I bought this game because, as a psychology student myself, I was intrigued with the premise. I thought that, if handled well, this had the potential to be a wonderful piece of art.

The balls on the guy that made this game to choose to approach such a taboo subject is very commendable, and there are some valuable facts and perspectives that the game provides if you're interested in learning more about Hitler's origins.

However, I feel that this game was somewhat lacking in some areas of the execution.

- The pacing was off. The insights that you as a character present Hitler with would have been much more rewarding if they had built up slowly over the course of more sessions, starting from your first session with him and progressing from there until, after a few sessions, some breakthroughs start happening. It felt like the developer was too eager to get this idea out there (which, to be fair, I can't exactly blame them for, since it is a very cool idea) and didn't have the patience to develop it in a way that did the idea justice. There were some valuable insights in this game, but I feel that delivering them with more tact and subtlety would have been the way to go.

- The therapeutic approach utilised here was subpar - good psychologists typically do not tell their patients their own interpretation of their life story, but instead try to guide their patient towards a breakthrough or interpretation of events that leads to the formation of healthy mental habits. Given the time period this game is set in and the fact that the approach used by the therapist is clearly Freudian in nature, this isn't that big of a deal, and is more of a psych nerd critique than a gamer critique. But I do feel like, if you wanted the audience to get out of the game what you hoped they would get, some artistic liberties should have been taken to make the therapeutic approach more modern in order to allow the audience to vibe with the game better.

I still think this game is definitely worth having a look at and I'm all for supporting independent creators that do out-of-the-box things. However, the overall feel that I got from this game was that there was a fixation on the premise rather than the execution at the expense of quality.

Tl;dr - wasted potential but still worth a go (maybe buy on sale though)

I bought this game because, as a psychology student myself, I was intrigued with the premise. I thought that, if handled well, this had the potential to be a wonderful piece of art. The balls on the guy that made this game to choose to approach such a taboo subject is very commendable, and there are some valuable facts and perspectives that the game provides if you're interested in learning more about Hitler's origins. However, I feel that this game was somewhat lacking in some areas of the execution. - The pacing was off. The insights that you as a character present Hitler with would have been much more rewarding if they had built up slowly over the course of more sessions, starting from your first session with him and progressing from there until, after a few sessions, some breakthroughs start happening. It felt like the developer was too eager to get this idea out there (which, to be fair, I can't exactly blame them for, since it is a very cool idea) and didn't have the patience to develop it in a way that did the idea justice. There were some valuable insights in this game, but I feel that delivering them with more tact and subtlety would have been the way to go. - The therapeutic approach utilised here was subpar - good psychologists typically do not tell their patients their own interpretation of their life story, but instead try to guide their patient towards a breakthrough or interpretation of events that leads to the formation of healthy mental habits. Given the time period this game is set in and the fact that the approach used by the therapist is clearly Freudian in nature, this isn't that big of a deal, and is more of a psych nerd critique than a gamer critique. But I do feel like, if you wanted the audience to get out of the game what you hoped they would get, some artistic liberties should have been taken to make the therapeutic approach more modern in order to allow the audience to vibe with the game better. I still think this game is definitely worth having a look at and I'm all for supporting independent creators that do out-of-the-box things. However, the overall feel that I got from this game was that there was a fixation on the premise rather than the execution at the expense of quality. Tl;dr - wasted potential but still worth a go (maybe buy on sale though)