The Medium

You sort of never feel scared at all since there are no free roaming AI hunting you - only at certain scenes you have to watch out, and then it's mostly scripted anyway. So you never have to sneak around being scared (like in Alien Isolation for example). Story is very strange - I'm 4/5th through the game I'm thinking about quitting cause it's so slow and tedius and uninterresting. I really don't care what happens in the end. Too bad the gameplay is so slow/tedius/lacking, and story is so strange, cause the athmosphere is actually pretty good. Optimization horrible though, but totally playable at 30 fps, but best if you lock fps in driver settings cause locking it in game gave severe stutter!

Great graphics! Games works fine on Windows 8.1. Has a Silent Hill vibe to it with "2 worlds." Think "regular" and "nightmare" versions of the same world. Game play is very innovative and immersive. Great sound and the camera angles really remind of so much of Silent Hill. Lots of things to check out, read and interact with. The game is totally worth adding to your library. Highly recommended.

Really enjoying it so far, its definitly the teams best game, if you like old style Silent Hill games and mystery, this is for you.

I never played puzzle or point and click games, but this game got me. This game starts very casual and hold players to continue playing. You don't notice that every minute you're in the game you diving deeper and deeper into, until you can't stop playing. Beside youre trapped to continue the game, there are this "it all ends with me" dude. Every meeting with this guy, you hate it to see him again, but you wont stop playing anyway. And I don't need big combat in this kind of game, so gameplay and mechanics are fitting. Need more of this!

The story is good, and overall the game is well made. However, some minor annoyances which I noticed during gameplay: * main character would be overly verbose explaing obvious things which needed to be done in the game ("feels like something is missing" ... for the fifth time) * Unclear at which points we needed to crouch or hold breath or both, and whether I needed to actually hide or not * Story was a bit hard to follow until closer to the end - characters names were coming up but I had forgotten who they were or if I knew them already by this point * Achievements were literally popping up every twenty minutes sometimes one then another one seconds later - kinda hurt the immersion a bit * Unnecessary naming of 'powers' when they are really just mechanics to get past a couple of obstacles. Named powers would make more sense if we could unleash them more often and there were more enemies. To just move some books a few times? Don't need to call it SPIRIT BLAST or something! * I found it hard to tell if characters were talking - their mouth movement was very unclear. * It feels soooo frustrating not being able to run all the time. It's just dragging the game out - doesn't matter if the game becomes shorter this way. Otherwise sections feel like a chore expecially when there is not much to interact with so you're just trudging forward begging for the section to be over. More serious issues which affected me which will hopefully be patched out: * Extreme slowdowns in certain scenes, stuttering performance issues throughout * Why isn't DX12 the MAIN executable in GOG? I couldnt work out why raytracing was missing and every time I loaded the game I had forgotten to choose the DX12 one so had to quit and reload. Have DX12 the main one but raytracing off by default so we get an improved experience. * Audio completely missing in the last 'lake' part of game and cutscene - that sucked! Overall - worth buying if you like the genre but it could have been even better!