Believe me when I say that this is a TOUGH game. I mean, sure, if you play the tutorial and all, it's nice and fun. But I want a bit of a challenge. Very Large City but on Normal so I can get used to all the nook and crannies this game has.

And ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is the game relentless. You're not able to solve a case? Tough luck. That criminal's on free foot until you solved it. Deal with it. It's like, in the beginning you feel like your average late 1900s detective you find in vintage movies or spin-offs of such. But once you gain a few rep levels the cases get so tough you think Nick Valentine would've probably already given up.

But not you. You're jumping into the sea of darkness, grasping blindly for anything to keep you above water and the fun thing is that even when the metaphorical flood swallows you whole, you're still not being spat out, nah, instead it puts you through the wringer even more until you've managed to solve the bloody thing.

Honestly? For some this game could be a bit too much. A bit too real. A bit too krass for a pixel-block-styled game. But for some others who absolutely love challenges, who like to have the option to find something positive even when they fail because the game provides you these options instead of having you hard reload when you fail, making sure your characters playthrough is perfect?

It's a good game. Seriously. Sure you can still savescum your way through it but the fact that everything is procedurally generated, making the entire case solving progress chaotic as hell which - jokes on you, real crime IS chaotic as hell - makes it even more realistic and honestly? The immersion I get from playing this game is insane. I can imagine that the artstyle was also inherently chosen by the dev because of hardware limitations (sometimes the map is chugging as hell on very large maps as are the rendering caches) but I am certain that with a bit more work and optimization? This'll become my personal GOTY. It already is a super duper fun and immersive game and I say it like that because I also can't stop having unadulterated fun, kicking doors in and sending residents flying.

But at the end of the day, this game delivers so much to me personally, especially as an avid fan of games with dreary atmospheres. I HIGHLY recommend this man