Profundum

I really wanted to like this game a lot and I thought I was going to but I just ended up really frustrated. The game sells itself on the cogs and chains puzzling and it is kind of successful in that regard, but they have also thrown a lot of other stuff at this game and I think it makes the whole thing much weaker. There are mazes but they are no fun. There is a mech, but it is seriously motion sickness inducing. There are escape room elements, but they are really badly signposted and in both cases I ended up stumbling on solutions before even finding the hints. There are some serious quality of life issues. This game will have you bending over to pick things up constantly, but every time you do, the model of the waistcoat moves up into your face. The instructions on how the lighter work aren't actually correct. Diary voice over should keep playing after you drop the page just so you don't end up stood motionless waiting for the clip to finish. It wasn't until the last room that I played that it really felt like the game hit it's stride. A lot of the stuff up to then felt like an extended tutorial. Unfortunately I hit some weird bug where an octopus broke into the room and music st…

Enjoying it so far , if you can put a bike chain on in real life then puzzles are not jank lol hope to see more chain pipe and gear mechanics in other developers games as its done well here , yeah apart from seeing controllers in hand , its so yesterday ; )

Performance of this game is very bad. With G2, I'm getting steady 90 FPS on other games with medium-high settings. With this game it was barely reaching 45 fps on the lowest settings, making the experience janky and playing not very fun.

I like the game very much and i really recommend to buy it. The levels are not monotonous and vary in many ways. The build system is really solid. If you connect the pipes, the steam will actually pass through them and will be able to move a fan that will move the gears that will turn on the elevator. The physics is really well made, so if you hit one pipe then all the rest of the structure collapses as well. The graphics and soundtrack are great and atmospheric. All the time I had the feeling that something was watching me. Even if it's not a horror game.

The dark atmosphere makes searching things, and seing what you are doing way harder than it schould be. Pipes are a buggy, "attaching" offset as if the pipe bevore is in a different position. If you miss one pipe and move trough holding something in your hand, it might just disconnect at the point. (Some pipes will spawn back at the lift, some just be somewhere ...) Sometimes the game just decides one of your hands cant grab anithing any more. (Hand still makes movement, but no higlith or interaction)

Spend approx 6 in real in game with lot of idle, anyway brought it for $5 so that is approx 83 cent per hour. Little bit over priced game as good game will cost you less than 50 cent per hour!