MADiSON

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MADiSON is a respectable psychological thriller about possession and a terrible ritual gone wrong. If you liked Visage, you’ll probably like MADiSON, but the ground covered is very well worn.

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MADiSON is a respectable psychological thriller about possession and a terrible ritual gone wrong. If you liked Visage, you'll probably like MADiSON, but the ground covered is very well worn.

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7/10

Tristan Ogilvie (IGN)

Madison is a creepy crawl through a twisted haunted house with enough genuine out-of-your-seat scares to leave you shaken like a Polaroid picture.

July 13, 2022 |

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Despite my misgivings, Madison still offers a respectable evening of frights and is worth a look for fans of psychological horror. It succeeds in building tension and puzzle variety, stumbling when it becomes obsessed with bamboozling players with head-tilting solutions and stopping their hearts with lame jump scares. But when the game hits right, you’ll be glad no one caught the look on your face.

July 14, 2022 |

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7.3/10

Marcus Stewart (Game Informer)

3.5/5 stars

Trever McKenzie (Game Rant)

Although the story doesn’t deliver anything fresh, it serves the game well and provides a platform for the game’s excellent design and well-crafted horror. Go into MADiSON without any pretense of a groundbreaking story to find a terrifying journey through the minds of pained and neglected killers. Overall, MADiSON is a great first game by a new developer and is sure to provide plenty of scares.

July 12, 2022 |

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Tristan Ogilvie (IGN)

7/10 - (Read Review)

Madison is a creepy crawl through a twisted haunted house with enough genuine out-of-your-seat scares to leave you shaken like a Polaroid picture.

Marcus Stewart (Game Informer)

7.3/10 - (Read Review)

Trever McKenzie (Game Rant)

3.5/5 stars - (Read Review)

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Read the Reviews (18 total)

Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
Checkpoint Gaming	Luke Mitchell	7.5 / 10	07-12-2022	Even though some of the puzzles outstay their welcome and can throw the pace off a bit, MADiSON doesn’t linger too long overall and the horrific atmosphere makes it a haunted house ride more than worth the price of admission. There’s plenty of moments that had me screaming and then laughing, my heart racing and palms sweating as I dreaded turning another corner, knowing that something awful was likely waiting for me. The soundtrack is particularly effective in making you feel tense at all times, with loud noises blaring at just the right moments, as shadowy figures loom just out the corner of your eye and a puzzle solution lies just out of reach. While MADiSON doesn’t tread a lot of new ground, its creators clearly have a love of horror and know what makes the genre tick, resulting in a solid spook-fest that will haunt your thoughts.	Read review
COGconnected	Lou Sytsma	75 / 100	07-11-2022	MADiSON is a solid, polished indie horror game. It struggles with pacing because of the mechanics involved with the puzzles. For collectors and completionists, you may find some replay value as you can collect camera skins and special photos.	Read review
FingerGuns	Miles Thompson	8 / 10	07-06-2022	MADiSON channels the best instalments of the first-person horror genre to deliver a frantic, nerve-shredding and atmospheric tale of demonic possession. It delivers the scares often and will have you tentatively looking over your shoulder at that shadow that definitely wasn’t there before. It’s been a while since I felt this much trepidation moving through a cursed home, but it feels frighteningly good to test this demonic presence again. A must play for horror fans this year.	Read review
Game Informer	Marcus Stewart	7.3 / 10	07-14-2022	Despite my misgivings, Madison still offers a respectable evening of frights and is worth a look for fans of psychological horror. It succeeds in building tension and puzzle variety, stumbling when it becomes obsessed with bamboozling players with head-tilting solutions and stopping their hearts with lame jump scares. But when the game hits right, you’ll be glad no one caught the look on your face.	Read review
Game Rant	Trever McKenzie	3.5 / 5 stars	07-12-2022	Although the story doesn’t deliver anything fresh, it serves the game well and provides a platform for the game’s excellent design and well-crafted horror. Go into MADiSON without any pretense of a groundbreaking story to find a terrifying journey through the minds of pained and neglected killers. Overall, MADiSON is a great first game by a new developer and is sure to provide plenty of scares.	Read review
GameSpew	Richard Seagrave	9 / 10	07-06-2022	Ultimately, if you love horror games, in particular P.T., simply know that you need to play MADiSON. This is the best pure horror game in years, shredding the nerves of even the most brave of souls. It can be a little frustrating when you get stuck on a devious puzzle, but when you finally find the solution it’s very rewarding. No game has horrified us quite as much as this debut from Bloodious. We just hope the studio is ready to follow up with something else even scarier.	Read review
Gaming Nexus	Henry Yu	9.5 / 10	07-06-2022	Bloodious Games has been developing MADiSON since 2016, and it’s incredible to see a project of this magnitude come to fruition from a team of only two people. MADiSON creates a harrowing experience for fans to feast on, with its outstanding atmospheric tension, eccentric camera mechanic, and psychedelic puzzles. Apart from being a horror game, it also showcases some truly artistic stages and mythos. There are some beautiful landscapes to explore and investigate as you plunge into a spiral of insanity. After all, you are the Mad Son.	Read review
GamingBolt	Shubhankar Parijat	8 / 10	07-08-2022	MADiSON is a must-play psychological horror game that’ll have you on the edge of your seat from the first second right until the credits roll.	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Daniel Quesada	85 / 100	07-06-2022	By far, the game that has made us spend the most in a long time. As an adventure it offers very interesting puzzles, despite certain obstacles in the control.	Read review
IGN	Tristan Ogilvie	7 / 10	07-13-2022	Madison is a creepy crawl through a twisted haunted house with enough genuine out-of-your-seat scares to leave you shaken like a Polaroid picture.	Read review
PlayStation Universe	Timothy Nunes	7 / 10	07-11-2022	Madison does so much well that it makes genre tropes succeed. From atmosphere to execution, this short horror romp takes you and doesn’t let go. It’s not without issues, with one progression point halfway through the game lacking the kind of intention and care that the rest of the game receives. Then there’s the save corrupting error. However, once that error gets patched out, Madison will have the complete package worthy of anyone up for a good scare.	Read review
PSX Brasil	Rui Celso	60 / 100	07-14-2022	MADiSON had what it takes to be a great horror game, but there is unnecessary exaggeration here. In addition, the lack of maturity of the character in the narrative makes you think that it is stuck all the time at the beginning, making the title tiring, especially with Luca’s unbearable whimpering.	Read review
Push Square	Liam Croft	5 / 10	07-06-2022	Maybe you’ll find something to like if you’ve never played a horror game like this before, but for anyone well-versed in the genre, the ground MADiSON covers is very well-worn.	Read review
Rely On Horror	Andrew Heaton	8 / 10	11-30-2021	The beta for MADiSON is a slow-moving journey into demonic uncertainties, that pays tribute to Visage and analogue horror in general.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Alice Bell	Recommended	07-08-2022	Equal parts terrifying and amusing, Madison is doing some really great things with the first-person horror template. If only it had eased up on the puzzles a bit.	Read review
Shacknews	Sam Chandler	9 / 10	07-06-2022	MADiSON is consistent, and that’s one of the key factors in a great horror game. A lot of games tend to struggle with a sluggish second act after an incredible opener or fall off in the final act, but that does not happen here. The puzzles remain a delight to solve, the tension never eases up, and just when you think you’re safe, a light will flicker, and you’ll catch a glimpse of the monster and you’ll need to change your pants. Beyond this, the story and lore is disturbing on a true crime level and manages to maintain its pacing. Suffice it to say, MADiSON is an unnerving, unsettling, and truly terrifying experience.	Read review
SpazioGames	Domenico Musicò	7.7 / 10	07-13-2022	MADiSON is a brilliant psichological horror about possession, paranormal events and a terrible ritual gone wrong. If you loved Visage, MADiSON is the next horror to play.	Read review
WayTooManyGames	Kyle Nicol	8 / 10	07-06-2022	MADiSON is one of the most terrifying horror games I have played in the past few years. Unfortunately, it is held back from true greatness by some of its presentation and tedious sections. I can understand that for many it might rely a little too heavily on jumpscares, but I would argue that many of them are still very effective. MADiSON provides a relentless barrage of horror that few games can really compete with.	Read review

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MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game that delivers an immersive and terrifying experience. With the help of an instant camera, connect the human world with the beyond, take pictures and develop them by yourself. Solve puzzles, explore your surroundings and most importantly, survive.

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