This games atmosphere is amazing and I adore the subtle storytelling and narrative.
The puzzles were mostly fun, and I personally do enjoy puzzle games that encourage trial and error, but I found that near the end of the game and sometimes just inbetween other great chapters there were puzzles that were more tedious than anything else, and I looked up a walkthrough for 2 or 3 levels throughout because; the gameplay is only fun when you're thinking of what to do or going through a time sensitive puzzle, when you just have to stand still and think about what you're missing or when pieces of puzzles have long windbacks or are far away from eachother, the game instantly becomes boring. During my playthrough I probably only averaged 20-30 minutes of playing per session because I would get bored/not bothered to keep trying at puzzles over a short amount of time. Sometimes I would return to the game an hour or so later but the point I'm making is that by the last 5-6 chapters I saw finishing the game more as a chore. I wasn't picking up the game because I enjoyed it, I was spending 10-15 minutes a day or so when I was bored in an effort to slowly chip away at it and finish the game just for the sake of finishing it.
While that was an entire paragraph about what I didn't like I still overall enjoyed the game but definitely stopped having as much fun/patience around the last third of the game.

The base game is actually really great! Even though it's obviously not the most sophisticated game of all time and I dont think the developers expected it to be either, all in all the game is very fun. It's everything you wanted in an fps as a kid. Blood, guts, senseless violence and dumb humour. Even though every fibre of my being hates the vibe of this game and its creators I have to admit there is something so charming about it. But that's only for the base game. Apocalypse weekend is atrocious I do not reccomend playing it even if you really enjoyed the base game like I did. I have never wanted a game to end faster than it did more than I did during apocalypse weekend. Everything is wrong with it, the story is dumb but not in a goofy charming way like the regular story it's just lazy and it knows it. There's this one part where the game leads you to believe there'll be another little mission/activity after youcomplete a certain quest and it just cuts to a clip of the creator of the game on a phone call comically remarking about how they dont have the budget for the sequence in game so it just cuts to the next day instead. This is funny and I understand what they were doing but like it doesn't really work when the game is already dissapointing like the joke doesn't work when it's in a shit game and overall apocalypse weekend feels like it knows its shit and doesnt care and thats why its awful, I understand that's the tone of the base game too but there was still substance there. Anyways I dont care to finish the paradise lost dlc so im not accounting for that in my review. Without apocalypse weekend the game is a 3 and a half maybe even a 4, with it gets a generous 3 stars