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Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 28.01.2021

49,99€

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Entdecke ein dunkles Geheimnis, das nur ein Medium lösen kann. Erforsche gleichzeitig die reale und die Geisterwelt. Setze deine medialen Fähigkeiten ein, um Rätsel zu lösen, die beide Welten umspannen, tief verstörende Geheimnisse aufzudecken und Begegnungen mit dem Höllenschlund zu überleben – einem aus einer unaussprechlichen Tragödie geborenen Monster.

The Medium ist ein Psycho-Horrorspiel in der dritten Person mit patentiertem Dual-Reality-Gameplay und einem Original-Soundtrack der Komponisten Arkadiusz Reikowski und Akira Yamaoka.

WERDE EIN MEDIUM
Wende einzigartige psychische Fähigkeiten an, die denjenigen mit der Gabe vorbehalten sind. Reise zwischen den Realitäten oder erforsche sie beide gleichzeitig. Nutze außerkörperliche Erfahrungen, um Orte zu erforschen, an die dein Selbst in der realen Welt nicht gelangen kann. Erschaffe Energieschilde und gib mächtige Geistesschläge ab, um die Geisterwelt und ihre jenseitigen Gefahren zu überleben.

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CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2500X
GFX: @1080p NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon R9 390X (or equivalent with 4 GB VRAM)
RAM: 8 GB RAM
Software: Windows 10 (64bit version only)
HD: 30 GB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: DirectX compatible, headphones recommended
DX: Version 11
LANG: Englisch

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CPU: Intel Core i5-9600 / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GFX: @1080p NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti / Radeon RX Vega 56 | @4K NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / Radeon RX 5700 XTwith 4 GB VRAM)
RAM: 16 GB RAM
Software: Windows 10 (64bit version only)
HD: 30 GB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: DirectX compatible, headphones recommended
DX: Version 12
MISC: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 ror 4K with ray tracing on
LANG: Englisch

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689 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.03.22 06:52

This game was absolutely beautiful! I hope there will be a sequel as there is a cliff hanger at the end :)

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863 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.02.22 19:44

Great game, interesting plot twist, would play it again 10/10
deep and rich story

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69 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.02.22 20:27

Honestly, in my opinion this game lacks interaction and the fixed camera kills the gameplay. I know there are folks out there that don't mind but for me it just kills the game completly, can't play like that.

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59 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.10.21 07:03

Für einen AAA Preis sehr enttäuschend.

Schlechte Performance, nervige Steuerung, keine deutsche Sprachausgabe.
Und dann auch noch abgestürzt...
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619 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.10.21 18:37

Sehr schöne Grafik, Präsentation und Sound-design aber dafür sehr eintöniges, gar schon langweiliges Gameplay, zu keinem Momen schweißtreibende Verfolgungssequenzen und kaum richtige Gruselmomente. Die Feste Kamera hat dem Spiel eher geschadet als genützt und die Story hatte zwar teilweise spannende Charaktere aber fühlte sich insgesamt nicht wirklich rund an.

Vielleicht ist das Spiel ja etwas für Neueinsteiger des Horrorgenres aber dennoch,... für 50€ Sollte man sich definitv nach anderen Spielen Horror- oder Adventurespielen umschauen...

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581 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.10.21 19:49

Gutes Story Telling mit einigen Wendungen. Hat mir sehr gefallen. Auch der Stil mit den Parallel Welten, die man gleichzeitig durchläuft war cool. Einzig die Rätsel waren extrem einfach, vorhersehbar und keine Herausforderung.

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564 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.08.21 10:51

Ein Spiel mit großartiger Atmosphäre und beeindruckenden Locations. Leider selbst nach Einbau einer neuen Grafikkarte noch nicht ganz rund zu kriegen, aber trotzdem war die Stimmung des Spiels komplett zu genießen.

Die Story ist neu und nicht sofort zu durchschauen, zwischenzeitlich gibt es durchaus den ein oder anderen WTF-Moment :D
Eine gelungene Abwechslung zwischen stimmungsvollen Erkundungssequenzen und stressigen Horrorpassagen.

Nicht das klassische Horrorspiel, kein klassisches Third Person Adventure sondern irgendwas dazwischen - und das verdammt gut!

