A wonderfully experimental yet flawed survival horror epic. Great atmosphere, story, puzzles and engaging setpieces plus gameplay mechanics and visual effects that provide a really interesting depiction of a schizophrenic protagonist who's afraid of heights.

Above all, the game actually manages to be very scary, which is always impressive for older games with low graphical fidelity.

Runs mostly bug free with this community patch.

If you play this you'll probably experience very early-game crashes that prevent you from progressing through the game. Who actually thought that Bethesda could publish a game that wasn't a buggy mess? I for one had to find a fix to this on Internet Archive and completely replace this game for that in my steam folder. If you can do that, you'll likely have a fairly descent game with a linear story progression, however I would not recommend buying this from Steam.

Avoid this buggy broken mess. Going in, from others' reviews and comments, I knew I would have to patch a few things - no big deal, done it dozens of times and never failed before. Despite a bugfix patch updated earlier this year, many gamebreaking bugs persist and this is one of the few games I have to abandon halfway due to one. If you really need to get your supernatural, horror, or H.P. Lovecraft fix, many have commented that the GOG version doesn't have the same issues. There is also Call of Call of Cthulhu (2018) that is phenomenal in its own right.

From what I was able to experience, the game does story, lore, atmosphere, and pacing well. It doesn't hold your hand and it doesn't hold back - this might filter some, but it should be easy enough for everyone else. That said, I cannot recommend the Steam version.