The gameplay is very mid early 2000's third person shooter with very little depth, the animations are terrible and look like default unreal animations, it run's just barely okay for the graphical fidelity.

That being said, the world building is top notch, seems heavily inspired by things like Tale of the Troika, SCP, and Twin Peaks while managing to be it's own original setting that doesn't feel entirely derivative. I am basically playing it like it's an intractable tv show. The game play is so uninspired, if the setting wasn't as sick as it is there would be literally no reason to play this game even if it went on sale for $9.

It has been a really long time since I played a game with collectible recordings and documents where I feel compelled to read and listen to every single collectible I find, not since the original Bioshock have I given a ♥♥♥♥ about environmental story telling like this. It doesn't feel like a lazy way to get exposition to the player like it does in other games for some reason, and it's thematically consistent.

I only bought this to have some background on the setting before FBC FireBreak comes out and I am glad I did because the Federal Bureau of Control and the Oldest House is probably some of the coolest surrealist world building I have seen since I read my first SCP article back in the early 2000's.

The gameplay is very mid early 2000's third person shooter with very little depth, the animations are terrible and look like default unreal animations, it run's just barely okay for the graphical fidelity. That being said, the world building is top notch, seems heavily inspired by things like Tale of the Troika, SCP, and Twin Peaks while managing to be it's own original setting that doesn't feel entirely derivative. I am basically playing it like it's an intractable tv show. The game play is so uninspired, if the setting wasn't as sick as it is there would be literally no reason to play this game even if it went on sale for $9. It has been a really long time since I played a game with collectible recordings and documents where I feel compelled to read and listen to every single collectible I find, not since the original Bioshock have I given a shit about environmental story telling like this. It doesn't feel like a lazy way to get exposition to the player like it does in other games for some reason, and it's thematically consistent. I only bought this to have some background on the setting before FBC FireBreak comes out and I am glad I did because the Federal Bureau of Control and the Oldest House is probably some of the coolest surrealist world building I have seen since I read my first SCP article back in the early 2000's.