Seems like a nice game. At least the beginning is quite atmospheric and I am eager to play further.

The game apparently uses Unity. It installed and seems to run fine also on Linux. The only thing I am unsure of is that the game's HW requirements are quite low, yet I was getting something like 10 fps even with a 1280x720 resolution.

I presume it is either Linux, or running it on Intel HD graphics, that causes the slowness. Can someone else confirm how it runs with intel HD graphics in Windows? The game requirements mention nothing whether it will even run on Intel HD but I wouldn't expect an Unity game to be that demanding... right?

EDIT: Confirmed, it is just some Linux issue. The game runs buttersmooth even in 1920x1080 resolution in Windows on the same machine, with Intel HD graphics. Maybe it just needs some extra tweaks on Linux to run smoothly...

Not sure if this some generic issue with Windows Unity games on Linux? Oh well, beside the point as this game doesn't support Linux officially.

"where revealing one's face means instant death"

Are people in that game THAT ugly?90's DOS game/PS1 game.

I think my mind, having experienced the grapics of the era is being confused by a few things. Bloom/specular shading, the number of colors, and aha!

The PC's hands have CHROMATIC ABERRATION.

This is stupid. Chromatic aberration is a product of cheap camera lenses. I don't care if you think it is the coolest visual effect since the lens flair, there's literally no reason a game of this visual style should have it.

Having your arm in front of your nose does not help you aim in any way. If you are thinking of iron sights, then that is a button press away and can remain a button press away. Ammo can be shown on the HUD. Alternatively, keep the ammo on the gun, but make the player have to look down to see it. Not that hard.

As for focusing, I want to focus on the environment and my enemies, without having my giant hand blocking a third of my view.

Also shooters are not the only first person games. Why on earth would anyone hold a sword hilt up to their nose, instead of at their hip where it belongs? (They do hold it at the hip level in 3rd person, but that's why we say that the eyes are in the chest LOL.)

I have far more respect for games like Kingdom Come Deliverance, where you will only see your sword, whether sheathed or held in your hand, when looking down (or mid-swing), rather than constantly held up to your nose, like in a Bethesda game.

And fun is subjective. I find full body awareness and realistic body animations/proportions fun, while finding nose-weapons / chest eyes annoying and ridiculous.

The reason is that the devs liked it, that's usually why devs do stuff. They recognized that not everyone would agree, hence the option to turn it off. Same deal with the vignette effect. And the pixelization, like I mentioned. Isn't it neat that games (usually) have settings, so you can adjust stuff to your liking?

I suppose I was supposed to infer this from the paragraph long blurb and no settings page screenshot?

Just an update to my earlier report that the game runs very slowly on Linux for some reason:

I got it to run fully smoothly on Linux, even on a very old and weak 4GB RAM Acer laptop with Intel HD graphics (some weak 2 or 4 core CPU). So the jerky one must have been just about some WINE setting or something...

So my testing was:

An OpenSUSE laptop (a 5 year old Intel HD graphics laptop):
- Installed with Lutris: jerky, like 5-10 fps, no matter which options I tried like wine-GE or Proton-GE or whatever.
- On the same laptop, installed with Heroic as well, and buttersmooth 60 fps or whatever at the 1920x1080 resolution.

A Linux Mint laptop (probably 8 years old or so, Intel HD graphics, only 4GB RAM etc.):
- Installed with Lutris, and fully smooth at 1920x1080.

So, yeah. If you want to run it on Linux, it should run fine, but I haven't yet been able to figure out why it runs jerkily in the first test (Lutris on OpenSUSE). And yeah old Intel HD graphics seems to be plenty enough for the game even though it is not mentioned in the game hardware requirements at all, tried it also in Windows without issues.

The game itself seems pretty nice so far, nice atmosphere etc. Need to play it more.
BTW when I talked about the pixellation earlier, I was actually referring to the unfiltered boxy textures on polygons (like the ground for example), which I guess is there to give the retro Playstation feeling to the textures, as PSX couldn't do texture filtering at all.

On top of that objects' edges appear to be "pixellated", as if running in a lower resolution. The retro option in the settings seems to affect the latter one, ie. without it objects have sharp edges, but the textures still remain unfiltered (boxy).

Whatever, I don't mind that much as long as it plays well. I generally dislike retro-graphics in games because I am not really remembering fondly the poorer graphics of the old days. It just seems kinda odd, as if trying to make the game look worse so that some people would feel more nostalgic...

But as said, not a biggie, I can live with it as long as rest of the game is good and the poorer(?) graphics don't get in your way.

Thanks for that link. I totally missed that when it released here. I need to check into it. Wishlisted for now.

It looks interesting, a little bit dark and creepy ^_^