Days Gone

This has been one of the biggest emotional rides I've seen this year... the story is truly a masterpiece. Absolutely recommended...

Great game! One of it's kind. Open world yet story driven. Kudos to the developers. One of it's kind. It has it's own identity. A gem. Highly recommended

Days Gone 1.07 was a dream on PC. Now, the lowest-bidder live-service developers at Bend Studio have "updated" the game to version 1.13, and it is garbage. Again, these are not the developers who made Days Gone that are tinkering with it now. These are loser devs that Jim Ryan hired to make live-service games, and now they're messing up a classic title that we bought years ago. And where is GOG in all this? That is a great question.

since the 1.07 update it just crashes now dont waste your time or money

I paid 16€ for this game and it's a fair price for what I got. I knew nothing about the "controversies" surrounding this title and if you're interested in getting into it, I suggest you try to steer away from those. As a game, it's fine. Apparently, it wasn't in the best of states back when it was originally released, but all seems to have been ironed out, by now. It works flawlessly, no bugs that I came across, it's brilliantly optimized (I'm running it on a 2021 laptop with an integrated 1GB VRAM GPU, which had no right whatsoever to run it, but somehow it does -- on Medium graphics preset, even). For this, alone, I should give it four stars. I can't, though, because the game is great if you know what you're expecting, and I clearly didn't. This isn't an action-adventure title, as GOG claims, it's a stealth game. I couldn't tell you whether it's a good or bad stealth game, because it's not really a genre I play, let alone stealth with light survival elements. It's slow, which I guess is fine, considering the genre, but it will bother those who are looking for a more fast-paced adventure. I'm not even bothering with the nests and such, basically driving from one main mission to the next, since that part of the gameplay tends to slow my enjoyment of the game a lot. The writing is kind of all over the place, with some writers clearly wanting to do their own thing, but some head-honcho was apparently extremely "anti-PC/anti-woke" and every instance of the word "god" had to be capitalized, even in expressions like "goddamn" and subsequent variations. It's also very... "US-centric", in the sense it will one-sidedly address some issues most of the world couldn't care less about, like gun control and prison overcrowding. If you want to play an action game that's post-apocalyptic, has a vehicle and (great) driving and combat mechanics, I'd suggest you get Mad Max (available on GOG, as well) instead. If you like stealth, then I guess this is the better choice of the two.