Honestly, I can't recommend this game to anyone ... sadly enough.

For starters, it costs 40 bucks. Forty! The experience is barely 6 to 7 hours long, depending on how much aimless wandering you're doing.

It starts off intriguingly enough, to be fair. The world is disturbingly beautiful in a way, the art style is certainly unique, very reminiscent of the HR Giger style in Alien, which is a deliberate choice afaik, and that's fine. Lots of bio-mechanical horror elements.

The gameplay, though, is utterly miserable. For 80% of the play time the game is a rather dull walking simulator. What begins with an interesting room puzzle soon devolves into running to and fro constantly, trying to find the ONE switch or room or sth you might have missed. The art style might be gorgeous, but every walkway, every room kind of looks the same, which makes navigation really difficult, especially later on.

The puzzles themselves are fine at first, but somehow get less complex the longer the game goes on? I dunno, it's like they somehow lost interest in that aspect halfway through the game. Instead, the puzzle focus shifts to just navigating the ever same hallways to find some new switch or item.

And then, there's the combat *sigh*, something that simply should NOT be in this game. At least not like this. Terrible check points, no way to heal outside of special healing chambers, a health pool that means you die in very few hits, a melee weapon that guarantees you take lots of damage, since every enemy in the game is either ranged or can stun-lock you to death, a ranged weapon with very limited ammo ... a shotgun that is only used for like 5 enemies, and a grenade launcher that is, again, only used against one enemy.

Fighting against these "things" is the antithesis of fun. For starters, there's only like 3 to 4 enemies at all. 3 spit at you, and dodging is more luck than skill. And the other one charges at you and is basically invincible without the shotgun (it's not, but good luck trying to survive the encounter). The design thusly forces you to just sprint past these enemies, and due to the maze-like level design that just means you'll get lost even more easily. And when you die you just have to do all of that ♥♥♥♥ again.

Where the game shines is in its gory body horror presentation, that's it. There's no actual narrative to speak of, there's actually nothing, no "log entries" or anything, the only "clues" can be found in the visual design, which means pretty much everything is open to interpretation. I don't know, it feels more like a proof of concept, which fails halfway through. Not a game worth 40 bucks. For 20 maybe. As an interesting delve into a unique art style. Not for the gameplay.

Simply not a fun game to play

To look at? Of course! The visuals are simply breathtaking.

But it isn't fun. More than that, it is actively UNfun. The combat is tedious and imbalanced, the puzzles nonsensical, and the story nonexistant. It doesn't matter how good a game looks, it needs to be enjoyable to play. Even rage games like QWOP, Surgeon Simulator, and Getting Over It are "fun" in that they cause people to rage and that's fun to watch. This lowest of bars is somehow missed by Scorn

When I finished Scorn I wished I had done anything else instead.

GIGER MY GOAT