Slender: The Arrival

A significant improvement over Parsec Production's original game, featuring a much more robust narrative, and a darker, more foreboding atmosphere. You may have mixed feelings about its brevity and the repetitive mechanics, but it's certainly a well-built game that, above all, is scary to play.

Slender gets bigger and better. A great survival horror that only lacks some deeper gameplay mechanics, but still a game fans of the original Slender game will love.

Gameplay repetitiveness could be a nasty monster to deal with, but after playing Slender: The Arrival you will remember why, when you were a child, you used to sleep with the lights on.

Slender: The Arrival manages to deliver some truly impressive scares, but you’ll have to wade through the muck of repetitive tasks and unfair enemies in order to experience them. I found more enjoyment in playing the free original installment, which delivers a powerful horror experience without the annoyances and filler.

Like every previous Slender-game, this one succeeds in frightening you and making you very paranoid with intense scares. The atmospheric, detailed environments set the tone very well. Unfortunately, repetitive gameplay and frustrating artificial intelligence keep Slender: The Arrival from being anything above average.

Sadly, it devolves into a tedious, irritating scavenger hunt that fails to keep up the momentum and burdens the player with repetitious busy work that makes the short playtime seem merciful rather than miserly.

People who gave us the excellent Slender: The Eight Pages suddenly ceased to understand what makes a good horror. [CD-Action 06/2013, p.69]

after playing this game i was speechless. being in the forest alone with just a flashlight with a horrifying creature hunting you down REALLY brings out the scary **** graphics are crazy awesome while not making it TOO scary.

Always liked games about slenderman, this one is definitely my favourite. Though it's very short, it's still enjoyable. But the problem is that it is not as scary as expected. Yeah, it is still creepy with that story, especially when you deep in the lore of it. But again, except some chapters, the game is not scary. Love it though.

This game is fun. Despite being an Indie Game it is very far ahead graphically to be from 2013 The only flaw is that it is very short, for its price I expected a game lasting at least 10 hours, instead if not rushed it lasts 2 hours. I'm so sorry because with the right updates it could have been a much more enjoyable game, instead the one update only adds 1 portion of the game which is inconsistent

Tesko njesra za mene iskreno, mrzim igrice poput ove i ne vidim im neku poentu nit je strasno nit zanimljivo bukv smor.

Good art, somewhat scary atmosphere, but gets boring due to very primitive gameplay. First, I thought the guy in the suit will attack me with something and walked straight at him boom, dead. Ok, then I thought that maybe I should not look at him, and on a second attempt, when 8 notes out of 10 were gathered, i wanted to collect the 9th, but the guy was there, and walked with my back at him boom dead. Now I had to restart the level again and collect the 10 notes from the beginning while avoiding the guy completely (i presume). He seems to be just teleporting randomly. If you take the scary sounds and the art away, what remains is a pointless and utterly stupid game where you randomly and slowly walk around and collect pieces of paper while occasionally avoiding a randomly teleporting object.