No doubt about it, this game is a slog. I only played the Bachelor's route, and that alone took 30+ hours of playtime, most of which was spent just reloading saves as I tried to navigate the town without dying. It's also surreal, haunting, and beautiful. In many ways, the pain of playing is wrapped up in this beauty: the game is about the suffering required to do right and the difficulty of understanding what "right" even is, and the friction in playing can easily be read as part of that. I'm not likely to jump right into the next route (and in fact I'll probably just focus on Pathologic 2 from here out), but I'm very glad to have experienced this much.