Welcome to the Game III

[h1]This is a very strong contender for the best in the series.[/h1] The music is nice. The location, the motel is a really cool environment to occupy during a run. There's extremely fun interplay with all the mechanics. The new systems for making money are engaging and fun. The rep system, though a bit restrictive early in a run, does give the game an interesting sense of progression. And the number of killers makes run variety a guarantee, ensuring something interesting is almost always happening. [b]What's more important than praise right now is criticism,[/b] as the game is still being updated, with more content planned for the future and I hope it gets even better, so here are some of my thoughts: On the point of the killers, I will say some of them disappointed me slightly in their use. The game is already tough as nails so to ask more is greedy, but seeing a killer like The Breather who was an insanely tough threat in all previous games be reduced to a sprint check is a little disappointing. He went from being the character I feared the most in WTTG2 and Dead Signal to someone who doesn't pose much of a threat. I feel kind of bad for him. Killers like the Noir have gone from simple to incredibly interesting with all the different ways they can spawn and how you need to react to their presence. Having killers be one-note like The Breather makes them feel less like killers out to get you and more like a videogame trigger you half pay attention to. One small thing I wish I knew in my first full run-through was when the cut-off time was. I had no idea the game time limit was 4AM because as far as I know (I swear I looked) it isn't stated anywhere. When it would be a very simple thing to have Ronald simply tell you: "If you don't send me the code by 4AM tonight, or if another player completes the puzzle first, you lose." Simple :) It would also be cool to be able to remove pinged users from your CryptChat, or move them to a separate "read" section of the program. You spend a lot of time interacting with a whole host of other people on the dark web to make money and buy services, but eventually you don't need some of these people anymore, or they don't need you. To be able to get rid of those useless chats so the side-bar is more neat would allow players to more efficiently manage their contacts in the middle of a run where efficiency can mean the difference between winning and losing. Also one small thing. I don't have the game code to check for certainty but I couldn't really tell if hacking another player of the game slowed their progress towards keys. I had a really tight 3AM - 4AM that I had to retry a bunch because of money troubles and I thought about the idea of spamming the leading player with petty hacks to slow them down until I had enough money to put a hit on them. I don't know if this worked but I certainly would expect that it should in a game like this. If that isn't currently a consideration implimented within the game, maybe it should be? I had a lot issues with the hacking minigames unfrotunately. Firstly, because killers can arive while a hack is happening, (something I like btw), this means you can be faced with downright impossible situations. For example, one time I was grabbed by Cletus after a hack had just began and the long animation of him searching me for the drugs caused me to lose a high level memDefragger hack with absolutely nothing I could do about it. No chance to attempt the hack or use a NOPSled like I would if Lucas had arived at that point instead. I lost all my money and decided to just restart from my checkpoint. I also had an instance where the internet being cut off during a hack caused the hack to disappear and boot me to the desktop. But despite that, the hack was still running, it was just impossible to interact with, so I lost all my money there too. The balancing on some of the hacks is also absurd. The same high difficulty hack of one type may take you a few seconds to a minute and be reasonably doable, although still tough, like StackPusher and ShiftSEQ (ShiftSEQ is very easy though). But then you have K3RN3LC0MP1L3R and TOKENINE which go WAY overboard on expectations to the point of either being nigh impossible. In the case of K3RN3LC0MP1L3R, the speed at which you need to read and then type each line is completely unrealistic, you are not given nearly enough time to get it done. And if you were given enough time the max level hack would take you minutes to finish which is time you simply do not have to spare in many tight normal runs, let alone a 1337 mode run. TOKENINE is a bit more doable but the patterns with the right angles and dots don't have enough unique parts to them to correctly identify the 5 parts of the whole. And again, you aren't given nearly enough time to work it out. Maybe it's a skill issue, I always have to ask myself that with an Adam game, but the disparity in difficulty is laughable when compared to StackPusher and especially ShiftSEQ. Overall, the game is incredibly fun and the way it expects more from you than most games do is something I REALLY appreciate. I got done with a normal mode run on the day I'm writing this and am excited to try a Normal+ run. (Normal deathless) and hopefully eventually feel confident enough to try 1337 mode. Banger game Adam :D [i]~ Review made on July 20th 2026[/i]