Gloomwood

The game is really good id recommend playing the hardest difficulty once your used to the game since it really tests you like stealth/survival horror games should BUT the new steam deck update does not run well it crawls to 40-30 fps when looking at certain lights very suddenly and not even the scource of it if that room is lit and for whatever reason itll drop but not all lights so hopefully real soon its patched

This game so freaking cool an EPIC! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

My gateway drug into the imsim genre

If you are a fan of stealth focused imsims or the gothic horror genre, I cannot recommend this game enough. Every level is an immaculately crafted masterpiece of design, absolutely dripping with atmosphere. Fully diegetic UI, a timeless art style, a darkly beautiful and horrifying world brimming with mystery and environmental storytelling that rewards player curiosity. Despite the early access status I would argue what's been released is well worth the price of admission. Of all the bangers New Blood has put out, I think this one is their best yet.

It meets all the criteria of a survival horror with a fairly well rounded stealth engine but doesn't really execute well on it. The game provides you with way too much ammo to really qualify as a sneaker however the thief games didn't lack in arsenal either. The difference being in thief I rarely used any of it at all. I started in the thief genre with the release of the thief 2 demo and that game was life changing for me, literally. Once my friends saw it for the first time, all had to have it and we started playing hide and seek in the dark with guards and loot on a 5 acre heavily wooded property, a moment in time a simple PC game actually reshaped the course of our summer weekends. This game has it's own vibe, I love that. The victorian noir possibly mythos inspired aesthetic set on a costal city has a really great feel and even scratches an itch in a way. It has it's flaws, I think the world setting overall is too well lit? If I were to reimagine this setting I would lean much heavier into a grueling horrifying Bloodborne-esq environment that is much more visceral but maybe that just doesn't fit the vision of this game. The creators leaned heavily in to the late 90s feel and while it draws wonderfully on that in the low poly models and low-fi texture pallet, it seems too just bright overall in the city areas I've been too thusfar. What made thief easy on the eyes back in the day is that it just wasn't in your face. You had to squint to make out the finer details of a thing, with respect to what a finer detail entailed circa 98. Then again, entirely different game, and comparing the 2 is honestly difficult for me. I absolutely love that the creators draw on so much inspiration from the early thief games and would even love to talk shop about with them about how their experiences with them shaped their vision for this, but, I'm losing track of the thief vibes in this game and it is steadily turning in to a shooter. I just laid waste to I believe 8 supposedly scary creatures in the hive area with plenty of ammo to spare and the place is now as quite as a church attic. While survival horror is the technique that lead me to collecting all that ammo, there is no sneaking left to do in the area from what I can observe. Thief was the same way, you had the choice of going in and demolishing everything, killing every guard then cleaning the place out while making enough noise to wake the neighbors but I would at least start a mission compelled to complete it the right way. In the case of Gloomwood it is simply: ##crunch glass## "so anyway, I started blasting", and you never look back. Is that a bad thing? Not really ... I always had the option of being a better sneaker but I failed, the issue is I wasn't really punished for it in the way thief would. What I am anticipating at some point is to eat my words. Am I coming up on an area where I wish I had all that ammo? That is actually what I'm hoping for, so I'm hopeful for this game to maybe come in to it's own, be it's own thing instead of a love letter, it's just Gloomwood and makes me want to come back that same way thief has done seemingly countless times over the years. 8.5/10 absolutely yes.

игра стоит своих денег однозначно. Обидно что в раннем доступе, но игра стоит ожидания