The Technomancer

The Technomancer events continue from where Mars War Logs ended but as you might imagine is much bigger and more sophisticated. I had very few technical problems with the game except for a few minor bugs which can easily be rectified if you run into them, by doing an Internet search for the particular problem. The character progress interface is a little convoluted and you need a bit of patience with it at the beginning. The narrative is excellent and leaves plenty of room for further instalments from the game developers (I hope) :) . The graphics are more than adequate if a bit monochromatic with red shades as you may expect on Mars, however this just draws you into the world and makes you wistful for the green of Earth. The game-play quests do involve a lot of back tracking and this can become a bit of a grind especially near the latter parts of the game. Combat is fairly well balanced with the difficulty becoming greater as you progress. I am a very old game-player so perhaps I am not so critical of more modern games and tend to think most of them are simply amazing for what you pay, this one is definitely re-playable and as I can’t give it nine out of ten I will give it the full five stars.

Bought new computer: RTX 5060 Ti (16GB Vram) i7-14700f 32GB System RAM Windows 11 Pro Game won't even start now (played fine for nearly two years on old outdated computer)...searched for information on internet and found dozens of threads dicussing how the game will not run on a newer computer running "too many cores". Work-arounds involve going into bios and changing settings -- so, no not happening. I enjoyed playing the game and looked forward to being able to play with better computer (hoping it would look better, etc.) but now cannot even launch the game.

Avoid this game if your CPU is 8 core +, it will not working. (I have Windows 11 and i7 12700 (as I am writing this review)). From now, I have to check every purchased game immediately, and if not working refund it because why should I pay for something which is not working?

I just finished the game and enjoyed it overall. I really like the approach for the storytelling and handling of the companions with option of romance. The worldsetting is in my opinion made great and unique as well. Like for Greedfall i am always eager to find out how the story is going to unfold. The main problem i had with the game is the pointless running around. For a lot of quests you have to fetch things and bring them back, just for the quest giver to send you for something else to the same destination. This makes it a little annoying after a while. If you can deal with this issue the game ist a rough diamond worth playing. Bugs like mentioned in some other reviews didn't occur for me. The game did run flawless and without any problems.

Having fallen in love with Greedfall (and finishing a recent replay of it), I decided to take one step back in the developer's evolutionary tree to The Technomancer. All of the things that I expected, positive and negative, were there (a rich world that I wanted to learn more about, horrible voice acting, interesting and challenging combat, a metric ton of jank, &c.). However, I have had so many quests, esp. side quests, glitch out or bug out on me (running on a Windows 10 machine which is no slouch), CtDs, full computer restarts mid-cutscene, and the like that I eventually had to give up on it. I wanted to play more, but the feeling I got from the game was that I would not be permitted to do so. Just wait for the sequel to Greedfall.