The Fidelio Incident

 PC
User Score
6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 32
  3. Negative: 8 out of 32

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  1. Chickamagua
    May 30, 2017
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A great experience. I finished it in one sitting.

    Beautiful visuals and music with a layered narrative. Not as much backtracking as Firewatch. Amazing what a tiny team can accomplish.

    9/10 would freeze again.    … Expand
  2. Gatchaman67
    Jun 1, 2017
    9
    Great game with fantastic graphics and very good voices. I liked the ending, but the next day I kept thinking about it and a new idea came to me. So I played the game again with this ending in mind and was blown away. Really well thought out. Highly recommended.
  3. PublicNuisance
    Jul 13, 2020
    8
    The Fidelio Incident covers some history that games don’t cover much at all in “The Troubles” part of Irish history. It is by no means meant to be historically accurate to a certain person, more a general overview of how it affected these fictional characters. You can piece together what happened to them by finding various pages of your wife’s journal after your plane has crashed. TheThe Fidelio Incident covers some history that games don’t cover much at all in “The Troubles” part of Irish history. It is by no means meant to be historically accurate to a certain person, more a general overview of how it affected these fictional characters. You can piece together what happened to them by finding various pages of your wife’s journal after your plane has crashed. The story is fantastic and while I guessed the ending fairly early it was still a fun journey. The game has some puzzles to solve so it isn’t just a walking sim but many of them are pretty easy although they succeed in their goal of breaking up the game play and adding variety. The game adds a feature where you will freeze to death if you don’t find warmth in a certain amount of time. This sounds annoying but it is enough time that I only found myself dying a handful of times. The music was very well done as was the voice acting. The graphics were a mixed bag. The snow and vistas were great but the fire and trees were pretty poor.

    I played The Fidelio Incident on Linux using Valve’s Proton. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any bugs. There is one graphics setting as well as 4 AA settings and a Vsync toggle. The game is locked to 60 FPS regardless of whether Vsync is used. Alt-Tab doesn’t work. There is no manual saving option, just checkpoints. There is also no indication of when these checkpoints occur. The game uses the Unreal Engine 4. For the most part the game ran at 60 FPS but it could have sudden drops that lasted a few seconds and the drops could be severe and with no credible cause.

    Disk Space Used: 10.39GB
    GPU Usage: 1-99 %
    VRAM Usage: 1962-3615 MB
    CPU Usage: 4-17 %
    RAM Usage: 3.4-4.6 GB
    Frame Rate: 1-60 FPS
    Game Settings: Epic for both

    If you enjoy walking sims I can easily recommend The Fidelio Incident. I finished it in 2 hours 24 minutes which felt like a good length. I paid $1.09 CAD for it but it is easily worth it’s current full price of $10.99 CAD. It’s story, music and voice acting really make it stand out. Similar games would be Layers of Fear or Fire Watch.

    My Score: 8.5/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 5700 XT Gaming X 8GB | Mesa 20.0.7 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Manjaro 20.0.3 | Mate 1.24 | Kernel 5.7.0-3-MANJARO | Proton 5.0-9    … Expand

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69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. God is a Geek
    Jul 11, 2017
    65
    The Fidelio Incident offered little beyond a well-written and well-acted story that was far too sparsely scattered around disappointingly uninspiring gameplay.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Jul 5, 2017
    80
    The Fidelio Incident is a solid narrative adventure game. The actual gameplay may be light on challenge, but it does enough to feel significant without hindering the overall experience. The presentation is also well done, especially in the audio department where the music really sells the player on the mood. However, it is the story that is the real highlight, since it deals with some heavy subject matter without being too preachy. The two main actors really give the tale some humanity and emotion. For those who enjoy the narrative-heavy experience, The Fidelio Incident is definitely worth seeking out.
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  3. Everyeye.it
    Jun 9, 2017
    79
    The Fidelio Incident is as ordinary in its structure as valuable in content.
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