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1036 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.05.21 23:23

Packende Story, guter Grusel und interessantes Gameplay. Durch die Dual-Reality Gameplay Mechanik hat man beim Spielen wirklich mal etwas innovatives und kann die Story noch besser miterleben.

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Verfasst: 11.04.22 06:21

Its good and much longer then i expected.

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342 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.04.22 06:34

Most of the Silent Hill feels I've needed plus a lot of brand new things I didn't know I needed until now. GUH I love it so much.

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Verfasst: 02.04.22 07:45

The medium is a really good indie game that would have deserved to be a AAA production. It's probably my favorite game I played in the last couple of years, and while it's not Silent Hill 2 it does give strong Silent Hill vibes. The game has a bunch of issues that I'll get out of the way now:
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It's pretty short (maybe 7 hours) and has very little replay value, no multiple endings here.

Some animations are clunky

Gameplay is meh : there's no combat or shooting, but the game still makes you use every single button on the controller for trivial actions, and the puzzles are few and easy (some of them just require you to inspect objects while Marianne solves the puzzle out loud). There's also no option to use tank controls for old school survival horror fans who prefer them (I find tank control works better with fixed camera games like this)

performance was not great even on an RTX 3080, the average FPS is OK, but the game will stutter when switching between worlds (both in DX11 and DX12, DX12 improves the overall smoothness but makes the stuttering even worse).

So yeah, reading the list above I realize it doesn't look good, but ultimately none of that mattered, because I really loved playing The Medium.
I won't spoil the story but turned out very differently from what I expected, it's intriguing enough from the start to justify playing the game, but it really picks up steam in the second half of the game. The atmosphere is definitely the best I've seen since Silent Hill 2 but is not just a copy (although the inspiration is clear) and is helped by gorgeous (well... creepy and horrifying but you know what I mean) locations. Of course the music and sound design is awesome. There aren't a lot of characters but they are really well made, and voiced by more than decent actors.

So I would definitely recommend this game, but maybe not at full price since it's pretty short and you'll probably not play it more than once or twice.

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Verfasst: 01.04.22 17:08

This game stutters like crazy on a rtx 3080, fast cpu and nvme drive, are there workaround to fix it? Maybe. Is the developper doing something about it? No, they stopped patch long time ago it seems.

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Verfasst: 21.03.22 11:38

This game has one the best stories ever written for a video game.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☑ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☑ 9
☐ 10

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606 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.03.22 03:47

FINAL VERDICT: Must Buy for Narrative-Driven game fans! Spoiler-free Review

The Medium is one of the best psychological horror, narrative-driven experiences! However, beware: I did experience several technical issues while playing this game. I had to update my Nvidia graphics card in order to get this game to run without constantly crashing, even though no other games I played were crashing. Performance was all over the place, I would get random frame rate drops during my playtime. I did experience a hard crash even after I updated my PC.

The game took me approximately 10 hours to complete, but at least one hour was spent just on troubleshooting. Despite all those technical issues, I loved this game. It has a gripping narrative that hooks you in from start to finish. There's a dark, brooding, over-bearing & terrifying atmosphere this game exudes. The voice acting is excellent. All the voice actors did a great job, but especially the voice of the demon spirit which has all the pain, all the hate, all the evil in some very simple phrases that will haunt your dreams. The musical soundtrack is also excellent.

The gameplay is rather simple though. And while I did enjoy the casual-style puzzles, I did not enjoy the controls. I found myself often just fighting the controls and that made some of the gameplay sequences frustrating. It sucked when you died and you would have to redo a whole section, just because of the maddening controls.

Game is running on the Unreal Engine. On my RTX 3080 (2560 x 1440 monitor) on high graphical settings, I was getting variable frame rates from 20-60 fps, although most of the time it was at 60 fps. Many of the interactions are of the point and click variety (really highlight and press the correct button if you're on a gamepad). It's very easy to miss an object that you can interact with if you're not paying close attention. You can only interact with a few objects in the scenes.

The game does sort of end on a cliffhanger, although it does have a satisfactory ending. I would love to see the continuation of this story and I am intrigued on how the story is supposed to go. Warning: while this is a not a violent game, it is a game that talks about and depicts gritty violence at times. It is a mature psychological horror story.

