TL;DR: 4.5 stars, Uncomplicated gameplay; well done, harsh, but very familiar story; outstanding art direction; really aggravating autosave that will occasionally make you watch the same dialog cutscenes over and over; basically no options to speak of. If you're any kind of fan of sci-fi horror, you'll know this plot inside and out within minutes, but playing your way through all the tropes is a big part of what makes it fun. Without giving anything away, I will say that the creators certainly didn't pull any punches with their story, which lent a bit more weight to otherwise familiar territory. I will say that there were two evens towards the end that, while not unforeseeable, I was not especially anticipating that were a nice touch. Gameplay is excellent, with uncomplicated controls and logical puzzles that are generally not too easy, but not frustratingly abstract either. I can only think of one puzzle that stumped me for quite a while, and was only solved by using all of the items in my inventory in succession until I found the solution, which when it presented itself, turned out to be fairly logical after all, just not at all in the direction I was thinking. Art direction is fantastic, this game is like walking through every sci-fi horror set you can think of, with a surprising variety of locations and looks, not just one dingy spaceship room after another. This is by far the strongest aspect of the game. Voice acting is a) nice to have, and b) overall very good. It mostly suffers from the fact that the emotional level of the voice frequently doesn't match the horrors of what has just happened on the screen. The biggest annoyance was the fact that the autosave, while generally a nice feature, often saves /right/ before a cutscene or piece of dialog, which if you're dealing with a puzzle that involves you dying repeatedly while trying to figure it out, gets really obnoxious and breaks the tone of the game completely. No options to speak of. 4.5 stars
