I don't know if I can summarize my feelings on this game, maybe its just too soon after playing for that.

It's striking in its artistic nature and hold nothing back with its presentation, weaving together its visuals and music perfectly. I deeply value its surrealism and vagueness that lets you fill in its gaps with whatever you deem fit.

I enjoyed the puzzles of this game a lot, the right level of challenging but understandable. It made me want to pull out a notebook and write notes down (instead i took screenshots lol).

Really my only complaint about its gameplay is that it was annoying that you can only have one stack of ammo in your inventory, so if you're full up on ammo you can't collect extra ammo from exploration. And that you equip mods in the same slot as extra combat abilities. I'm sure it adds to the inventory management of deciding what you want to carry around with you--but I found that I never wanted to leave a safe room without my flashlight, as I never knew when i was going to need it to navigate an impossibly dark room. Meaning I couldn't just have any sub weapons equipped for combat. This also rendered the ingame screen shot taking ability useless to me because I didn't find the inventory space worth the feature, when it could come at the cost of my necessary flashlight or a thermite flare. Having a separate slot to equip those abilities would've been nice.

Now I have to balance starting the game again, obsessively thinking about it while I'm at work tomorrow, or letting the dust settle a bit before replaying again.

EDIT: i just learned apparently the camera and flashlight didn't take up and inventory slot.... I don't think the communicated that in the game because I treated it exactly the same.... guess that's on me LOL. I still wish it had a separate equip slot though.

To me this game has always been the quintessential "early access, survival, crafting" game that every other game was trying to copy. I think one of the reasons for this game success is its generally more accommodating than others of the genre. I personal put survival crafting games at the bottom of my interest lists, but knowing that I could turn off food and water needs along with the game having a campaign to help push me forwards was my motivation to try this one.

I'd seen plenty of youtube coverage of the game so i new the ins and out pretty well, but I still found it an enjoyable experience. I like ocean aesthetics so that was enough for me, even if the base building was a little clunky. The base building was at least forgiving so if you placed something wrong you could just refund your materials back.

This was a nice low energy game for me to play while hanging out with my friend in voice call and chat or for listening to youtube in the background. If you want to give a survival crafting game a shot, this is one of the betters to take a crack at.

A nice arcade experience, with great art and sound direction. good for just popping on and playing a round while you watch some youtube! Roguelikes tend to fall into the trap of early game being too hard until you learn its mechanics, so I really appreciated how Doom Keeper eases you into its gameplay before you're digging around a huge map.

I really appreciate the amount of of options they give you to tweak your rounds. Having options for alternate play styles like drillbert mode or auto defense only is a lot of fun!

And prestige mode is a nice twist on your basic gameplay loop, but endless mode is so dangerous to me. I WILL just mine hours upon hours with no higher thinking going on in my brain.

Played through the game again to share it with friends (haven't done final draft b/c that came out mid playthrough) and I really do love the metaphysical aspects of the story and narrative. And I do love the non linear elements as the story folds in on itself. There's something about mental health struggles being manifested in supernatural forces that's fun.

I just hate the idea of the """RCU""" so much, it's just not for me. I'd rather have all the remedy games be an anthology of the same world than directly connecting.

Interesting concept with a lot of style and charm, but execution that fails to achieve the desired gameplay loop, as the game ends up being a battle royale more than anything relating to subterfuge. Yet I still have fun playing.

This game is straddled as "game I love but would never recommend to anyone".

If you hate losing and being thrown into matches with people who know the game better than you right off the bat avoid this game. If you're okay with smashing your head against the wall a couple of times to learn the game, might be worth it.

I like all the silly animation so I got my mileage out of it. Even if there is NOTHING worse than the feeling of starting a round and level 400 player sprinting to the spawn points they've memorized and blasting you to shreds 3 minutes into a round.

The simplicity of this game serves it well. From the satisfying fishing where you time your click to the dredging that feels like a dance, this game has a stride that gets you lost in a feeling of zen as you float on the surface of the ocean's horrors. Every mutated fish you collect reminding you there's something worse deep down where you can't see.

And this empty world, with its quiet piano tunes ebbs this feeling of loneliness that encapsulates the main character. Drifting around from port to port meeting people who reconcile with their loved ones, honoring their dead, or burning up with their passion as he reconciles with his own grief and ambitions. Its an experience that feels cohesive, with the right amount of foreshadowing to sell the story. I plan on getting the rest of the achievements in the game soon.