Posted on: March 24, 2025
grozen357
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 14
Base game get 3 stars, DLCs - 0 !
This one is a mixed bag - it seems that for every aspect that is well executed, we get two or three terrible design/executive decisions. The storytelling is pretty decent, having touched all the required parts of a Chthulu game - the horror is a bit toned down, going from mental to visceral, but the mental stability of the protagonist is well made. The combat is so-so, mostly let down by the scavenging mechanic, which exists only to prolong gametime. You get a total of four enemy types (minus humans), with a little variety in their abilities. Same with the terrible journal/quest/case system - you have to manually place pins on the map location and then manually remove them. Which is not terrible, until you realise the map shows only the locations/pins for the currently tracked case. And you track the clues separately for each case. UGH !!! The better side quests flesh out the world of the Mythos, but the rest are simply MMO-styled fetch quests, with nothing more than a text note as information. And you make rounds and rounds in the city, on the same locations, with the same building models over and over again. These seem to only exist to pad out game time, when the only thing they do is to break the flow of the game (if scavenging after every fight wasn't bad enough). A good example for a shorter, more focused game would be the Call of Chthulu from 2018. Which brings me to the terrible part of the game - the DLCs. They SHOULD NOT exist in a single player game: 1. For the 13€ ones, you get a small quest and a bunch of fetch notes (again). 2. For the cheaper ones you get: Skill point?!?!?, skin and a tommy gun. Way better would be to create a 5€ Developer support DLC, that way the people that liked the game can show their support, instead of this "I want more money" crap. With a better thought out gameplay and less junk, this would have been a great game, but right now it's mostly dissapointing, considering the good world building the main story provides.
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