Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel

GameGrinViolet Plata

7.5/10

Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel is a gorgeous game with awesome puzzles and a cinematic experience. It just won't be the game for you if combat is essential to you.

TechRaptorKeenan McCall

7.5/10

Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel is not a terrible game. While it has its flaws, horror fans will find plenty to like about it and will likely love the majority of their time spent with it.

WayTooManyGamesKyle Nicol

7/10

As a sucker for horror games, I’m always looking for that next fix. Luckily, I’ve been able to play a few somewhat recently, from the fantastic new Resident Evil titles to the terrifying Visage. When I first noticed Fobia – St. Findna Hotel from Pulsatrix Studios, I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. However, what we got is a pretty surprising survival horror title that is a glorious love letter to the genre’s past, but it’s not without its issues.

Playstation UniverseGarri Bagdasarov

7/10

Fobia St. Dinfna Hotel does a lot of things right but it falls just a tad short of matching the greatness of many other games in the genre. I loved exploring the Hotel and solving puzzles that are reminiscent of classic titles like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. It's just a shame that combat is not only boring but lacks any real challenge, and the story doesn't provide much resolution or explanation to what's really going on.

DestructoidJordan Devore

6.5/10

Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel is worth playing for patient survival horror fans who want something lighter on combat, and can handle budget-constrained rough edges. Monsters wander around in an effort to raise the stakes, but the focus is on meticulous exploration, just-cryptic-enough puzzle-solving, and mentally mapping out the many, many hotel halls.

Capsule ComputersTravis Bruno

6/10

Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel offers a solid blend of challenging retro puzzles and some modern horror elements but lacks any enjoyable combat as well as a poor English dub.

The OuterHavenAndrew Agress

Check in to the St. Dinfna Hotel and check out our review of Fobia, an indie horror title in the vein of old-school scary games.

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

6/10

Ultimately, Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel is a bit rough around the edges. Its voice acting isn’t great, which ruins the tension at times, as do its poor enemy animations and sub-par combat. But in an age where new, half-decent survival horror games are few and far between, this isn’t worth writing off completely. Its puzzles are enjoyable, and it does a good job of creating an eerie atmosphere. Particularly if you’re a fan of the classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, it’s worth checking into St. Dinfna Hotel.

COGConnectedRicky Knight

50/100

Survival horror fans have been enjoying a relative renaissance these past few years in gaming. With Resident Evil remakes dominating the landscape, and a new Dead Space (and Calisto Protocol) on the horizon, there hasn’t been a better time to get that terrifying adrenaline rush. From Pulsatrix Studios, Fobia: St Dinfna Hotel enters the fray and wears its genre on its sleeve.

GameTyrant Dean Clark

0/10

A great horror game that provides an entertaining experience!

The EscapistJesse Galena

Unscored

Fobia isn’t bad, but I found it rudimentary to the point of being mostly boring. While it has some fun puzzles and a few good scares, the majority of my ten-and-a-half-hour playthrough was dull. Every new story reveal failed to pay off in an interesting way, monster encounters felt basic, and wandering through the environment was disorienting. But if you’re interested in a new game trying to recapture the bizarre logic, unpredictability, and difficulty of old survival horror games, it might scratch that itch.

Analog Stick GamingJeff Young

Unscored

Armed with a gun and a supernatural camera lens, you’ll investigate a mystery buried deep within the walls of the St. Dinfna Hotel. Inspired by a wealth of survival horror games, such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill, Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel succeeds more than it stumbles, creating an engaging, albe