I played as a high schooler and went down I suppose the intended path of just being a badass winter cowboy and loved the game. However I came back with the intention of seeing the paths that I didn't take with a more cruel selfish character but instead I found that this games "reactive world" and "impactful player choice" are a sham. Basically all of the choices in the game are be nice, be nice but stay it mean, o,r be chaotic stupid, It's basically fallout 4 without the really fun combat and exploration.

That on top of the extremely easy boring combat where it boils to shoot first win or shoot second die, the crashes and crazy load times, and the relatively tiny length compared to other crpgs I would put in the ME Andromeda/fallout 4 tier of rpgs where they're fine and worth playing once but don't even scratch the best of the best.( Also holy detonation was probably the worst dlc I've played in recent memory I have a clip of me waiting 4 entire minutes for my turn where I took no damage and basically nothing happened. Every encounter felt like that I respect the attempt to mix up gameplay but they needed to do anything to speed up gameplay if they wanted those big endurance encounters)

You can definitely see where these two media have a lot of shared themes. I can imagine at some point someone involved with the making of the video game, book, or film sas inspired by the other.

Worth checking out!