One of my favorites of all time, played it twice on both PS4 and Steam and bought it again here. Excellent immersive sim with a lot of options for all levels of gameplay from exploration to combat, definitely worth buying (I recommend the standard version, i dont much care for the Mooncrasher DLC)
By far my favorite souls-like title, I even like it more than Dark Souls 2 and, in some ways, Dark Souls 3. Combat feels pretty good, the high tech sci-fi environment makes for an interesting take on the genre, and although the game is broken up into individual (though large) levels/areas that are separated by load screens (more similar to Demon's Souls than Dark Souls 1) the levels themselves are very intricately designed, filled with several ways of traversal and shortcuts in a way that puts later Fromsoft efforts to shame. On the other hand, bosses are pretty awful and the story isn't particularly great (and nor is the backstory/lore) though i find it good enough to justify the gameplay. As a big fan of Demon's and Dark Souls 1, this is the only "copycat" I've enjoyed enough to put more than half an hour into. But maybe wait for the sale times
A truly excellent game, a perfect sequel to Human Revolution that improves on every single aspect of gameplay. The levels are smaller but whereas HR offered large cities with a few open buildings, Mankind Divided offers a more compact Prague filled to the brim with places to get into and explore, with every house/store/apartment/garage telling its own little worldbuilding story through emails, items and pocket secretaries. You can spend hours exploring the city and always finding something new in it, despite its size being smaller. The gameplay is smoother than its predecessor and still filled with the possibility of choice on how to approach any scenario. The dialogue persuasion system is the best I've seen in any game (carried over from Human Revolution), and a pretty good story. Couldn't recommend this game more. Even if it was still full price it'd be more than worth it, not just for the 30 something hours of a full playthrough with side quests, but the inherent replayability of its choice-centered gameplay (the most important choices in games aren't programmed story branches, but moment to moment core gameplay decisions, which Mankind Divided has in spades)
I own this game on steam and have played it for 30 hours there, plus another full playthrough I did on PS4 before that, and it's one of my favorite games. Very good and smooth action gameplay and incredibly unobtrusive plot, with very few cutscenes, all skippable, no scripted walking segments or other moments that strip away your control, and all of it has a great presentation all around, from the framing and camera work of these few cutscenes, to the amazingly beautiful and effective level design, the eerie recordings you can find in the world, it's one of the most atmospheric games I've played, and it's not afraid to let you play.
For reference, i've played this game for about 30 hours on Steam and purchased it again here. It's a great game that fills a very specific niche of Stealth no other franchise I know of attempts, its essentially an assassination sandbox. You're given a large level and you have the open ended task of killing your target, which can be done in dozens of different ways, gaining money you can use to buy weapons and other items to assist in your contracts, as well as having a notoriety system in case you leave evidence and witnesses. In some ways it even still surpasses the modern Hitman trilogy (Hitman 2016 and its sequels) as it relies a lot less in context sensitive actions, allowing for a much more free form gameplay (for example, while in the modern titles you have poison vials and poison syringes, with the former being usable only in food/drink items and the latter only directly in NPCs, both being just a prompt to press a button when close to the object, in Blood Money you just have poison syringes, that you use by aiming them organically like you do with any weapon, and are therefore usable on *both* NPCs and on food/drink items), giving you more flexibility and less problems with context sensitive actions being misinterpreted by the game
An absolutely excellent RPG, by far one of my favorites and best in the genre
