As a note: though I've got plenty to go in playing Gnosia on Steam, I've gotten Platinum on the game through Playstation 5 and put over 30 hours into it.

So, this is The Thing: Gnosia's a tough game for people starting out. You will lose a lot. That's part of the experience. But if the game ever gets frustrating, please check out the tutorial. If you're anything like me, you *hate* tutorials. And I get it. But this game has a learning curve to it, and the tutorial will help you to get a grasp of what you're actually doing here if you get voted to cold sleep a lot. You'll still lose a lot, and it's not going to hold your hand. But it WILL help you develop a grasp of how to improve your stats and play the game to maximize effectiveness. And ultimately, by design, failure is an inevitable part of the game. You can still often make progress on a losing run.

As for what Gnosia is? It's single-player Werewolf, as the game says. And more, as the game also says. Much of the charm is the game itself. It's both simple and, well, has that learning curve I've talked about. Much of the charm is also in the varied oddball cast of characters that you have to learn the ins and outs of if you want to survive - both the short game *and* the long game. That's the part that's more than just a typical game of Werewolf.

The game can be played in short spurts. Each loop can last 5 - 15 minutes, typically, usually on the quicker side once you've grasped the innards and outards of the game a bit. It's good to boot up if you got to kill just a little time. Get addicted though, and you know how it goes - hours can fly by, if you want them to.

So as for the cons, they're pretty easy to spot, and can definitely be a detriment - the initial difficulty can be a turn-off, especially if you're not used to losing at video games, but also, the game **can** be pretty repetitious. Once you get the flow of the game down, loops can devolve to pretty much the same patterns, and you won't find a ton of variety in how you play from there. It's definitely the game's strongest flaw. Get an interesting scripted scenario going, though, or narrowly win - or painstakingly lose - a close run, and suddenly your interest is piqued all over again. The repetition can put you 'in the zone' when things are going right, or get you invested enough to get flustered when multiple characters and yourself tag the right person as gnosia, only to have someone not even discussed during the meeting voted off instead. I don't think it's a healthy game to play straight through to completion, but it can be alluring in half-hour to five hour spurts, again, depending on your amount of time or attention span.

Ultimately, you can do a lot worse for $25. Fans of visual novels, deductive reasoning games, fun and weird characters and a little bit of the ol' psychological horror (no jump scares, but some deliberately spooky scenes play out) are gonna have a good time with this.

喜欢SQ~

Cool solo werewolf style game with a cast of colourful characters you're supposed to learn about.