Usually when I decide to leave a review for a game, it's when it's clear the game is serviceable / worth recommending / worth ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on or completed it. This one deserves to be called out for every little thing as early as possible and I'm impressed I lasted 6 hours. Countless bugs and of course, red flag from Hatred from the same studio in 2015, random edgy writing and gameplay. Never seen so many hand off comments and nonchalant "WW2 banter" that is funnily enough "skippable" if your characters get "distracted", being able to "miss out" on the "story" - which is about German deserters in the Ponary Massacre.

Main reason behind this review is however the save bug, I thought the game "ran out of save slots", deleted them and then had to start from the beginning of the level :crying_laughing_emoji:. This is easily worse than Partisans 1941. As the saying goes, 1 year goes by, (at least) 1 new real-JANK-tactics game comes out. Anyone who managed to beat the game while experiencing the save bug should be congratulated for beating this hot dog water tier game that tried to cash in on the success of Mimimi with Shadow Tactics and Desperados III. For "all" (saying all as if there are many) things the game does well, it takes a 1km stride backwards (features like diving to prone and the combat mode à la Men of War manual aiming are genuinely good). I will pain myself to finish it and getting the achievements but my god it's not worth it even if we get to hear Doug Cockle (Ewal in game) say KURWA in a strong Americanised accent.

Please god let The Stone of Madness be good.

Might be biased towards the amen breaks but this is easily the most polished indie game ever in early access state. Thankfully the game is highly replayable but it's understandable if one would want to experience it all in 1 go because the "wow" factor may not necessarily be felt more than once outside of the difficulty slider and secret hunting. Should be enjoyed with as little of the game spoiled as possible.