Bought this game last year (2017) during the sale (Winter, I guess) and started playing a few weeks back.

Here's what I've noticed:

As a survivor, when you play any character for the first time, you ARE going to die.
And die in stupid ways you can't imagine - it's kinda sad and hilarious at the same time.
There's a learning curve time of roughly 10 hours to get into the mechanics of the game and understand how to take advantage of the killer's first-person view. If you're lucky, you'll jump into a match with experienced survivor players who would help you out, but even that doesn't assure that you'll escape alive.
Once you start levelling up your characters by investing bloodpoints in the bloodweb, you'll start doing a little better than before (of course, you need the in-game meta perks like Claudette's self heal - so you should start with Claudette and unlock her teachable for the rest of your survivor characters). Things start getting a little easier to navigate from there as you start learning how to juke the killers. The scare factor does wear off a bit once you put in the hours, but there are moments when you will be spooked out of your wits and those moments are pretty exciting.

As a killer, you are going to be owned by the survivors in the beginning.
They will finish repairing generators before you manage to hook a single one of them, and all four of them will escape alive more often than not, since they're almost always connected via Discord. So, there's a learning curve here too. And I suggest you to look for tutorial videos online of gamers who are good at the killer/s that pique your interest. It helped me a lot, and I'm sure it will help you. HybridPanda and Tru3Ta1ent stream good stuff on their Twitch and have a good collection of videos that you can watch on YouTube. Putting pressure on the survivors to make them choices like saving a hooked teammate, or doing a gen and sacrificing his/her life is really satisfying and the game really comes alive here. Being the chaser, instead of being chased, is a heady feeling and this is quite exciting as well.

However, the game isn't as rosy and there are a good number of toxic survivors and killers alike - survivors who would body block you, ragequit when you're about to hook them and teabag in exit areas, and killers who would camp around a hooked survivor till he/she is sacrificed. You can barely do much to counter this, so I suggest you to not be too emotionally invested when you're playing, otherwise you will be frustrated a lot. In addition to that, the lobby wait time as a killer is a massive issue these days even though there are a good number of players playing the game. Sometimes it takes almost 15-20 minutes for a game to start, because survivors have no patience to wait for a few seconds and let the ping settle down before making a judgment on the network connectivity.

The DLCs are pretty cool and the devs are coming up with really cool killers and survivors. My favorite DLC killers would be The Spirit, Pig, Ghost Face, Mike Myers and the Doctor.

Suggest you to get this game during sale, play at least 10-15 hours to have a grip on the game and its mechanics. Don't get sucked into the "gg ez" toxicity post-match and you'll fall in love with the game.

The game gets an 8.5/10 from me.

Bought this game last year (2017) during the sale (Winter, I guess) and started playing a few weeks back. Here's what I've noticed: As a [i][b]survivor[/b][/i], when you play any character for the first time, you ARE going to die. And die in stupid ways you can't imagine - it's kinda sad and hilarious at the same time. There's a learning curve time of roughly 10 hours to get into the mechanics of the game and understand how to take advantage of the killer's first-person view. If you're lucky, you'll jump into a match with experienced survivor players who would help you out, but even that doesn't assure that you'll escape alive. Once you start levelling up your characters by investing bloodpoints in the bloodweb, you'll start doing a little better than before (of course, you need the in-game meta perks like Claudette's self heal - so you should start with Claudette and unlock her teachable for the rest of your survivor characters). Things start getting a little easier to navigate from there as you start learning how to juke the killers. The scare factor does wear off a bit once you put in the hours, but there are moments when you will be spooked out of your wits and those moments are pretty exciting. As a [i][b]killer[/b][/i], you are going to be owned by the survivors in the beginning. They will finish repairing generators before you manage to hook a single one of them, and all four of them will escape alive more often than not, since they're almost always connected via Discord. So, there's a learning curve here too. And I suggest you to look for tutorial videos online of gamers who are good at the killer/s that pique your interest. It helped me a lot, and I'm sure it will help you. HybridPanda and Tru3Ta1ent stream good stuff on their Twitch and have a good collection of videos that you can watch on YouTube. Putting pressure on the survivors to make them choices like saving a hooked teammate, or doing a gen and sacrificing his/her life is really satisfying and the game really comes alive here. Being the chaser, instead of being chased, is a heady feeling and this is quite exciting as well. However, the game isn't as rosy and there are a good number of toxic survivors and killers alike - survivors who would body block you, ragequit when you're about to hook them and teabag in exit areas, and killers who would camp around a hooked survivor till he/she is sacrificed. You can barely do much to counter this, so I suggest you to not be too emotionally invested when you're playing, otherwise you will be frustrated a lot. In addition to that, the lobby wait time as a killer is a massive issue these days even though there are a good number of players playing the game. Sometimes it takes almost 15-20 minutes for a game to start, because survivors have no patience to wait for a few seconds and let the ping settle down before making a judgment on the network connectivity. The DLCs are pretty cool and the devs are coming up with really cool killers and survivors. My favorite DLC killers would be The Spirit, Pig, Ghost Face, Mike Myers and the Doctor. Suggest you to get this game during sale, play at least 10-15 hours to have a grip on the game and its mechanics. Don't get sucked into the "gg ez" toxicity post-match and you'll fall in love with the game. The game gets an 8.5/10 from me.