3 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 5.7 hrs on record
Posted: Apr 16 @ 6:27am

The Occupation
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=== ( 🎯 Difficulty ) ===
☐ No Difficulty
☐ Easy
☐ Standard
☐ Big Learning Curve
☑ Hard (Pretty sure it was because of the Immersive Sim)
☐ Impossible

=== ( 👪 Audience ) ===
☐ Everyone
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults (I think the much older audience will appreciate this game more)
☐ Mature

=== ( 👀 Graphics ) ===
☐ What Is This?
☐ Bad
☐ Acceptable
☑ Good
☐ Great
☐ Stylistic
☐ Beautiful
☐ Masterpiece

=== ( Sound/Music ) ===
☐ Bad
☐ Nothing Special
☐ Okay
☑ Great
☐ Beautiful
☐ I´m Gonna Cry

=== ( 🌏 Story ) ===
☐ This Game Has No Story
☐ Nothing Special
☑ It´s Alright
☐ Well Written
☐ Epic Story
☐ Thinking About It, When I Sleep

=== ( Grinding ) ===
☑ Nothing To Grind
☐ Isn't Necessary To Progress
☐ Average Grind Level
☐ A Lot Of Grinding
☐ You‘ll Need A Second Life For Grinding

=== ( 💎 Price ) ===
☐ Free
☐ Underpriced
☐ Perfect Price
☑ Could Be Cheaper (Should be around the £15 mark)
☐ Overpriced

=== ( ☣ Requirments ) ===
☐ A Toaster Could Run This
☑ Low
☐ Average
☐ Above Average
☐ High End
☐ NASA Computer

=== ( ⏰ Game time/length ) ===
☐ Really short ( 0 - 4 hours)
☑ Short ( 4 - 12 hours)
☐ Average ( 12 - 24 hours)
☐ Long ( 24+ hours)
☐ Multiplayer/Neverending

=== ( 🐞 Bugs ) ===
☐ Game itself is a bug
☐ Lot of bugs
☑ Few Bugs
☐ Nothing

=== ( Controller Support ) ===
☑ Yes (Keyboard & Mouse is better suited)
☐ no

=== ( Steam Deck Friendly ) ===
☐ Yes
☑ no

=== ( Enjoyment ) ===
☐ I´d Rather Watch Grass Grow
☐ Hard To Enjoy
☐ Repetitive
☑ It's Okay
☐ Fun To Be Had For Sure
☐ The Kind Of Fun You Will Remember
☐ Life Changing

=== ( Replayability ) ===
☑ One-Time Experience
☐ Only For Achievements
☐ If You Wait A Few Months/Years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely Replayable/Multiplayer

=== ( Worth Playing ) ===
☑ No
☑ Wait For A Sale
☐ Yes
☐ I Can´t Recommend It Enough

TOP FUN THINGS TO DO:
⭐️ It's great to sneak around and collecting the evidence you need.

THE UNIQUES:
💎 Time works against you here.
💎 Felt like I had a office job.

PLAYER GAMING REQUIREMENTS:
💼 Detective.
💼 Immersive Sim.
💼 Indie.

PROS:
+ I like how real time is given in this game, you're given an hour to snoop around, that's the time limit you have. A nice touch with the watch as well.

+ The stealth mechanics are really good, not being spotted while in the dark or hidden underneath desks. It's a good way to get around.

+ The places they have polished is really well done, a lot of the mechanics feel great to use.

CONS:
- Ran into two major bugs, the first one being an AI leaving with an objective key, resulted in restarting the game, the second bug was not being able to interact with anything, again. I had to restart the game.

- There's no save system! In order to save you need to finish the chapter, so make sure you leave yourself with enough time to finish the chapter.

VERDICT:
I'll be honest here, I didn't enjoy this game due to finding it too difficult for myself. I wasn't hooked on the story or the 1980's vibes either, which didn't stand a chance for me. This doesn't mean it isn't a good game! It's very well made in terms of stealth and interacting with the objects around you.

I bet a lot of you who like detective work will actually like how this game is run, the price is a little steep for what you get but i'd image it's worth it on a 25% discount just be careful, there's a few bugs that resulted in me restarting the game quite early on.

Normally I go with a thumbs up with these type of games but since this game came out in 2019 and the major bugs are still in the game, I'm going to go with a thumbs down this time around, don't hate the review, hate the lack of updates to fix the game.

Total Score = 42/100.

GAMEPLAY:
The game takes place in a single government building, in real-time over four hours. The game advances with or without input from the player, but almost all in-game actions can affect the game's story.

■■■■□□□□□□ 4 / 10
Time will go on, with or without the evidence.

RECOMMEDED SPECS:
OS: Windows 10 or better
Processor: 2.6+ Ghz Quad-Core
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970
Storage: 7 GB available space
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