The Final Station

At first, it looked like it had potential, but the more I played, the more disastrous it got because of multiple issues. Here are just 3 of them, I don't want to waste your time with an entire novel: - The upgrade system is bugged 4 years after release - you buy an upgrade, you get the other one. Both upgrades I purchased were swapped for the other choice. Considering you only have money to buy 2 out of 4 upgrades the entire game if you play perfectly, you only get the chance to buy upgrades twice in a playthrough and there's no manual saves to fix it, this is absolutely unacceptable. Also, 2 of the 4 upgrades are borderline useless, which is exactly the ones the game gave me instead of my choices! Furthermore, the developer claims to have fixed this bug on the Steam forums, so he's either selling an inferior version here or he didn't fix it. Either way, I think GOG or someone should notify him about this absolutely major issue. It will make tons of buyers angry. - The last third of the game is horribly underdeveloped, the guy just rushed through it so he can sell it. You collect money and supplies with absolutely nothing to spend them on, literally. Why, then, do you loot stuff for hours if you can't use it for jack shit?! There's literally no shop where you can spend them until the game ends, and the story is rushed to an abrupt ending that concludes nothing after trying to intrigue you the entire game. The developer clearly intended to make an upgrade shop at the very least for the third weapon that you get, but decided it's too much work, since he apparently wasn't even able to get the previous 2 upgrade shops to work properly. - The English is not only terrible, but also full of typos, as proof of the dev's low effort put into this - didn't even bother to spell check the game once. Huge disappointment.

I bought the game amidst the mixed reviews I read about it being too linear and not offering enough choices. So I maybe was a little preoccupied while playing the game and expected to be disappointed, but I will try to be objective. To describe the game in a few words: mysterious, apocalyptic, yet beautiful. The Final Station uses a different kind of story telling than the most other games and somehow reminds me of the way the first season "Fringe" was told. You start of as a simple conductor tasked with the seemingly easy job of riding an experimental train and delivering a cargo. But as you travel through the country, everything changes. But the story is not thrown at the player - you have to find out yourself what happens while you try to make it from station to station. People start acting cryptic around you and every station bears more questions than answers. Although the game is indeed very linear, it tells a beautiful, mysterious and sad story, completed by the beautiful soundtrack. And if you are taking a little bit of time to let the story soak in and look around the world you are thrown in, you will certainly enjoy this game.

A bit disappointed on this one. It's a really short game, with a really good beginning, but it never take risks! The story could have got so much far, gameplay mechanics are here, but never really stretched to there maximum potential, the train part especially is really empty, it could have got much more thins in it : adding wagons, getting stopped or attacked, etc. The game works, has some really good part, good ambiances, interesting narration, but use them at half-power. It would be great to have a DLC story or another game with more content in the same universe!

i really liked the game, don't let the 3/5 scare you away because the game itself is very enjoyable. the story and levels and linear but honestly it's not a bad thing the game is a journey not an rpg. you are a train conductor who travels station to stations you can't exactly go off track. the atmosphere and environments is really where it shines, you really feel like there is so much there that you don't know about yet, there's intersting cryptic characters and notes strewn around that really helps keep the world interesting and the player going. the problem really comes in right at the end, without spoiling what happens but it keeps building and building the suspense and mystery and then it all falls flat, the balloon that has been filling up never popped it just let it's air out instead.

Story: 4/5 Worldbuilding: 4/5 Art Design: 4/5 Graphics: 4/5 Sound: 3/5 Gameplay: 3/5