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Gameplay is confusing at best, and at worst, non-functional & bugged. Your settings constantly reset mid-game, push-to-talk is forced on then turned off at random, and players become glitched and unrevivable randomly. One map, the asylum, is even completely bugged and cannot be completed, causing my friends and I to run around aimlessly for over half an hour before finding out. When the game DOES work, it's lazy, unimaginative, and obnoxious. Cheap JPEG jumpscares with loud volume screams are what pass for "horror" in this game, if you even want to call it a game. The "gameplay" consists of random fetch quests that are incoherent and confusing, You are given barely any time at all to complete these quests, yet somehow the game feels like it drags on for far too long. The gameplay loop of glitches and poor-level design forces you to constantly ask yourself if the game is actually broken or if you're the problem and you're just stupid. The atmosphere is passable with dimly lit maps and a creepy enough ambiance, but every other facet of the game completely ruins it. The only redeeming quality of this game is how absolutely goofy it looks and feels. The literal *hundreds* of dance and emote animations are absolutely hilarious and incredibly well-made, yet the in-game interactions and running animations are so jank that it feels like they're not even from the same game. The character customization is so cursed that it feels like its from a bootlegged copy of Cyberpunk 2077, with clothing options such as pink cowboy hats, thigh-high socks, pitch-black eyes that clip through the models, bright green fluorescent skin tones, and even being able to play as a literal child. Yes, your player model can become a 3-foot-tall child that actually lowers your in-game pov to the floor, for some reason. This game is an infuriating mess of chaotic fun for the first 10 minutes, followed shortly by confusion on the actual objectives of the game that eventually builds into trial-and-error frustration, before finally forcing you to just give up and request a refund. Sitting down and filing your taxes for the 2023 fiscal year is a less frustrating experience than Fear Therapy. I had more fun writing this review than I did playing the game. If you want an actual co-op horror game with interesting mechanics, superb ambiance, dynamic gameplay mechanics, and a good balance of tension, suspense, and frantic chaos, then just play Devour.