Recent reviews by Dimrah

Upon launch, a lot of things weren't quite right or finished in the game. A-life didn't work at all (which for me, wasn't of primary interest). Things were unbalanced and buggy, there were a lot of performance issues, etc. But the team kept to their promises and proceded with fixing and finalizing all these things. For me personally, with a few of the early balancing mods, I found it quite playable. And what was most important: it was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.! The look and feel of the old games, the eerie locations, the ambience and sound design - the game had kept true to its own legacy. (And one could even count that for the bugginess. ^^)
If you loved the old games and are not a pretentious "a game must be perfection or it is absolute crap" black and white world-view person (a.k.a. Sith), Heart of Chornobyl is a must. For me personally, I must say that Stalker is and always has been an experience, not just a game.

Schön gemachtes Spiel mit guter Mischung verschiedener Gameplay-Arten (Dungeon Crawler, Rogue-Lite, Simulation), bei dem selbst das Böse niedlich wird.

A lot of fun with friends and many innovative maps for differen play styles.

Ein kleines, simples, günstiges Game - bis man die Komplexität dahinter entdeckt, die vielen Kombinationsmöglichkeiten der Items und unterschiedlichen Taktiken. Und shcon ist man gefangen. Ein Sidescroller, einfach aber effektiv weitergedacht.

It's like Minecraft. In 2D. With nice pixelated graphics. And a joyful soundtrack. And most of all: some goals to reach instead of focusing on the sandbox functionality.

I don't play many new games or games with fancy graphics and I'm usually more the kind of indie player, but >observer_ really is something. Something... hard to describe. Something which brings gaming at least one (big) step into the direction movies are currently going as well: the revival of good old, but modernized cyberpunk. (Anyone say New Retro Wave?) If you like Blade Runner, thematically, and/or the Amnesia titles with their hide & seek mechanics and/or games with episodic phases like the "dream" worlds of FarCry 3 or Max Payne 2, then this game is probably something for you. Effectively, it's not very long to play, but it has a few interesting side quest along with the main story.

Although it comes along as kind of an explorative walking simulator, it not only contains a lot of good and mood-suited girl punk songs and atmospheric background sound but also a really emotional and touching story which is told in just the right pace, driving you on to find out more about why your family's gone when you come home for a break from college.