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I never played the game(s) before watching this, so keep that fact in mind. As a newcomer, I found it... Average. If you're looking for a quick (and I do mean quick, only 4 episodes) spook on Halloween, I'd recommend it. If you've already played the games, you'd probably get more enjoyment. Unfortunately, for anyone coming into the series fresh, you'll just be extremely confused and probably bored.

Given only 4 episodes, each being 30 minutes, it's understandable that things had to be rushed. But dear god. Every episode, people just.. Die. And without knowing who they are, it's impossible to feel anything. Good suspense lets ... you get attached, to make it more emotional and heartwrenching. So that you root for the heroes, and feel awful when they fall. Here, you're given no time, leaving you just shrugging your shoulders as people are given brutal ends. The gore isn't the greatest, with how everyone just explodes into vague intestinal shapes (seriously, people have organs besides their intestines) and blood like they're water balloons. There's also a lot of fanservice, including pantyshots. Not unexpected, it's anime. What IS weird is how some these shots appear right before characters get killed. Talk about a boner killer. (badum, tss.)

Music and animation itself is quite nice, it could spook someone more jumpy. The scares mostly come from how twisted and depraved the people are, and how even our protagonists end up falling to the madness around them. The scene where Ayumi relives the deaths of the kids is especially chilling, you can really feel the terror in their voices. And the sound of their tongues being cut... God damn. The ending is a major twist, ending on such an incredibly bittersweet note with emphasis on the bitter.

Overall, this could have worked out if it was given more episodes to work with, to better give newcomers time to know the characters so that the despair sets in better. But in this timeline, it was not. And so, it's a pretty average anime.

It'd be one thing if this was a disturbing manga with a good story, like Emergence. But this? This is not a good story. It's 11 chapters of snuff, torment, and abuse. Character development? Nonexistent. Personality? Well, there IS that, but it's not great. Plot? Eh. I did read the Game Over short stories which lead to Mai-Chan no Nichijou being fully developed, and while there are a few differences (Kaede's personality changes, the Master of the mansion itself is shown) it's basically the exact same premise here but with a tiny bit of worldbuilding.

Let's start with the titular Mai-chan. She's immortal for reasons ... we're never told about, she just kinda is. How did she come to the mansion? Who cares! Let's watch her get mauled by a tiger! Anything that happens to expand upon her as a person is either wiped (Sayurin's death) or just doesn't go far (her rebellion against the President.) She's just a living chew toy for the customers to abuse, because everyone in this manga is either a slave or a piece of shit. Mai is also the only character who matters.

Kaede is the sadistic kuudere head maid, who's care for Mai extends only to whether or not she's ready to be abused again. She has no personality beyond this. Sayurin, who gets killed through the stupidest way possible, only appears so she can die and give Mai more emotional abuse... That she then forgets about. Morbid fact: the time it took for her to fully decompose implies Mai was there for nearly a DECADE.
Kizuna exists for the shotacons to get their kicks, and to act as a plot device for the worst stunt the manga can pull: getting Mai pregnant because... Something something, immortal sperm, something something. Muraki is a tsundere who appears for 2 chapters and along with Kizuna, fucks off to the abyss after their time is up. And the President... Oh my fucking GOD.

The climax of the manga is the most insane shit ever. You thought the shotacon and implication that Mai is underage was bad? Get ready for this dude somehow having the raw strength to rip out Mai's baby, so that he can rape THAT. Is it immortal? Oh, nevermind, it's dead by being PUT INTO A BLENDER! Who thinks of this shit?

Then it all ends with the status quo winning, as Mai goes back to work. Her baby, 'little brother', and Sayurin forgotten about because I guess getting skullfucked gave Mai amnesia or something.

Despite all of this, I can find scant positives to say. In a way, it's morbidly funny how god-awful everything here is. How George Reitman seems to be a parody of then-President George W. Bush, his ridiculous over-the-top statements ("THE ANSWER IS... IT'S A BLENDER!!" "IT'S AWW-RIGHTTT!!!). The art is well-made, Mai herself and her expressions elicit much sympathy from the viewer. Her face upon seeing the blended remains of her child is especially depressing, given how much she seemed to have wanted the child. Kaede has her small moments, though not a lot. I also at least enjoyed how different each character's personality is, and the way Sayurin's death and Mai's resulting grief was (at least to me) handled not as something sexy, but actually traumatic, was surprisingly touching. A moment which was ruined by the everything else.

Overall, I wouldn't recommend this manga to anybody, and I'd hate to ever meet a person who actually enjoyed it.