One of my favorite games of all time. The atmosphere, music, and ambiguity of Lone Survivor all make it a masterpiece in my book. The Director's Cut adds a lot of elegant content and is, without a doubt, the best way of experiencing this game.
I totally get that this won't be everybody's cup of tea, and that's fine. At the time, I remember quite a few publications singing this game's praises, but it seems to be primarily a mostly forgotten entry in the pantheon of early 2010s' Indie Horror. After nearly ten years, it still holds up, in my opinion.
If you haven't checked this out and you're curious, the developer, Jasper Byrne, is in the process of remastering it for the PC and Switch. So I would actually suggest holding off until that's done. He's also working on a sequel, but I don't think that that's going to be worked on much until the remaster is done.
If you want to see if this is your thing or not ahead of its rerelease, the developer himself did a live stream of the remaster's alpha build. You can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfYkbrYqf64
I totally get that this won't be everybody's cup of tea, and that's fine. At the time, I remember quite a few publications singing this game's praises, but it seems to be primarily a mostly forgotten entry in the pantheon of early 2010s' Indie Horror. After nearly ten years, it still holds up, in my opinion.
If you haven't checked this out and you're curious, the developer, Jasper Byrne, is in the process of remastering it for the PC and Switch. So I would actually suggest holding off until that's done. He's also working on a sequel, but I don't think that that's going to be worked on much until the remaster is done.
If you want to see if this is your thing or not ahead of its rerelease, the developer himself did a live stream of the remaster's alpha build. You can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfYkbrYqf64