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[h1] Plays like on acid. Actually not that great. It's a bit surreal and weird, you expecting to get into some consensus but there's none. Cuts in unexpected moments, make experience more disturbing and unpredictable. Gameplay consist mostly of dialogs with some minor choices, I don't think they change the ending though. Sadly it lack some more depth I think. Overall watch it if you have spare time or not, you will not miss much this time. [/h1]

I've played through this game quite a few times just scouring the environments looking for extras and it's such a disappointment. There's literally nothing. If the environments were interesting or interactive, or actually scary, or had some unnerving elements it would be a different story entirely (look at games like Pools, also a walking sim). The story is extremely vague and disjointed, the cuts are extremely abrupt, the driving sequences are some of the most boring gameplay imaginable, the dialog is needlessly garbled, and there's no explanation for anything. It would have been tolerable at the very least if the game was unnerving or had some kind of coherent story to follow without having to sit there and speculate on the most scant details, or if there were some in-game files to find for some lore that made you actually care about the characters in the world of the game, but there's nothing. You play as nameless, faceless characters that only need to go forward. The dialog is entirely pointless (enter gas station guy), and most of the game is just spent holding 'W' and remembering to click 'Shift' so you can sprint. There's no purpose for the crouch function, and you even get a revolver in the forest for one of the sequences for absolutely no reason. Nothing fits, and none of the stuff that's in the game needs to be there. It's a complete waste of time that'll leave you with loads of questions - particularly 'why did the dev bothing making a game out of this?' - and no really compulsion to go find answers because nothing in the game is interesting enough to really care about seeking out more information about. Do yourself a favor and just look up a video or forum post where someone explains what's going on, because you'll save yourself loads of time.

A masterclass of experimental storytelling, filled with symbology and mystery. I hope nothing more is answered.

По первому впечатлению - непонятный скучнейший пиксельный треш, где ничего не происходит кроме нудных диалогов. Затем тебя резко перекидывают в другую сцену, где ты блуждаешь без всякой цели и логики, пока не набредешь на очередной бессвязный диалог или телепортирующий триггер. Ах да, и выглядит она как омерзительно коричнево-желтый продукт жизнедеятельности. Никому не могу рекомендовать.

Another ♥♥♥♥♥♥, overrated game glazed by overdramatic steam reviewers and youtube essayists. Waste your life with better games. This ain't it.

You know what 'There's no save system in this game, you have to beat it in one sitting' tells me? It tells me that there's no losing. That there aren't any stakes. There's no reason to care, anything that might happen to me in this game is predetermined This game is a walking simulator, the constant cutting to different places and times without a word creates an atmosphere where you're never sure if you're doing the right thing, or if the game is going to suddenly cut to the next scene. You have no clear objective, the only way to progress is to try and make it to the next arbitrary cutoff point, and you don't know where it is Also what was that ending? It just ends, there's no resolution to anything. "Oh, you've actually been playing as 2 different characters this whole time" who cares? The story is just "do this thing, oh, you died, oh, I found the other person's body, and then got caught' the end And there was really no purpose behind those long stretches of driving at night where you're on rails the whole time and move forward automatically? And not to mention the lame, preachy, unfunny millennial dialogue. Give me a break

While I appreciate the effort anyone takes into creating and publishing a game, this is... something. It's atmospheric and strange, but it's really just walking, waiting, walking some more, waiting some more, over. Very short, and not as clever as it wants to be or as you would hope it could be... but maybe that's on me.

Interesting experience. Worthwhile for the asking price I'd say. A lot of the reviews I've read since finishing the game are doing too much. The game's narrative is intentionally all over and wonky; it's what makes this piece unique and fun. It is not scary or unsettling; not sure why so many are saying it is so adamantly. Great music and sound design; probably the biggest pro to the game. Very nice aesthetic style too. I think you just have to take the 45 minute playthrough for what it is. Gather what you can about the story and then just think on it afterwards. Create the meaning yourself. I'll recommend it, but just barely. A normal out-of-ten score doesn't feel right for this game.