Pathologic 2

Embrace your mistakes, and push through till the end.

Un jeu qui donne envie de s'oter la vie

Genuinely one of the most addictive games I've ever played. The resource economy is incredible. With very few exceptions, you always have multiple ways of obtaining the items you need and managing your meters. There's never a moment of downtime. The mindmap is a stroke of sheer brilliance in the field of quest design and yet you'll always be wandering slightly off the optimal path in a mad dash to rummage through a trash can for bottles and needles, or to the nearest playground to convince a child to give you some dried fish in exchange for some marbles. Say what you want about the story compared to that of the first game: Classic has a much stronger narrative overall, but I do enjoy many of the changes made in this game, and gameplay loop is so much sheer fun that the story changes I dislike don't even hamper my experience. I even love the combat. Maybe I'm just the target audience for this game but it's the only one I've ever encountered where story, gameplay, and progression are not only great on their own but intertwined in such a compelling and immersive way. It improves on Classic's gameplay to near perfection by every metric I can think of. If you enjoyed the gameplay in the…

I find this game particularly tedious and annoying and have no interest in completing it

Some cool ideas, but mostly overrated and dragged out. Very linear game, choices largely don't matter and the gameplay loops become meaningless quickly (survival, curing people, etc). The worst is the writing, it is the embodiment of imverysmart and im14andthisisdeep. Style without substance, and the morale/twist/whatever can be deduced by like day 3 out of 12. Rest is a slog towards a predictable end. I finished the game out of sunk-cost fallacy more than anything else. Get Disco Elysium instead

Unlike any game I have ever played. I don't usually like games that are confusing in dialog, maybe it's translation but also people tend to talk in riddles or as if you know what they are saying when you clearly don't. Something about the art style, the feeling of being chased, liminal spaces, dystopian settings, or the eerie climate just draws me in. The survival mechanisms in this game keep you hooked on the plot, the plot being how you can save everyone, save some, or no one at all. You get attached to characters or mostly the children in the game. The children or degenerates make more sense than the regular adults honestly. You can build good reputation or a bad one, either from looting or being a poor surgeon, or trading and being a good surgeon. The worse your rep, the harder it is to get around without being jumped. The more you die, the harder the game gets. Pathologic 2 is definitely a gem. Have yet to play the first one but heard the 3rd one was not as good as the first 2.