Enclave

I like this game. I really like it. The music is great (why, for the sake of GOG, it's not in the extras?!), the visuals aged gracefully and the combat although very random still can be playable (if you care to find out that best short range weapon is ... bow loaded with 8 arrows and fired at point blank). What I can't stand is the inconsistent difficulty. The game starts very easy, and stays there for almost all of the time. And then come the last 3 levels which can be described only as "you have 100% health - now you're dead". All the game you've been taught that no single hit can kill you - and all of sudden it does. You walk up to a wall - bang, spikes shoot out of it, you're dead. There is a self-building staircase that starts moving only after you come in - but it kills you if you're inside when it moves. Levels were used to be flooded in checkpoints - now there are none, play it all again. It seems like when the game was nearing completion, CEO ran out of his meds and went from guy mode straight into killer psycho. Plain unfair. As a player I feel cheated. I invested some time into playing it, but it deprived me of my happy ending. I recommend not trying it at all. If you like playing only part of the game - go for it.

This game would have received a 3 out of 5 from me back in 1999. However, now the game is just basic and kind of boring to play. This was never a great game, even back in the day it was barely mediocre. Now it is just plain dull. There are better games here on GOG for you to spend your time and money on.

It's games that do not play by the same rules as the player. Games designers seem to think this is called a "challenge" - but really, it is just lazy design and cheating, and Enclave is full of it.

Linux version is just a Wine wrapper. It does not run in modern distribution (unsurprisingly) - black screen on the start.

This game was bad even at the day of its release. Clumsy and over-simplified mechanics ruined all the experience. And on the top of it, no "weight" on the game's characters. It seems like you're hitting the air rather than a creature of flesh and blood. For complete opposite experience try "Blade of Darkness" (it's a pity that a game does not exist in GOG's library). All in all, not very bad game, but nothing special at all. The story is not so exciting, that's why I give 2 stars, not 3. This is my personal opinion.