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After seeing the trailer for The Pacific DLC for Battlefield V I finally conceded and ordered myself a cheapy copy. Looks like Dice is finally getting back to some historical based game play. The original reason I avoided BFV this time around was due to their complete dismissal of history upon the initial release of the game. That initial launch trailer still makes me cringe to this day.

Been playing Darkwood since Halloween. What a great little gem of a game. It does have a issues where it will hiccup when it loads new data which I initially thought was my PS4 acting up, but upon checking various forums it's a known issue even on the PC version.
It definitely gives me a Darkseed and Lone Survivor vibe and I suspect like Lone Survivor may have a twist ending.

It's one of those games that gives you no story or background to what has happened. You find clues here and there. In the initial tutorial prologue of the game you discover the year might be 1987 which means the tutorial mission might take place several years after the main game since you also find a clue that it might be 1985.

It's truly built in the mold of the oldschool classic survival horror style. A lot of equipment management, exploration, puzzle solving, crafting and intentionally cumbersome combat to encourage alternate ways to defeat opponents.
So far I have no idea what has happened in the world aside from the fact most people and animals are either dead or insane. Trees and dark forests have overtaken much of the landscape as well as a mist that limits your vision. You don't even know who or what you are and at one point you find a mirror to see yourself and I get the impression you may not necessarily be a good guy.

It has day and night cycles. In the day you're free to explore the environment scavenging for supplies, clues and landmarks to update on your map. The map never pinpoints where you are and you only have a general idea of your location based on any landmarks you are near. You have your safehouse and are able to locate other safe houses. The stoves of these safe houses perpetually cook some sort of strange concoction which creates an odor that acts as a repellent to the night time supernatural entities.

The night time in this game gets crazy. You can't be outside of your safe house when the sun goes down and you'll definitely want to spend your early game barricading windows and crafting traps to put by doors or un-barricaded entry points. Spend your night time hours sorting supplies and crafting because you'll want to use your daylight hours exploring and gathering without wasting time. Your safe house has a generator which you must keep topped up with gasoline to keep your limited lights on as the light repels the supernatural entities that fill up the world after dark. As the hours tick by the sound design of the game kicks in to full effect as all sorts of phenomena that you can't see starts to happen. From whispering voices, knocks on the doors and even the frightening sound of a potential intruder rummaging around darkened rooms of your safe house. The tension builds each night just to the point when dawn begins to break and you can breathe a sigh of relief. Apparently there is also a litany of "Nightmare Events" that take place at night. I know on one occasion the apparition of a man appeared in my bedroom and just kept repeating "We need to get out of here" over and over.

You'll also meet a couple of creepy unknown neutral parties who act as traders you can barter supplies with. It has an interesting barter system where instead of currency all items have a value point so you trade supplies back and force based on item value instead of currency. I recommend obtaining a wrist watch as soon as possible to help keep track of the time of day. You can know exactly how much time you have on your exploration excursions and when 8am arrives, the official time of day dawn arrives.