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2 people found this review helpful
7.1 hrs on record
Ah, Routine. A game in development hell for 13 years. Never heard of it just a few days before the release.

Chapter 01 - Unreal Engine 5 and Dark Magic

Overall, this game doesn't really show you anything stunning, but it keeps a very decent picture on your screen, not by dropping 4k textures on your face, but mostly with VFX, very stylized interface fully integrated into the world and good lighting on levels.
But, well, this game won't show you any captivating locations, yes they are atmospheric, but majority of places where you will be crawling and running are just corridors, besides one specific place there's not much to look at.

And what I was really surprised with - 60 FPS.
Look, it's 2025, and this is my first UE5 game that doesn't make my poor RTX4060 go WOOSH-
I have no clue what Lunar Software did here, but it feels nice when developers actually make their games run on middle hardware.

8/10.

Chapter 02 - Gameplay

Ah damn, this will be unfair for this game.
Look, I'm not usual player at horror games, I am in fact easily scared by anything. I will be scared by jumpscares, I will be sitting under the table for minutes until I'm 100% safe. But.. I dunno, there's no puzzles, you just collect codes and input them everywhere, yeah when it was hidden around the levels - it was fun, almost.
You see, this game doesn't emphasize on puzzles, or much of world-building, it's just 90% running around the labyrinth while trying to find something you need and trying to not to get caught.
I didn't like that, again it was most of the gameplay, navigating levels felt confusing at times.
As for enemies, again - pretty meh, designs aren't really scary, and mechanics are pretty much undercooked.
You can lean in different directions, and for robots it might have been useful, but when the invisible thing appears - it's just has no purpose anymore. You mostly can find the spooky thing by it's steps. And once you figure out, that you run actually faster than your enemies, have obvious safe spaces and infinite stamina - it's not really scary, just frustrating that you can't navigate labyrinthian locations without being bothered.
I feel like this game needed more puzzles and stuff to explore, but again, I'm not playing horror games much so I can be wrong about that.

5/10.

Chapter 03 - Music and sound

This one will be short, I liked how the game sounds. You will be listening for the monster a lot, and it never felt confusing, I always could figure out where is it.
Ambient is very fitting and world-sound is high-quality if you ask me.
As for music, it's good? Not really sure, it never felt bad, but the thing is - I can't remember a single track, felt like there was no music at all, which might be good thing, due to immersion.

7/10.

Chapter 04 - Story

I like it, but I think it could be better.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the story, but again, it's one of those game where's the story is vague, but not vague enough.
I figured out what's going on pretty fast, but where did the virus-thing came from - no idea.
I liked that A.S.N. wasn't conventional evil AI thing, and that monsters were people is cool, but main question - what's going on is never answered, that's cool for being spooky and mysterious purposes, but as a guy who loves story more than anything - felt disappointing.

7/10.

Chapter 00 - Re:Birth

So, do I recommend this game?
Yes.
Is it a must-have horror game?
No.

It's good, don't get me wrong, it does what it promises, it's very atmospheric and interesting, has nice graphics and impressive by UE5 standards optimization, but it lacks in gameplay and world-building.
If you are up for 5 hours of decent gameplay - sure, get it, it won't feel like a waste at all.
I'm really impressed that developers managed to get this game out, and I hope they will be bringing more games, they obviously have a talent, but it just has to be refined.

Overall, 8/10.
Posted 13 December, 2025.
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5.0 hrs on record
- Mom, I want REANIMAL!
- Sweetie, we have REANIMAL at home.

REANIMAL at home:
Posted 10 October, 2025.
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1.7 hrs on record
Early Access Review
Тащем-то решил я во время безработного времени - посидеть и пройти сей продукт, ибо еще во фестиваля демок был заинтересован.

Начнем с простого - Графоуни:
Ну, он есть. Да, картинка есть, это определенно. Ну модельки как модельки, особо по ним ничего не скажешь.
Вот только сдается мне что разраб навалил кучу в технической части, ибо извините меня, я конечно понимаю что я нищуковый обладатель RTX4060 и хоть игра и заявляет мне вместе с оверлеем стима что у меня честные 60+ кадров, но нет. У меня глаза просто устали на это смотреть. Нет, конечно можно вырубить вертикальную синхронизацию и даже врубить 165Гц, но даже так - это довольно болезненный опыт.

