Actual Sunlight

Beautiful, agonizing experience. So often felt like a story written about my own pitiful life, all that was missing was the crippling dependency on substances to do literally anything, from feeding myself to leaving my home to falling asleep. I frequently just stared at the paragraphs and laughed heartily at the absurdity of having internal monologues I'm so familiar with spelt out to me. Made me simultaneously glad and infuriated I live in the country, far from all the tall buildings. It would be easy...so easy....just fall....

I truly regret spending what little money I did on this.

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I do think mental health is important and it's cool to see it represented in a game. But I got no enjoyment out of this personally. Of course it was going to be depressing due to the nature, and some valid and intelligent points about society (particularly work and consumerism points) were made but there were 2 main issues with the game for me (I have blocked out potential spoilers, please be aware): 1. So linear. [spoiler]It would have been cool to be able to jump off at any point in the story, when at the roof. It would have just been the a matter of adding some dialogue and a cutscene and would have made the game be at least somewhat replayable, at least.[/spoiler] 2. Some of the dialouge was just weird and immersive breaking for me. I just overall felt a lot of the conversations were wholly unrealistic and strange. [spoiler]ESPECIALLY the colleague Evan who has a full on mental breakdown when he doesn't get promoted??[/spoiler] Here are some further examples of what I mean with the dialogue: [spoiler]Title: "My career passion is to not be a stabbed homeless guy" (Insensitive, IMO) DOCTOR: "Do you understand that in many ways, you're very fortunate"? EVAN: "What do you mean?" DOCTOR: "You've had access to.... "You're a white male." (What?) "A bunch of white people pushing around" (Weird narrative to push with a mental health story, ashamed of race? Found this so weird...) "I seriously have no idea how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded I am" (What...) "Always another videogame to go out and buy" (There was a few criticisms about gaming throughout the game which I thought was tasteless given this is mean to appeal to gamers?)[/spoiler] I just overall think, while I respect it is personal to the dev, there is not much of a game here and the story just doesn't hit the mark, mainly due to the linear nature and bad dialogue, which just made this game not for me, and I don't feel it's much a videogame. I respect the struggle and hope everyone is in great health, including the devs and team, though! One more frustrating edit out of further frustration: Steam overlay and screenshots completely broken. Tried to figure out how to add screenshots to the game with a number of quite complex methods, with a plan to create a guide but after much failure, could not get it to work. Had to add the screenshot to a different games file (I like to have a screenshot of every game I play). Another unpolished part of the game, which has further soured my experience.

Mi primer juego que compre en Steam, lo jugue porque lo vi en youtube en su momento, a la hora de escribir esta reseña ni me recuerdo de la trama principal, solo se que era sobre la depresión y todo lo que conlleva, claro que lo recomiendo pero tendre que darle otra probadita.

This game kept making me feel like it was more pretentious then deep. Finally just stopped as the rather meandering monologues just got boring after a bit.

i recommend it, its great short game. it shows how being lonely is hard and how u can easily get into wrong train of thought. i wasnt expecting things to end up like that but it sure has a message for people who are struggling.