Dex

Fun 10 hour cyberpunk adventure. Metroidvania meets an RPG. Fully voiced characters, Combat is a bit unfair early on (no indication of when to attack vs block) but when you level up a combat skill a few times it stops being frustrating and needs this to balance you being so OP. Pro-Tip: level hacking, probably the weakest part of the game overall, but it's a useful skill and once you have top level it's pretty easy.

Fell in love with this little gem, every aspect of this game is very enjoyable - one particular thing I think is fenomenal is map traversal, the devs respect your time and let you insta-travel from place to place once you have discovered it. Look gorgeous and plays nicely, there is a mini game that kicks in for when you are hacking things (which is a significant part ofnthe game actually), slight nitpick I suppose is the gun play and normally it's my favourite way to go but melee is my recommendation for this one. It has everything you would want from a cyberpunk story: fancy implants, crazy AIs, hacking etc. I sincerely hope they make another installment!

Such a good indie game, nice ideas, nice concept, great soundtrack and voiceover. Really scratch the Deus ex itch, may we have a DEX 2 please ?

I picked this for 1.5 Euros and really enjoyed this, took me about 25 hours for all missions and reading almost all dialogues, the hand drawn style was very to my liking, music was fitting and excellent. It has a few flaws like although the platform elements are there throughout the game they are a bit repetitive and rather simple in design, do not expect jump & run and timings to be the central element of the game. Rarely I fell to death because I did not know is this the end of the map or a new area, you can simply save when in doubt and reload of course. Balancing could be better here and there i guess but since there are many ways to combat and skilling and only very limited difficulty options you can use that to adjust difficulty. Writing and characters and especially the voice acting are well done, some stereotypes, humor is present here and there but overall the cyberounk future (again) seems to be a serious matter. And your choices matter as it should be (although I think many do not), many quests can be solved in different ways. One way to replay this at higher difficulty could be to limit the amount of side quests. I liked the ethical decision making at the end of the game, as others have said one ending cut scene is a bit of letdown. Overall very good value for the money, certainly worth it if you can get it below 10 Euros

Dex is kind of DeusEx but 2D side view platformer. In an "open world" zone-devided map with varied themes, you lead the female protagonist Dex through the main story ark or side quests. As you progress, there is a skilltree, an inventory and upgrades to be managed. In the first 5-10 minutes, you have to overcome the steep learning curve to master the keyboard + mouse controls. But the games does a good job to help you through an it will be a smooth sailing from then on. Soundtrack is epic, great voice acting, good atmospheric background sound.. Story is interesting and kept me playing the game, that turned out to be longer than expected. Buuuut...I had always the impression, that the game is not finished yet in case of content. - There are only a few interactable characters. - Lack of free choice. For example: you are forced to upgrade Dex to progress. - Optically the game is ok, but there could be more animated gfx. - Especially the cutscenes where very short. - Here and there you notice, that a final polish would improve the game. Overall the flaws have only a minor impact on the game and it was worth the time.