Been on Steam for over a decade and this is my 1st review.

I put about 10 hours into this game, and while I was in the last stretch of the final sequence, a cut scene somehow got cut short and sent me back to the beginning scene of the game.

I legitimately thought it was some sort of insane twist for a solid hour, and kept trying to play until it was obvious that something was bugged with my save.

I tried loading up the only recent file I had other than my current, and all that does is load me into darkness, and then I fall through the map. I lost about 8 hours of my play through.

Couple that with the COUNTLESS bugs I encountered (enemies stuck in doors or just being non-responsive, buildings just straight up not loading), and I don't think I'd recommend this even if they were paying you.

Gameplay: https://youtu.be/RftZkI81_-o

First of all I understand game development is expensive and complex, I appreciate all the effort that went in this game. But to be honest I didn't have fun playing this game. Games need to be fun and enjoyable, this was not that. I had so many frustrating and annoying moments during my game play that I wanted to stop and uninstall it but decided to finish it and it after seeing ending it disappointed me even more!

I played this game around 7 hours and I think about half of my gameplay was about figuring out where to go and what to do. Finding stuff in a mazed like and very dark environment. Enemies were dumb and annoying, too many repetitive jump scares, so many areas with poor lighting and no map to help you navigate just added to my poor experience with this game.

The game tries really hard to be RE but unfortunately it is not. It doesn't have any fun elements of RE games and just added so many annoyances instead. I think the game is very expensive for $35, if you are really interested to get it maybe wait for better sale.

I think the graphics and visuals were ok, nothing extraordinary or next gen but the problem was most of the areas were too dark to notice any details, there were many objects with very poor quality textures in the game like keypads for example and many other surfaces. Enemy design were good but again nothing new, seen these in many other games.

Some areas were designed pretty good but the most of the time the lighting was very bad that could barely see anything, not sure if it's true or not but I felt my flashlight turned weaker after a while and was not bright like the beginning of the game!

This area was most annoying part of my gameplay, as I said before half my gameplay spent on finding where to go and what to do. Game doesn't tell you properly what is expected which is fine I think but the problem is the level map design is not really good, there are lots of areas that basically copy pasted and very similar to each other, specially in sewer area where there is no sign or anything you have to try so many times to find the proper way. There is no map in this game which it could've helped a lot.

The gun play is not bad it's ok, but there are some moments that you lose all your items and game throws many enemies at you and you have to run away and find an escape in all those dark areas with little hint, it was so frustrating to try figure out what to do in those moments.

Game also introduces blocking and dodging in the beginning but honestly I never tried them once and forgot about these mechanics, I was able to kill enemies or just away from them through the whole gameplay.

Enemy AI is also very bad and many times they stuck and didn't react to me. The last boss fight was honestly not great. It was just run from point A to B and shoot, I understand that designing boss fights is really hard but again it could and should've better, specially since it was the ending of the game.

One of the reasons that I kept playing this game was to get a proper answer to the story at the end which I did get nothing, I mean nothing at all. Game did a very poor job telling or describing what has happened there. There were minimum hints or anything during my gameplay. I was really hoping to get a good disclosure to all these hours but unfortunately I did get nothing.

Sound and music was not great, there moments that music and effects were too loud and some times too quiet. There were random effects of doors opening, pages turning when I passed through some areas, door locking and unlocking.
The jump scares were fun for 2-3 times but keep repeating the same thing over and over again doesn't make it great, it makes it annoying. Specifically during gameplay when you had camera footage.

Performance wise game was good, I was getting 75fps at 1440p and high settings with 3090 but at epic it went down to 60. Turning on DLSS didn't help much in both settings.

I encountered few bugs during my gameplay, like for example I reload a save in apartment area after gathering all keys and stuff and when tried to get elevator working it didn't let me, I had to go to all rooms again and get all the stuff that I gathered before to make it happen again.

There were some areas that game had subtitle but majority of my gameplay I didn't see any subtitles which was really weird.

I saw in some gameplays that you get an objective text on your screen but for me that didn't happen at all.

There is no replayability value in this game.

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PC Spec:

CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K
MB: MSI Z690 Edge WiFi DDR4
RAM: GSkill 32Gb DDR4 3600Mhz
GPU: Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix
Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G7 32" 1440P 240Hz

Encore une grosse blague! Plantage en boucle (6 en 40 min de jeu)
L'IU a la ramasse. Les IA aussi !
C'est juste de la daube.