Someday You'll Return

I played the Steam version of the game and would not recommend it. The game is too long - it takes about twenty hours and has approx. one hour long story with rather unsatisfactory ending. The rest is mostly just crawling through gloomy underground corridors where you can get lost easily. There are some enemies that are just annoying and cannot be destroyed. Puzzles are impossible to solve, if you overlook some tiny object in huge area. The game is not scary, rather depressing and has very unlikeable protagonist.

This Czech game got the highest rating in one of the Czech leading gaming magazines. The reviewer admitted that he had been given an unfinished version of the game with a list of changes planned for the final version. Also, the reviewer claimed he could see Jungian psychology themes in the game. I suspect he was told by the makers of the game as there were no such mentions in the foreign reviews I had read. This game might have been a small local (i.e. Czech) hit in the mid-nineties, when gamers would have been astonished that the game showed typical Czech countryside. Well, it's 2020 now and, in my humble opinion, a gifted IT student can create such countryside in a free 3D engine. Also, Czech reviewers claimed that the game had been made with love. Well, that might be true but which would you prefer: a wonderful meal cooked routinely and without "love", or a mash cooked with love? To conclude this rant: I got a 5-year ban on the leading Czech gaming website for criticizing the game - so immense was the hype in the Czech Republic, but the gaming market's Invisible hand shows the true quality of the game and so do the foreign reviews. Don't waste your money, you've been warned.