Transient

Just came across this game from a demo video by the main character's voice actor, the excellent Ryan Cooper. There's a lot of Lovecraft built into this game, and the themes of a tech-noir dystopia have always seemed to practically beg for that kind of horror game. No one will mistake this for Cyberpunk 2077 or anything, but that's enough to get me intrigued.

A lot of reviews on Steam, however, seem to regard the game as unfinished at best: apparently, for all the great artwork used to build the world, not much of that quality translated into the characters themselves. Like Lovecraft's stories themselves, the game's story also leaves a lot of questions unanswered, or assumes you've played Conarium, the other game in the series. It's also apparently fairly short as these things go, running about 5 hours. I'll wait for a minor sale - its current regular price of $20 is a bit much right now - but it's on my wishlist. Might make for a good Game Dungeon entry in the meantime.

I was drawn to this game because of its combination of cyberpunk and Lovecraft themes, but I really shouldn't have been... The one thing those two genres have in common is the fact that seemingly 90% of media within them only hearkens back to some popular story or franchise from the past without even attempting to stand out on its own, and this game is no exception. I can't really recall any objective gameplay flaws, but everything about it just felt extremely uninspired and mediocre to me.

This game was neat, and had a loot of potentials, but as others have mentioned, was very half-baked conceptually and gameplay-wise. Overall it's not terrible, just a little unsatifying.