I am weak for any and all kind of scifi stories, specially with AI involved. The Portal games are with difference my favorite games of all time, I loved Nier Automata, and I've really liked this one.

There's not a lot to say about gameplay, as most of the time it consists on walking from here to there pointing a flashlight to things, but the story is interesting enough, with a bit of again that Portal-like kind of dark humor, and A.R.I.D. is a likable character.

My only "but": some puzzles have solutions that aren't definitely clear at all, involving quite a bit of backtracking and just trying to combine everything with everything just to see what happens, and I had to check a walkthrough at least once to discover that I had to point the flashlight to a very specific point on the floor that didn't look any different from its surroundings. However, even that is very "80's point and click adventure game", and some people will like it.

It's a short game but fun to play, and I do intend to buy the sequel at some point.

I was lured in to try this game due to its very nice and atmospheric visual style and the premise. However, the nature of its puzzles is way too ambiguous and makes no logical sense whatsoever. You end up resorting to walking around the area and trying to interact with everything to see if it works, and when you've had enough of that, you start digging through the walkthroughs. The progression of most things you do doesn't make sense. For example, I was told I had to do a series of tests. However, my character was unable to accept it until I walked into a nearby room and looked at a human corpse. No idea why it wasn't possible to just accept the test without having to do something as pointless and obscure as that.

There are some gun fights present too, which I enjoyed. The cover system is cool and some special abilities, like the cloak, is pretty neat too. These sections are too spaced apart, however, and majority of the game just consists of silly puzzles, so if you're after something faster-paced, best to look elsewhere.

I'd recommend watching a walkthrough instead of playing it.
The story got me interested, because I like the topics of AI and morality.

But everything else is just plain bad:

• The shooting parts are boring.
• The controls are weird.
• Many of the "puzzles" made me wish I'd read the walkthrough sooner.

Reminded me of those old-school point and click games, where you pixel hunt for object and then try to use every item on everything that's clickable, because the solution often makes no sense. I hated those games.