Rate 8/10. If this had been a smooth, polished experience with slightly better gameplay, it could have been a 10/10. The narrative is that great!

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Verfasst: 20.03.22 02:40

The Medium is a brilliant and compelling game. You control (from a 3rd person perspective) Marianne - a woman with psychic abilities and an unknown past. The game opens as she buries her stepfather and receives a phone call that compels her to enter an abandoned/decaying government facility. What begins as simple exploration soon shifts into a story of madness, spirits, violence, and family.

The graphics are well done, with indoor and outdoor segments. There is an air of menace that pervades all scenes and you will be constantly looking over your virtual shoulder. The sound track adds to your sense of abandonment and dread, with excellent voice acting that is quite chilling at times.

Gameplay includes some interesting mechanics such as moving out of Marianne's body to the spirit world and using spirit energy for power and protection. Marianne's journey alternates between the physical and spiritual realities and puzzles are often solved by cooperation between these two aspects of her character. Can't get through a locked door? Step outside your physical body and explore the other side. Electricity turned off? Use energy from a 'spirit well' to power up items on the physical plane.

Marianne learns about the past from finding notes, audio 'echoes', and memory fragments. These piece together to tell a story of terrible wrongs in the past and how these events impact the present. All in all, a really good (and at times, horrifying) tale of the supernatural. Plus, Marianne is a strong, gritty woman and I found myself cheering her on.

The game auto-saves regularly and maintains a handful of slots. Thus, you always have the option of loading a past save to restart an area or rewind some of your progress. There are a handful of chase and stealth scenes. For me, the toughest survival scene was the first and the rest were not hard. Your success at surviving (by escaping or sneaking) is required to move the story forward. Other than missing one achievement, there is no penalty for failure... just the ability to try (and try) again. Although the keyboard and mouse are fully supported, I found it impossible to complete these sequences and turned to my controller which greatly improved navigation.

While some achievements are story-related, others are awarded for collectibles. Finding all items in a single play through requires taking the time to fully explore every environment. Hot spots are clearly indicated so you will not need to do any pixel hunting. All achievements can be attained in a single (albeit careful) play through. The story is fairly linear so The Medium has little replay value (unless you are circling back for missed collectibles or just want to do it all over again). Puzzles are generally environmental ... some with inventory 'find and use' and others to remove/repair obstacles (often by strategically working between the physical and spirit planes).

I really liked this game and would highly recommend it to adventurers who can tolerate a wee bit of running and sneaking. For the most part, you will be walking or running through creepy, dank environments in order to discover what happened and how/if Marianne fits into it all.

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Verfasst: 01.11.21 21:40

+ nice graphics
+ nice music
+ interesting fresh game mechanics
+ creepy atmosphere
+ nice leveldesign
+ interesting story

- sometimes really weird control glitches
- abysmal PC Performance (even with a 3090) -> really hard fps drops >>>on medium<<<
- needs more horror
- a bit short

can recommend!

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Verfasst: 30.10.21 08:52

Most silent Hilly game I've played in ages.

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562 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.10.21 05:47

First things first: this is a very well-made game, with a twisting, complicated story and cool mechanics. There's some stealth and hiding sections, but once you figure out how they work they're not frustrating like they can be in other games, and instead actually enhance the horror. The main monster is also fantastic - incredibly chilling, but also fascinating. That said...

TW: sexual abuse (and spoilers, though I'm avoiding details)

I was uncomfortable with the way that sexual abuse was used in this game. I could see that the developers tried their best to be non-explicit and not too traumatizing. But still, there's something about the way the victim of the abuse is shoved out of the spotlight in favor of other characters that feels really dehumanizing and left a very bad taste in my mouth. There's much more attention paid to the impact on everyone around the victim, including their abuser(!), while the actual victim gets very little chance to express themselves. They're mostly an object for other characters in the story. In a game about trauma, their trauma is largely unexplored. It feels cheap and insensitive. I can see that the developers did their best not to be exploitative here, but it's a fact of the story that one character's sexual abuse is used primarily as a tool to motivate other characters. Again, given the way the game tries to grapple with the impacts of trauma, it feels like a huge blind spot.

