It has been a long time since I played this game, and again and again I find myself coming back to the store page and NOT reinstalling the game. This game is gorgeous, it has an eerie feeling and it trasmits the madness than a character finding about the King in Yellow and Carcosa would. It is filled with lore, hints of weird thing happening on the background and knowledge just out of reach. It is a great setting, but the game is a chore. You just don't know what you are doing, and I think it replicated too well what a person on that world would do and feel, which means that a lot of the time when you start you will spent hours just working not knowing what else to do. The timers get frustrating, and instead of dread and uncertainty it makes you feel stress and frustration. You cannot take it slowly and try to explore small things because you have tons of things happening anyway and a lot of times and a lot of resources that are fading away and sometimes you wish to just let everything fade and lose a lot of progress just so you can try to enjoy whatever you have just find out. And if you aren't that clever, or persistent, you just won't figure out what to do. I am not, and maybe I don't have the patience (but, I mean, I sank 31 hours on this game), but I had to look a wiki to know what could I accomplish and how to, which obviously defeats the whole purpose. I couldn't engage with the game like it wanted me to, it didn't hook me so I would slowly learn more and more about this fantastic world, instead slamming my head against a very clever wall that made me wish this people would just develop another game that plays better.
