This game is absolutely AMAZING! Excellent gameplay, reasonable difficulty (i.e. "Normal" is actually pretty challenging, "Hard" was too hard on my first play-through, "Nightmare" must be near impossible, especially for a new player), and a very VERY good sci-fi story with a pretty neat twist at the end.

Mind you, the actual ending of the game comes after the end credits, and your end credits scene and outcome will depend on how you played the game and what choices you made.

Also, this game runs exceptionally well. I was quite happy to get average 60FPS on the "High" preset with Anisotropic Filtering set to 16x (the only setting I had to change because for some reason maxing that is not default in every game) on my aging MSi GT60 2PE Dominator Pro with GeForce GTX880M. This was a pleasant surprise after having Dishonored 2 perform nowhere near as well (had to turn most things to medium or low and lower the resolution to get playable frame rates in that game). The only exception to this is the Power Plant Reactor area, where framerates could drop to as low as 19FPS (though I've seen on the forums that even people with GeForce 1080 cards are seeing this, so it may be a bug that can be patched). Two things lacking in the graphics settings, which may be fixed in upcoming patches, are FOV and disabling motion blur. You can fix those in the config file, though (though with motion blur, the game will keep resetting it unless you set the config file to read-only or make a batch file to set it every time you launch the game -- check the forums).

Seriously, this game is just about perfect for a single player, science fiction, story-driven game with a lot of freedom to explore how and when you want and in how you play the game and approach solving problems in the game. If you've been thinking you might want this, allow me to say YOU DO! GET IT! I think it's worth the full price, but if that makes you hesitate then get it on sale. ;)

This game is absolutely AMAZING! Excellent gameplay, reasonable difficulty (i.e. "Normal" is actually pretty challenging, "Hard" was too hard on my first play-through, "Nightmare" must be near impossible, especially for a new player), and a very VERY good sci-fi story with a pretty neat twist at the end. Mind you, the actual ending of the game comes after the end credits, and your end credits scene and outcome will depend on how you played the game and what choices you made. Also, this game runs exceptionally well. I was quite happy to get average 60FPS on the "High" preset with Anisotropic Filtering set to 16x (the only setting I had to change because for some reason maxing that is not default in every game) on my aging MSi GT60 2PE Dominator Pro with GeForce GTX880M. This was a pleasant surprise after having Dishonored 2 perform nowhere near as well (had to turn most things to medium or low and lower the resolution to get playable frame rates in that game). The only exception to this is the Power Plant Reactor area, where framerates could drop to as low as 19FPS (though I've seen on the forums that even people with GeForce 1080 cards are seeing this, so it may be a bug that can be patched). Two things lacking in the graphics settings, which may be fixed in upcoming patches, are FOV and disabling motion blur. You can fix those in the config file, though (though with motion blur, the game will keep resetting it unless you set the config file to read-only or make a batch file to set it every time you launch the game -- check the forums). Seriously, this game is just about perfect for a single player, science fiction, story-driven game with a lot of freedom to explore how and when you want and in how you play the game and approach solving problems in the game. If you've been thinking you might want this, allow me to say YOU DO! GET IT! I think it's worth the full price, but if that makes you hesitate then get it on sale. ;)