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470 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.10.21 13:39

First off I got this game gifted by friends for my birthday so I did NOT spend money to get it

Would I recommend it myself full price? Maybe. If you have a big itch for that kind of game.
In a sale? 100 %

Rating 8/10

If you're looking for a story game in the psychological horror genre then this might be it for you

Story is great and kept me interessted
Gameplay is good for the type of game it is
Graphics brilliant (You need a pretty powerful PC to run it properly)
Sound also great

Sadly it's a little bit on the shorter Side, it didn't even take me 8 hours to complete and I did not try to speedrun it or anything. Just played at a regular pace even read all the notes and pickups (I found). I don't have a problem with a game being short except that I obviously want more of it.

The only downside I had with it personally was.. about halfway through at one point in the game [spoiler](Red House)[/spoiler] I experienced some crashes. I can NOT give a certain fix for but I can recommend the following:

Turn off Raytracing
Put the game in Borderless Windowed
Turn on V-Sync (Input-Lag isn't a big deal here anyways)
Limit to 60 FPS (yes even tho V-Sync is on i still did it)

After i put my settings like that I did not experience any further crashes

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765 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.10.21 02:54

Holy stars, that was a good game.
I'll do my best to not tell any spoilers.

The music of this game was really good, for setting the mood and fit every situation. The camera angles were an excellent choice for a lot of the scenes especially the first time we get a vision of someone else in the spirit realm. I loved how as some of the questions we had were answered, there were more questions brought to light.

The ending, man that was bitter sweet. I was and wasn't expecting it. There's still some questions sitting on the table but man that was such a good game with good story telling through every aspect of it; from the music, the little details you see in the background when you are looking at other items, the items you find that you can easily miss, and just the way the camera is angled.

Definitely looking forward to playing another game from this team again soon (and secretly hoping there might be a sequel game but it's also excellent as a stand alone).

For sure play The Medium. Well worth the price!

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Verfasst: 20.10.21 08:15

it all ends in me

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Verfasst: 15.10.21 12:25

Story Rich adventure game, has a slow build up which paid off in the end.
No cheap jumpscares, which is good.
Amazing graphics, and story.
Love the split screen mechanic, however it has room for more refinement in future installments.

The gameplay reminded me much of the early 3rd person resident evil games.
Control movements of the characters could be improved.

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601 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.08.21 21:18

The controls are a bit jank and it takes a while to get going, but overall a memorable experience.
I really liked the setting. They included a lot of classic ghost related horror and folk lore tropes, but in such a way that they made sense and just sort of felt natural.
This game reminded me of Control in a few ways. One thing I feel it did a lot better though, was conveying that feeling of the supernatural being natural to the protagonist.
The gameplay was fine. It does a decent job building tension and adding to the atmosphere and immersion, but don't expect anything ground breaking.
The asking price is obviously pretty steep for a 10 hour game, so if you don't have a lot of money to throw around, its probably worth waiting for a sale.

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Verfasst: 17.08.21 16:10

While it has an ambiguous ending and that's not to my tastes, it's an extremely well made and beautiful game. The character models and designs are gorgeous, and I really wish I had Marianne's outfit/look. Especially spirit world Marianne. A couple challenging sections (mainly running), and a few truly spooky and scary moments in it. It builds its story well, and it's definitely worth the playthrough. Just... don't stream it if you don't want to drop a billion frames. Even with its flaws and the hassle I had streaming it, 8/10.

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527 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.08.21 23:25

Very immersive horror game, nice puzzles that are neither too easy nor too hard, overall great game

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Verfasst: 08.08.21 16:26

If you're a scaredy cat like me and get jumpy all the time playing Horror Games, I would definetly recommend this game.

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Verfasst: 20.07.21 07:14

this game is more optimize than capcom cluster fk RE8.

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Verfasst: 14.07.21 13:07

The concept is great, the graphics look nice and the puzzles were pretty cool. It got a bit tedious however, and felt like I was just slowly walking backwards and forwards. I lost track of what the story was about and got pretty confused, so even though I finished the game I'm not really sure what happened xD. I'm glad I got to experience this game as it is quite unique, but I definitely could not be bothered playing again

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Verfasst: 05.07.21 17:45

Story ????
Music ????
Graphics ????

