Oh, indie horror games, why must you continue to vex me? While I may be quite sympathetic to the challenge indie developers face, and what no doubt feels like the uphill battle in getting a game to market, more often than not it feels like with horror games they’re willing to let quality slide. Whether the issue is with empty environments, technical glitches, low-quality production values, or sometimes outright broken gameplay, there have been far more middling to bad titles released in this category than even marginally good ones.

In the case of Don't Mess With Bober, I’ll at least give it credit for throwing some humor into the mix to try to buoy the overall experience. After a pretty brief introduction and you checking out a friend’s cabin, while throwing away some trash you accidentally end up destroying a beaver dam in the stream nearby. Unfortunately for you, this belongs to no ordinary woodland critter, it happens to be the home of Bober, who apparently has anger issues of legendary proportions, and who will look to exact his revenge.

What follows doesn’t play out so much as a game as you roughly acting your way through an extended stretch of scripted events. Some of this can be fun, though much of it can border on tedious, and I’d say that overall any sense of terror is blunted by the ridiculousness of it all. To top it off, the voice acting for the game really wrecks any hope of either taking any of it seriously, or even finding it funny. Lines are delivered with the energy of reading a phonebook, and in places completely differ from the on-screen text, which just adds a layer of sloppiness to it all. It’s possible this could have been better if a more honest effort had been invested, but in general it’s a disappointment.