This game was.... not fun. It's a VERY slow burn horror game, with deep survival mechanics and lorebuilding that ultimately leads to.. nothing. A lot of the story doesn't really make that much sense, or relies on the player to make assumptions about what happened. The survival aspect of the game doesn't really lend much to it at all; and more than once made my save become softlocked because I couldn't go anywhere without dying once I had run out of matches and lighter fuel. It also relies on cheap jumpscares and loud noises to startle the player. You will very often get stuck and have to look up guides on how to progress. The moment I have to do something like that, you have ultimately failed in game design. Otherwise, it's well produced, and plays a lot like a bloober team game. Unfortunately it doesn't mean much if it's just not fun to play. Which may very well have been the point of the game, but for me; it's a hard pass. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, even horror fanatics.

This game was.... not fun. It's a VERY slow burn horror game, with deep survival mechanics and lorebuilding that ultimately leads to.. nothing. A lot of the story doesn't really make that much sense, or relies on the player to make assumptions about what happened. The survival aspect of the game doesn't really lend much to it at all; and more than once made my save become softlocked because I couldn't go anywhere without dying once I had run out of matches and lighter fuel. It also relies on cheap jumpscares and loud noises to startle the player. You will very often get stuck and have to look up guides on how to progress. The moment I have to do something like that, you have ultimately failed in game design. Otherwise, it's well produced, and plays a lot like a bloober team game. Unfortunately it doesn't mean much if it's just not fun to play. Which may very well have been the point of the game, but for me; it's a hard pass. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, even horror fanatics.