Waiting For The Raven Reviews

[h1] A Great Idea wrapped in Jank [/h1] I loved this game since I discovered there are actual ciphers in it, and it did not dissapont me in this regard. Complexity of the gameplay was somewhat confusing, but I got used to it and even enjoyed the cloak and dagger strategy this game provides. What I didn't enjoy was execution. UI is unintuitive and is prone to bug out 80% of the time. It is awkward, or sometimes impossible, to check literaly any info on the character, especially relations, because in the realtions tab the game loads the entire city in a massive wall of faces (naturaly it takes ages). When you check what your agent is doing you will see the description of actions of the agent you selected before. Scrolling through hierarchy becomes old fast once you get four or more highest rank agents. To check if your agents are wanted you need to scroll through each of them (or select the one who suspiciously frequents the jailhouse). It's hard to understand what the raven your agents are even doing, because the tab designed to help with that does not help at all. I got raided several times, and not a single time did I understand which of my property was raided, because the UI is so bad. If you want to check what happened last turn - too bad, the tab designed to help with that is useless. During one session there were two times the UI bagged out so bad I couldn't progress without restarting the game - and loadtimes are obnoxious, considering how powerful my pc is compared to requirements. And many other problems with UI and QOL. I don't hate this game, and I understand that the team behind it is very small. But I can't recommend it if you are not a huge fan of strategies and plots, because you'd need a lot of enthusiasm to power through the interface. I hoped that most problems would be fixed eventually, but it has been 4 years, and the game about spying continues to ensure that the spying will be painful to engage with. I also have nothing but respect for the developers, who managed to make something so mechanicaly sound, even if this soundness was botched with terrible UI. I'm sure, if they make sure to give their next game more polish, wie'll have a banger on our hands. 5 skipped letters/10 (because good luck realizinging that you have a pile of mail waiting to be read)