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Verho - Curse of Faces

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

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Quick resume

Verho, a Dark RPG following the tradition of the King’s Field series, takes place after the catastrophic Era of Solitude, where masks have become the only protection against the Curse of Faces. Travel to the land of Yariv, find the source of this scourge and face its dangers.

Global score

94/100

Genres

Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)

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    Pros

    • Engaging exploration and secrets
    • Varied combat and builds
    • Strong atmosphere and music
    • Compelling story and npcs
    • Demo progress carries over

    Cons

    • Some bugs and janky hitboxes
    • Voice acting quality inconsistent
    • Ui and inventory management clunky
    • Enemy balance and difficulty spikes
    • Some repetitive enemy designs

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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      "Players can customize weapons, abilities, and experiment with different builds, supporting creative gameplay approaches."

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of interest and passion for the genre and style, not out of obligation."

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    • Experimenting

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      "The game encourages trying new builds, exploring different areas, and testing combat tactics, rewarding experimentation."

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    • Exploration

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      "Exploration is a core motivation, with many hidden secrets, rewards for going off the beaten path, and a large interconnected world."

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    • Expression

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      "Customization via armor and weapon choices that visually appear on character."

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    • Fantasy

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      "Set in a dark fantasy world with magic, curses, and mythical elements."

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    • Fellowship

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      "No social or community gameplay; experience is solitary."

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    • Growth

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      "Players develop skills, learn enemy patterns, and improve builds over many hours of play."

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    • Health

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      "Sedentary gameplay with no physical activity or health-related mechanics."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and continuous engagement; not suited for background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "No evidence of forming close relationships or emotional social interactions."

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    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or group management roles; single-player experience."

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    • Progression

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      "Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring weapons, spells, and upgrades to progress through the game."

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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      "No social recognition or status systems present."

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    • Story

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      "Engaging narrative with multiple endings and NPC interactions, though story delivery is cryptic"

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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      "Combat difficulty and boss fights provide suspense and challenge."

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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      "Combat involves melee, ranged attacks, spells, and defeating enemies and bosses."

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Exploration, Story.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

    Last update: 30/04/2026