Pathologic 2

I like it very much, the only thing I dislike is that saves are disabled, it is very annoying

great

The atmosphere keeps me playing the game despite the mechanics, it's hard to describe but it's a weird russian/siberian mysticism hybrid. The game never spells anything out, but after a while things just *click* Things holding the game back: The townspeople are a bunch of Deliverance style yokels, and the game is very good at making you want to slaughter every single one of them, then severely punishes you for killing them by locking the player out of all trade except for with the children. At least the children are cool. The game throws waves of attackers at you and combat turns into a miserable moshpit, when you weaken an attacker they throw their hands up and try to back off, but since you're always surrounded by at least two other enemies you'll probably kill the guy backing off as you're flailing wildly trying to fight off the other two. You're not supposed to loot the guy you killed accidentally either, looting incurs an additional opinion penalty on top of the murder, if I already accidentally killed a guy at least let me take their stuff, game! The hunger/thirst/stamina mechanic isn't any less annoying than it is in other games. Player has to consume two goats and a gerbil daily, and most items that replenish health or energy deplete one of the other 3 meters. Stealth hasn't been explained to me in-game yet and it feels useless, you can't use it to stealth kill or steal stuff without an opinion penalty, seems to only be useful to sloooooowly meander past whatever you're trying to avoid, and this game doesn't need to be any slower. Overall; For the patient, I'd still recommend the game from a cultural/nerrative perspective as the story is fresh and the setting interesting, but there's alot of jank to overcome to like this game.

For some reason my game is running slow and is near unplayable. Even on lowest settings, my FPS is horrible for some reason.

Game is kind of vague at times. Trading is not obvious to a new player, etc.