INDUSTRIA

Low budget but lots of talent. The atmosphere is incredibly interesting and the story seems interesting.

I'm about half way through and as much as the mystery keeps evolving, i'm still intrigued and want to keep playing until the end. A definite recommend if you're into the genre and enjoy. Hopefully the ending ties some things up, though I do know of the sequel which originally brought me to this in the first place.

Little short, but I really enjoyed it. The difficulty steps up in the train yard a lot higher than the rest of the game, so a bit o a balancing issue but overall it was a good time. Lookiing forward to the sequel.

The game didn't suck, controls were good (M+K) and the environment/art style looked really cool. Sound design was good for the most part, there were only a couple small things that didn't make sound when they should have and what not. The story is where I am a bit disappointed. It could have been longer and a bit more interesting. It was pretty on rails, slow, confusing, and the ending doesn't answer anything or leave you on a good cliffhanger. I explored around the play area and still finished the campaign in about an hour. If they made the story a bit longer and took some time to make the story locales more varied, I would be much happier with the product, but in the end it just wasn't anything spectacular. Shoutout to the voice actors, they did fantastic.

Industria is a curious title that, in this day and age, ticks a lot of my boxes. Classic linear campaign? Check Lonely and eerie setting? Check Short and to the point? Check Non-regenerating health bar and a manual saving system? Check Still it sadly kinda falls short as the game is after all made by just a couple of guys and it shows. The gameplay is rather stiff and dull with uninteresting shooting and the entire game can be completed in a few hours. The game should be seen as an homage to Half-Life 2, to put it politely, and I wouldn't be surprised if the game started out as an ambitious mod for said game. The game puts you in the shoes of Nora, an east german scientist who gets mixed up in an experiment gone wrong at the same night as the Berlin wall comes down. Pretty neat idea but the game does nothing interesting with the concept - the characters talk english and all you do is shoot robots charging at you. The biggest problems are the technical short comings however. I recently bought an RTX 4070ti and decided to try the card out on Industria. The framerate was all over the place with frequent drops below 60 and stutter in certain scenes. During the end of the game my save file got corrupted and the game started crashing until I re-started from an earlier checkpoint and had to go through a rather difficult part to my frustration. The music is pretty nice and Nora's voice actress is doing a fine job but the plot vague to the point of feeling nonsensical. All in all, I wish I could recommend Industria as it is a game I really want to like but the flaws are simply too many.