Allie<p>Apr 25, 2023 - Day 115 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 129 </p><p>Game: Sir, You Are Being Hunted</p><p>Platform: Steam PC<br>Release Date: Aug 19, 2013<br>Library Date: Nov 24, 2017<br>Unplayed: 1978d (5y5m1d)<br>Playtime: 15m</p><p>Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a first person stealth survival game.</p><p>If you've been reading up on my reviews, you might assume how this is going to go, and you'd be correct.</p><p>Up front, though, let me say how utterly refreshing it is to have a game where the gameplay voiceover heavily features a gendered honorific, & allows you to change that from "Sir" to "Madam" with a button at the main menu.</p><p>Unfortunately, any potential gender euphoria from this change is overwhelmed by playing a stealth survival game.</p><p>For the newcomers: I'm not a big fan of survival games, and even less so of stealth games where you're primarily helpless; this is both. Not great for a woman with anxiety issues.</p><p>If that's your cup of tea, have at it; a game set in a quaint & creepy English countryside, where you're being hunted by robots was always going to be a big ask, & it was a "please be over, please be over" every time I died and checked the clock.</p><p>There's a whole layer of real-world subtext for me about being hunted by English people who want me to not exist that really drives the final nail into this game's coffin.</p><p>Sir (Madam), You Are Being Hunted is a big old:</p><p>1: Nope</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/SirYouAreBeingHunted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SirYouAreBeingHunted</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FirstPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPerson</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Stealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stealth</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Survival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Survival</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>