This remaster has been left in a broken un-optimised state, frame-gen is broken, performance is a mess and the developers are radio silence for months only interested in selling us the sequel.

If they ever fix it I'll pull this review.

It's a... mixed recommendation?

Overall I enjoyed the game - it did have the proper atmosphere and understanding of this kind of "madness" driven world. I don't think it treated it in any silly or inappropriate way, that would break that immersion in it.

That said - it's not necessarily a straight recommend. There's 2 things: the little "jank" / lack of polish, and technical issues.

The "jank" is.. just something you have to power through sometimes. There's some weird design decisions here and there, mechanics being a little clunky, or just... things not thought through correctly - sometimes leaving the experience "a little disappointing". It's more of a "style" of the game - the focus to deliver a pretty true experience of the story and world, that left some of the mechanical aspects a little rough. But that's fine - I'd rather the game have a strong character, rather than being bland but polished. It's just something to keep in mind.

But the technical issues are a little rough. Things like just straight technical/settings issues (resolution changes and other video settings didn't really work until switched to (non windowed) fullscreen - and suddenly the game looks ok?), disabling some options through manual config file changes, to several crashes... that can be annoying. But after figuring the settings out, after that (apart from the crashes... fortunately not losing progress) it was a rather smooth sailing - no bugs or glitches really.

I was thinking a lot about how the "detective" part was solved here - giving you choices in solving cases, instead of having the "one proper solution", but the later you go in the game, those choices become more about "you" not "solving the case correctly". In that context - I think it works ok.

Overall, I think this is an ambitious project - both in the scope of the game, but also a sensitive source material (often criticized for "handling it wrong" and "missing the point") - and I enjoyed it. Sometimes flawed, a little unpolished maybe - but a pretty great experience if you like this sort of story and world, and are willing to forgive some janky elements.

Wonderful game, the plot of the story immediately gripped me into playing. Though sometimes feeling a bit tedious with the mind palace, its still a solid psychological horror game. I would definitely say that this game is worth it for those who love the lovecraftian horror scape and want to get down with the tentacle monster. Such a wonderfully rich story with twists and turns that I wasn't expecting.



Also always kill the racists.