very buggy even to this day, and took me forever just to get running and then some more time just to set the resolution right. the writing and voice acting is not good. The "silent protagonist" trope works very poorly in this game because everyone constantly refers to you as "Artyom", sometimes even multiple times in a sentence and ask you questions, only for your character to stay completely silent. the dialogue is very poorly paced and often has NPC's talking over one another and turning away to do something else without first finishing talking to you. the gunplay also feels very clunky to me, it's more like you're dragging your gun rather than pointing it. then after playing it for almost 2 hours I quit only for my saves to instantly corrupt and it made me start over.

very buggy even to this day, and took me forever just to get running and then some more time just to set the resolution right. the writing and voice acting is not good. The "silent protagonist" trope works very poorly in this game because everyone constantly refers to you as "Artyom", sometimes even multiple times in a sentence and ask you questions, only for your character to stay completely silent. the dialogue is very poorly paced and often has NPC's talking over one another and turning away to do something else without first finishing talking to you. the gunplay also feels very clunky to me, it's more like you're dragging your gun rather than pointing it. then after playing it for almost 2 hours I quit only for my saves to instantly corrupt and it made me start over.