The Penguin Horror Review

Release Date: 1/2/2024

Published and Developed by Reno Games

Introduction

The Legacy Museum Reviews The Penguin Horror: Legacy of Pengcasso Is a first person exploration puzzle Indie game where you collect paintings while trying to escape a menacing art museum gallery filled with horrors. You play the legendary Penguin “Pengcasso” who’s on a mission to take back his paintings that the evil humans have stolen. I don’t know much about the Penguin Horror Series honestly.

Presentation

I have had the not so luxury to play some cheap bad STEAM Indie games as of late. I must say The Penguin Horror: Legacy of Pengcasso’s presentation isn’t anything to brag about at all. It’s lackluster from a visual, sound, gameplay and story standpoint sure. Have any of you ever heard of Penguin from adventure time?

With that said, it did manage to have some type of charm on me. Even bad games can be charming from time to time. I do like the Idea of playing as a penguin getting mad revenge on the humans in such a violent righteous manner.

Story

You play Pengcasso the legendary painter who must navigate the labyrinth of hells inside a art museum and find all 10/10 paintings that Pengcasso created. The humans stole his paintings, laid deadly traps and are trying to kill Pengcasso in the process. Look. There isn’t really a story but I do give the dev credit for at least trying to have a story tied to this game.

Gameplay

Gameplay mechanics centered around navigating a art museum in first person with patrolling security guards. You start off with a flashlight because the art museum is dark. You can set crows free, collect weapons and paintings. That’s pretty much it.

You do have a health bar which was nice to manage. In the tutorial section There were all kinds of invisible walls if you didn’t perform the correct tutorials mentioned on screen.

I literally had to restart because of the latter. The gameplay just wasn’t fun, it’s rough as hell but the overall idea of The Penguin Horror: Legacy of Pengcasso has charm.

Visuals/Graphics

Visual assets weren’t impressive at all. The security guard humans float down on top of you when you’re “caught” with a weird shit eating grin on his face like “hello there”. Okay the security guards were funny yet they could kill you. For the few bucks I paid to play this it’s not the worst looking game I played this year. It’s just not a good looking for 2024.

Sound/Music

You have your typical basic sound assets that you heard in every cheap indie video game ever made. The classy orchestral tunes did fit the idea of The Penguin Horror: Legacy of Pengcasso. No voice acting.

Final Thoughts/Score

The Penguin Horror: Legacy of Pengcasso is a bad video game with a good charming idea behind it. I managed to nab this for $2.99 via STEAM’s -40% discount. The Penguin Show release date is 1/2/2024.

For this price the game is worth your money in my opinion. Like I said, it’s a bad video game with some charm. It has a gameplay idea behind it with structure to warrant your $2.99. That’s all I got. Later – Jason

6/10