DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

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I feel a bit silly being a grown man who bought a game made for kids. I think there's a rule of thumb about gameplay: if the gameplay gets too simple, maybe you're better off making a visual novel instead of a game — otherwise it's a game for children. That's the case here. This isn't a point and click. You actually have to walk your character around and do tasks. But after a while of moving through tiny spaces, going back and forth between rooms of houses to complete tasks like "get some water to make coffee" or "find some random guy's dog because he agreed to sign off on the expropriation of his property as long as you find his dog," I realized the fatal truth: I'm playing a game that obviously wasn't made for an old man like me. I don't have the patience to keep doing silly tasks in a linear game just to advance a story full of clichés along the lines of "blah blah money is bad blah blah greedy".

People said its good but I find it simmilar to a walking stimulator

This story made me want to go tf to sleep. It's that boring.

very short but good game that makes us question "is it really worth?", where the main enemy is the guilt created from our own decisions.

Pretty good game. Good gameplay, excellent artistry. That said, something about the tone and what felt like a very pessimistic backbone to the story left a bad taste in my mouth, and I was glad it was over by the time it was done.