Posted on: September 16, 2018
murraypeterj
Verified ownerGames: 12 Reviews: 2
Dull and not worth the time
After some critical acclaim and popularity I decided to give this a go. But a game that simulates the drudgery of working in an immigration outpost is going to be just that. Drudgery. The game mechanic is dull and so simplistic that the story elements that the developers try to create around this mechanic never becomes relatable. I don't care that my uncle died, or that my family is cold. Who on earth was that uncle? Dunno, don't care. A criminal got through and there's a headline in the news. Big whoop, there's no real consequence. The game fails to create any connection to the world it tries to place you in and the actual gameplay is about as fun as doing as doing a spreadsheet at work. You can get away with low tech graphics if you've got good gameplay. You can even get away with bad gameplay if you've got a great story to tell. But this game fails on all of these fronts. It has all of the trade-offs with none of the benefits. On Ubuntu 18 the game failed to launch without installing a library. Conveniently the game itself won't tell you which one is missing. After installing it I just had a black screen, forcing me to find a way to run in windowed mode. But I should be thankful for these technical failings. As finding workarounds for the half baked implementation on the platform it claims to support was about the only fun I had with this game.
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