Daymare: 1998

I hate this game. It started ok but then got worse and worse. I won't spoil anything but just don't play on the hardest setting because it's just not worth it. It has Resident Evil mechanics but they are implemented so bad and they don't work in a linear game like this.

unnecessarily complicated reload mechanics and tedious inventory management.

This game shouldn't be on the list: having played the demo, I have to say that the presentation of the story is tropey and mediocre, the dialogue is either boring or cringeworthy, and the characters are ugly; special shoutout to the "rookie" who looks both like a grizzled, scarred veteran and an androginous kid, to hilariously bewildering effect.

A very poor version of old Resident Evil. With somehow even worse mechanics.

Better play Resident Evil 2 Remake, since guys who made Daymare originally wanted to make it themselves. And it shows, Daymare really wants to be that game, but, well, it's not good.