This game was alright. which means I wouldn't recommend it unfortunately. However, I would still like to share what I thought was done well and what brought down the game.

If you decide to get this game, I recommend playing with difficulty on the lowest setting, as the gameplay was not that fun and the story is THE game.

Quick disclaimer, I played with a keyboard, so I will not be mentioning clunk (idk if other reviews speak about it)

So lets start with the best parts. The story is good, and quite sensitive, as the disclaimer at the beginning of the game warns. I think the message is good and the characters are also good for the short time we have with them.
The voice acting was overall good, I liked the voices and how they said things. There was a consistent problem of spacing words though, some pauses were too long or felt unnaturally placed.
The 2d art is great. I love it.

Now the negatives.
The 3d art was very lacking, brick textures in some places were blurry and I couldn't affect this through any settings I changed. The demon poles also looked very ugly. The rest of the 3d art was quite uninteresting, and overall it just felt like it was added afterwards as a budget/time thing.
The gameplay. I honestly think we didn't need a lot of the battles presented. It made the enemies feel boring and repetitive, and the enemies later sometimes stood around and attacked 1 or 2 at a time (except for ranged enemies of course), which limited the difficulty a lot. There was an interesting enemy at the end, however the hitboxes were so jank I couldnt hit the spores on him because he layered over them, so this was very frustrating.

so yeah, tldr:
Story good, not exceptional but still good,
gameplay average at best and very drawn out,
Art is split, "ruined" by 3d visuals
Voice acting is cool

get if you are interested in the story, ignore if looking for gameplay or anything else (unless you come for voice acting?)

I hated absolutely every second i spent on this game. The story is stupid in the beginning and completely uninteresting. The combat is annoying and just trying to prolong "play"time. The bossfights are painful, especially the last one. Even on easy they are just too long, too hard and completely unfitting.

In addition the story is just problematic. A woman was raped/ sexually assaulted and we are playing the guy who did it. Thing is, this issue is not being dealt with in a healthy way, the assault is excused. The dude is the typical "nice guy", blaming the woman for everything. It's disgusting and i cannot recommend you support the dev who has this vile idea for a game and message.

This game honestly just seemed like it was trying to build sympathy for a the perpetrator of sexual assault. I saw what they tried to do, but it came off as "I feel bad for assaulting someone, give me sympathy." Honestly a story that really didn't need to be told

I don't know about this one. Gameplay is mediocre but clearly not the center of it. While the game is about blame and guilt I don't know why they choose to build it around sexual assault... All in all it feels like it doesn't really have a point to it but rather likes to provoke (and no, not provoke thought)... So... Maybe pass...

I've requested a refund.
From the beginning, it was indicated that this game deals with themes of sexual assault, and it does, but poorly. (mild spoilers ahead)
Somehow, the narrative, while correctly asserting blame and fault, manages to center the perpetrator in such a way that the survivor is still just a prop to make you feel sorry for the perpetrator, who just didn't know any better. By owning these 'mistakes', things will be fixed???

Started out as a really strong concept where I thought I could feel the plot twist coming (between Daniel and Annalise), but then managed to screw things up anyway.

Oh, I wonder if this was written by a man... Of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ course it was. No offence, but I'd dare to bet money that the writer wasn't sexually assaulted.

The graphically phallic references as you progress would be funny if the subject wasn't so dour and serious. It just made it feel like sexual assault is a joke. I don't get what they were trying to accomplish. This really wasn't "owning mistakes" as far as I felt it.

I think I was near the end but I couldn't stand to finish it. Someone please let me know if it somehow miraculously redeems itself by letting Annalise kill him or something.

Before I forget, it runs no problems on Ubuntu 16.04. Controls are fluid, mechanics are interesting. It really is a shame, it had potential but fell flat on its face in the execution for the story.

i'd give it a 4/10, i wouldn't call the game as a whole bad with its good presentation and alright story but its combat is so cumbersome, annoying, and just shallow despite taking up so much of the game. If you want a nice story then i guess go ahead but this combat will really test you.

Okay... so the game is really short. It deals with delicate subjects in a very heavy handed manner. Really, just cringed at the ending. Wasn't for me.

I wouldn't really call this a game, it's more like a story with things on the screen to keep you from getting bored. The combat wasn't that hard even on the hardest difficulty, and there wasn't much strategy necessary beyond having a single functioning brain. The trailer makes it look much more fun than it actually is, and the story is really cringey and predictable.

More not recommended than recommended, but as a game and the way the narrative is conveyed, not the content. It deals with a live topic in contemporary sex relations discourse, and is noteworthy simply for this, but the content is disturbing, and it is worth considering in advance if a two hour game is a format in which you wish to engage this (that it is all a metaphor is no secret).

The combat on a keyboard is awkward and repetitive, with checkpoints that put you back the beginning of a chain of battles, but there is a narrative mode if you simply wish to hear the story. Even the inventory system is metaphorical, and, as a work, the game is so heavily didactic that it is difficult to respond to, as the sentimental music, over-dramatic voice acting and simple narrative tell you exactly what to feel and when.

Haneke’s Funny Games gets away with it through performances and direction, but this game does not. Recent Louis Theroux documentary “The Night In Question” makes a useful companion piece for context.

I'm giving a not recommended only because Steam won't let me choose a "meh" option, and given all the positive I am not sure everything is deserved.
tl;dr
"the other half" or rather "tale of a nice guy " is a game that looks promising but, suffering from some flaws falls short of expectations for me. Not that wasn't enjoyable, but still disappointed in the end.

now, the extended review.

The game itself is nice, but it falls short. The narration was interesting but the content warning really spoiled the story, even though I understand why it is there and the voice acting is well done; this, though, doesn't save it from it being completely on rails and choices don't really matter (sometimes not even changing the dialog) which is, in my opinion a wasted opportunity.The combat is nice but there are some problems: it suffer the same problem the whole game suffers, with upgrades that feel pointless, and dodges seem arbitrary. The sountrack is nice but doesn't save the game.
The game looked promising but I feel like it's crushed by the excessive will of moralization and making a metaphor.
It's not that I didn't enjoy it, but still, after two playthrough ( about two hours each, one normal one hard) I can't help but feel disappointed.