Posted on: June 8, 2019

Treehugger

Games: 558 Reviews: 9

Not So Random

What is essentially a dice game includes a whole lot of control over what you're doing. Sometimes it's better to ignore the obvious problem and try to improve something else. When you first start, it might seem like the dice are against you. But then you start making more intelligent decisions and realise the dice are now working for you. Edgy artwork for the cut scenes is very eye-pleasing, but the story is laughably bad. Almost anything else would have been better writing. That said, I still give the game 5 stars for balancing variety and choice against randomness and fun. A very good game which you can sit down to for 10 minutes or a few hours. Plus, you get to eat dead crew members.

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Posted on: May 8, 2020

Rencer

Games: 73 Reviews: 2

The dice rolls are unabashedly CHEATING!

The makers stated on the Steam community page, that the dice rolls are "physics" based. See: https://steamcommunity.com/app/323060/discussions/0/458605613413328493/ While they seems doing that, but this "physics" is definitely come from another dimension, not from our reality. The dices moves so awkwardly, that they doesn't follow any rules. They most of the times flips to a side so incredibly unrealistically, just to be sure you can't get good numbers. Many times they flip awkwardly to one side, and you get a number that is literally not the one that is really on that side, you can see it! It just change to a completely different number, just make sure you can't win in that given situation!!! Too bad, because the graphics are really great, and the game-play is very unique, and deep. But this cheating dice rolls are just ruined everything... I wouldn't recommend it, don't buy this, unless you are a masochist...

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Posted on: September 29, 2018

fudfuzz

Verified owner

Games: 164 Reviews: 1

Glad I gave it a chance!

The dice roll mechanic seems to have put a lot of people off, but I enjoyed juggling probabilities and mitigating risks just like almost every other game, especially turn-based ones. One that comes to the forefront of my mind is the combat in fallout classic where you have to carefully decide how you best spend your AP (dice count), sometimes you need to prioritise your targets, actions have a percentage of success (dice rolls) and finally you can make use of the perks system to get bonuses (professions). Anyway, some points that helped me: * You can repair something over several deployments * Food isn't really a priority if dice are well stocked * Research points are spent lowest number first (handy if you want a 'free' shuffle)

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Posted on: July 17, 2020

pjdodd

Verified owner

Games: 107 Reviews: 64

Dice-Roll Fuck-Over (Space Edition)

Unfair and with bloody unlocks. Why can't we have nice things instead of this?

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Posted on: November 17, 2024

david3907

Verified owner

Games: 259 Reviews: 71

Flawed to pieces

Never got past third turn due to ship killer events every turn that require all four crew for one event meaning the other two or three failures kill you off. In the first turn of one play i actually lost three of four crew. Too random.

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