Is this game worth $17? Hell nah. But if you get it for, say, $3, it can be worth it, and you can have a good time if you can learn to deal with its various annoyances.

Chief annoyance is the controls, which you cannot remap. Who thought it was a good idea to place them all over the keyboard is beyond me - there's the usual WASD for movement, E for interaction, C for crouch, ALT to roll-dodge, space/shift/1-4 for powers stuffs, and the mouse to aim and fire. So far so decent. But then there's the arrow keys for hacking, and backspace for "back/cancel", and the mouse doesn't work in the menus... No one playtested this and said "hey, maybe this doesn't make sense?"

Then there's the powers you can purchase with skill points, of which probably half are completely useless. Especially the passive gun powers where the ONLY useful one is armor piercing (which does a crap job, still requiring 3+ headshots against a helmet but better than nothing), and a merely useless one for energy barrier piercing which still requires you to dump like a dozen or more shots to shatter a barrier but at least it doesn't make things WORSE for you like the other 4 gun powers. Telekinetic bullets mean you never land a headshot. Autofire means you never land more than the first shot. Explosive bullets mean maybe 15% more damage but you have to fire 4x slower if you want the subsequent shots to land. Again, obviously not playtested.

The activatable powers are better, and I actually ended up using them, but some are still vastly superior to others. Why would you want an ability to stun unarmored foes when it's the armored foes who are the real danger?

A relatively minor annoyance is that you can equip up to 4 activatable and 3 passive gun abilities at once, and the game will forget what you had equipped when you relaunch it after exiting.

Something that might be a bigger dealbreaker to people is the checkpoints. There's no manual saves, and if you die you reset to the last checkpoint with every bit of progress since you'd activated it being wiped. Most of the time it's not a huge deal, but in a few cases the checkpoints were annoyingly far apart, including in one level of stealth sections, and you can't skip previously seen dialog.

Finally, the game has virtually no graphics options besides resolution & vsync, and it is in HEAVY need of some anti-aliasing. I ended up just running it in 4xDSR (4k on my 1080p monitor) so the supersampling would smooth out the worst of the jaggies.

So, given all of the above, why am I recommending FORECLOSED? Simple - because I had fun playing it. Once you get past the annoyances the gameplay is fine, if nothing special, the story is good, and the presentation just oozes style. The game's also short enough to not outstay its welcome, which helps a lot here. Assuming you got it for cheap (I personally traded a key I got from a Fanatical Mystery pack for this one, probably to someone who also got it from such a pack.)