Recent reviews by Detective Draco

Pros:
+ A big world to explore.
+ Variety of biomes and creatures.
+ Mistery involving the story and characters that went there before your arrival.
+ Focus on survival rather than kill everything (you can't kill, you must run swim away).
+ It has a good horror atmosphere.
+ The devs are still improving the gameplay and fixing the issues.
+ Different gameplay modes, to pick the difficulty you are more comfortable playing:

• Survival : You need to keep health, food, water and oxygen up to survive.
  
• Freedom : You have to worry about health and oxygen only.
  
• Hardcore : If you die you must start over.
  
• Creative : Cannot die, in this mode all blueprints are already taken.

Neutral:
* Doesn't have co-op.
* There were a lot of bugs and had several crashes but looks like the devs already fixed them.

Cons:
- The starting loading screen can take several minutes (around 10-12 for me).
- You must be careful when riding the submarine because it is too easy to get it stuck.

Pros:
+ Dragons.
+ Smooth flying.
+ Nice gameplay.
+ Full controler support.
+ Story is interesting, it is unlocked through obtaining medals at the different difficulties.

Neutral:
* The ost is okay. There's only two soundtracks.
* The X axis is inverted by default, i suggest to map the controls before start playing.

Cons:
- It's too short. There are only 7 missions.
- There's a very annoying glitch. When pausing the game during missions the menu didn't let me pick any other choice besides "resume". So to go back to main menu i had to finish the mission or alt+F4 and restart the game. Because of this glitch i was not able to use the photo mode.

When beating the game there's a message from the devs stating there will be more content in a future. It would be amazing if we got more levels and dragons, but considering this was released a year ago, i wouldn't expect it to happen.

A fun puzzle game, a great pick for relaxing.

Pros:
+ Good art.
+ Original type of jigsaw, being cristal fragments rather than the common grid.

Neutral:
* The ost is okay.
* It's short, you can beat all puzzles in a few hours.

Cons:
- You need to perfectly put the pieces, sometimes even if you place it correctly it won't stay there.

This is a sequel and therefore it's highly advisable to play the main game The House in Fata Morgana before this one, otherwise some side-stories won't make much sense due to lack of context.
That said:

Pros:
+ Good story, the new perspectives brings highlight to some events of the main game.
+ Nice new characters that weren't fully shown on main game.
+ More plot twists.
+ Excellent writting.
+ Astounding art.
+ Great OST.

Neutral:
* Around 19 hours long (counting side-stories and extra stuff) at normal read speed.
Main story is around 12 hours.
* The game assumes you already read The House in Fata Morgana.

Cons:
- Holding sadness, happiness and frustration at the same time can't be healthy.

This is by far, the best visual novel i have read so far.

Pros:
+ Engaging story, always making you want to know more.
+ Gothic astounding art.
+ Amazing OST.
+ Good character development.
+ A bunch of plot twists.
+ A roller coaster of emotions.

Neutral:
* Around 42 hours long at normal read speed.

Cons:
- Once you finish the main story, it will leave you with an empty hole in your soul.

Pros:
+ Great art.
+ A lot of choices.
+ Good ost. Even though there are not many tracks, they fit in pretty well.
+ High replay value.
+ Dark humor.
+ Some hilarious death scenes. There are unexpected ones, but most of them are obvious and easy to avoid if you use common sense and logic.
+ It's not expensive.
+ Dedicated devs. They are always willing to help (just check the discussions of this game).

Neutral:
* It's a short game. If you are just going to do a single playthought it won't take you more than 20 minutes, even less if you end up taking shortcuts. For completionists: it took me 4.8 hours to 100% it.

Cons:
- There are just 3 options: change language (rus/eng), turn on/off the audio or play fullscreen/windowed.
- The audio is too high and you must leave the game in order to lower it. It would have been nice to have the option ingame.
- You can't save middle scenes and load them later after a bad choice. If you want to change your path you must start from the beginning.


I really enjoyed this game, it's cheap and with a lot of content, highly recommend it.

Pros:
+ You get to know more about japanese culture.
+ Nice art.

Neutral:
* It's very short.
* It's not a dating sim.

Cons:
- It can get boring in some parts.
- Lack of plot.
- Two unnecessary fanservice scenes.


Overall i liked it, it felt more like a documentary than a visual novel. I recommend this if you can get it on a sale.

Pros:

- Good story. It feels a bit nostalgic, reminded me of '80-'90 movies.
- OST.
- Choices matter. There are different endings depending on your decisions.
- Everything is well proportioned. No chibis. I'm a bit tired of rpg maker's kind of games where all character's body are 3/4 head.
- Full controller support.


Neutral:

- Outdated graphics, just like old good games on SNES. It didn't bother me at all but some people do.


Cons:

- It doesn't support HD screen, game is windowed.
- Clunky control, as all games of this style are.
- You can't see how much ammo you have left during battles.
- Steam Overlay doesn't work.


If the cons aren't a big deal for you i highly recommend this game.