Gameplay ????
Average framerate ????

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Verfasst: 03.07.21 04:50

Very bad texture flickering everywhere in the game to the point where it is annoyingly distracting as well as making the game impossible to play. The game has not been patched in months even with people complaining about many game playing and visual bugs.

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Verfasst: 01.07.21 00:13

Ah, Bloober Team... it's a developer we've been hearing about a lot recently, and for good reason. They're the masterminds behind instant horror classics such as the two Layers of Fear titles and Observer; they also created the Blair Witch game, but we won't talk about that mishap right now. In more recent news, they've teamed up with Konami; an event that has only further fuelled the fires of the rumour mill about the Silent Hill franchise getting a much needed revival. Released in January of 2021, The Medium is Bloober Team's fourth horror creation, their largest project to date, and the first to be truly considered an AAA release. The question that beckons to be answered here is, is The Medium able to live up to being touted as a spiritual successor to magnificent Silent Hill franchise?

Set in Poland, 1999, you play as a psychic medium named Marianne. After a tragic accident took her step-father's life, she sets off to her childhood home to say her final goodbye to him and prepare him for his last journey. However, before the funeral can begin she receives a mysterious phone call from a man simply known as Thomas, who urges her to meet him at the nearby Niwa Resort. He claims that she is the only one who can help him, but little does Marianne know that the events that are about to unfold not only tell the tale of a major tragedy, but they will also help her uncover the long-lost secrets of her past.

Before you consider buying this game, you should be going into it knowing that you'll be in for a purely cinematic experience. There's no true combat, only a handful of stealth sections, and the gameplay is comprised mostly of easy puzzles that require you to find certain items to progress. This is entirely forgivable due to just how amazing the story here actually is, and how uniquely the gameplay is presented. Marianne's special psychic ability constantly tears her between the world of the living and the world of the dead, which will have you straddling the line of the two worlds at many moments of the campaign; you'll actually be controlling her real-world form and spirit form simultaneously in split-screen, exploring both planes at the same time. Oppositely, there are plenty of junctions where you only control one or the other as well. The split-play is executed in an absolutely phenomenal manner, and lends to the immersive quality of the story.

The art and sound direction are equally as stunning as the cinematic quality of the story and gameplay as well. The soundtrack... mmm MMMM oh the soundtrack... it was in-part created by Akira Yamaoka. Need I say more? If you answered yes, then that's on you. As far as the visuals go, on the one hand you have the world of the living; a rather blue, rainy, drab Polish cityscape that takes place mostly in the Niwa Resort, which is a large building, and later in a forest. On the other hand you have the spirit world; a rusty brown world filled with bones, fleshy barriers, and a feeling of ancient decay. Obviously the spirit world was highly inspired by Silent Hill, but what shines through even brighter than that is the inspiration from the work of painter Zdzisław Beksiński. The colour contrast between the two realms, especially when laid out side-by-side in split-screen, is wonderfully executed and, quite frankly, jaw-dropping; it looks even better with HDR turned on, and in 4K resolution played in DirectX 12 it is one of the best looking games on the market right now.

And that brings us to The Medium's biggest problem... its abysmal performance. Now, I know my build is pretty outdated at this time (i7-6700k/GTX 1080), but one glance over the forums and you'll see people with RTX 3080s and more modern builds having issues as well. I ran this game on full graphic settings, no raytracing, at 1080p, and I was getting as low as 20 FPS in some areas and saw most areas stabilize at 40 FPS. Some sections managed to pull 60 FPS, but relatively few. This game also made my watercooled CPU heat up to 90C+ while my GPU barely grazed 70C. This title also abhors alt + tabbing out of it, and it'll do a number of tricks on your desktop if you attempt to get to your taskbar while playing it. There are just some really, really strange performance anomalies across the board here, some that I've never even experienced before, and I've played over a thousand games on Steam alone. Sadly, it doesn't seem as though fixing any of these problems is high on Bloober Team's to-do list.

