Midnight Monitor: Anomaly Watch Reviews

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very good

They created Steam achievements for content that is not even released yet. This is such a terrible thing for developers to do. Toggle them to hidden until the actual content is actually released. They have been implemented for 5 months and no content to go with it. Overall decent game, but its asking for way too many playthroughs on each level for some of the achievments. They ask you to beat the game 25 times on hard mode on each level. They are asking for too much time to be invested for what the game is.. This makes the game feel longer but there are not enough unique anomalies to warrant 25 playthroughs on hard mode, especially if you've already seen most of them on your first 10 playthroughs on normal mode. They start to repeat and its boring to sit there and click the same things while waiting. Fun yes, for a few hours per level, but that's about where the fun ends. I do not wish to play every level for 20+ hours each to see the same stuff.

Leaving this review is difficult. I wasn't sure if I wanted to leave a negative or positive review. Ultimately, I realize I enjoy playing the game and at the price tag, it's fairly worth it. Even more so if bought on sale. If you enjoy games like this and Observation Duty, this is a nice one to have in your library. It's enjoyable, though there are a few things wrong with the game that I feel I have to add. For starters, I'd like to know what the devs were thinking when they came up with the steam achievements. Majority of them center around playing a single map for many hours. With only two maps to pick from, the burn out is real. Second, with dark mode enabled it's absolutely impossible to see some of the anomalies. This should be fixed. If it was intended, it's unfair and ridiculous. I don't want to GUESS that something might be there. Several typos through out the game. Small, but annoying. Confusing anomalies. I've spent way too much time trying to figure out what to select. The T.V monitor should come with some kind of disclaimer that it isn't an anomaly. Despite the issues I have with the game, it's not a BAD game. I have fun playing it, even if I get annoyed from time to time to how unfair it feels sometimes. (seriously, every game I play it tells me there is something missing in the kids bedroom. I feel like I'm being gaslit here, because I never SEE anything actually missing.) The price tag is reasonable, not stupidly inflated. Game is still worth giving a shot.