The game content is as described, relaxing, soothing and all that... plus the devs got a cat which is always a plus ;-) Unfortunately, this will be the first time (I think) that I will refund a game. Will buy again when bugs are fixed though. Items may clip through the floor, including things you bought, levels are "done" but 100% clean fails to register. Some interactive elements clip away into walls or the floor (in hotel part 2 the "blue lever" ended up inside the floor/wall and I found the one pixel it responded to by accident only).... The funniest bit was that the game automatically set all details to lowest as it determined my PC not "up to par"... which is kinda ironic since I can run Cyberpunk on highest just fine. It then instantly crashed so badly I had to reboot when setting details to high. A real shame too. I really liked this....
Fun little shooter, small, decent atmosphere, nice effects/music etc... for what it is it is fine. What you will get frustrated by is that the difficulty changes from one room to the next from piss easy to ridiculously hard. Forget the quest difficulty indicators, they mean absolutely nothing. Hard quests may be easy and vice versa. Some traps are outright unfair, as you may enter rooms with unavoidable traps. On the bright side, traps work very well on enemies too :P Also don't invest your skill points into Observation. You will get exp faster but consecutive levels require that much more exp that there is no point in that skill at all, as at no point will you gain additional exp fast enough to compensate for the added level up requirement. Just ignore the skill and invest your points into anything else. Bugs: some minor ones, nothing worth mentioning.
I uninstalled this after 2 missions but I'll not go for a refund and once it gets updated I'll try this again. In its current development state it is sorely missing some basics, such as at least _some_ kind of radar and navigation assistance, as it is not always apparent where threats are coming from in time, or where best to go next on the larger areas. When you die you watch the mission intro again which is unfortunately not skippable. The target crosshair is very inaccurate and while the targeting skew on changing camera is physically probably correct it isn't helpful at all. Take a few pointers from the Wing Commander, Star Wars (Tie-Fighter, X-Wing...) or Descent series titles, all of them got that part right. The graphics are pleasant, so are the effects and the music as well. I did encounter a few bugs, such as I couldn't change the keyboard controls - the mouse sensitivity I could change, but all changed keys would instantly revert. It probably plays better with controller anyway but I'm not a controller person. The 2nd mission wouldn't finish when the goals were reached, it would just go on forever. It plays fine even on a 10 year old PC with maxed out settings so no complaints here. That's about it. This definitely has potential but it just isn't there yet.
Obviously this game cannot be taken seriously, and it doesn't aim to. It's just for laughs though some cultural reference knowledge is recommended (Sean Connery, Lovecraft...)... If the game DOES NOT WORK - i.e. just exits right on start (the game screen never shows), or if the game outright complains about something regarding "x_input", then you are probably just missing some DirectX components - (re-) installing the DirectX June 2010 redistributables from Microsoft has fixed that on more than one occasion for me - yes also on Windows 10! Also thanks to "Genoan" from GOG support for pointing that out 5 years ago ;-)
