Overall The Monster Inside is a decent game but I can’t recommend the Steam version as it is riddled with bugs. The game wouldn’t save, it’s supposed to after each chapter, but never did. Steam achievements didn’t work. The game settings also don’t save as every time I open the game it defaults to 640x480 and no full screen despite saving the settings. None of these issues happened on the Itch.io version. The story is decent enough but I do wish I had a few more options to fork the story in a different way at points. I also don’t see why there were any visuals as there were no people on the actual screen. There were a couple animations throughout but you could have just as easily made it a text adventure and had the same effect. That being said the sets were well done and had good atmosphere even if they weren’t sued well. The music was great.
I played the game on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. Alt-Tab didn’t work. There were no graphics options aside from resolution and full screen. The frame rate is capped at 60 FPS but that’s not a big deal for this genre.
Game Engine: Unity
Graphics API: OpenGL
Disk Space Used: 160 MB
Graphics Settings: 1920x1080, full screen
GPU Usage: 0-54 %
VRAM Usage: 452-487 MB
CPU Usage: 13-17 %
RAM Usage: 2.2-2.3 GB
I would recommend the game. It has it’s limitations on choice but other than that has a good atmosphere and music. I just can;’t recommend to play it on Steam, at least for Linux users. I finished the game in fourteen minutes.
My Score 7/10 (5/10 for Steam)
My System:
Intel i7-6700 | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | XFX RX 590 8GB Fat Boy | Mesa 22.2.4 | Solus | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.0.11-225.current