Pathologic

I found this monument behind Grace's mausoleum. Can any Russian-speaking anons translate?

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There are also dogs in this game.

Here lies Farhad
most stubborn among architects
this monument we have built on the perfect foundation
from inconsolable colleagues
Something on latin(?) in the end.

Is this supposed to be whoever built the Polyhedron?

He worked with Stamatin brothers, so probably yes.

Is this the HD Remaster?
This can't end well, poor doggo ;_;

I never saw no doggo. I'm calling shenanigans.

RUN user-KUN! THEY WILL CATCH YOU!

GUN-GOD DANKOVSKY NEVER RUNS

youtube.com/watch?v=54dZWDjZfas

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Well, he is a true anarchist
>that infection
I'm worried about you, user

Who is the woman, and why does the plague take the form of Angelic woman in the later days exactly? Is it supernatural in nature or is it ambiguous. In fact, is there really any supernatural elements in Pathologic?

Also, up to day 7 as the bachelor on my first play now. Still really enjoying it, but I kind of wish the game was a hell of a lot shorter. Especially since I'd like to see things from the perspective of the haruspex and the changeling, not to mention just regular choice and consequence fiddling (Letting people die, doing and not-doing sidequests, etc).

Normally woudl be all-for meaty games but for ones that heavily favor replaying I actually like them to be on the shorter side.

I cut it down a little with some pills, but I'm going as sparingly on my drugs as I can since I'm finding them harder to reliably come by than things like food. I mostly keep my immune system as high as possible and then chug Nyquil and fall into bed and tread water against the infection.

>In fact, is there really any supernatural elements in Pathologic?

>remake was delayed until October next year
well at least i've got more time to finish the original now...

this user is right I think but my Russian is kind of shit I've only studied a year.

>remake was delayed until October next year
NO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE SEEN THIS, SAY IT AINT SO

I just heard about it yesterday
they are also at gamescom showing off some stuff apparently

welp, rip

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Even though I like the look of the originals better, the new ones really do fit the game more.

>Who is the woman,
Eve (the lady whose house the Bachelor lives in), when you get to Day Seven you'll know why.
>why does the plague take the form of Angelic woman in the later days exactly?
Guilt.
>In fact, is there really any supernatural elements in Pathologic
No! This is just superstition, a pastoral peasant's fears. Dankovsky will surely find a scientific explanation for this, as in everything.

I'm glad you're enjoying it, user, especially because you're at my favourite part of the game. The only advice I can really offer is to save a lot, I don't mind how lengthy the game is but there might be times in your other playthroughs you'll want to come back and recheck the dialogue at some places.

>I cut it down a little with some pills, but I'm going as sparingly on my drugs as I can since I'm finding them harder to reliably come by than things like food. I mostly keep my immune system as high as possible and then chug Nyquil and fall into bed and tread water against the infection.
Now you are learning! It's smart to ration your drugs as much as possible, especially considering the longer the Plague goes on more and more types start to appear. Plus, as you should've found by now, you can completely - and literally - burn out your infection with some things like the Powders, so maintaining equilibrium can often be a better course than spending a lot of resources and effort trying to completely fix an ailment. Unless you're on the verge of bleeding to death or starving, of course.
Don't you just love the taste of ichorous milk?

I like you user, you're good at roleplaying I bet, also, Pathologic roleplay when?

Someone should start one on that roleplay forum on that relatively new board I can't remember the name of.

Yep, been saving more often. Nothing like getting nailed by a stray knife or firebomb after a long trip and then having to do the whole thing again.

And the brown plagues are horrendous. At least I've got my magical scope, which apparently the other characters don't have. All I can figure is they just have to suck it up and maybe value buying clothing more.

I'm not sure what I expected, but I was kinda disappointed by the long block of the Termitary's interior.

This dude has the best fanart.
It was always going to be delayed, anons. It is IPL, of course. At least this way hopefully they can do everything how they want to, and Executor masks when?

>I like you user, you're good at roleplaying I bet, also, Pathologic roleplay when?
Thanks, user. I fear I wouldn't be anywhere near up to the task, however, since I haven't for years. Unless that makes me a better choice, in this case?

>Someone should start one on that roleplay forum on that relatively new board I can't remember the name of.
I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean.

