Ok, this one needed some time to sit. This is quite possibly the saddest and most terrifying game I've ever played. Holy fuck. How did they do that. On my letterboxd account, I'll joke about a "Stanley-Kubrick-ass movie" whenever something in a film is vague and symbolic, but this GAME actually managed to live up to what it was hinting at to deliver peak space horror.

I think this is a masterpiece? I'm really not sure, it's extremely cryptic but delivers some insane emotional highs, I'll be able to better assess this one after reading some literature and replaying it. Also unbelievably solid survival horror gameplay alongside the unbelievably fantastic story and atmosphere.

Replaying on violent and now with layer 7, this is starting to slide from "phenomenally fun experience" to maybe being the best shooter of all time? Really all they need to do is nail the last 2 layers and maybe add a deathmatch mode and I'd easily put it ahead of wolfenstein TNO or doom 2 because holy cow everything here works perfectly.