✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: horror tension, dark, oppressive atmosphere and punishing difficulty, while skipping racing gameplay
An RPG built on a real dilemma: every citizen you drain gives large experience but permanently degrades their district, and the game is genuinely playable without killing anyone. The London setting and dialogue are strong. Combat is stiff and repetitive, and pacifist runs leave you badly underlevelled for bosses the game does not scale down.
Where it drifts furthest from Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure: tone.
On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against very positive for Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.
Released 12 years after Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.