>Nothing like getting nailed by a stray knife or firebomb after a long trip and then having to do the whole thing again.
Yeah, nothing like taking a midnight trip to the theatre and eating an instant-death knife to the face when you're not looking, eh? And the arsonists are always fun, particularly that huge melee with the Hunchback when he loses it.

>And the brown plagues are horrendous. At least I've got my magical scope, which apparently the other characters don't have. All I can figure is they just have to suck it up and maybe value buying clothing more
>magic
What kind of Bachelor are you, man!? It is a real help, though, especially if you've been upgrading it. You're right about the other characters, clothing becomes a lot more valuable (as do medicines, oddly enough) especially since they don't get easy access to some of the top-tier clothes like the Bachelor does as quest rewards. And you're right about the brown plagues, the spook when you see them for the first time and they start fucking chasing you

>Thanks, user. I fear I wouldn't be anywhere near up to the task, however, since I haven't for years. Unless that makes me a better choice, in this case?
MAKE IT HAPPEN! RP as villagers trying to survive, pls.

>particularly that huge melee with the Hunchback when he loses it.

That damn part. Still not as annoying as the bloodbath in the warehouse. Had a hell of a time with that one until I eventually gave up and ignored it, did the entire rest of the day, saved, quit, came back while drinking some whiskey, and somehow nailed everyone with single shots.

And I don't even know about magic any more, user. There was an ayy lmao! IT WASN'T A DREAM! IT WAS THERE! WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE A SAMPLE OF BLOOD DANKOVSKY GOD DAMN IT

Is there a game on par with Pathologic that delivers PTSD harder?

Pic sort of related.

I know what you mean; giant slabs of (apparently rotting) meat and worm-men aside, it wasn't as weird as I was expecting from the general atmosphere of the game. Wait 'til you meat the lady running the place, though.

I'll be interested to see what changes they make in the design for the remake, whether they put more detail in or not. Once I made a few trips there and back it got pretty spooky, hearing the shuffling of the worms and moaning of the sick.
Also, for the record, I preferred 'Apiary'

>MAKE IT HAPPEN! RP as villagers trying to survive, pls.
But user! I am not an actor! What is this?
I'll see what I can do. Did you mean /qst/?

>Still not as annoying as the bloodbath in the warehouse. Had a hell of a time with that one until I eventually gave up and ignored it, did the entire rest of the day, saved, quit, came back while drinking some whiskey, and somehow nailed everyone with single shots.
That's the way a real man of science does it. As you said, Gun-God Dankovsky! After all, as the Stamatins say, what is twyrine for if not for drinking?
I had heaps of trouble with that the first time too, eventually I managed to headshot everyone except for one crazy thug who kept running after me while I desperately reloaded. A similar thing when you have to break the Haruspex out of jail, on my first playthrough I had no idea you could get Gryph to help, so I ended up desperately trying to get all three of the guards at close range (and ended up wasting my whole six shots to do it). That's what's great about this game, it throws you into some incredibly difficult combat and then makes you feel bad for missing shots because you're wasting bullets you could otherwise be spending on food.

>And I don't even know about magic any more, user. There was an ayy lmao! IT WASN'T A DREAM!
Meeting the Albino for the first time is probably where the game goes from 'great' to 'sublime'

/qst/
yes
please, I'd gladly get into

What war did the good doctor take place in exactly? There is some dialogue in one of the later chapters that seemingly points to him being an absolute lunatic when it comes battles in war. He's clearly proficient, but I feel like he is holding back the majority of the game.

pic related.

P. et A. gemini
is literally
brothers P. and A.
meaning Stamatin brothers I suppose

Busting the haruspex out didn't give me much guff since I paid Grief to help, like you said. Arguably not worth it since it ran me 10k and left one guard left alive that I still needed to bust a cap in so I still lost some reputation, but such is life. Been pretty well off for money so far anyway so it wasn't that big of a deal.

P. and A. Gemini

(on the albino)
>On the trail of a suspect
>Leading you further into the Steppe than you probably have ever been before
>Rounding the Abbatoir
>Suddenly, you start being hurt out of nowhere and the screen starts to swim
>In the distance, surely this is the culprit?
>Wait... nothing with those proportions can be human

I'll see what I can do, user
I haven't roleplayed in years, and there's a 3-day autosage on /qst/, so should we... advertise in some of these threads first? I'm really not sure how to go about it.

