Game is great, if you like immersive sims this is a must buy.
But some updates or rather features of the updates are locked to Steam for whatever reasons.
For example:
New: Smokable cigarettes and cigars! (Steam version only - due to age rating restrictions)
Now i'm pretty sure that GOG has some sort of age rating in place otherwise why do certain countries get censored games or region locks.
But the best example is this:
New: 3 new hidden achievements related to the new modifiers (Steam only),
Just why? GOG has achievements. The GOG version of the game also has those modifiers included. So what reason is there to lock those 3 new achievements to Steam only?
Again game itself is good. But i'm sick of Devs who treat us GOG Customers as 2nd Class Citizens in one way or the other.
Own it on Steam and played it for a little over 100 hours, throughout Early Access the devs have implimented more features and now with 1.0 release it is much more stable and enjoyable. It truly is a great game and a true passion project it seems, no other game comes close to executing this sorta genre/concept. People reviewing it more critically obviously expect perfection, no game ever delivers on that but it's still very very playable and enjoyable with the minor bugs that come from a randomly generated city and gameplay experience. Give it a try and you won't regret it if you truly want a constantly evolving crime solver game. Be the Private Investigator you wanted to be!
A cool concept ruined by broken mechanics, all that stuff in the description about NPCs having lives is a lie, they just ping between whatever points of interest are near them. They're scheduled to leave work at 1800? Well instead they're just gonna be walking around the office magically entering whatever room you're in all night. NPCs see you through walls, sometimes they walk straight through locked doors, everyone's immediate reaction to you doing anything remotely suspicious is for them (and every other npc in the area) to open fire on you. Every single citizen seems to have a firearm except you, and you cannot use any of the guns you pick up, I don't mind not being able to use guns, especially because you can beat every single combat encounter by stabbing someone once or throwing a chair at them, but I want to play as a detective, not a psychopath.
But really, are you playing as a detective? A detective asks people questions, a detective tries to follow the law, in this game your only option is breaking and entering. When trying to question NPCs you have a laughably limited amount of options and they apply to every character in the game, you can't bring up evidence, intimidate or even mention you're investigating a murder. You get your cases from city hall, but have to resort to crime.
The description states "play your own way" but in reality there are, and i'm being extremely generous here, two playstyles in the entire game: tedious, janky, broken stealth with NPCs that do instant 180 pivots and somehow always seem to know which room you're in while you point your fingerprint detector at every surface on the planet, or just act like a total psychopath and smash the door down, stab the occupants then search to your heart's content, occasionally re-stabbing them when they wake up from their non-lethal stab to the neck, because that's what detectives do, right?
Do not buy, do not play, and if someone gifts you this game they're doing it because they hate you.
lots of fun but pretty buggy. Kind of a steep learning curve, I had to start over like 8 times before I got a good run going. I found it helpful (and fun) to watch a YouTuber play the game--Insym calls it one of his favorite games of all time.
With every case being procedurally generated, as well as the cities and people in the cities, the game is pure fun. Some minor bugs, but most of which you can easily get past.
