Not for me. I can see a ton of work went into this, but I just didnt feel like I was understanding what was going on at all storywise. I also hate the mechanic of not being able to see a status bar for ANYTHING and honestly, an hour in just found myself genuinely not enjoying the experience. I love this studio though. Hoping for something better from them, similar to cosmic wheel sisterhood again soon.

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So I want to make this clear: This is not a bad game. In fact, I could see it being somebody's favorite game. It's a game that's designed really well, but due to it's intentional high difficulty and reliance on luck, I couldn't recommend it to anybody.

Gods Will Be Watching is a game about managing invisible status bars. You're usually in a single room, and switching people between tasks to keep them from dying while also completing whatever goal you need to complete. The story, music, and overall tone is great, but it kind of melts into the background and you start to forget who the characters are when you're on your 15+ attempt at completing a level.

At first I hated the game after getting stuck on the first level for a few days, then said "I'll give it one more shot," actually beat it, and ended up enjoying the game for a bit before eventually getting completely stuck again and realizing the game wasn't really encouraging me to play it. Who knows, the game might be for you, but it absolutely wasn't for me.

The story and dialogues may be interesting sometimes, but mostly it's boring and hidden behind repetitive and random mechanics. Visual part is mostly mediocre too. It may be your game since some people are impressed by these "hard-choice" situations, but it's not really that for me, since the story is too bad to really feel something for characters.

I'm sure it's maybe neat if you get past the fist section... I don't have the patience to endlessly click through 30 times and frankly if this is how things start I'm not optimistic for the rest.

The game doesn't launch at all for me, be it Linux natively, or in Proton. Will be refunding.

Had to click play until it said I had 5 minutes of "playtime", but the game never got past any form of even trying to start loading.

The error was as followed, when I ran it through Proton. The Linux native version silently crashed to desktop with no window pop-up.

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FATAL ERROR in Fragment Shader compilation
ShaderName: shd_invert

memory:87:13: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: SM1 non-float expression.
memory:87:1: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Instruction type HLSL_IR_IF.
memory:95:37: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: SM1 non-float expression.
memory:95:35: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: SM1 non-float expression.
memory:95:35: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Dereference with non-constant offset of type HLSL_IR_EXPR.
memory:95:62: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: SM1 non-float expression.
memory:95:62: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: SM1 non-float expression.
memory:95:54: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: SM1 non-float expression.
memory:95:54: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Dereference with non-constant offset of type HLSL_IR_EXPR.
memory:95:93: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: SM1 "cast" expression.

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Kinda sucks tbh

Steam Deck Will Crash After Launch.

Soo I usually like this sort of game ... but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ... I do not like the 2nd mission. It doesnt give you alot of wiggle room, even on the easiest difficulty I needed to look up a guide and even in that one it says "you can just randomly die during this scene without it being your fault"
sooooo great thanks alot.
Basically its the torture scene and you need to survive x amount of days. But there arent ANY checkpoints or anything. So if you die one day short after like 20 minutes of gameplay. Tough luck, go again. This turns a story experience that you like to read into a chore to skip dialoge through.
I will be watching a lets play of this, cause if a fully story based game which is basically just a bit interactive is this random and this punishing at times, then sorry but no thanks.

And dont get me wrong. I like hard games. But hard games that waste 20 minutes of my time cause I missread the physical wellbeeing of pixelart characters and are now privilaged to replay those 20 minutes... no ... just no.

Its cheap. If you dont mind the randomness sure. The first mission was fun, but the 2nd part just made me not want to play the game. Its like watching a movie, but anytime you fail a game of yenga you need to restart the movie and watch it again

This game is a Trial and Error Simulator, because you dont know which effect your actions have and you are heavily getting punished for small mistakes.

This makes the game tedious