>What war did the good doctor take place in exactly? There is some dialogue in one of the later chapters that seemingly points to him being an absolute lunatic when it comes battles in war. He's clearly proficient, but I feel like he is holding back the majority of the game.
I don't think it's ever explicated, but some of his dialogue with Andrei Stamatin indicates that they fought together in a student revolt (in the name of ''higher principles'' I think it's mentioned) that was incredibly bloody; and that Dankovsky was, as you say, an absolute lunatic as a fighter. Between that and the mentions of an uprising shortly before the game, I think they're meant to parallel the student-led pre-February revolutions/protest of 1900's Russia
I know one of the detailed conversations is when Eve goes missing and Dankovsky can demand assistance from Andrei, he gives you a rifle and mentions their history.
No wonder he takes to the Steppe so well Nothing shall stand in the way of progress, eh?

If you're not having much trouble with money, that's definitely good. The Bachelor's path is a tease in that it often hands you piles of cash which it then expects you to immediately spend, unless you can find a way around it.
Being smart and buying as much food as you can on Day One helps

Thanks, anons.

The reputation drops were fun, but I wasn't expecting them to drop so much if you kill all the guards, you lose all your Reputation, even if it was at maximum so that was a fun time dodging the Commandant's guards until I could find some dying plague victims to tend to. At least I had an abundance of morphinum... for me and for them.
Haruspicus didn't mind being rescued by a lunatic, though.

Is this game hard?

>That first spoiler

Oh, shit. I guess I'm glad I spent the money then. Would've been quite the pain in the ass.

Not really, mostly just tedious

I'll wait for that remake then

OP here, back from Haruspex day 5 with more questions. Thanks for bumping the thread.

What the heck is this guy?
Is it more than a coincidence that he shows up at the same time the rat races start?

There are dog and cow NPCs in the game, they're just hard to find.

I found more leaked screenshots of the gamescom demo on twitter.

Looks like the map and inventory system will be very different.

Another two from a Russian site.

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I want to get a Pathologic tattoo, bad idea or good idea. Pic related.

The look of the poster obviously.

How is the map different? It's clearly the western part with the chapel and Eva's house

>What the heck is this guy?
It's clearly just a child, Haruspicus. Do your eyes deceive you?

So good
>Grid inventories
Yes! Now I finally have an excuse to fill my pockets with twyrine.

>I want to get a Pathologic tattoo, bad idea or good idea. Pic related.
Brilliant idea. I do like that picture of the Tragedian, where were you thinking about getting it?
I'm hoping to get a set of Brands if I can ever decide where to get them

They've moved things around a little and made the map bigger overall. The river curves a lot more and the town extends further south. The polyhedron is now in the southwestern part of the map and has water to its west instead of its north.

You can see it all in this drawing they posted on the devblog.

>IPL mark their directions with weird glyphs
Working for those guys would be something else.

Sort of. As I understand it, most of what's wrong stems from violations of ancient laws, and the Changeling (or Devotress, depending on your version) may or may not be an incarnation of the spirit of the land.

However, the fourth wall is very permeable, and the Gods ultimately turn out to be children playing at godhood in a Sandbox. So it foregrounds the idea of play (and theater) in a way that undercuts the idea of literal magic.

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EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You can talk to her in the cathedral on day 12.

I probably shouldn't have read that.

And now, Bachelor, you see >reading spoilers when you've just discovered something
I hope you asked Andrei for that rifle

Yus.
Was mighty satisfying. What isn't satisfying is struggling to make inventory room for executor books, and then getting a king's ransom in twyrine drank and having to leave some behind. God damn it Dankovsky WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T CARRY 50 BOTTLES AS WELL AS A WEEK OF FOOD AND A RIFLE AND A PISTOL AND A VARIETY OF HOBO-SHANKS

''You cannot save her''

I was actually planning on reloading my first save of that day and just sitting in front of her staring to see what would happen.

I'm guessing absolutely nothing until you exit the house or sleep. Or maybe she doesn't die if you waste the entire day staring at her but shit goes wrong elsewhere without you running around. Whatever the case I'll probably fuck with it at some point. Maybe not tonight though, still have to scrub my greasy body and it's probably for the best if Pathologic isn't the last game I play before going to bed.

