Seven: Enhanced Edition

I bought Seven The Days Long Gone partly for many reasons, but clearly, a few things made me buy it at launch. I have hundreds of games in my collection and I hate to say it, but it's extremely rare I get any games at launch. So why this one ? 1. Indy : I love indy developers, I think they stand out. 2. GoG : It's on GoG, so it's already awesome. No DRM bullshit, the dev has trust in his game and don't need 25 layers of DRM protection to sell the game. 3. The game looks and feels awesome, and to be fair, we never have enough RPGs. 4. Obviously, I read about it, so I didn't buy it only for 1,2 and 3. Now, well, I always have my worries when I launch a new game, especially and Indie game. Gaming on an Ultra Wide Monitor, you never really know if your shiny monitor is going to be supported, and who can blame developers not supporting less than 1% of their playerbase ? Well, not them, Ultra Wide is supported straight out of the box, and on top of that, you truly have PC options. Resolution Scaling ? You name it you have it. Arbitratry locked framerate ? (so, I can lock it to 99 FPS, just below the Vsync limit of my GSync monitor), you have it. This looks gorgeous, performs gorgeously too. In other terms, it's a genuine and true PC experience. It plays and feel fantastic, keep it guys, I'm definitely keeping an eye on this development team from now on !

I just want to say, this game needs more attention. Price/performance rate is too high and voice acting & level design is awesome.

It would be an OK game that has nothing really new or interesting to offer but it is completely ruined by terrible gameplay mechanics and controls. It looks acceptable only yet it is so unoptimized that it drops FPS even on strong hardware. That alone can easily sway people from playing. Then comes the fixed camera, the idiotic sneak system and the atrociously terrible combat. Not to mention that RNG all around which means that loot-based early quests can become a serious pain. For example the crafting station is broken and needs repairs - which needs parts. You may find these right around the corner in some boxes and whatnot BUT for example in my game the RNG ruined it all. I had to go and explore and search other areas because of this, being not ready but still forced to. Others finished that quest in the first 5 minutes of arriving to Pah. I didn't find those parts for an hour and then I just died because apparently I was stuck at a place without any way of going back where I die without a gas mask. Right. Nicely planned and written, right? No thanks.

Seven is a game that is painful to play. You have to save literally every 10 seconds. Do not take anything for granted for death is one step away. Enemies are overpowered, unpredictable, and they gang up on you almost always making it difficult to escape. I almost certainly run away all of the time when there are two or three enemies because they will attack, stagger you, and kill you. Apart from this, the game is playable and has dozens of things to do. You may feel overwhelmed by the amount of quests and places to go to. Going somewhere will for sure give you more stuff to do, and thus you will get lost in the way or digress from the main quest you were doing, and end up on the other side of the map. The voice acting and dialogues are good, and the jokes are good too. The tutorial is short, so the game leaves you to figure a lot of things by yourself. The controls are a bit hard or clunky (playing with a gamepad), specially when dashing away or trying to flee only to find out you are crouched. The island of Peh is an amazing place so far with a lot of places and landmarks to discover. It gets interesting as you try to figure out how to access many places that at first sight look unreachable. However, you will certainly get lost in Peh. In conclusion, I recommend buying this game because it is playable and will give you the experience you were looking for as long as you accept the fact you'll die almost around every minute when the action is intense, being sorrounded by enemies, or in a place where you could fall a lot (like in the Zealots hometown -hate that place) Sometimes it will get frustrating but you already know what they say regarding difficulty...Seven is like a top-down Witcher.

I regret not buying this game on steam, because then I could use refund option. The good parts are artstyle and sound design, although not really exceptional. From the very beginning story sounds boring and not at all interesting, the controls are wanky, camera placement does a poor work of informing player if there's someone around him and often results in trying to climb while being obstructed by invisible roof, combat is... it just is. I really regret buying this game.