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In space, no one can hear you type



<span class="bold">Duskers</span>, an immersive strategy/management game where you send drones to explore the skeletons of abandoned spaceships, is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 10% launch discount.

It's been two hours since you last heard from Drone 5. You like to call this one "The Meddler" since that stunt it pulled four days ago, fixing a decommissioned turret to take out the operational one blocking its path to some crucial fuel supplies. Too bad that left it with a faulty camera and some dodgy wiring, which is why you had to sent it back to this floating freighter corpse to salvage the necessary parts for repairs or even upgrades.
Suddenly, "The Meddler"'s signal blinks back on. You frantically type the command to bring it back home. It starts scrambling towards the boarding dock. But it's not alone. Its microphone feed sends horrible piercing sounds made by unknown pursuers; "The Meddler" is bringing them to you! After a brief moment of hesitation, you seal the intermediate doors, trapping it inside with the horrors it discovered. The microphone goes quiet. You turn your attention to the other drones you've sent out.



Remotely explore the perilous insides of dead spaceships and solve the mystery of their demise in <span class="bold">Duskers</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 10% discount will last until May 25, 4:59 PM UTC.
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Wishbone: Where have I seen this before? Was it on Kickstarter?
There was an Indie Fund for the game:

http://blackmannrobin.com/?p=19839

Googling "Duskers Kickstarter" doesn't show a KS campaign anywhere :)
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jorlin: The premise has a lot in common with both Deadnaut and Fear Equation. Awaiting reviews.
It has very little in common, actually :)

While the themes may have some similarity, that's where it ends. Duskers is kind of like Space Hulk in a way where you explore long-dead ships and piece together just what in the world happened in the first place :)
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Martek: Hopefully it has "save and quit" so you don't have to complete the game in one sitting.
It does have "save and quit", yes :)
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JudasIscariot: There was an Indie Fund for the game:

http://blackmannrobin.com/?p=19839

Googling "Duskers Kickstarter" doesn't show a KS campaign anywhere :)
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Wishbone: Never heard of Indie Fund, so it definitely wasn't there. Maybe it was on YouTube somewhere.
While the game was in Early Access, the developer, or at least one of the developers, would post update videos for the game on Youtube, maybe you saw one of those?
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IAmSinistar: Hope this helps you decide if the game is your cuppa!
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rampancy: Thank you very much for your review. You've actually gone a long way to helping me decide if I would indeed enjoy this.

One question though: How often are extra drones found (beyond what I'm guessing is the default 3)? If you mess up and get (a) drone(s) destroyed, does the game give you a way to recover?
If you have enough scrap you should IIRC be able to build one on your own :)

As for how often functional drones are found, I always managed to find 2 or even 3 drones in a run :)
Post edited May 20, 2016 by JudasIscariot