>not immediately drinking all the extra twyrine bottles instead of leaving it on the ground like an animal
>not having a giant stash of food, medicine and weapons in the cupboard at Eve's place or maybe at Lara's
As fun as it is to hoard things, Dankvosky's coat can only fit so much (especially since people always want to pay you in items)
If you're having fun now, wait 'til you get to the Haruspicus (for whom stashing is pretty much mandatory, like the provincial hobo he his)

She dies anyway, and I'm fairly sure she'll disappear the first time you sleep/leave the house (maybe after a certain time?) because you get her farewell note early in the day. If you do do some more specific testing, though, I'd definitely like to know the result.
Presumably she sticks around if you just spend the whole day in front of her watching over her (with benevolence, right?) but she'd take her first opportunity to escape the next day and it would sicken one of your Adherents, which you definitely do not want
>and it's probably for the best if Pathologic isn't the last game I play before going to bed
You're right about that, friend Bachelor. Rest up, though, you still have 29 days to go!

I don't think Pathologic would really work as a shorter game. I think that one of its strengths is definitely how it handles the concept of time pressures. Pretty much every emotion this game evokes seems to precision engineered to be that way, and this is no different. The stress of racing against the clock or going through a slog plays into events in a big way, and if you were to try and replicate that in a shorter timeframe you'd end up with some pretty unrealistically short deadlines.

Agreed. Some people complain about your walking pace, but the Town and the game as a whole are superbly well paced. The fact that you seemingly have so much time even adds to the pressure, since you have to do more and more as the game goes on (often with very short notice)

>having a giant stash

Well shit. I didn't think of that. Since so many areas/storage units respawn/refill in Pathologic it never struck me to stash my goodies. That would probably help a lot.

I wasn't really talking about the movement speed, I was talking more along the lines if the story was restructured to last, say, a week. Or harder sleep and wake times. Or something.

It's still hard to fault it since it does all mesh extremely well, just wish I could see more of it more easily.

Does this game have rule 34? Should I change that? I'm just trying to draw shit that hasn't really been done much.

>Does this game have rule 34? Should I change that?
There are only two pieces that I know of, but they're both of the Devotress and neither are any good.

C-could you do some of my waifus, user-kun?
Lara or Ana Angel either are good

Is Pathologic better than The Void?

Also how is knock knock?

>Day 1 title is "during which Haruspex turns from a rightful heir to a dangerous criminal"
>it actually ends with Haruspex being more or less acquitted
The author is such a hack

>Since so many areas/storage units respawn/refill in Pathologic it never struck me to stash my goodies. That would probably help a lot.
It does, especially for the Haruspicus (you'll know what I mean when you start playing him). As far as I know, all the containers in Adherents' safehouses (like Eve's house and Lara's refuge), as well as in characters' hideouts (like the Bachelors'/Rubin's laboratory) are safe.

>Is Pathologic better than The Void?
Better? Hard to give an accurate answer to that. I prefer Pathologic, but that might just be having played it first - I love the story, and the atmosphere of dread and despair, the gameplay, how... abstruse the Town and Steppe and everything is. I love The Void, too, so it's hard to choose.
If you played The Void first, you shouldn't have any trouble getting into Pathologic, so give it a try.
>how's Knock-knock
I actually haven't played it, so no idea

>Anna Angel
Why?

That said, I'm probably definitely do something of Lara one of these days, although I am emphatically not that guy.

Yeah I already played the Void and it became one of my favs ever, easily in my top 10 of all time

I already bought Pathologic too, so I will play it for sure. It seems the Void is overshadowed by Pathologic seeing as it gets barely mentioned compared to it, that's why I asked.

>>Why?
Qt, seductive, playfully teases the Bachelor, has that hint of a darker nature and that whole implication that she stole not only a house from a dead Town resident, but also (literally) her voice
Also, in my very first playthrough I made sure to keep talking to characters and get their unique lines, and she has this really cute one that's something like ''kitty cat, kitty cat, can you, can you catch a rat?'' in this tone of voice that's so playful I burst out into hysterical laughter.

