AI: The Somnium Files can’t seem to decide if it wants to be a riveting psychological crime thriller or a lowbrow farcical action-comedy, and the end result is tonal whiplash more intense than Borderlands 2. On paper, the surreal dream-logic puzzles are a neat idea but in practice it’s an exercise in trial-and-error, and the solution you stumble into determines the course of the plot; lucky me, I seem to have landed on the least fun route on my first go. An object lesson in the value of first impressions. I’ll probably get back to it one day, but maybe this isn’t for me.

Reviewed on Mar 02, 2024


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