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Woke up, traversed a perilous climb, waded through a swamp, got infected, had a campfire cookout, nearly froze to death, burnt my hands getting rope-burn.

Then I got home and played PEAK.

This is tragically a game you can't say much of without spoiling things of any sort, this was wonderful.

Yeah, this is a nice little horror experience. To spoil the gimmick, you basically see through the enemies' eyes, and you use the environment and landmarks to figure out where they are, in the lines of Forbidden Siren.

There is an intended lack of checkpoints, but the segments are simple/short puzzles to figure out the pathing of the enemies or how to navigate their patrol. Sometimes you have to be seen on purpose, and that's perfectly valid and even necessary in some places. For what was a self-admitted bunch of affordable bunch of Unity asset pack parts in the unlockable commentary, it feels competently put together. It has some roughness to the edges, like being seen at angles you feel you shouldn't have been, or some of the enemies looking very 'default', but it works well enough.

Overall I'd say the team has managed a rather good start to their studio, and looking forward to what they'd do next.

Decided to pick this up when I saw the sale, and for a miniature DOOM experience I would say I certainly got my money's worth out of it. A rather strange but interesting story of a world all gone terrible due to your typical religious symbolism and whatnot. You'll probably complete it in 2-3 hours tops, and that's with finding all the secrets if you've got a keen eye.

Good way to spend a little bit of time in the day, it won't have much replay value once you've done it all-- other than speedruns if you're into that. I don't often see a explore-a-thon DOOM-based creation so this was a nice way to go about it, quite interesting enemy designs too.

Is good. Turn my brain off, big damage number go up.

TOEM caught my eye a while back during E3 or some other gaming event, and since then I'd been waiting for it, and it was worth it.

In essence, TOEM is a very gentle, ambient experience where you can go at your own pace, there's no time limits or brain-busting puzzles. You generally have everything you need to solve something a few screens away if not on the same screen, using your camera to help people and solve puzzles (and sometimes your copyright-friendly Walkman) but it won't force you to do everything. You could solve 8 of a possible 16 puzzles and you can go to the next area, it won't comment on that, and you can always go back and get everything later.

Don't go in expecting a hundred hours, TOEM can be cleared in an afternoon almost 100%, only one tricky achievement really made me take a lot longer than I should. This isn't designed to be difficult or challenging, it's just a cute charming adventure of taking photography and helping people, coupled with some lovely environments.

Also you can take photos of a beetle, that's pretty cool, huh?

I've got no idea what is meant to be going on or how to play for the most part but it has this strange, visceral charm that makes me keep playing it.

We're all here for our Steam Game Awards stuff, you know that.

Can't in good faith recommend this. Not going to say what hasn't been said before, but long story short this completely flopped in delivery and it was one heck of a let down. It's easy as heck to read other negative reviews and I would encourage it, or look up things on YouTube.

Shame, really, but that's the way it goes out there.

I am no longer able to give a review as I am an employed member of Overkill Software, any review given would immediately be seen as bias, as such I will refrain from it.