Posted on: November 12, 2020

Grindologist

Games: 280 Reviews: 19

Surprisingly huge disappointment.

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.

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Posted on: April 16, 2018

StormCitadel

Verified owner

Games: 87 Reviews: 2

An half-great game. Give me more!

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!

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Posted on: January 5, 2019

darkarts87

Verified owner

Games: 111 Reviews: 3

Only worth it in the sale

Played through this game and was left underwhelmed. Not only is the game short but its barely a game. There is very little content either in terms of actual gameplay, story or mechanics. Those pieces that are there seems to suffer the Eastern European concept of just throwing things at the player and expecting them to work it out, be it the new puzzle mechanics for the train that never have a tutorial, the purpose of the protagonist – much of the game sees you going places with little purpose at all, what is going on in the world around you, or anything else. The stages/acts that the game is set up around have no reason to exist as again, there is nothing separating them from what came before. The sections when you are off the train are dull and repetitive, walk around in a loop of the stage until you find the code and walk back to train, repeat for the entire game until it randomly and without warning ends. The worst part is the ending, which is only made worse by the fact that you have no idea what’s going on or why you are doing anything. There is no purpose and so you just hold right in the hopes the game finally lets slip why it exists in the 1st place. This is also compounded by the sheer lack of translation that brings another layer of confusion to an already poor game. If you really – really need this game, wait until a sale or otherwise avoid.

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Posted on: February 3, 2021

EwigWandernd

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Games: 738 Reviews: 263

Surreal and philosophical feverdream

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

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Posted on: September 9, 2020

hampusjo95

Verified owner

Games: 738 Reviews: 7

ending dragged it down from 4/5 to 3/5

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.

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