The stalker character, who isn't even really that scary, is so annoying to deal with. He moves super slowly through his path, sees you from anywhere unless you're crouching, and randomly appears super close to you for no reason. You'll spend most of the game running back to the same place to hide. Sometimes you will get cornered in weird spots and just die. There's a ton of super cryptic puzzles that are impossible to figure out unless you look them up. Finally, there are so many moments where there aggravating sound design. From the cackling when you die to just obnoxious music playing during boss fights. It gets to a point where you just get so annoyed you just don't care to keep going.

Puzzles were fun, I did like how there are different types of endings depending on your choices.

White Day has a cool setting, engaging puzzles, and an interesting story. Unfortunately the game does literally everything in its power to sabotage itself.

White Day revolves around two main mechanics. Exploring to find clues and evading pursuers. The exploration element of the game is surprisingly good. The process of finding items and then applying them towards the completion of a puzzle was addicting. There is some significant back tracking as a result of the guess and check nature that some puzzles in this game have; however, the actual quality of the puzzles made this tolerable.

On the other hand, the pursuer mechanic was absolutely miserable and added nothing of value to the game. White Day feels like an escape room. It has the challenging puzzles and engaging theme of a great escape room. Now imagine if the employees of said escape room routinely interrupted your thinking to beat you senseless and reset your progress. The stalker enemies of White Day add absolutely nothing of value to the game. If you plan on playing the game, I highly recommend that you find a way to disable the stalker enemies as I did during my play through.

I can forgive the horrendous choices that were made with the enemies; however, the reason this review is negative is because White Day does not respect the player's time. In my case, I spent hours tracking down all the miscellaneous items in the game to complete the ghost quest lines. What I did not know was that the majority of the ghosts do not appear in normal mode. At the normal difficulty, the standard experience of the game, there is no reward for 80% of the optional side puzzles. What the ♥♥♥♥?

In general, White Day fails to see that it is a puzzle game above all else. This leads to the inclusion of annoyances like the stalker enemies and difficulty settings that make no sense for a puzzle game. There is enjoyment to be found in this game; however, it is buried under so many stupid design choices that I cannot recommend playing it.