Cataclysm: The Last Generation

I didn't make it far in this game. I spent the first 45 minutes fighting with the settings since the game font was almost unreadable immediately on launch. I finally figured out that the game is set to Directx11 by default which breaks fonts for some reason. I switched to OpenGL which made the game at least readable. I decided to play a bionic sniper. Sounded cool. Spawned in completely blind and deaf. Nowhere does the game tell you that your augments are OFF and you have earplugs in by default. I fumbled my way through the maze of unwieldy menus to figure out how to turn my vision on and take my earplugs out. I immediately noticed that the game itself looks really good. That's really the only positive thing I have to say unfortunately. Then I was slapped with the most glaring problem. The interface is a disastrous mess of mazes within mazes of menus. It is absolutely daunting. The garbled mess of an interface is more dangerous to your wellbeing than anything else in the game as far as I can tell. Your intuition for game controls helps you figure things out in most games because they're built with intuition in mind. That skill will do you a massive disservice here as nothing is intuitive. Nothing. 0 things. None of the keys that do basic things like open and close doors are standard. It gets worse when you realize that opening a door is a different key than closing a door for some reason. There are so many examples of similar actions being bound to different keys instead of being bound to the same key. Every action in the game is either performed by memorizing hundreds of key combinations or manually navigating the menu maze. There are no action bars. There is no way to pin common actions to the gui. Unless those features are buried in the menu hell somewhere so deep that I never tripped over them. At this point I knew I was going to hate this game because the controls are the worst I've ever seen. I decided to try combat anyway. I opened the door and was met with 3-4 zombies. I tripped through the menus and hotkeys to figure out how to fire my gun (because of course that's harder than it should be too). I fired my weapon at least 10 times. I didn't hit a single shot. Apparently a bionic sniper can't aim. Makes just as much sense as the gui. I'm assuming there's an unbound hotkey somewhere that aims before you shoot or some nonsense. I killed a couple zombies with my fists instead before I was swarmed and killed right outside the starting building. I play difficult roguelikes every day. It's my favorite genre. Some even have complicated GUIs that take some getting used to. The GUI in this game is the worst I've experienced in any game ever. This is only the second game I've ever played where the bad GUI made me quit all by itself.