Have you ever wanted to play a Narcoleptic, Diabetic Hemophiliac sent off on a suicide RESCUE mission in an arctic wasteland? BOY HAVE I GOT A GAME FOR YOU!

Distrust is a game developed by some super sadistic russians who want you to understand what russian winters are like.

Apparently you die as soon as a snowflake hits you.

I have never played a more frustrating game before and I played Deadman setting on The Long Dark.

In this game you are a small group of survivors of a helicopter crash that goes to the dumbest arctic base ever constructed. Yes, indeed you will wonder to yourself how anyone even survived long enough to BUILD this base, much less live to broadcast a distress signal.

You will start at the helicoper crash. Right next to you is a building that will have a jacket and keys.

And that's about all the help I can give you.

No. Seriously. The game just relentlessly tries to murder you. Don't believe me?

Ahem.

You pick up a plank of wood. You impale yourself on it and start gushing blood. Within 5 minutes, you will be dead. I hope you found a bandage.

Did you step outside? Now you have a cold. You had better find that first aid kit in about five minutes or you're dead.

Did your friend you are playing with fall into a coma? Guess what? You're dead as well, because now that he's unconscious, an entire army of demons from his Id will spring forth and murder you.

Did the other player pick up a tool? Well that tool just grafted itself to his hand and there is NO WAY TO SHARE TOOLS BETWEEN PLAYERS IN CO-OP. So if you need an axe and the other guys has it, you're screwed.

Found the kitchen? Great! Maybe you can cook enough food to last an extra ten minutes! Oh wait. Did you accidentally eat spoiled food? Hope you found pills because you're gonna be dead in about 5 minutes. BTW, everyone in this world is diabetic and needs to eat every 15 minutes or they are DEAD.

BTW, you need to sleep. OFTEN. Every time you go to sleep monsters come. First level, you can chase them off with light. Second level, heat. Third level, they are made of pure electricity and shoot bolts of death in an AoE that basically is about as fun as being a moth dipped in gasoline tossed into a Bug Zapper.

That assumes you even find a bed.

Oh. Interesting game mechanic. YOU DO NOT WANT TO WALK AROUND WITHOUT SLEEP. Because you will slowly QUICKLY go insane. Some insanities are stupid, like laughing. Some are harmless, like white noise. And some basically turn the entire screen into a swirl of pain and you can at best flail about helplessly as you die.

I have been playing this for over 17 hours with my wife and every moment is a moment of sheer panic as you run about blind, hoping to stumble across something that will keep you alive another 5 minutes.

In short, buy this game if you are the type of person who likes boasting how many times you have been shot in the chest.

Other than that it's kinda fun.