The game reeks of being a labor of love, the atmosphere and interactions are spot on, the base gameplay shooting part is amazingly fun, but the game has some severe bugs here and there that bring the experience down.
Regardless of what it was like on release, at least now the game is fully playable and stable. There are still weird glitches with characters sometimes walking through walls, disappearing or transitioning into weird out of place animations. Nonetheless, the actual gameplay part is fine. Looting, shooting, most of the basics work perfectly adequately. The game still suffers from mediocre game design, but that is something that cannot be fixed with patches. The main storyline missions are just kind of there, and decent enough, but I personally cannot stand the mandatory tutorial part in the start. Basically everything before chapter 2 is just an extended tutorial that you cannot skip or even meaningfully abbreviate, and the game only properly opens up in chapter 2. The writing is something I'd charitably call functional, but it does have its attractive moments, so it's not all bad. Also, some of the secondary conversation lines are written so that they directly contract the "mandatory next line" (yellow text) that sounds really weird when put one after another. But those negatives out of the way, the game DOES offer quite a lot of atmospheric gameplay and entertaining exploration of the environment. If that's your cup of tea, you might well get decent enjoyment out of this one. TL;DR: It's not the game it was hyped up to be, but it's not a bad game either.
