You rummage around for a bit, moving random objects until something sticks.
After the initial frights, you end up in a kitchen without any clear objectives. The experience eventually grows both confusing and chorelike. For instance, you may spy an apparition walking through the kitchen or find yourself temporarily in the clutches of the main antagonist, who's really just a garden variety, pissed off male phantasm. It doesn't help that most of the scares on offer here consist of trite old jumps and standard spooky imagery. By this point, developers should either expand upon the concept or tackle a less frequently explored sub-genre. Haunted houses are passe these days, mostly thanks to the overabundance of games identical to this one. So yeah, it's another day at the possessed office. Other dead figures also manifest throughout the residence, hoping to give you a little jump. It isn't long before a ghost appears out of nowhere and grabs you, only to vanish. At one point, you aim your smart phone's camera at some pictures on the wall, and their images appear on your device in demonic form. From there, the door locks, the lights burn out and your average ghostly phenomena occurs all over the place. It does offer a very brief puzzle at the beginning, but ushers you into the apartment in short order. Judas, on the other hand, cuts to the chase. Sadly, when things pick up it's usually the same old song and dance from that sub-genre, and by that point you're already growing weary because of the slow prelude. More often than not, you solve a puzzle that grants you access to the bedeviled home in question. Most haunted house titles send you through an introductory segment where you complete a few meaningless tasks before the scares show up. And yet, it's still more coherent and better polished than a fair portion of the nonsense Valve's marketplace has hosted over the years. You take the role of an unnamed protagonist (presumably a slum's super) who's trapped in a living space plagued by dated scares and busywork. It's telling how much the genre has devolved on that platform when a game like Judas could be seen as a pleasant surprise, despite being an unoriginal, underwhelming offering. Steam has set a low bar for horror gaming. "Your average haunted house story, now in apartment flavor!"
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