A truly ambitious mod that I can respect for its influence on Half-Life's modding scene, but unfortunately it's too rough around the edges for me to recommend. Where it shines is the atmosphere, and it's pretty tense if not outright scary at points, but from a game design standpoint, it just flops. The game bathes you in pitch darkness at many points and gives you only Half-Life's terrible flashlight to work with, which leaves you stumbling in the dark frustrated instead of scared. Most of the enemies are largely fine but the Alien Grunt variant is mostly invisible except for their projectiles which makes them brutally unfun to encounter. Combine that with level design that essentially amounts to switch hunting and you have a mod that is not only fairly dull but actively frustrating

I have 4 hours on my save and as of now I think that's enough to keep me from playing again, I would have quit sooner but it was very hyped up, I might try playing again in coop but then again literally every game is fun with friends so it's not like it counts for much.

I think this is probably an okay game, but certainly not for me.

Failing 3 75% pass rate checks in a row and then failing a 95% chance one? Going two hours without passing a single dice roll? Nah I'm good, reminds of Fallout 3's dialogue system, and that's another thing, the dialogue isn't very good, I can certainly play as a character, but not my character. The AI characters are also mostly unlikeable, the ugly elf that sounds like a pedophile, the racist white woman, the annoying orc knockoff chick. This game further confirms that I just really do not like isometric games or turn based games, it does not control well or feel good to play.