Demo version of Dex is available here
Includes the Extra Outfits DLC.
Explore, fight, talk and hack your way through a rich cyberpunk world in this 2D action-RPG!
Wanted dead by a mysterious and far-reaching organization, you will traverse the futuristic city of Harbor Prime and make unexpected...
Explore, fight, talk and hack your way through a rich cyberpunk world in this 2D action-RPG!
Wanted dead by a mysterious and far-reaching organization, you will traverse the futuristic city of Harbor Prime and make unexpected allies on your quest to bring down the system! In this cyberpunk adventure inspired by Blade Runner and Neuromancer, you are free to choose your playstyle: will you be a silent assassin, a hacker, a diplomat or a straightforward gunfighter?
Designed as a throwback to earlier 2D platforming and action games combined with modern RPG elements, Dex offers real-time combat, a mature storyline and interactive dialogues.
Customize your character’s skills, equipment and even augmentations – implants which grant you superhuman abilities and open up new paths within the game’s open world.
A revolutionary hacking mechanic also lets you dive into Cyberspace: overcome viruses and intrusion countermeasures to deactivate turrets, overload devices, steal corporate data and cripple your enemies!
Rare blend of realism and creative vision: Realistic action, mature storyline, and complex character interactions combined with hand-drawn characters, animations, and environments, arcade-style melee combat, and an original conception of cyberspace.
Multiple paths: Operate in physical reality or in Cyberspace. Overcome obstacles using your skills, weapons, augmentations…
Meaningful character building: Will you be a silent assassin, a hacker, or a straightforward gunfighter? Improve your character and gear to unlock gameplay-changing upgrades that reinforce and customize your gameplay style.
Unique hacking mechanic: Transfer your consciousness to your avatar, overcome intrusion countermeasures, take action, and then return back to your body in a fraction of a real-time second to see the results – deactivated turrets, overloaded devices, enemies with crippled implants…
Neo-cyberpunk: Story deeply inspired by the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson and other classical cyberpunk authors, flavored with a contemporary concept of augmented reality.
Rich game world and diverse level design: Visit diverse locations in Harbor Prime, a futuristic city complete with luxurious skyscrapers, run-down shantytowns, and seedy red-light districts. Take part in street brawls, steal corporate data, overcome environmental hazards, and, of course, stay alive – no easy task.
Three special outfits: The Samio Cyberwear allows you to regenerate your Focus when hacking, the Euroforce BattleRig offers physical protection against bullets, and the Armagear InvisiSuit can make you invisible! You’ll have to be on the lookout for clues about their location, and face serious opposition before earning them!
The game has a good design and creates an attractive world around the player. It is not to hard as long as all the "side quests" are completed and the progress of the character through every session is big. This kind of rewards is perfect for a casual gamer as me , that does not enjoy other "you die all the time" indie games like FTL so much.
I had a very satisfying experience with Dex!
If someone offered me to trade back the game experience for time spent after finishing this game, I'd take it.
Pros:
* Stable. I had 0 glitches
* The graphics are nothing you'd want as a wallpaper, but OK.
* Voice acting is actually MUCH better than expected. Probably, the only thing that I will remember a month later about this game.
* Background music is very good, reflects the atmosphere well. Too short for OST though.
* Quest items are spawned at the beginning of the game, not when you take a quest - combined with fast travel saves you a LOT of back-and-forth - a very respectable game design decision!
Cons:
If you know the typical cyberpunk cliches and played Deus Ex, the story and setting will be 0% new and 100% feeling of copy-paste. Plot twists and endings (most unsatisfactory endings ever!) are predictable; writing, characters and quests are bland. There is no depth and no emotional attachment. By the end you don't care who lives of dies - you just want it to end. DROD had better writing!
When platforming you have no clue which objects are material (can stand on) and which are just background decorations - they all look the same, causing tons of confusion, and falling damage. Why?
The secondary attacks when hacking are not mentioned in tutorials! I've found out about them only when I started reading guides, because hacking was so darn hard. And YouTube is full of videos of people never finding that the secondary attack actually has 3 modes, not just one.
Combat (both ranged and melee) is very simplistic. Stealth pretends to exist, but doesn't really.
Bosses do not exist. The final "boss" is a fat stationary turret, which you kill by moving your joystick left and right in a repetitive pattern for a minute or so.
Summary:
The game feels as if the devs had lots of great ideas, but only 30% budget. So instead of cutting the breadth and having a few 100% great mechanics, they give you lots of not-even-half baked ones.
Beautiful music, excellent atmosphere and graphics, expressive side-characters, simple, but satisfying RPG mechanics (upgrade and combat), great arcade hacking system. One of the rarest games I love coming back to, even if I know it perfectly :) There's not so much running around the town since the city is small and divided on a few sectors, so you can't lost the road or don't know what to do. The fighting system is based on arcade - clicking on enemies to punch or kick them or aim one of a small amount of weapons. Character progress is also small, but contains everything you need - lock picking, hacking, fist-fighting, implants etc. The plot is simple, but with a bunch of plot twists, even if our main character isn't as well-written as it could be, so we can treat her like our own game avatar. There is a drama, a good sense of humor in dialogues, corporations, China Town, some secrets which give you some special skils and so on. To make a long story short: It's worth to play it!
I really like the idea of this game but I cannot bring myself to play it because it has basically zero controller support and the keyboard controls cannot be changed.
Normally I would not mind this but this is a platform game. Controller support is pretty much a must for me in this regard.
Checking the forums did not yield any results and due to GOG's vague refund policy I cannot refund the game.
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