I really would appreciate it, though. Eve, Lara and Julia are all top-waifu tier

>not having The Void and Pathologic as your two favourite/best games of all time
Odonghe

>It seems the Void is overshadowed by Pathologic seeing as it gets barely mentioned compared to it, that's why I asked
It's just because it's even more obtuse than Pathologic, mechanically and narratively/thematically, so people tend not to mention it as often. Most people play Pathologic first and then go on to The Void (and even then, it's not everyone); at least with Pathologic if you start playing as the Bachelor like the game tells you to there's a relatively comprehensible progression to ease you into the game, whereas the Void stands a significant chance of you getting into an impossible situation over and over again if you don't understand the mechanics.
I like both, though.

I love that final conversation as a Bachelor with a tragedian where he calls you a mere puppet and you have the option to put him in his place by claiming that it is "I, the player" speaking and that Bachelor was the vessel of my will and that causes him to back off and apologize

If memory serves she was also involved with a gang that did a lot of fucked up shit. Or was it someone else?

Yeah, I think they were kidnapping children and selling their organs or something

>There are only two pieces that I know of, but they're both of the Devotress and neither are any good.
There is actually some pretty good r34 of Eva Yahn.

>Why?
>Qt, seductive, playfully teases the Bachelor,
She is a murderous psychotic bitch. Do you KNOW her actual backstory? She does not so much hint at darker side - she is a straight up cunt from the first second to the last.

>Yeah, I think they were kidnapping children and selling their organs or something
She was a member of the "Merry Company" (also known as the "Company of death", I don't know how they translated that in the HD version of the game). They were a group of carnies, basically. Except they tended to straight up murder the towns they visited. Often they kidnapped children and basically used them as slaves and forcing them to work for them.
They had to use army to disband them in the end. Angela and Hunchback are two people who managed to get away and somehow survive: Hunchback's daughter, which you deal with in one of the most fucked up quests in the game, as one of the kids that was "adopted" after her parents were killed - by hunchback himself.

It's good, isn't it?
Especially when you remember that in the very first conversation you can have with a Tragedian in the game, he also calls you a puppet and an actor, and if you protest that you're not he just laughs it off with an ''of course, but my words are not for you''
It's a nice reversal, twelve days later.

>There is actually some pretty good r34 of Eva Yahn.
There is? Now that I look again there /is/ a nice picture on paheal, but only one. would you be able to link to more, kind user?

>he is a murderous psychotic bitch. Do you KNOW her actual backstory? She does not so much hint at darker side - she is a straight up cunt from the first second to the last.
She's a hot one, though. And before you find out her backstory, she's pretty polite to Dankovsky - she gives you presents for checking up on her, and she even helpfully offers to split the money from blackmailing that weird hunchback.
And how could you resist a face like that? What could possibly happen?

The very first thing she does when you meet her is to ask you to get rid of her dead body. For which she gives you reward equal to roughly 1/5th of the minimum you need to spend to finish the quest.

She is clearly manipulating you from start, and as for the blackmailing issue... well, that is fucked up in it's own way. Also, she does not offer you the money out of kindness: she is clearly desperate and doing something very wrong, she needs you to keep your mouth shut.
Never for a second thought of actually giving her the money. Also, it turns out that she was not so much about the money as it was about fucking revenge - on a guy who never really did anything wrong to her.
Also, she wants Lara dead for fuck sake. She literally asks you to screw Lara COMPLETELY over, just for the heck of it. WHO THE FUCK holds a grudge against Lara?!
Seriously, I don't think there is a more clearly evil character in the whole game.

>What could possibly happen?
Tell that to her forster family, while you are having a walk by the graveyard.

I thought the beaks looked dumb in the recent screenshots they released but that looks fucking great.

I'm a backer and this is the first time i've heard about this.

I liked the original design more. It looked kinda "derpy" (if you excuse that awful word), which actually contributed to them being actually scary. Also, they were kinda stupid.
The new design demands more respect, but also makes them look less "multi-fauceted".

This image is too fucking good. Is it from one of the post-Kickstarter threads?

