Wasted potential this could have been something amazing but since launch dev has abandoned this game some content even unfinished and promised to be add next update which It didnt one years of no update i lost all faith that this game will get an update.

Just buy if you love Ito and Lovecraft

There's some decent content here, but it's a $5 to $7 game not a $20 game. The game is absolutely nothing like the trailer at all. It's 99% static images with the occasional 2 second animation. The individual missions have a plot, but they're mostly random encounters vaguely related to the story padding out a single boss encounter and a few paragraphs of plot. Keep in mind that the missions have nothing at all to do with each other or the overarching plot and there are only a couple of them.

The gameplay is pretty weak too. The spells are essentially useless. The ghost banishment sequence is the same for every single ghost and there's a flowchart of the optimal guesses to make. Combat is entirely dependent on getting a weapon that matches your character's primary stat and randomly getting the right perks. The timing system seems unique at first, but in reality it lacks any depth. It's also not actually unique so much as it is rare; it's called action points and there are quite a few games that use them.

The interplay of decreasing stamina and reason along with increasing doom (failure conditions essentially) contrasted with increasing stats is sorta interesting, but from a practical perspective there's not much there. You have to balance those three stats so that you don't die, go crazy, or take too long allowing the cult to win, but what it really means is that you need decent RNG in beginning so you don't take a bunch of damage in combat before you can defend yourself.

Some of the more interesting content requires a sequence of rare random encounters all in the right order. The otherworldly Thirst achievement comes to mind. At least the Strange Lights event has an interesting result. Then again the ending of the game is just, "congrats, you beat the eldritch god", so the bar is pretty low.

I put a ton of hours into this game, so I can't say I dislike it, but I only recommend this game when it's at least 67% off. It's game jam quality at a professional game price. I'm a professional software developer for what it's worth. I can't draw, but I could throw the rest of this game together in my spare time in under a year.

There's no excuse for this guy to take years to make this and him calling it a full release while leaving so many little things unfinished is pathetic. For those of you that weren't paying attention during early access he always had a new excuse as to why he'd blow a deadline then there'd be complete radio silence for the next year until he'd push out an update. None of the updates should have taken two years. He should have hired someone to help if he was struggling so much.

tl;dr: decent indie game if you're into Junji Ito, but not worth $20. Buy it and enjoy, but find some people to play call of cthulhu with while you wait for a sale.