Chernobylite

First of all, my review is going to be very subjective but I will also point out some things that creators in my opinion could improve. The most annoying for me was that it's really hard to play with a pad. There is no button assigned for running, for opening the inventory or map. I tried all of them and didn't find those functions. Apart from that sometimes camera moves when I don't press any button or move the analog, this is really frustrating too. There isn't any input instruction for pad either. The keyboard one definitely lacks some keys (like for inventory, map, quick access menu...) I don't like characters' animations, they often move very unnaturally but the worst thing is that characters don't have face animations and you can see through Olivier's mask that his eyes don't move, they don't even reflect anything. In prologue there was a moment when my both friends walked through a door at the same moment and their run animations started in the same second, so it was clearly visible that they use the same set of animations and they run identically. I agree with someone's opinion below that it's not clear what you are supposed to do, I mean should I kill enemies or just hide? One shadow used half of my ammunition... When it comes to assigning a mission, I didn't figure out what % below companion means. At first I thoughts it's about chances they will make it, but then I got 59% for staying at home and 78% for a mission so how staying at home is more possible to fail? After my companion failed a mission I couldn't even see what are the consequences and I didn't know what the icon means. Maybe it was because I played with a pad which isn't very functional now... So yep, lots of unexplained things. I played for 2 hours and got 6 crashes in different moments, but mostly during viewing available missions. I really love the environment though, 3D artists did great job (except for some pools) and the climate of abandoned area with monsters is also well done.

This game has potential. Not as is though. The character movements are far off from dialogue. Crouch mode was getting stuck. Prompt on screen wouldn't go away to grab something from inventory when I didn't have it. I paid $15 and did a rare refund request. It's now $30. Pay $30 to be a beta tester if you like but there are better games to put the money to.

I loved this game, it started out as STALKER-like indie effort with no clear direction (was it an RPG, was it an FPS, was it a base builder, etc) and after having finished it I must say it's its own thing, an interesting mix of all those elements that ended up being executed better than I thought. I especially loved the complex decision tree and how they impact each other, quite similar to some of the best RPGs. The early game is rough but the midgame is great (basically once you get good weapons and don't struggle for resources and food anymore you're in midgame). The levels are amazingly well crafted, I kept wanting to go back, kept using the photo mode to take screenshots. The timed mission thing was stressful until I realized what happens when it expires... Suffice to say it actually makes sense in the game story/lore and you have a way to deal with it and continue playing the mission so not a big deal. I also think that without a bit of pressure from the mission timer the game would quickly become repetitive because while it has very detailed levels there are just a few of them so it can easily get repetitive if you can spend hours in each the first time you go into them. But don't despair: there will be tons of missions taking you back to the same level over and over again so plenty of time to explore and learn the levels by heart even without attempting to reset the mission timer (which you can do). Looking forward to see what else these devs will be making because if this is their first game I'm very impressed!

The game is based on timed missions. You have 30 minutes to finish them. A deal breaker, there is enough stress and pressure in the real world. The rest of the game really has potential.

Indeed, the game looks interesting, and I was going to give it a try (I don't own it yet), But having time limits on missions is a show stopper for me. So I'll wait to observe the evolution of this time limit "feature".