Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition

As another review noted, glad it was free because it's worthless. Can't complete the tutorial. The contols are wildly inconsistent so there are 4 different ways to exit "menus". Insanity. The tutiorial tells you to do things but not how. The controls don't exist to "place turret" and you're not told how to do this. So you just hit a wall and can't continue, and it was painful getting that far. If you could play the game, maybe it would be interesting given the promo material, but as is it's simply unplayable.

Can't see much in the way of improvement when I had this on PS4 console (traded in) vs the free drop PC version. Even free and on PC it's still kind of a bad/amateur hour type of game. Oh ctrl/alt/enter to get round the resolution input menu related bug.

1st time playthrough lasted about 10 minutes bc I kept dying and went through all crewmates. It was as if playing on hardcore but was only on default difficulty. Once the swarms start there's really no way to beat them with the provided weapons. Might request a refund if the "easy" difficulty setting doesn't work out. The graphics are decent and I like the premise of the genre but too difficult to make it through without cheats, which, aren't available for this version. Oh well.

Playtime: 31 minutes (tutorial completed) ==Intro== GAO is a mix of FPS and ship management. You have a ship where you have to manage modules, crew, resources and threats - somewhat like FTL. You can also land on planets to gather resources while being attacked by aliens à la Deep Rock Galactic. ==Review== The first indication that this isn't a good game is the menu. It has wildly moving animations and loud music. The controls are also weirdly bad. I still have no idea how to close some of the menus. The game is also pretty vague when it comes to some elements. You can "reassign the crew on the right" or something like that, but i have no idea what they mean or how to do this. The worst thing is that the gameplay just isn't very good. I absolutely love building bases like in Fallout 4, Hinterland and Riftbreaker. But that aspect is incredibly basic here (no pun intended). You can just build pre-designed halls and rooms. The combat is equally basic with a vague promise of becoming more interesting later on. Presumably after a lot of grinding. ==Conclusion== I love the concept of this game, but the execution is bland and user-unfriendly. With pre-designed corporations and rooms there's basically no personal input. Everything seemingly interesting (like artifacts) has to be unlocked through luck and grinding. It's such a weird design choice. The whole thing feels half-baked, like some mod that got abandoned after a few months. Except if it had been a mod would probably have been better.

The developers of this game create a unique and immersive computer game which gives me lots of time of interesting and attractive game play. I'm really impressed by a very serious and dramatic atmosphere.