ActualRamTester

In a word: gross. The game is buggy, to the point of being unplayable in many places (especially the “Binding of Isaac” segment). Several of the “clever reference” mini games are just re-skins of each other, defeating the point. The advertised dark humor is completely absent, barring the vaguely sexual puns on par with a porn parody. The whole presentation is sloppy and mildly disturbing in a way that just makes the casual player feel uniquely bad Boring and barely playable. Wished I was playing the games it references rather than this the whole time. 1 point for a random reference to American literature that I enjoyed.

The “interactive picture book” style of gameplay is fine, but adds nothing to the ham-fisted symbolism that ultimately boils down to “alcoholism was the real monster all along.” There are a few moments where the story is more subtle and poetic (chapter 1), but the game quickly abandons all pretense to become a generic story on the affects of substance abuse. I can tell there was some passion put into this, but ultimately it’s not worth the buy.