Observation

I didn't even really get to try the game out, because the resolution options I was given were: 1066x600 1066x666 1280x720 1280x800 Other And Other seemingly did nothing. in order to set a proper resolution, I would have had to go into the registry and edited keys there to my desktop resolution. That is not something I'm down to deal with on a game released in the past few decades. I've requested a refund for now. Please fix your issues with that and I'd be down to purchase again

The game is fairly short, I finished it at around 6 hours but it felt much longer than that as the game was a slog. The core controls for your camera movement are painfully slow. All the "puzzles" are self evident, no thought required actions that feel more like busy work than a test of your intellect. The only challenge I encountered were the controls themselves, it not always being clear how you are supposed to input something, or get to a certain screen. The control scheme having random button choices and many unnecessary button holds instead of just pressing a different key felt uncomfortable and felt like a bad pc port of a console game. While the game environments look nice, the game stutters a lot, and character facial animations look off, not always syncing with dialogue. There was a point where an object unintentionally clipped through the camera during what should have been a tense moment. The atmosphere, sound design, and general mood of the game are nice, but the poor controls and dull game-play sour the experience. I won't spoil the plot, but suffice to say Observations brings nothing new to the table as far as sci-fi horror goes. A Space Odyssey this is NOT. This would have been much better as a short film instead of a game with poor controls, if you are still interested, go look up a play-through online and watch that instead.

Controls are awful, and the mouse has no acceleration in menus/GUI, so it'll move very fast when you just want to move it a tiny bit. Feels totally awkward. Selecting resolution was a pain, I ihad to "hack" it in the registry - the resolution selector in the game is totally broken. Also the game is letterboxed, with large black borders top/bottom, that you can't deselect. On top of all that there are all these glitches (since everything is seen through cameras) which is very hard on the eyes, and no option to disable those effects either. Everything smells cheap console-port, and this is totally unplayable for me! Sadly I bought it long ago so can't refund, but I bought it very cheap on sale, thank god...

Get it, it's awesome.

Graphics over gameplay, ULTRASLOW AND BADLY PACED wannabe horror but it kept gripping me for the mystery and setting. technical issues, s h i t pacing, entire game is a slowburn, monotone and repetitive gameplay often requiring no brainmatter whatsoever, it is literally a walking sim space mystery novel. dont get your hopes up, just smoke weed, chill and enjoy the view and space atmosphere.