Phoning Home

The game has good graphics. Didn't find a way to pan the camera up or down for a better camera mode view. Would be nice. Run well, moderately well optimised in terms of graphics. But there are issues, major issues. In some instances of the game, characters vanish and so the game can't progress, while in other instances, the dialogues don't progress because the side character was not near you or you were in another part of the map. Sounds confusing right? Let me clarify. In the final mission, if you are stuck with 'Task update', then wait in the snowy area till all the dialogues are completed and don't get back to the grassy area before the dialogues are completed. On another area, where you have to go in order to wait in one position to send a signal, make sure the side character is always present with you, beside you, otherwise, the dialogues don't progress. I've had to google, read steam forums, watch youtube, in order to really understand hjow to fix these bugs. The developers know of this bugs and even talked on a steam forum on their promise to "fix" them, but they were not fixed apparently. I've had to replay some areas multiple times spending over 3 hours just to find the bugs, get past them and finish the game. Most important advice: Make good use of Quick saves and Manual saves. SAVE SAVE SAVE in each and every area. Not every minute or 10 minutes, but based on every different area. Start from Slot 1, finish at the last slot, when the last save slot is occupied, go back to the first slot and that will be your new saved slot. It will be overwritten but that slot will already have been too old to care about. And quick saves will be the in between save of the previous save and the running gameplay. I rated it 5 stars ONLY because I was able to manage to finish the game, graphics was pleasing and that I got it for free.

vast open world but had lots of issues getting it to start up every time and would crash early on while playing. survival style with a bit of story to keep things intrtesting. constanlty collecting resources was a bit repetive and the antena tasks, there was no clear way to get up the mountians. seemed like if you didnt find the one tiny path for each, you were screwed. other then that pretty good.

exploration, crafting, survival elements. its a fun game so far, but i wish i had a map. i have spent the last 90 minutes walking around in circles.

Not so good exiqution. i was mostly confused on what to do where to go and what was needed to progress....

I would probably like the game only if it doesn't crash to black screen all the time ! I would suspect a hardware malfunction but it does not happen with any other game so ..... it is not my PC it is the game, sadly. The graphics are good and the pace to my liking but every time my game crashes I lose my progress and am thrown to the starting point so I had to give up on it. Such a shame :(