I have to say it and I'm sorry but as a newb that just finished STASIS looking for interim lore before starting Bone Totem, I sincerely feel like someone watching Star Wars and Star Trek superfans try to cope in their reviews after they saw one of the new properties that were clearly made in a board room in like 3 minutes.

The store page and its nonsense about widescreen support/HD and repeated references to grimness registers as trolling to me so hard that I HAD to make a review and a post just to be like... WTF. Because it's like, Brotherhood why did you not clearly say what this was? Why tear me out of the cool universe STASIS established like this before I get to play Bone Totem?

I'm sorry for whining about a free build, srsly. But I legit feel like someone in Brotherhood or someone helping them publish was trolling. And I just plain don't understand the 3-5 star reviews. I should have listened to Miycu's review (the featured one).

It's like... STASIS, its early game tone and art hit me so hard I thought I was playing something more Lovecraft than John Carpenter at first. Cayne though? I feel like I'm playing badly written satire, with Fortnite char portraits. WTF Brotherhood, did you not have the foresight to understand you'd pull your new fans out of the universe presenting engine demo builds as story arc?

I'm so confused by what the point of this was supposed to be other than trolling and making newbs feel like this is a badly written series (I know it's not), that I had to make a post just hoping Brotherhood would clarify. I guess.

Edit: I was able to play a bit of Bone Totem and the environment and chars look so good despite there being no bullet points for HD stuff on the store page that I'm now dead certain someone b trollin' with Cayne's store page. Not going to say anything about the story due to lack of progress but gonna guess it'll be better than the small-dk-and-fat-joke-emporium that was Cayne. So ya... Don't tell people your recycled engine test builds are story arc and HD, Brotherhood-publishing-guy.

Sorry for bumping my post and double posting. But I would like to confirm that I was right about Cayne being writer-demo, VA-audition, Unity build test and general engine-build-test junk otherwise.

It's also the only rational explanation of it after getting far enough in Bone Totem and its great writing and art to not be sure if I'm playing LovecraftPunk or JohnCarpenterPunk again like with what happened in STASIS.

Given this and OP - and assuming Brotherhood actually reads this forum - gonna reiterate:

1) Reword the bizarre store page to make it clear Cayne is a build test. Or make it an Extra for Bone Totem instead of acting like it's a real game. Because why? Pregger/dk/fat jokes are boring and irritating af no matter the protagonist. And why make it seem like this reflects your writing skill anyway? And why the false bullet points that would [i]actually be true on BT's store page[i]!? WTFBBQ!?!

2) Pls do a The Lighthouse game or something like that universe. I feel like if this can be done successfully then it'd be Brotherhood that devs it.

I know Cayne was mostly some early story in the Stasis universe and certainly a tech demo after Stasis, which is why it was free afaik.

Much about it has not aged well I am sure (it has been a long time since I played it), but lore wise it still is part of the universe.