used to as you begin exploring dark rooms and haunting corridors for keys to open locked rooms. Spread out throughout the house and grounds you will see first aid kits, cans of petrol and wads of hay. Apart from keys, you can only hold one item at a time and it is worth noting where all these items are for when you need them.

The game methodology for Devour sounds really simple but in practice I can assure you it is actually not that straight forward. All you need to do to win is simply find 10 goats, throw them onto an alter and set fire to them. Easy or what!?

As you put together what you need to do you will swiftly realise that you are of course not alone.  The chilling moans, groans and cries of Anna serve to set your spine-tingling as does the dull bassy sounds of her walking slowly around the house.

Her distinct body movements along with a glowing red streak in her hair as you see her approach is quite unsettling.   Avoidance is your best tactic as let’s face it, a flashlight isn’t going to do an awful lot unless you can bounce it off her head and sadly that is not an option!

Anna’s presence serves to heighten the tension of what you are doing and believe me when I say that playing this game at night in the dark of your living room is probably the best way of going about Devour if you want to be properly immersed.

Just don’t have a loving wife that enjoys sneaking up behind you and grabbing your shoulders when you least expect it.  Needless to say, my underwear was ruined.

At first, Anna appears to wander aimlessly around the corridors, rooms and grounds and is not too much of a threat. However. Every time you torch one of your red-eyed goat sacrifices you will hear a blood-curdling scream that will make you think she is standing right behind you and make the hair of your arms stand on end.

What ensues is an enraged Anna/Azazel who begins charging through both the house and garden in search for a victim.   Avoidance appears to be very difficult to achieve as a) you cannot outrun her and b) all common sense seems to go out of the window when you see her running at you.  The UV torch does sometimes work though, so long as her eyes are not red!