Looking past such attrocious optimization is something that I rarely do, I will damn a game to hell for subpar performance. However, in the case of The Medium, the FPS drops didn't seem to affect the gameplay much and it wasn't that noticeable; it's the rest of the problems that are a higher concern. Looking past all that, though, lies one hell of a stunning game. The story is a bit complex, as any Silent Hill inspired game should be, but that's because it requires you to use your mind to tie together the strings that you're given throughout its 8 hour experience. On top of a great story, stunning visuals, beautiful soundtrack is one of the most unique gameplay concepts you'll find on the market right now. The split-screen really works better than you'd think it would, and it's fun to have to use both worlds to solve progression puzzles. If you can cope with the technical issues The Medium has, it might just be the best game you play all year.

Rating: 4.5/5.0 - Excellent, highly worth playing.

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195 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.06.21 04:16

This is a nice spooky game. Nothing really horrific, but a few spine tingling, and jump in your seat moments. I like a headset, and a dark room for these games. The graphics, music, and dialog are all well done, and very immersive.

I'm only 3 hours into it, and save my game time for the nights with this particular game, where I can immerse myself even deeper into the atmosphere. It runs nice, and smooth on my rig. The only thing that needs some getting use to, is the walking around, but nothing drastic for me.

Just give it a try, and see if you like it.

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Verfasst: 10.06.21 21:29

Beautiful and mysterious. Just the type of game I needed right now.

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473 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.06.21 22:28

Amazing game, hopefully the start of a great franchise, RT is broken though so just turn off and enjoy the smooth gameplay

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792 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.05.21 04:21

I can't recommend this game.

Just like others have said, I really wanted to like this game, but it became quite difficult to do so. Here are a few things that made my experience not enjoyable:

- The game play is very slow and nothing much happens. This game became boring very quickly despite the great potential that some of the underlying ideas had. Basically you spend most of the game walking and pressing X or A to solve super simple puzzles or listening to spiritual voices. There's barely any action and actually getting killed is a challenge. The characters also move very slow even when running to the point of being annoying. Since you spend most of the time walking from point A to point B without much happening in between, doing so at a slow speed feels extra boring, as if you were being dragged through the floor.
- The game does not get much juice out of the split screen system. Yes, you make use of it throughout the game, but I don't think the experience is that great and overall I'd rather immerse myself in the visuals of a full screen world than have a split screen that doesn't provide that much to the game play.
- I did not like the voice acting of the main character. In my opinion it didn't convey the right emotions during the game and it felt fairly contrived.
- Texture flickering. While the graphics are in general quite good, I suffered from texture flickering in many parts of the game. This affected things like shadows in the forests and other textures on the floor or walls, like spray paintings or blood stains. It became quite annoying and the only way to stop this from happening was to disable ray tracing, which defeats one of the purposes of using an RTX 3090 :).

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443 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.05.21 05:13

The story was very interesting and kept things relatively fresh at each step and turn. Gameplay wasn't anything too amazing, but definitely creative enough to keep the curiosity going. I recommend this if you're looking for a decent Silent Hill type horror game with a great story and basic gameplay elements.

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554 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.05.21 02:54

What a ending !!! the story plot is better than watching a series and everything is so well done , this was a great ambitious game i really enjoy it alot , for all those who like the game play but with a great story this will defently get your attention , i hope they make a second part of this game totally worth it.

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542 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.05.21 22:54

Let me start by saying this game was great. I loved the gameplay, I loved the atmosphere, and I also loved the story. About the story. I don't tend to read warnings, I was rather...surprised by the exact nature of the content in game. Read the warnings, folks, some of this content may not be for you. However, I think a great job was done implying the horrific things that were done, rather that showing them for the shock value. Ending was kinda meh; felt like there could have been more there. Would certainly like more to the whole story!
The puzzles were satisfying and challenging, and while I personally had a bit of a hard time with the split screen, it was innovative and allowed so much more scope to the scenes. Also personally loved lack of full combat. Being clever rather than being strong is always a favorite for me in horror games.
The music is amazing.
Also, the accessibility features? I have never seen such thought put in! More games should give these sorts of options.

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432 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.05.21 02:23

Great, I need the sequel now.