Game is... janky, broken at parts, and sometimes outright rude.

Long story short: Devs dropped off the face of the earth after Full Release. Game was released with more and more fixes instead of a completed story, and with that, the game is just... dropped. They got your money, players. They left with your money. And now they put up two fingers and they've vanished.

I'd love to make mods that add to the story my way, or overturn the entire story, maybe change that garbage skill tree from... fifteen, twenty skills to actually be more like a skill tree, and actually make classes be classes, rather than starting gear and skills (or none at all if you're a drifter). But the workshop is just people translating the game, which feels like it's not using the actual potential.

Also, if you wanna check out the game, just watch a playthrough. The animations are janky, the hitboxes are garbage (yes, fire above the tree, not the shadowbeast in front of you, yes, shoot the wall, not the corpse parasite behind the wall), investigations to search for signs are... sometimes just outright abhorrent, you need to search so many of the same spots just to eventually end up outside of the hinted area and find it five steps away from where it said it was, despite it saying "no signal" on your microphones.

Dialog's atrocious, with grammatical issues and punctuation failure syndrome. I do like the comic cutscenes, but that's about it after a while, aside from investigation which has its good parts absolutely lambasted afterwards.

Also, getting called a cop for showing signs (such as this random blood decal you've just picked up) makes no sense. Not that a lot of other stuff looks more like random junk stock images pasted over everything, and repeated several times, rather than making your own stuff.

Some bosses (the poltergeists, ecriee or whatever) that I've seen, which is to say just three of them, are... unclear in what they actually do, followed by dodging their attacks being GATED behind skills that, again, don't make sense (why do I need to learn to throw a chunk of rotting meat? Why do I need to learn how to put a chain on my pants?)... maybe the skills would make sense if it's with *certain* things you don't understand.

Also, don't forget. Healing. Stims take off your precious max HP, which can be worse than using a medkit. That you can't ever use. Because the enemy either exists and is in constant chase, disabling the medkit, or is out of your vision and is currently looking for you, and you can't use your medkit because it's not safe.

Ammo being able to deal damage to certain types is alright, but when you can't easily switch out your ammo on the fly, it becomes troubling because the type you need isn't on you, and you die to something you can't figure out if you've dodged or not (corpse parasites), despite going right under their attack.

Oh, and there's no melee options, and all UV gadgets are glowsticks. Not flashlights. Glowsticks. And your hunting knife doesn't count. (Not that the ghoul you just killed ended up completely out of bounds flopping as a FRESH model, instead of dropping the model normally like shadowbeasts, or those ground tendrils you just dealt with don't count as big enough to carve, yet they look like a simple spike given many bones and some ball shapes).

By the way, did I mention the bosses look like they're just animated pictures? Yeah. But don't worry. It's the condensation/cold spot scanner that lags your game. Not the flaming skull or the random death tornado that just spawned all of a sudden. Which you still can't really dodge because... reasons. I dunno.

TL;DR: Devs dropping off of the face of the earth after patching with ez-break burlap patches leave an unfinished game with more jank than there is a single chapter. Yes, there is only one chapter.

Game is... janky, broken at parts, and sometimes outright rude. Long story short: Devs dropped off the face of the earth after Full Release. Game was released with more and more fixes instead of a completed story, and with that, the game is just... dropped. They got your money, players. They left with your money. And now they put up two fingers and they've vanished. I'd love to make mods that add to the story my way, or overturn the entire story, maybe change that garbage skill tree from... fifteen, twenty skills to actually be more like a skill tree, and actually make classes be classes, rather than starting gear and skills (or none at all if you're a drifter). But the workshop is just people translating the game, which feels like it's not using the actual potential. Also, if you wanna check out the game, just watch a playthrough. The animations are janky, the hitboxes are garbage (yes, fire above the tree, not the shadowbeast in front of you, yes, shoot the wall, not the corpse parasite behind the wall), investigations to search for signs are... sometimes just outright abhorrent, you need to search so many of the same spots just to eventually end up outside of the hinted area and find it five steps away from where it said it was, despite it saying "no signal" on your microphones. Dialog's atrocious, with grammatical issues and punctuation failure syndrome. I do like the comic cutscenes, but that's about it after a while, aside from investigation which has its good parts absolutely lambasted afterwards. Also, getting called a cop for showing signs (such as this random blood decal you've just picked up) makes no sense. Not that a lot of other stuff looks more like random junk stock images pasted over everything, and repeated several times, rather than making your own stuff. Some bosses (the poltergeists, ecriee or whatever) that I've seen, which is to say just three of them, are... unclear in what they actually do, followed by dodging their attacks being GATED behind skills that, again, don't make sense (why do I need to learn to throw a chunk of rotting meat? Why do I need to learn how to put a chain on my pants?)... maybe the skills would make sense if it's with *certain* things you don't understand. Also, don't forget. Healing. Stims take off your precious max HP, which can be worse than using a medkit. That you can't ever use. Because the enemy either exists and is in constant chase, disabling the medkit, or is out of your vision and is currently looking for you, and you can't use your medkit because it's not safe. Ammo being able to deal damage to certain types is alright, but when you can't easily switch out your ammo on the fly, it becomes troubling because the type you need isn't on you, and you die to something you can't figure out if you've dodged or not (corpse parasites), despite going right under their attack. Oh, and there's no melee options, and all UV gadgets are glowsticks. Not flashlights. Glowsticks. And your hunting knife doesn't count. (Not that the ghoul you just killed ended up completely out of bounds flopping as a FRESH model, instead of dropping the model normally like shadowbeasts, or those ground tendrils you just dealt with don't count as big enough to carve, yet they look like a simple spike given many bones and some ball shapes). By the way, did I mention the bosses look like they're just animated pictures? Yeah. But don't worry. It's the condensation/cold spot scanner that lags your game. Not the flaming skull or the random death tornado that just spawned all of a sudden. Which you still can't really dodge because... reasons. I dunno. TL;DR: Devs dropping off of the face of the earth after patching with ez-break burlap patches leave an unfinished game with more jank than there is a single chapter. Yes, there is only one chapter.