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Please, download the demo and try it yourself. This is a game that you need to feel to understand why it's good.

Set the "crowd density" graphics option to 'highest' for an authentic Group B experience!

Edit: Update 1.1 removed the anti-cheat software (though you need to uninstall it manually if you allowed it to install originally). I retract my thumbs-down. The game kicks all kinds of ass.

Update 1 added Denuvo driver-level anti-cheat software for multiplayer, and if you do not install it, you cannot access the singleplayer content at all. The fact that this is a requirement for the singleplayer portion of the game is baffling, especially considering how this was added months after launch.

Dusk is remarkably faithful to Quake in feel and gameplay, but brings its own personality and style to the table. The enemies all fire projectiles that can be dodged, and the movement feels great, so combat becomes a dance of circle-strafing and bullet-dodging. The levels are creative (especially in the 2nd episode) and fun to explore, as there are plenty of well-hidden secrets. Andrew Hulshut's soundtrack is excellent and the environments have a surprising amount of atmosphere considereing the limited graphical fidelity. It's a ton of fun to play, and the personality of the developer really comes through in the game. I have no trouble recommending Dusk to any fan of mid to late 90s shooters, as well as anyone who wants a refreshingly high-octane experience.

The most well-told video game story I've ever experienced, bar none. I still think about it a full year after playing it. The game is dripping with atmosphere, and the story themes are extremely haunting. Absolutley a must-play for anyone who likes existential or sci-fi horror.

I got this game in November of 2007. Nine years later, it's even more fun that it was back then. There's not a lot of games you can say that about.

EDIT 10-12-2016: The game has been patched to solve some major issues, particularly with abnormal resolution support, issues with config files being reset, and the beoken mouse. The mouse does feel much better (although it feels like there's still some slight acceleration going on) and the issues with randomly changing sensitivity and really janky movement in the menus are fixed. I've been playing the game for a while now and enjoying it (it is still Bioshock, after all), and so far I haven't had any major issues yet. There are reports from others of crashes that may have been introduced in this patch, but I have not encountered any so far. I have experienced occasional and seemingly random framerate slowdowns that are minor but still frustrating considering all the other issues.

In its current state, the game seems to be working OK, but I still would have a hard time reccomending it as a paid product. If you have the original and have been holding off playing your free copy, I'd say that now would be a good time to give it a try; but if you're planning on buying this remaster, be aware that it may not be a smooth experience.



BUYER BEWARE! This is a terrible port. Nothing has been fixed from the 2007 version that I can tell.

Here's all the problems I have encountered in the first few minutes of the game:
-I had to make the settings ini file read-only to stop it from resetting them on startup
-The mouse smoothing is absolutely unacceptable and there is no way to turn it off in the game. It feels like it's trying to emulate an analog stick, it's bad enough that it makes me a bit sick and there's no way I'd be able to aim with any accuracy. You can turn it off in the ini files, but you'll need to make the files read-only or they reset.
-Mouse sensitivity is way too high, and on the lowest settings the broken smoothing severely affects the menu cursor. Fixing the smoothing in the ini files seems to sometimes fix this, and sometimes not. The sensitivity seems to change in-game randomly - sometimes it feels significantly lower, then increases, sometimes it's too high.
-The game crashed on startup in Windows 7 without the Platform Update installed - to be fair, this is listed in the system requirements, but this is the first game I've ever seen in my life that requires a specific (optional) Windows update to even start properly
-Advanced graphics options present in the original game have been removed - not a big deal, it's not like many people will need to turn things down to run it, but frustrating to see these settings outright removed
-The FOV option consists of two choices: terrible, and OK (looks like 90 degrees to me) - no slider
-If you have a controller plugged in it sometimes forces you into controller mode when you start the game

Also worth noting is the game takes up about 4 times the hard drive space as the original, with not too much to show for it. Textures are a little better, and there are some minor details added here and there, but nothing worth all the technical trouble.

People have commented on the original game's technical issues online for 9 years now, and many of these problems are relatively easy to fix. None of them have been fixed as of the time of this review. Do not spend money on this game. I feel dissapointed even having received a free copy.

I will update this review if these issues are fixed, but for now, due to shoddy quality of this port, I can't reccomend this over the original.

Ever wonder what it's like to have a job? Then Viscera Cleanup Detail is the game for you! There's something strangely satisfying about cleaning, and this game captures that feeling perfectly. Quite polished compared to other early access games, with quite a few hours worth of cleaning and many more to come in the future. The maps are very pretty with plenty of attention to detail. Singleplayer is relaxing in a strange way, it's a great background game fwhen listening to podcasts or music. Multiplayer is not without its issues (connectivity and synchronicity problems will crop up occasionally) but is great fun with friends and makes a good sandbox for workplace shenanigans. Overally a very well excecuted and funny concept that makes for a surprisingly fun game.