Pathologic 2

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This honestly might be my favorite game ever. It's got a great mix of open-world, combat, dialogue, and medicine mechanics. It also deals with colonialism and human nature and crisis. On normal settings, it's really challenging (not quite souls but in that realm of things) and I've had to backtrack a few times to be able to move forward, because you can softlock pretty easily in this game. HOWEVER, that's because it's true to the premise and the atmosphere for the game to be challenging. Just a really unique game with a very cool vibe to it. 10/10!

In Pathologic 2, you'll have Twelve days. Not that many, but enough.

I could not rush to write this review sooner after finishing my first playthrough. In a word; MASTERPIECE. I went in wanting to play this one before P3 because I saw Sseth wrote a review and was interested. Absolutely blown away at the depth and scope of this project. The lore alone of this world has more effort in it than 90% of AAA games these days and the writing may be Top 5 for me. I wouldn't call this a horror game but the survival aspects will have you gritting teeth if you play on the intended difficulty which I absolutely recommend. On the note of recommendations, it may be controversial but I think taking a look at the Wiki before getting too invested is wise as there is about as little hand holding possible in this title. I was misinformed from ChatGPT that sprinting reduces hunger faster but later looking at the Wiki, this is inconclusive at best so I certainly didn't get the most out of my playthrough that I could have. Also the game mechanics are just all so fun (crafting/brewing/looting/trading) that you will want and more importantly NEED to be well versed in order to survive let alone maximize a run. A couple of nitpicks just to not glaze the game eternally, your "vision" to see objectives does not give a compass and you can only set one marker on the map at a time meaning you will constantly be in the map due to nonstop pathing issues to destinations. Later once crafting becomes available I think that a huge QoL problem is not being able to tag items that you need, I have at least 10 pictures on my phone of recipes I needed before I basically just had the Wiki up on another monitor the rest of my run. Optimization wise, I think I have a good rig and ran on high settings or whatever is below ultra and things look/run great but once I stepped inside any building my fps took a nosedive no matter what setting I was on. Kind of on the neither good nor bad side is that combat can be a bit jarring to get used to but after a while you will get the hang of it. Overall, extremely punishing, rewarding and thought provoking. Will be diving into the DLC next before P3 and certainly will be doing another run of this afterwards. May the Lines guide you, Emshen.

Полнейшая дичь. Ребята не покупайте и не играйте в это. Сложность ради сложности, бредовая какая-то замануха в которую просто некомфортно играть и через пару часов некоторые игровые условности просто бесят. Чего стоят нападающие на тебя бичи. В какой-то момент они перестают на тебя нападать, и ловят вместо тебя другого чувака. В итоге они все равно кинутся на тебя без причины. Это не крутая игра, это бредовая шиза в которой сложность обусловлена идиотизмом.

Amazing atmosphere, super intense, few things in gaming feel as satisfying as just barely managing to survive the night in this game