Gloomwood

Man...there is a lot to say about this game. Just to get it out there, I genuinely think this may be one of the best immersive sims I've played in a long, long time. For starters, as an early access game, it is impressive how much content has been crunched into this experience. You can wander and always find something new: nooks and crannies, areas you might never discover until you go through another playthrough, enemy types that you need to think through on how to defeat them, etc. If you are looking for a true stealth first person immersive sim I highly recommend this game. The only thing that seems a little lacking, at least to me, are the actual stealth eliminations. Maybe I'm spoiled from the dishonored series and the assassination animations in that game, but if there were some of those elements in this game it would be even better than it already is. ALSO, the wiki is hella fleshed out! Final rating 9/10.

im glooming so hard right now i got gloom on my wood type ♥♥♥♥

Now this is a game.

thief with guns and the RE inventory. honestly one of the best in the genre despite it being early access. all the bones that need to be there are there and this game receives regular support.

game use brain smart!!!

If you like any of the OG Thief games, if you like reading notes to piece together stories and fragmented clues, if you enjoy gibbing and messing with corpses, if you like "playing doctor", then you will LOVE Gloomwood. The only bad thing I can say about this game, is I wish there was more of it. Despite that, look at my playtime. That's ONE "playthrough" on the Full Moon difficulty (thorough as hell, no guides, but still), all the way to the end of Hightown. This is one of those Early Access games that already has more than enough in it to be worth the price, and when it finally drops it'll hopefully leave a crater bc of how hard it hits. It's like if Thief had a bit more tuning towards immersive sim, with some Lovecraft & shotguns thrown in. Every "level" is a part of the sectioned off world you can backtrack through, with so many branching paths, hidden connections, and secrets that you'll discover new things on your 3rd or 4th time through zones. You've got Resident Evil 4's attache case, mixed with Skyrim's ability to place objects (only it actually WORKS here bc objects don't glitch out, and actually stay wherever you leave them). When I reached the "End of Early Access" screen, I didn't want to play anything else. I just wanted more Gloomwood.