Теперь арт: Мне нравилось. Пока я не увидел арты персонажей в диалогах, это уже не хиханьки-хаханьки, это какой-то гибрид маппетов с художниками из Тумблера, а на это все еще смотрел корпоративный мемфис. А дизайн локаций, настолько бледный, что даже закос под совок делает этот бутерброд на вкус как несколько заплесневелый белый хлеб "Красная цена" с куском дешевого сыра с плесенью - типо да, вкус плесени есть, но вот только той-ли самой?

Геймплей.
Уффф... Это наверное самое ужасное что здесь есть, я готов мириться с явно не лучшим исполнением технической стороны, ладно. Я был готов мириться с артом, я могу это пережить, ведь хоть мне он и не симпатичен, но хоть какую-то целостность он имеет, но вот геймплей - это уже не смешно вообще.
Практически все в этой игре имеет отвратные хитбоксы, мне неоднократно приходилось вставать к предметам с той-же стороны, с того-же расстояния, но вот только с другого угла, ибо игра наотрез отказывалась предоставлять мне возможность с ними взаимодействовать. И это относится к любому предмету с которым предусмотрено взаимодействие, будь-то объекты типо книжек, записок или-же всяких крутилок на радио.
А теперь то, что заставило меня написать сей шедевр.
Если вступление прошло относительно безболезненно, то вот радио это уже издевательство.
Во-первых - игра не считает необходимостью хоть как-то объяснить что от тебя требуется, если в начале был планшет со списком задач, то далее ты уже сам по себе, вот тебе комната, вот тебе два прибора с крутилками и разбирайся.
Хорошо, я разобрался. Я крутил радио полчаса выискиывая эти унылые сигналы и слушал еще более унылые, за исключением пары актеров, абсолютно безэмоциональные реплики со смесью просто отсутствующей озвучки в некоторых частях диалогов. Я терпел когда мне пришлось четыре раза, решать этот унылый, абсолютно элементарный паззл с декодированием сигналов через судоку для трехлетних, но знаешь когда я перестал это терпеть?
Когда я решил его в четвертый раз, медленно прокручивая все частоты, ибо если делать это быстро - прокрутишь вообще все и ничего не найдешь, а что в итоге? Игра дала мне жидкую подливу и ничего не произошло.
Просто после решения головоломкии - не пошло никаких диалогов, никаких событий и никаких новых сигналов. Финита ля комедия, она просто софтлокнулась.

По итогу: Отвратная техническая реализация, унылые пазлы без объяснений, геймдизайн "делайчохош", посредственный арт и безэмоциональная озвучка.
Posted 2 April, 2025.
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1,143.3 hrs on record (1.8 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
Cash Grab.
700hrs later (demo + release)
Awful monetization, constant fear of missing out, grind and wasting earned currency for basic features like adding friends (which is main point of the game lol).
Bought a table to chat with strangers, next week update dropped and broke it, months later and it's still not fixed, bye my 20$ I guess.
Posted 10 April, 2024. Last edited 1 July, 2024.
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1 person found this review helpful
224.8 hrs on record (202.7 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
funy
Posted 13 December, 2023.
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3 people found this review helpful
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0.0 hrs on record
JBMod is life.
GMod is death.

Play JBMod, be a decent human being.
Posted 11 November, 2022.
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1 person found this review funny
216.0 hrs on record (188.8 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
killing is fun
update:
now whenever i have to wait for more than just 5 minutes for something, i just procrastinate at cybergrind
Posted 26 October, 2022. Last edited 16 December, 2025.
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239.1 hrs on record (239.1 hrs at review time)
Как продлить подписку?
Posted 6 March, 2022.
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1 person found this review funny
1.0 hrs on record (0.5 hrs at review time)
♥♥♥♥♥♥ movement scheme
♥♥♥♥♥♥ control scheme
♥♥♥♥♥♥ balance
♥♥♥♥♥♥ event indication
♥♥♥♥♥♥ combat
Posted 23 December, 2020.
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0.2 hrs on record
Two years ago — H-content will be there later.
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One year — Still thinking about new features.
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Somewhere later — "Jiggle animations; Suggestive artwork".

No this is not an excuse to act like content is here, or it's coming soon.
Yeah, it's cheap af, but as the game itself it generally not even close to be decent, whole sell-point was H-content promised to be later, and two years after it's still not here, dev is probably dead when it comes to any kind of communication.

So no, it's not coming, don't buy this.
Posted 4 December, 2020.
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