This was fine, I guess, but nothing felt particularly fleshed out or particularly interesting. I liked the atmosphere, good spooky, and the flashback explorations are kinda cool (even though I don't really know how the characters come to the conclusions that they do sometimes?), but none of the mechanics feel particularly deep. Your choices have some impact, but your stats really almost don't? You get to choose some different dialogue options but they have no real influence on anything, as far as I can tell.

As far as the story goes, everything feels pretty stereotypical and predictable, and I don't know enough about the source material to judge whether that's the game's fault or not, but I don't think Lovecraft's original stories were quite as predictable? Maybe I should read those before claiming that, though.

Obviously the imagery and environments are inspired, and that part is well done, but the story and gameplay elements are just nothing to write home about. It's fine for a horror game to play for 8 hours and then forget forever, but that's all that I feel this was, unfortunately.

DO NOT BUY. Unplayable endless crashes after seconds. Tried all fixes.

I'm afraid I can't leave anything bug a not-recommended, as the game crashes after about 10 seconds every time I try to load up a game. I've updated graphics drivers, reduced the graphics settings, verified the install, re-installed, etc all to no effect.