This game is great, if you are willing to invest the time required to learn how to play.
It would be easy to dismiss most of the negative reviews as skill issues, because whoever looks at the screenshots and thinks this is quick fap compatible, is obviously an idiot, but sadly they do have a point.
The gameplay is very unintuitive and difficult to digest at first. It does not help, that you have to do essentially nothing for a lot of days at first and are given a way to waste your energy for no gain early on.
The ingame guide works, but playing it for the first time you might think it is outdated or just wrong.
If you try to do anything beyond the very basics in the beginning, you will fail and get the impression you do not understand how to play at all.
Doing nothing, when you have a time limit feels wrong.
So yeah, the first time experience could be better.
I recently started playing this again and had completely forgotten how to play, but i did manage to get a completely uncorrupted team to hate eachother and had about 15 of 50 days to spare after fully corrupting them, so it is very much possible to beat the game without cheats.
I did not play perfectly, because i know it is possible to completely fuck up the early interview with the chosen and i did not quite manage to do that.
The final battle is also pretty lenient and does not require you to do everything beforehand to win, but if you do come prepared it becomes very easy.
Saving every single turn is recommended.
There is nothing quite like it as far as i am aware. It has heavy themes of saviours getting exploited by the people depending on them and is deliciously depraved.
Lots of little vignettes, that depend on relations and personalities, flesh out the randomly generated chosen. You have many options to shape their path. There are lots of things, you can do after playing a classic run and the writing is excellent.
Very much recommended, but the first time player experience does suck.
It would be easy to dismiss most of the negative reviews as skill issues, because whoever looks at the screenshots and thinks this is quick fap compatible, is obviously an idiot, but sadly they do have a point.
The gameplay is very unintuitive and difficult to digest at first. It does not help, that you have to do essentially nothing for a lot of days at first and are given a way to waste your energy for no gain early on.
The ingame guide works, but playing it for the first time you might think it is outdated or just wrong.
If you try to do anything beyond the very basics in the beginning, you will fail and get the impression you do not understand how to play at all.
Doing nothing, when you have a time limit feels wrong.
So yeah, the first time experience could be better.
I recently started playing this again and had completely forgotten how to play, but i did manage to get a completely uncorrupted team to hate eachother and had about 15 of 50 days to spare after fully corrupting them, so it is very much possible to beat the game without cheats.
I did not play perfectly, because i know it is possible to completely fuck up the early interview with the chosen and i did not quite manage to do that.
The final battle is also pretty lenient and does not require you to do everything beforehand to win, but if you do come prepared it becomes very easy.
Saving every single turn is recommended.
There is nothing quite like it as far as i am aware. It has heavy themes of saviours getting exploited by the people depending on them and is deliciously depraved.
Lots of little vignettes, that depend on relations and personalities, flesh out the randomly generated chosen. You have many options to shape their path. There are lots of things, you can do after playing a classic run and the writing is excellent.
Very much recommended, but the first time player experience does suck.