Cute! Thanks, user

>The very first thing she does when you meet her is to ask you to get rid of her dead body.
But he was a murderer! It's not her fault he walked into her house and suddenly dropped dead, is it? A face this cute couldn't be a murderess'...
I know, but it's still always a good idea to accept her jewellery on the first day because it's a good way to change money into jewellery, so you have enough to trade for a Powder if one shows up on Day Two
I actually enjoyed their whole subplot, especially since you can see that manipulating/blackmailing a clear psychopath probably won't end in much good for the town, but then Dankovsky is pretty much all about unintended consequences.
I personally always assumed it wasn't so much entirely about revenge as equally getting rid of the last person who tied her to her old life, and vindictiveness for him being a general bastard, to ruin his life
I agree with you about hating Lara, though, which is a complete bitch move.
Which is why she's not in my real waifu tier of Eve, Lara and Julia
I could still go for some r34 DankovskyxAnna hatesex, though

You always knew it was gonna happen, user. It is IPL we're talking about

I actually prefer the original remake design (the reveal and Kickstarter trailers and all), the original was just simplistic enough to be suitable spooky, especially when the Executors start popping up everywhere like in the reveal trailer
The design was evocative both of the hasty cultural uniforms of the Steppe and a more supernatural messenger, which was nice. I can see why they've chosen the new design, though - it looks slightly more thrown-together and fetishistic (in the original sense) than the original design, and it can look a bit weird from some angles due to how small the mask is compared to the old ones; but when it's done right it looks spook as fuck - and for examples.

>Eve, Lara and Julia
Good taste, basically the three only non-bitch women in the game. Though truth be said, Eve and Lara have some serious issues to be worked out.
If you had played The Void, have you noticed the particular obsessive pattern of IPL's tragic female characters? Eve, Lara and Nameless Sister basically being the same character with the same main issue: extreme altruism hiding some kind of internal moral struggle driving them to martyrdom and self-sacrifice that utimately makes everything just worse for everybody...

I don't know, I hated Angel at the first fucking sight. She, Catherine and Ospina (I'm never going to get used to call her Aspity, just like I'm never going to get used to call Laska "Grace") were characters that I just DESPISED after the first very confrontation.
Waifu tier aside, I have to say I really, really liked Capella too. She is quite an amazing character, and I suppose she is where the influence of Bradbudy and Kuttner are most obvious...

Ah a Pathologic thread. I'll just take a seat in the corner over here.

Excuse my bump post

Dogs and other animals are more and more hard to find with every ingame day because towns people eat them to survive.

Actually, I think dogs appear only on the first day, and then later only on quest-related occasions, such as when you get beaten up as Bachelor towards the end of the game...
Cows are in the game for about three or four games, until they give quite an explicit statement that all cows in the town were slaughtered and burned because somebody suspected their meat might have been the source of the plague.

any refs of these characters? I haven't played the game, but I'll draw some smut. Why not?

pathologic.gamepedia.com/Lara_Ravel
pathologic.gamepedia.com/Yulia_Lyuricheva
pathologic.gamepedia.com/Eva_Yan

Go wild.

Also, if you are into more fucked up stuff:
pathologic.gamepedia.com/Capella

On somewhat unrelated tone: I'm going to miss the photographs. I entirely understand why they are going to get rid of it, but I still think they added a lot to the game.

Some of them were alright, when they matched up to the character. I still can't get over Eva's forehead in her photo.

I'll just leave this here

>Also, if you are into more fucked up stuff:

Are you trying to suggest something to me, user? Is there a reason you singled her out?

You've convinced me, time to download the HD version. No mods or anything are required, right?

No mods. Out of the two characters available at start, Bachelor is easiest. Remember to look in all the rubbish bins and trade shit with all the children. Hang on to your powders and ALWAYS make it your #1 priority to do the task of the day.

>use random number generator to decide

>1-4

>Best two out of three.

>1 appears four times in a row.

I guess it's gonna be Lara then.

I dunno about mods but it's not that kinda game anyway
just play bachelor first since he is story heavy and i guess it's meant to be an introduction

All righty, thanks.

It's a person who literally does not know the meaning of the word "mediocrity". That is all you need to know.
Really, I don't see how this surprises anyone. I'm actually just surprised that there aren't more reivews like this. After all: this represents pretty much the average gamer today (including average Sup Forums goer - this thread was spared of it, but you should see what happens when a Pathologic tread stays up on the front page for a while and the average posters get a wind of it).

She is like 12. I'm into that shit - in fiction at least - but I will understand if other people would not touch the subject matter with a ten foot pole.

By the way, in the game she is already pretty much betrothed...

I don't think there are any mods, really. Keep this in mind, start as Bachelor and be patient, take your time, try to "roleplay" a little (e.g. think of yourself and others as characters, rather than mechanical pawns hahahahahaha and have whatever equivalent of fun pathologic provides...