Valley

Great game, so much better than I would have guessed.
The story is told through audiologs (with a story explanation why you can hear them) and pages scattered around. I some games this isnt working well, but in this game it worked great in my opinion. The music is fantastic.
TLDL: Loved the game, was just what I hoped it would be and more. Its worth it for full price, but goes on sale for less than 2€.
The vibe is exploration with parkour and has less of a "dark/horror feeling" than the last part of the first trailer suggests, but has a story theming around "power over life and death" and "soldiers of the future" set around the ending of WWII, to me this gave more of an "i want to know what went how wrong" than the "i dont want to die" most horror games give. Im normally very jumpy but was fine with this game. What spooked me the most was actually a rolling can - that shouldnt have been moving... You get some breathing time between enemies/ most of the game is enemy-free.
You can go for speed and run through the levels or you take your time and search for everything - i did both, with most levels, first slow, looking for stuff and then how fast I could go after I had everything.
I was left pretty much without any questions after playing the game over the span of a week and hearing/reading everything - what happened, how and why etc.. Also look at the diagrams etc you can see on the walls/whiteboards to work out answers most people seemed to have overlooked (according to the discussions).
The game ran very well, never crashed, no bugs for me and I never got stuck. If its too dark you can change the gamma in the options.
Runs well on the steam deck. Everything you do saves, but if you restart its always at the start of the level.
A negative rewiev stated that choosing between male and female character would be pointless: I dont think so. You dont see the character much, but you hear the "nonworded voice" like grunting and simular. I do think it made a difference for me to hear a female voice.

Valley ist wenn man Bioshock auf wish bestellt.
Natürlich ist es nicht so stark was Story und Atmosphäre angeht wie ein Bioshock, aber trotzdem funktioniert das Spiel und man hat seinen Spaß. Besonders am Spiel hat mir das Charaktermovement gefallen, welches ein Großteil des Gameplays ausmacht. Die Grafik ist jetzt nicht die krasseste, aber trotzdem weiß sich die Spielwelt in Szene zu setzen, sodass ich doch manchmal gewillt war einen Screenshot zu machen.
Das Passing war on Point. Immer wenn ich eine Mechanik soweit genutzt hatte, dass ich genug gesehen hatte wurde auch schon die nächste neue coole Mechanik durch ein Upgrade eingeführt. Durch den geringen Schwierigkeitsgrad fühlt man sich in der Welt durch den Anzug echt schön OP und kann gut verstehen, warum er im Spiel so eine Sensation darstellt.
War die 6 Stunden gut unterhalten, somit ein tolles Spiel für nen Wochenende. Für nen 5er gerne zugreifen es macht Spaß und man muss sicht nicht so viel Gedanken über die Story machen. Gerne mehr davon.

4h Spielzeit die ich wirklich genossen habe. Habe es sogar ein zweites mal gespielt, weil es so Spaß gemacht hat. Schade, dass es nicht mehr solche Spiele gibt <3