I can literally only play this game when I am high. If I am sober the game is too British and it makes me uncomfortable.

So first off, it is not am immersive sim. An immersive sim is meant to immerse you into the environment through having sensible game mechanics that you can use and abuse. So for example, there are hostile bots right? Well these hostile bots can be distracted, and you can hack into little walkmans. What would the sensible game design be? To turn the walkmans on, creating noise through music that would cause them to fixate on the object (and perhaps turn it off) allowing you to slip pass. Is this a thing you can do? No.

And the game pats itself on the back smugly for being a game that "allows multiple approaches" but there were a lot of times when I felt like I was lacking in tools and options to actually proceed and I felt like a monkey with a hammer trying to cram a square peg into a round hole.

The game did not manage to build up an interesting world, setting, lore or characters really. There's one dude who talks to you occasionally but you yourself is just... I dunno, a bot? A bug? An ego? What does any of it mean? :shrug:

The game claims that people worked here but there isn't enough evidence of it and everything feels overly clean to a fault where it just doesn't feel genuine as a world people would inhabit. It's too gamey.

So I didn't really understand who I were. I didn't understand the space station I was on. I didn't understand the bots that they used or how a giant singular virus can even exist. And at a certain point I was so disinterested in the world that I stopped reading the notepads and computer texts (show, don't tell).

The game also has this... I'm not gonna say "comedic" design to it because that would imply that there is comedy, and if this is comedy then, wow the dev(s) and me have completely different ideas on what comedy is. No it isn't comedic, the game just doesn't feel like it takes itself seriously enough. Like. It isn't anything. The bots are all cute and cartoonishly designed and the text is eccentric and flippant but, there's no actual comedy. So it just feels like a long bad dry joke that doesn't land.

Gameplay is kinda annoying. You get tools, sure, you have no idea what they are and what they do until you spend a (rare) disc to unlock them (think of them as aug canisters from deus ex) and try them out for yourself and when you do a lot of the tools' usability is questionable. I got a tool that allowed me to turn small objects into destructive devices, but I rarely found any point in using them as other tools are better and less prone to just blowing up in your face.

And uh... You might clip out of pipes... Like, big round mario pipes right? yeah we got those in the game and if you're in one of them and use a tool (like the shotgun) then your player character model (the bug) gets so erratic that it might clip out of the model.

You also can't just open doors or use save terminals, you need to hop from your bug to the terminal to save even though you have an arm you can interact with things with.

At a certain point I just kinda dragged on like a zombie until I finally had enough of the game. It's just not fun for all of the reasons I just stated and more I can't be bothered to type out.

If you want an immersive sim, just go replay System Shock 2 or 1 remake if you want the sci fi feel.
If you want a good first person puzzle game then go play Supraland.