ROUTINE

It's a Puzzler

Jogo maldito, desgraçado, miseravel, maligno, horrivel... recomendo

Эта игра даёт невероятное чувство погружения в процесс. Впервые за последние пару лет я смог почувствовать своё нежелание продолжать играть из-за страха. Ближе к концу игры, атмосфера становится слишком жуткой и реалистичной. Она стоит всех своих денег и времени.

Una gran ambiente inmersivo. escala con el tiempo. Routine en reflejo a la vida humana con la naturaleza sigue el patron y lo desarrolla en una historia linea de suspenso. Referencias de juegos parecidos (Alien insolation, Mouthwashing, Outlast).

I am a HUGE fan of games with as strong a focus on diegetic information and action as possible, and ROUTINE really stands out in that department. The game controls well, the buttons on your multitool are immaculately "clickey", and the sound design is wonderful. The puzzles are a bit simple sometimes, but it's a choice I can make peace with because reliably orienting yourself in the environment also provides a solid challenge. I imagine the devs were trying not to make the puzzles too hard because actually moving around the areas while also remembering passcodes and important information about [i] what you're actually doing [/i] takes a lot of brainpower. Getting to your destination just to realize you forgot what you need to do would probably suck, and as such I'm happy with how difficult the puzzles are. As everybody else has mentioned in their reviews, the atmosphere is extremely well crafted, and all of the pieces come together to make an intense, challenging, and satisfying experience. My only negative is that I ran into a few bugs with the enemies in the game that were immersion breaking, such as enemies getting stuck and popping in and out of existence [spoiler] in unintended ways [/spoiler]. Overall, really lovely game, great experience, a bit short for the price point but I'll still happily recommend it to anyone that's into sci-fi horror.

The visual and audio aesthetics of this game are polished and very pleasing. It’s a delightful retrofuture design. Cathode Ray Tube computer terminal screens with monocolour displays that typically only render text and have load times that are long enough to feel authentic. The sound or appearance of spinning drive platters. Chunky mainframe computers and more. You’re given a special tool to interact with many things in the environment called the “Cosmonaut Assistance Tool” or just “CAT”. It resembles a chunky looking ray gun with a full colour viewfinder display for precise aim with a really slow smeary refresh rate and poor screen resolution. The limited output of the viewfinder makes precise aim in a hurry a very tense experience. The CAT has many modes of interaction which you select by physically bringing up the device to look at it and then clicking on the module which will give you the mode of interaction you want. This can lead to some tense moments where you know you need to change to a specific mode fast because your life depends on it but the method of changing the mode requires some doing. I did have some issues with the layout of the environments. I found that I got lost many times where I knew the name of the place I needed to go to but was having trouble finding it. I think that the somewhat labyrinthine layout of the environment was a deliberate design to make it so that you’ll panic when being pursued by things that will do you harm. But I found it frustrating sometimes. Note that the escape menu does NOT pause the game. I was flipping through menus at one point when all of the sudden I heard the footfalls of a pursuer and it scared the daylights out of me. I kind of like this choice. You can’t just hit escape and make the horror stop, you’re always vulnerable. I did not understand the story but that’s OK, it was compelling enough to keep me intrigued throughout playing. Perhaps when I play it again in the future I’ll understand the meaning of it.

If u love ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like an ark player then get this game!! Besides the absolute terror I had with this game the atmosphere was incredible. And the puzzles genuinely make u question urself if youre a dumbass or not because i was walking for hours looking to solve the puzzle when in reality i had to (SPOILER) [spoiler] look down [/spoiler]. 10/10 can only recommend