The WhatsNext verdict
Obenseuer is a singular pick for players who want a grimy, systems-heavy life sim where survival, addiction, scavenging, and renovating a condemned tenement all feed one another. Its roughness is substantial, but its atmosphere and strange simulation are genuinely hard to replace.
What it does best
A grimy, surreal urban mood unlike almost anything else
An unusually bold survival, life-sim, and property-management hybrid
A remarkably deep simulation of desperate urban survival
What might put you off
Punishing grind and deliberately obtuse mechanics
Early-access jank and incompleteness
The setup
What you are walking into
Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with.
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