Ctrl Alt Ego

This game is a wonderful immersive sim! Complete with box stacking, vents, alternate paths, and super-customizable builds that you love, you're bound to find a role in-game for yourself that suits you best! There's a lot to love here. Funny computer puns, fun movement mechanics(and exploits), a tongue in cheek sci-fi story that will have you wanting more. It's all packaged in a sensible size (under 20 gigs) as well. Support a small time developer and give this game the love and attention it deserves!

Nice indie game made with passion and limited resources. But comparing it with games like Deus Ex (org. and remakes) or Prey (immersive sims) is a mistunderstanding to say at least. No NPC interaction and no dialog choices, corridor-like level design made it just another puzzle game. I can get it as somekind low budget adaption of more expensive titles made by bigger devs, but i just dont like its retro style gfx, abstract robots and absurd physics. 3.5/5 but potential is there.

This game is unique. It falls loosely in the immersive sim genre, but unlike almost every other game that falls into that category, this one feels wholly original. It gave me some of that magical feeling I had in the early days of 3D games when people were more commonly building their games and engines from the ground up rather than leaning heavily on existing design and technology. It has a cohesive style and a singular vision. It looks and plays like a labor of love that may not have had huge resources behind its development, but the vision to excel within its limitations. The character and feel of this game is enhanced, for example, by clever and immersive use of shaders which draw you into the game's setting, not just add a shiny coat of paint to something generic. Everything feels bespoke. The gameplay itself is unique and interesting, with unique freedoms and limitations that yield interesting puzzle solving that is wholly integrated into the gameplay rather than being something tacked on. I'll leave explaining the gameplay to other reviews and sources of information as I'd just be repeating things. Suffice to say that I found the experience it offers engrossing and memorable. I hope the developers have enough success with this to unleash their creativity on another project.

I bought Ctrl, Alt, Ego on Steam because I never thought it would show up here. Would it have been worth the wait? Absolutely, but it would have been doing my self, and the developer, a disservice by not buying it day one. Ctrl is a fabulous game and innovates on the "immersive sim" formula. It offers so much choice in how to approach the game world far more than most similar games that came before it. Mindthunk put a lot of work into making his world a living breathing place and put a lot of thought in making every tool at the players disposal count. Offering the player an almost excessive amount of player freedom. If you like System Shock, Arcane's Prey, Thief, Deus Ex, than I think you will love this game. It was not inspired by them directly but pays tribute none the less. Ctrl stands on it's own two feet, surpassing the games that came before it, with it's unique setting, story, and mechanics. If this game does not blow you away than none will.