INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions, craft equipment and try to stay alive in this br...
INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions, craft equipment and try to stay alive in this brutal world.
Welcome to Object 6 - a colossal space station set on a dismal 400-year journey in search of a new home. Your character wakes from cryogenic sleep — stricken with a rare psychological disease and unknowingly holding humanity’s last hope in his bare hands...
Exploration is rewarding… and dangerous
Survive hunger, thirst, fatigue while searching for valuable technology and resources in over 70 unique locations. Pay attention - INSOMNIA’s nuanced world can conceal unexpected quests from treacherous characters, as well as savage enemies and deadly hazards.
Personalized journey
Break free from character classes and unwanted grind with a flexible perk system combined with a large amount of craftable items and equipment. Choose your gear wisely - every armor and weapon type in the game has its own tactical virtues and shortcomings.
Сhoices matter
Navigate a non-linear storyline with ‘points of no return’ that encourage unorthodox approaches and 12 different story endings. Your character’s chosen background plays a role in how you interact with NPC’s and factions, as well as influences the outcomes of certain quests.
A rich universe
Experience a neo-noir world with elements of dieselpunk. Witness man-made apocalyptic landscapes imbued with a dark ambient soundtrack and echoes of a decaying civilization.
Interesting RPG with great atmosphere for those that want a break from modern games.
- great dark sci-fi setting with Fallout wibe
- interesting story from russian developers is somewhat different from what I was used to. And thats a good thin. Took me about 50 hours to finish
- combat was ok and not that difficult as it might sound from some reviews
- I liked the visuals/sounds/music
- the role-playing systems and equipment management are ok, but sometimes confusing (I am still unsure how the experince work in the game)
- there are lot of bugs, mostly nothing game breaking, but save a lot and on different slots. Game obviously still need patch or two, but seems the developers are no longer supporting the game
- also some quality of life improvements woudl help the game pacing, it tends to drag sometimes
- pleasant surprise overall
Insomnia the Ark is one of the most memorable gaming experiences I've had in recent years.
The script, graphics and sound exude quality. Gampelay is also varied and fun for those with a minimum of patience.
In fact, patience is something that will be necessary to overcome the multiple bugs and general instability. For those who persist, however, the game will be worth it. A truly surprising game.
I own the Steam version, which showed I played around 89 hours when I finished it.
Very few games have left a very positive impression on me. This is one of them.
I will start with the good stuff before getting to the really messy things.
First of all, the concept of the game is really good. The atmosphere of the run-down station city where people fight for survival is very well done. The main story is also good but at times I was getting lost in what am I doing. Thankfully the journal is actually helpful in guiding you forward. In the travel map there are random encounters that I found at least initially really nice. Later on not that much, too many too often. The combat mechanics is also very good, a nice mix of long range and close combat. Nicely done. The pinnacle of pleasure hits when you are allowed to pilot a suite of power armor. This is just so good that it is hard to describe. Daka daka daka :) You are not indestructible by any stretch of the imagination but it is still fun.
Now the ugly parts. The game is in many aspects unfinished and in couple of places outright broken. Aside from truly horrible inventory management, imagine items disappearing from your backpack, like for instance a key quest item... . You have to load an early save and pray you still have the item. I have lost 14h of game play this way. Do you like your chest armor, or a shotgun? Yes, they can disappear too. When you load earlier save because you stuff disappeared, some of your side quests get locked out for ever, or your companions disappear as well, for ever and you cannot recover these by earlier saves. In some locations the automatic reorganize inventory button triggers all items to pile up in one spot... .Achievements are broken too, all the way. Now, let's look at walking. You have to walk a lot because the exit points are far and fast travel does not exist. Moreover, I have fallen though texture gaps into the nothingness... . If you die in the power armor you get loaded back in the same location but in empty map... . At the very end it took me ages to get through the door to the one of the endings... . Seriously... it is g a r b a g e. On top of that, some animation sequences in random encounters trigger immediately upon loading the map so if you read in the encounter description "it is too quiet" and you see armed guys that supposed to ambush you running to the middle of the map and just stand there I thought ehhh and shot all from the distance... many times over. Finally some texts are in ru. I understand this thing but I do not want to see it mixed with civilized languages.
So here you have, the game has some nice elements but is barely playable.
Was a backer when this game hit kickstarter, waited all this years to finally play it, and it it definitely one unique piece of art. A like the music and the atmosphere, but was a little disapoited about the many bugs. But bugs can be fixed, and it is a temporary issue. A like the lore and the sory of this game, definitely one of a kind game that you should not miss.
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INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions, craft equipment and try to stay alive in this brutal world.
