It's slow, clunky, and just plain unfun.
I really want to like this one but i feel that 1) It's too short, i completed the game in just over five hours compared to the near 15 hours I took to complete Obduction (the developer's previous game) 2) The way the narrative is told just sucks, the narrator doesn't say anything of actual importance until at least half way through the game and maybe i missed it but i couldn't find any books or diaries outside of one in the hub area of the game. I really was hoping for more story or character interactions and less 'We are keepers and we keep the realms but I am sad and I have been changed and this one guy is evil but we are good'. I still have no idea what the Keepers were actually doing. 3) The puzzles are a bit too easy and also tedious to complete. Without spoiling anything all i can say is I despise the underwater section. That said, I did enjoy the Adjunct as a mechanic, it felt pretty good getting the upgrades and I did enjoy the ending, I just wish there was more meat to the game and the story was more interesting. Not a bad game (little bit pricy at $50AUD for 5 hours of gameplay) but it was disappointing after waiting all this time.
Feels like your average modern Far Cry game mixed with a bit of Fallout 4. Not saying that good or bad, just nothing new. I don't feel like my money was wasted, and i don't really feel let down since i went in assuming it'd be a lot worse than it actually was. I enjoyed my 50 or so hours played so far, the main questline was pretty good and some of the side quests are memorable, but outside of that it felt fairly generic for reasons i'm sure a thousand other reviews have covered. I am hopeful that at some point down the line there will be interesting content added to the game, maybe a DLC continuing the story (although that would be difficult due to the multiple endings) or something overhauling the open world content or even just a new zone or two, but in its current state there isn't really much to look forward to after completing the story. To conclude this directionless rant, this game feels like the sort of Hollywood action movie you've seen a thousand times before, theres guns, explosions, cars, awkward sex scenes, Keanu Reeves, a rather uninteresting sound track, a clown with a grenade for a nose and a hell of a lot of physics bugs.
