The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

Man of Medan is an interactive drama and paranormal horror game. It is part of the The Dark Pictures Anthology series. It’s a game where 5 characters can be played by you or with a small group of other players. The evolution of the story is influenced by the player's choice and those choices can alter relationships between each character.
I found that this game had a slow start, meaning that it took me a while to get into the story. But when I got grabbed by it, I completed the game quite fast. I had quite a few jump scares! Graphics and sounds are nice! I think that it’s better to play this game with a controller instead of the keyboard. I found it was harder to control characters with a keyboard than the controller.
The story is about 4 friends and a captain going on a boat on an expedition to find a WWII wreck. While on the expedition, they get caught in a storm and find the shipwreck. They say that this game is inspired by the urban legend of SS Ourang Medan, a ghost ship. Strange things happen on this boat and you’ll have to focus on keeping all characters alive. Unfortunately, in my first play through, I managed to save only 3 of them. Took me about 4-5 hours to complete the story once. To fully understand the story, I think the game needs to be played more than once. Happy gaming!
---{ 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
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ 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
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Nice little scare tale game with some very minimal interactivity. Mostly just you deciding from a few options to continue to story or moving from room to room to get some discoverable items for some story background. Not much action here so if you're in a mood for a bit more "chill" game to watch and play then this is the game. There some nicely timed scary moments in the game and thankfully not many tasteless jumpscares.

Steam Deck performance review of Man of Medan:
This game is listed as unsupported but here is my steam deck performance feedback after spending +40 hours and 100% achievements. I kept the game on the default graphical setting. If you want a full review of the game itself, there are plenty of reviews online.
Long story short: It runs! Perfectly. Better than some verified games and the best performing Supermassive Game so far that I have played on the steam deck.
I encountered no game breaking bugs, no crashes, no freezing, no frame rate issues. Nothing to force me to restart the game or steam deck. In fact, this game ran a lot better than Dark Pictures: House of Ash, which was listed as playable and had severe graphical glitches, frame rate issues and crashes.
Problems I encountered with Man of Medan:
1. Minor audio glitches in some of the extra menu features videos.
2. Very rarely, texture pop ins and loading while in-game.
3. Minor graphical glitches and environmental clipping while navigating the environment.
4. Battery drain. I'm using the original LED version and my battery lasts only about 90 mins with about 50% brightness while off the charger.
That's it. The game runs just perfectly on the steam deck and is completely enjoyable.

Great game. It's short, but the story is very interesting filled with intense turn of events where your choices actually DO matter.

I enjoyed this game, second one of the anthology that I’ve play. So far House of Ashes is the better one.
Personally, I feel like this one had an incredibly slow start. The setting is cool once you finally get there. As for the characters, I personally did not like half of the main cast. Story is overall good, kept me engaged for the most part. Definitely buy this one on sale.
If I had to give a score, I’d give it a 7/10.

This game had a great start, it made you feel relation to the characters, it slowly built up and it was honestly a great experience, up till the final part. the game is rushed and Co-op is buggy, me and my friend had a good time but sometimes QTEs were either too fast or unresponsive. overall the game is a 6/10
i recommend playing house of ashes! so far it's probably my favorite of The Dark Pictures Anthology games!
Save Salim and Jason, one of the best companionship build-up in gaming history!

My ratings for each of the dark pictures season one games:
Devil in Me 9/10
House of Ashes 9/10
Man of Medan 8/10
Little Hope 7/10
I wasn't expecting much with Man of Medan but I was presently surprised. I think what holds it back the most is the slow start. However once it gets started it has a fantastic setting and is a scary experience.