Man, sometimes a game just hits in all the right ways. This was just perfect to me, and I know I’ll be chasing another game I enjoy as much as this for a while. I picked this up in a sale nearly a year ago and never played it, I ended up starting it on a friday evening before a long weekend. My husband was out, I had a beer, no new games, and picked this one out of my steam library to try out. Within an hour I was starting to regret all social plans I had over the weekend, as I just wanted to play this game all weekend long. I really cannot recommend this enough to fans of both survival horror games and classic adventure puzzlers. It has been ages since I have been this captivated with a game.

It’s funny and absurd while still being tense and unnerving, with an engaging and lovable cast of characters supporting the game. The gameplay and story worked together in perfect harmony, nothing felt superfluous or like it dragged at all. Yes, there's some bizarre, kinda stupid stuff here, but it worked for me, and everything was just impressively well-balanced.

A few puzzles in this are challenging/unintuitive, but largely I don’t think you’d need a guide to solve anything. Without a guide though, you will likely miss a lot of stuff if you're moving along only where the central story is pointing you. This is a game that really requires a lot of unguided exploration to experience everything, and the completion of multiple endings to get the full story. I did one blind playthrough then went back and used a relatively spoiler-free guide to find everything I missed. This is a great game to replay/get all the achievements and endings for, as they all come together to help resolve the story.

Just fantastic.