Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora

It was ok at first. I had fun playing it then the game got hard and tricky and the maps was like a maze, spent the last few days trying to get out of the lair with the mouses under ground. Once I finally got that area done, I had no clue what to do next and was a sitting duck confused and lost and the npcs were very useless. I stopped at the part where I had to visit the gum factory. I just stopped playing cause the map extremely confusing and I don't know where I am going and cannot even shoot a gum to a tin wall to blow it up and I raged quit. I did try to look online for help but it was even hard to find at least a walkthrough. I haven't played the game for months and probably never gonna return to it

cool name, chore game

6/10

Despite being verified, does not work on the Steamdeck. It's a charming game, but the save file corrupted multiple times and/or did not save.

I recommend this game but with a large caveat. Overall it was a fun experience, but it falls victim to some large glaring issues. First off, the story is often all over the place as it is possible and very likely you will stumble across later events earlier than you should and they will not make sense (e.g. I found and arrested suspects I didn't even know yet). The game is riddled with sequence breaking dialogue and events due to how the events kind of just stay and repeat themselves, so it can be difficult to follow. The other gripe is a clumsy ammo reloading mechanic where you manually insert skill bullets into a four chamber revolver. Skills are represented by bullets in a gun. Every so often you need to pause, unload all your bullets, and load in the correct ones. It gets even more awkward when you need different bullets at once. I do not understand why the player could not just scroll through the abilities. I enjoyed everything else though. The story, even though it was out of order, was enjoyable. The dungeons weren't too taxing and I had a lot of fun exploring on my own (and generally accidentally discovering plot). I'd recommend this game if you want something that you can put about 10 hours into.

Fantastic design and story writing, Absolute bargain