Please note I rate games on a scale where one star means it was enjoyable with issues. Bad games don’t even get stars.

what an innovative and fun game! Sneak, slash, and freeze your way through a world of fantastic OSHA violations as you explore a paint by numbers (but fun!) fantasy story.

This is a wonderful immersive sim, and anyone who played thief, dishonored, etc should play this.

However, it has a few minor but grating issues that will rub you raw by the end. You will die to stupid rope jumps. You will experience failing to climb a low edge because you didn’t look up enough. It’s minor but it’s frequent, and on top of it the game crashes often even with a 64 bit patch.

Finally, my main criticism of dark messiah is that the final stretch of the game has sections where stealth is impossible despite being almost entirely specced into stealth. It was still fun being an assassin but I’d prefer not to be forced into combat for a prolonged period like that.

Seriously, play it though. Best first person combat I’ve ever experienced, and definitely will play through it again.