Posted on: December 5, 2022
Asherett
Verified ownerGames: 638 Reviews: 5
Not a good game by any standard
So, on the surface this seemed like a super nice Stalker type game. Sneaking, crafting, I'd have preferred turnbased to realtime combat but oh well. It's atmospheric and fairly well visually designed. However, it very soon became apparent that this is the kind of game that insists on punishing the player at all times. You can only save by sleeping in safe areas, it's super easy to die, and you actually need not only prepare and cook food; but actually plant and farm! The absolutely biggest issue is the camera handling imo. You can only sensibly rotate the camera by holding in the mousewheel and moving the mouse left and right. And there's a lot of manual aiming in this game (to fire a gun, you aim with right mouse and fire with left). So basically you can't control the camera while doing anythin else. There are keys to turn the camera, but it's totally useless. Even though you can click to move, the game has NO pathfinding, so your guy will run run into a wall. In addition, there are so many absurd design decisions all over the place. When you buy a big item from the trader, like an armor, you need to have space in your inventory. You can't put it on while in the trader window, and you can't exit the trader window while having an item in trade. So you need to start selling stuff you don't want to sell. A big part of the game is bashing open hilariously lightweight crates with your crowbar (seriously, you'll send them flying), and if you accidentally hit a friendly with your wild swings, it's instantly game over. Noone cares if you just steal their vital supplies right in fron of them though. Quests are also stupidly broken, dialogue is totally meaningless, and the whole thing of course reeks of typical slavic machismo and misogyny. Avoid, even if you think you like this kind of thing.
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