It's a really nice RPG/point & click adventure game. There's great world building with lots of backstory and such that makes Revachol seem like a real place with real history. The story seems straightforward enough, but I soon found myself involved in surreal side-investigations. I'm not sure what I did wrong (based on other reviews) but I finished the game in 12 hours (game-time) including a few side investigations (church, cryptoid thing, curse, body on boardwalk). I wasn't trying to rush or blitz through it, and actually restarted once because I thought I had rushed something and wanted to do it properly. There were things left undone and I meant to go back and do them but somehow the story ended (I met up with the other detectives, they explained what was going on, then credits and then back to the main menu). Most other reviews suggest 20-30 hours, and I'm no "hardcore gamer" so I'm inclined to think I screwed up somewhere, but equally the game let me screw up... That said, there's clearly some re-play value as I failed a few checks due to not having (and not being able to have) enough points for certain skills due to my character archetype, but I'm not sure the story is interesting enough (now I know what happens) to re-do it right away.
