Gloomwood

I WANT MOREEEEEEEEEEEE

yes

Phenomenal game, incredible atmosphere/art direction. Updates are kinda slow which is unfortunate but the content available is great. Cool guns and fun ways to handle every encounter.

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非常棒的独立IS游戏，靠着顶级的关卡设计抹平了生存恐怖和沉浸式模拟之间不适配的部分，让二者的优秀体验充分发挥出来

Gloomwood is easily one of the best indie games I've played. The first thing that hits you is the atmosphere. That Victorian city is incredible. Dark streets, old buildings, weird machinery, suspicious-looking fellas, cult-like lunatics, and creatures that look like they crawled out of a Lovecraft novel. It even reminded me a bit of those old-school PC Nosferatu vibes at times. The visuals are gorgeous too. They have that late 90s / early 2000s look without feeling outdated. Instead, it feels nostalgic in the best possible way. Every area has personality and the whole game has that "they actually cared about this world" feeling. And despite looking like a shooter, this is much closer to the original Thief than it is to FPS games. You are not Doomguy. You are not Master Chief. You are one bad decision away from becoming Victorian roadkill. The game constantly encourages you (doesn't really give you a choice) to sneak, hide, observe patrols, and to think before acting. Sure, you can fight if things go wrong, but that's usually the point where you discover that one random guy with an axe is capable of rearranging your skeleton.Don't go running around or you may have to borrow Stephen Hawkings wheelchair to move again. I learned this several times. The weapons are great (specially that one sexy cane-sword), the level design is fantastic, the physics are surprisingly good, and exploring always feels rewarding. Every new district feels distinct and makes you want to keep pushing deeper into the city. The story isn't anything revolutionary. You're basically a doctor who wakes up kidnapped in a city where everyone seems insane and the local wildlife appears to have been designed by a sleep-deprived Lovecraft fan. But honestly? The atmosphere carries it so hard that I never really cared. The only thing I'd recommend is getting very familiar with the quicksave f6 key. Very familiar. Best friends forever familiar. Sometimes you'll spend 20 minutes sneaking around like a Victorian ninja only to open the wrong door and get introduced to the afterlife immediately. It is also very nice seeing a stealth game again. Feels like the genre practically went into hiding over the last decade. 10/10, one of the few games where being a coward is not only acceptable, it's usually the smartest strategy.

An amazing homage to Thief series but with its own twist.