Chernobylite

I got this for $10 on sale and just started playing it,,,,and ill say from what i have seen so far its not a bad little game.... a AAA title.. no... but its fairly solid... i think alot of the negative comments are from people who are 1. Just nasty people who cant say anything nice about anything because it would hurt them ... 2. people who just like to talk sht (moan for the sake of moaning ) 3. fussy people who no matter what you cant please them anyway... there is nothing wrong with chernobylite....at all...i am really enjoying it :3 and i hope that they make a second that is longer :3

Even with interesting concepts, the game falls flat on executuion. Theres an attempt of survival elements, but materials and consumables are so plentiful it rarely comes into play. you can make every weapon (all 5 of them) overwhelmingly powerful; to the point that I could easily wait until the big bad guy shows up and unload on him and make him go away for the day. Total cost of getting rid of the big bad: a couple of cans of soup and less than a full clip. Traps are only good at wasting your time because everything can be solved faster with bullets. Even with all this, I consider myself a patient man so I went through up to the final mission, where I went though the whole process of selecting the right dialogue choice 10 times and wasting 30~ minutes just to get killed because one of the social links ended up in neutral instead of good, nevermind the railgun i had in my hand at the moment and which I couldn't use. Uninstalled, no longer care to see the ending after that stupidity.

All in all this is not a bad game, so i won't give a bad review. It has stunning graphics, a good plot, some interesting horror elements and also the crafting/base building elements are well implemented. The game is solid from a technical point of view and i didn't encounter bugs or stuttering. Sadly, it's the umpteenth game here on Gog which has misleading reviews and honestly i am tired about that. Let's see: They say it's open world...false. It has some tiny maps connected by a clunky teleporting system and a small base. The maps are as big as the maps in the first Witcher (2007), so ridiculously small today. They say it has interesting exploration...false. In every maps you'll find always the same enemies, the same buildings and the same resources. The same emptiness. So boring. They say it has important stealth elements...false. Stealth is completely broken here. You can use stealth against human enemies who are very stupid, but the monsters spawn from nothing and you can't avoid them, no matter your level of stealthiness. They say it's not linear...false. You progress through the story only with the help of your wife's ghost. You can do a thousand fetch quests if you want, but it's a terrible way to play a game. Buy this game only if you want a good survival horror in an interesting setting. It's a sort of Resident Evil, plus base building elements and somehow Alan Wake feelings (the mistery of the missing wife). If you are looking for a Far Cry/Horizon/Tes/Fallout/Stalker/Risen spare your time and look elsewhere.

This game had great writing and atmophere. Gameplay is also fun, but gets overshadowed by the story (which is not a dowside). The only bad thing I can say is that the game crahsed few times on starting the game and there are few playces where FPS fall (one of them being the first time player is given control.

Game rather from the AA segment than AAA. But in its category it is very good. The plot is interesting, exploration interesting. I had a good time.