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A charming and adorable little game. Full of cute characters and good humour, I would highly recommend being a Lil Gator and playing a game!

As a big fan of the Dark Picture Anthology, I was incredibly disappointed by The Devil In Me. The story was fine. It's a little contrived and there's a lot of questionable decisions that seem to screw the player either way, but hey - you know that's what you're signing up for with this kind of game.
The real issue is how many bugs there are. This game is broken to the point where I would say it should not be purchased or played. As aforementioned, I really enjoy these type of games, but after 2 hours of playing I was really not enjoying myself. I was playing co-op with a friend, and had to force myself to continue playing as it was one of the least fun experiences that I've had in video games for a long time.

Some of the bugs that I encountered were:
* The character lost the ability to interact with anything - This means that I was wandering around unable to progress the story, pick up clues, open doors, etc. Just wandering around in a room.
* The camera got locked to a strange angle - I'm not sure how, but this happened several times. Trying to navigate a hotel and all the tight hallways and crowded rooms when the camera is fixed in a single direction and won't let you see what you're bumping into is misery.
* The character's body became twisted - Their head would always face in one direction, permanently. So walking, turning, animations, etc, the character's head would be looking at the same point throughout, making it look like his head was rotated 180 degrees from his body.
* The character's upper body vanished - For one of the chapters, the character had no upper body. Floating head and hands, but that was it.
* Walking through stairs - At one point I was trying to navigate up a staircase, but the character would just keep walking through the stairs and out of the world, then snap back to the base of the stairs. This was incredibly frustrating.
* Non logical jumps - There's a part of the game where you're in a room (Trying to avoid spoilers here), and I had my character leave the room and move to the complete opposite end of the hotel, a good 4 minute traversal. I guess I hadn't done something right, as a cutscene started and I was teleported back to that room and to my demise. I was furious, since I was long gone.
* Unfair death - I lost a character early on because there was a "hold right trigger" event. I held right trigger, character 1 played the cutscene of pulling a switch, then character 2 was saved. The game then jumped back to character 1 failing to pull the switch and character 2 dying. There was no explanation of failure, just a cutscene of "you won" followed by a cutscene of "you lost". In a game where keeping the characters alive is the goal, I felt cheated and didn't want to continue playing. And of course, the game autosaves immediately as a character dies, so I couldn't even quickly exit and reload to try again.

Bugs aside, the game suffers from other problems. The movement of the characters is both slow and very clumsy and jarring. You have very little fine control over what you're doing, which can often make traversing these crowded environments frustrating; however this isn't new to the series - the whole Dark Pictures Anthology suffers from this problem. I can overlook these navigation issues, but the bugs are dreadful.

In short: I strongly recommend that you do not buy this game. If a patch comes out that solves these issues, then I may revisit my review; however since the credits of this game showed a trailer for the next series of games that are being made, my suspicion is that the developer will be putting their efforts into their new games instead of supporting what could have been a great send-off to the series.

Abysmal. Totally abysmal.
There are a bunch of truly awful mini games, the likes of which the developers should be embarrassed to put their names to. These mini games are strung together by clumsy and awkward walking sections through the Mythbuster's studio, and clicking. So. Much. Clicking. You click to pick up an item. You click to place the item. You click to cut it, click to hammer it. There's no skill or gameplay here, just lots of moving to a new point and clicking. The game doesn't even ask you to drag or position things, just click.
You are constantly bombarded by obnoxious UI prompts that take over the screen and demand you look at your notepad (which I would say is useless - unless you need guidance on lowering your index finger to press upon the left mouse button).
There's also a looping guitar riff that's unrelated to the show. I'm fairly sure that this guitar riff was added to drive players into quitting the game after a few minutes of aural torture so that are never exposed to the absolute dreadful "gameplay".

As a lifelong Mythbusters fan, this disappoints me beyond words. 0/10.

No idea what to do in this game. There's no direction or instructions.

TL;DR - Encountered a bug which means that the game cannot progress and cannot be completed.

The beginning of Evil Genius 2 is a lot of fun, you're digging out your lair, researching, recruiting minions. Then you hit the mid-game. You've finished all the research that you're allowed to research, your lair is as large as you can dig it to and you're basically grinding through the main campaign in the hopes that it will let you unlock the third tier of research (only tiers 1-2 out of 5 are available). This mid-game grind is slow. There's no sense of progression and you find yourself just trying to get through the quests as quick as possible so that you can get back to expanding and improving your base.
After 18 hours of playing (I would consider the last 14 hours very grindy and dull), I encountered an issue where one of the main quests wouldn't complete. I needed a technician minion to upgrade a specific piece of equipment, and they wouldn't. I can see tens of technicians wandering around my base bored (I made a whole bunch of them to try and get them to fix the problem), but none of them would perform the upgrade. After letting the game spin for 2 hours, I ended up shutting it down and emailing Rebellion.
I tried it out again after the 1.2.0 patch and let the game spin for another 20 minutes - no luck. The equipment remains un-upgraded while my blind technicians wander past it as if it didn't exist.
I will try again after the next patch, but if this doesn't get fixed then I can't continue to play this.

In short, I would not recommend this game until it's had a lot of bug-fix patches released. From looking at the other comments on Steam, I can see that there's a whole host of bugs that people are running into. Play at your own risk!

This game looks cheap and badly made - lots of glitches with the UI preventing me from using many of the screens. Opening the chest screen gets the game completely locked as a modal text box pops up over the button to open the chest, with no way to leave that screen. The animations are terrible, looking like Flash animations from 10-15 years ago, and the writing is abysmal. The Forgotten Realms characters are nice for nostalgia sake, but I would recommend forgetting this game.

Kinds Words is a fantastic experience. You receive anonymized letters from people who could really use some kind words, and you write them letters in reply. Like a blind penpal situation, only you're trying to help other people out with their problems.

This game is a lot of fun, though riddled with bugs. It seems to lose connection frequently when playing online with other people, leaving you all trapped in different running instances of the game and seemingly no way to reconnect.

Having tried repeatedly to play with friends and failing to finish a single one without us all ending up in splintered instances of our own games, I would have to recommend that you do not buy this game if you intend to play the online multiplayer.