I'm not going to lie, I feel like I'm playing a glamour game for someones gender-dysphoric online OC. Which is totally fine. The aesthetics stick out like that to anyone who is... more or less aware of these niche spaces on the internet - depressed, queer, love dark and rainy cyberpunk aesthetics, and listen to breakcore made by people who are, ultimately, just like them.

When people go "this feels like a trans game", this is generally what they're referring to. And yet, when you dig into the lives of the developers, (sorry, I have nosy-@ss woman syndrome) - as far as you can go, you seem to find very little of that - it's bizarre - and I'm not sure how much I believe the "Shodanon has a wife and three kids and a farm" but then again, not only do we know who thought of Marie or the larger project, but who knows - maybe some people are just different. Maybe one day someone will (ironically, of course) cry "my culture is not your costume!" or accuse someone of appropriating the culture of their niche, and moderately schizotypical ingroup on the internet. (I'll take my Prozac later.)

That being said, my thoughts going into this is less that there's some absolute reason that I have to consume this game as a game, but moreso that I want to gamble my $25 in hoping that one day 1. Mod support for this will be astoundingly creative and 2. Devs will add some stuff in. Who knows how much. 1 is my general hope. Yes, I hope that one day there are mods for Peripeteia on unity in the same exact way that mods for Tarkov exist.

The game itself, occupies this sort of "E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy" feel to it. The inventory feels like more granular stalker, and it is manipulated in a way that is similar to tarkov; even the movement it almost feels like... one could play this as almost some type of bizarre, hardcore extraction shooter. The gunplay is different, but not really bad or anything. Many aspects of this game are really novel.

$25 has never felt so steep, and I don't know why. $25 for the game is a good price, but at the same time I don't know, I just get this vibe that I'm hoping for a modding community to pop up.

I wonder who created Marie, the main character is cute, the in-game model for her isn't necessarily a high quality model, but she fits with the environment. I imagine she'd be... like Alita, battle angel if it existed in this world. She looks a little different, this is okay.

The artistic elements of the UI design, such as Marie's representation in the augment menu among other things, is really cute. Unfortunately there's very little content like that.

I think it's worth getting. For some reason I can't help but compel myself to explore. This reminds me of the source game, G-String, which had been in development for 12 years. I think they're both worth playing.

I think that this, as a creative product, is something worth exploring. You feel like you're picking the mind of someone who has a particularly fantastic outlook on alternate history. And in a way, it feels as if a westerner has adopted the slavjank mantra. I find this very endearing.

I think it's worth buying. My intent is to gamble on the future though. This game by itself is a nice $25 novelty... But what I'm really, really hoping for is some sort of cosmic power to descend from above and bestow a new modding scene upon us.

This game is included in bundles that include things such as "Beyond Citadel" - one could say that that game, is... fetishized look upon some of the same design choices that make peripeteia what it is.... so, perhaps you can consider it a "less horny" version of that.

The dialogue is well-written. Whoever wrote the responses and the talking and conversation segments has a really nice grasp on how it is one can write multiple characters... The messages are worth reading. Marie almost occupies this bizarre position that compels someone (like me) to examine what it is her femininity means to the bigger picture of her life, and herself existing as a sentient cybernetic human/entity.