Fear & Hunger is one of those rare hardcore games that never punishes you in a way that feels undeserved. Much of the game could boil down to "fuck around and find out". The bad RNG is nearly always weighted against an appropriate reward for your risk, and after you take the time to learn how severe those punishments can be - namely through trial and error - you come to have a deeper and personalized understanding of when it feels worthwhile to risk it all on a coinflip or when engaging the enemy.

It took me quite awhile to get around to finishing this one, and I'm happy I did. It's well worth the experience and left me scrounging the wiki for hours to fill the void of curiosity left burning in your chest after achieving just one of the endings. It's very rare that a game affects me in such a way in its tone and worldbuilding, though I suppose a large amount of this game can be summarized with "this is just Berserk". Still, that's only a small portion of it. The game has an impressively large amount of content for how small the map intimately becomes. Every area has purpose, which builds a game that doesn't waste your time in spite of being terribly reset-heavy when learning the ropes initially.

I wish more games applied half the concepts and tricks this game pulls off seamlessly, I could go on and on about it honestly but I'm not sure I could do it much service.