INDUSTRIA

Game has definite strengths: artstyle, atmosphere are great. But it's very poorly optimized, and buggy. Your head constantly clips through walls, revealing the void beyond, and the save locations (I was on Hardcore), are poorly placed. At the end of the first chapter loading screen, game crashed, sending me back to the 1st typewriter. I would have had to repeat it all, and considering how short the game is, repeating large percentages of it because of bugs was not gonna happen. I gave up on it right there and then.

This game is inspired by Valve’s Half Life 2. I am well over an hour into the game and I like what I see so far. It is cool to play a game like this one from a small indie studio because it is easy to tell that a lot of love and care was put into this game. I have read reviews on Steam that the game is relatively short so I decided to play it on hardcore to make the fun last longer. Hardcore mode requires to look for typewriters to save game progress and ammunition, life regenerators are harder to find through out campaign. There are some puzzles in the game which so far are easy to solve. Combat is typical of FPS and story is interesting. I would recommend the game to half life, sc-fi games enthusiasts. The game is definitely worth trying. I almost forgot that there are Trabants in the game ! (google it if you do not know what Trabant was).

Game reminds me of half life 2 beginning - you have small amounts of ammo, enemies can easily kill you, you feel constantly hunted, almost as in horror game. There are also simple physics puzzles (use valve, stack boxes etc.). Font is probably “borrowed” from Dishonored. Unfortunately game is unstable, sometimes crashes or lags, performance on GTX1070 and i7 is terrible – drops to 30/40 fps at 1080p. In smaller areas fps can go up to 110. Thankfully developers are constantly trying to fix that, increasing performance and removing obvious bugs (like spawning below map if you saved while having axe equipped instead of guns). Checkpoints even on easy are too rare – it would not be a problem, because you do not die often. Unfortunately crashes make you repeat game fragments for no reason. I ignored performance problems and bugs and tried to enjoy story because it is really good and intriguing since beginning. Unfortunately it ended half way and I am left with disappointment. Game atmosphere is really good - deserted city, no obvious way to go, but open doors make it easy to navigate further most of the time. Maybe 1-2 times I did not know where to go next and had to circle around for few minutes. Not sure what to tell you – buy game so creators can make 2nd part and finish story? Or do not buy this game to not promote releasing half-games? It has potential, it has atmosphere, but performance can make it unplayable for you and is disappointingly short - 3h max.

It seems developers left behind GOG version of game. There are no achievements, but it's not a big problem. Main issue is that new patched is not published for GOG. The latest one was released 20 days ago, and still missed on GOG. That is really bad taking into consideration that game is really buggy and unoptimized.