PC Critic Reviews

If you like thrillers, platformers, horror, or a combination of all three, you owe it to yourself to play Out of Sight. It's one of the best games of the year so far.

Leave it to the Swedes to come up with a beautifully executed concept, even if it doesn't necessarily score the highest on the innovation scale. With perfectly integrated camera angle switches, Out of Sight absolutely is a dream to play, even if inherently linked issues like finicky 3D controls and possible motion sickness cause a few 'little nightmares'. If you're a fan of sneaking and puzzling in an eerie mansion (or teddy bears), Out of Sight is a game is a game you should definitely keep an eye on.

Out of Sight is a short and sweet adventure that takes players through a pitch black modern fable. The gameplay is simple but engaging, and suitable for horror fans, new and old.

Out of Sight is a very decent, horror-tinged puzzle game. Its most enticing offering—a second-person perspective that sees you controlling the protagonist through the eyes of her teddy bear—is also its most thoroughly realized. The way its puzzles interact with the more restrictive perspective is very engaging and easily kept me wanting to see the rest of what it had to offer. Which unfortunately makes the more unexciting mechanical execution of the puzzles themselves stand out all the more. It’s still fun to guide Sophie to safety through puzzle and pursuer alike thanks to a decent mystery and neat camera angles, but a more challenging level of difficulty and a more thorough aversion of many tried-and-true puzzle mechanics would have elevated Out of Sight into something truly special.

Out of Sight might not be the scariest of games, but it does offer some great set pieces and a fresh take on the genre.

Out of Sight is a short and simple experience that captures the horror of being a child in an unfamiliar and frightening situation. While its well-crafted audio design and second-person perspective distinguish it from other games of the genre, I was never excited by its flat and predictable story, nor its highly repetitive and bland gameplay.