INDUSTRIA

The story is amazing. It takes a few minutes to get hooked in. But it happens. Very good from start to finish. Reminds me of Half-Life

Industria is a very linear exploration game with some combat involved. It crashed on me once, the save point placements are not evenly spaced and there were some (minor) performance issues. But the story is good and the atmosphere of the game feels nice and oppressive - as it should in a deserted city polulated only with murderous machines. What I personally liked a lot was that if you are in a dark place and you have your flash light off you actually do not see anything. It's not just somewhat dark, it is pitch black, so that the flash light running out of power seriously sucks and hinders you.

There seems to be a trend of late in games that boil down to: "...keep moving along a predetermined path, then (pick one): a) you die; b) it ends, with no resolution of the game's premise; c) it ends, and there are indications there may be sequel; d) you're left to figure out why you just played several hours of an awkward game to learn there was no point but to play several hours of an awkward game to... My pick: d. I do not recommend Industria.

A bit of Fallout some Bioshock.. sweet enough, if a little repetitive and lacking in really cool things to just run into. Yearning for more depth here. Shooting was smooth and fun, reloading a bit of a drag. Autosave only saves when you re near a typre writer anyway, so pointless. Hope they get a juicy budget for part 2.

It is a 4-hour adventure made by a small team of German fellas with a love of games. As a first project, it's a great start. Dev commentary is a lovely addition. And to be honest we can add Industria to the list of Slavjunk games as an honorary addition.