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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

OK, but philosophically weak and trite.

I just finished the entire game a few minutes ago. It only takes a few hours at most to complete. It is a decent little indie horror game. It has no combat gameplay whatsoever and is purely story based. It's a fairly good game if you want a short horror game where you can just experience the atmosphere without having to concern yourself with how well you play the game. It has little to no skill requirements and is essentially just a narrative experience with light puzzle elements. The underlying philosophical message of the game is basically just a standard generic "don't be too greedy" message. Some of that message (to not be exploitive to other people etc) is fair and good of course, but some of it comes across as disproportionate and overly angsty. The message of the story is definitely philosophically weak and trite. It attacks a very straw-man view of capitalism basically. It is really lacking in nuance and is quite stereotypical and morally transparent and presumptuous. It's like the kind of story you'd expect an angsty teenager would write. The emotional maturity here is pretty low. It's like if some random person on a pro-communism anti-capitalist user forum decided to make a narrative horror game. It exaggerates one side of the issue in the most simplistic way it possibly can to make it appear more sympathetic, but then steamrolls over any kind of nuance involved in it. The best way to improve this game would have been to add some more substantive plot elements to the story. As it stands though, the underlying message is too generic, angsty, and weak. The game may be philosophically shallow, but it's a fairly well put together game and worth the experience if you're interested in a short story based horror game. The author clearly put a lot of work into it and the overall quality is good. There were no apparent bugs. It is a respectable game overall, despite being so trite. I still enjoyed the few hours it took to complete it.

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