Posted on: September 21, 2025

Blinkenlight

Jeux: Avis: 8

Walking sim - make sure you got that!

I'm not particularly fond of this game. First, because it's not much of a "game": sure you have to walk through the entire station and discover some access codes but your agency is zero point zero. You can't change absolutely anything about your gameplay, be it the outcome of your exploration or otherwise. You're strictly in an on-rails experience you can't do anything about. I, for one, find that severely grating. Even if the ultimate fate of the station crew is out of my hands (for which there is no good reason it would HAVE to be), there should be SOMETHING I get to decide - but no, this is not that kind of "game". Second, this thing is short as hell. Honestly, I didn't expect to complete it in a single session, but I sure did, considering it's a mere 3-4 hours long, even if you take your time. That might be adequate for a Disney ride but not so much for something sold as a game. Third, there seems to be an obvious attempt to make you care about the crew, by going through their personal mail etc. - unfortunately, it kinda fails due to you simply not getting all that much time to spend with any of them. There's only so much familiarity you can get by ransacking their sleeping quarters exactly once or recovering their "AR records", and it's not really enough to forge a bond. In the end, it turns out modeling a (smallish) space station and dropping a bunch of personal lore here and there a compelling game does not make. It's up to you, make up your own mind...

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Posted on: December 30, 2020

anarchistica

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Jeux: 287 Avis: 40

Gone Spacehome

*Intro* This is a game in which you walk about a space station going through people's lives by looking at their computers, and where they lived and worked. You also play through several interactive scenes where past crew interactions are represented digitally where they took place. There is no combat or action or any form of threats. *Improvements* Obviously, comparisons to Gone Home are inevitable since it's the same developer and the games have similar gameplay. I'd say Tacoma is better in many ways: - The Augmented Reality bits are nicely done and make it easier to empathise with the crew. - The environment is more interesting, and it seems like a fairly realistic representation of what such a space station would be like. - The worldbuilding is nice, with space politics among space factions. Plus all the books, food, technology, etc. I criticised Gone Home for lazily re-using the same clothing texture in the same drawer but they really went the distance here. *Demerits* - It's harder to really feel for the crew because they're from the future and there's six of them. - It lacks the nostalgia of VHS tapes, cassette tapes, zines and 80s/90s bands. - The AR-bits would have been a lot better if they had actually shown people instead of wire-framed blobs. *Conclusion* Tacome is really well done and definitely one of the better 'walking simulators', but it didn't grab me as much as Gone Home did. Even though at 3 hours it's twice as long, you don't get to know the crew quite as well as the Samantha. Good but not great.

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Posted on: January 21, 2022

XTL_prime

Jeux: 218 Avis: 6

Something to walk through once

Fairly impressive walking simulator with some interesting ideas and even a plot. The story flow relies pretty heavily on characters that aren't that interesting and a lot of the actual exploration is moving objects and opening drawers and looking for a door code which gets very repetitive. At least there are no minigames or other shoehorned in things. Massive load time, though.

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Posted on: October 16, 2018

fade0ff

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Jeux: 1221 Avis: 83

Interesting but extremely short

I liked more or less every aspect of it, but playing Tacoma was an incredibly short experience. I needed 2h 18min to finish it and I didn't rush. So my main gripe with it is that the asking price is too high for the content. This being said, Tacoma is a walking simulator with some mild game elements. The main element is replaying "Augmented Reality" (AR) recordings of the crew and typically stepping in when a crew member opens his/her own AR interface to investigate the communication. There are also a few key codes to be found by searching some quarters and offices. The whole handling of these AR elements is really nicely done. There are very few games that managed to deliver such a plausible interface in a SciFi game. Besides, the concept of displaying people as abstracted AR constructs is actually a very clever way to bring animated characters into a budget walking simulator. There are no enemies, there is no time pressure, I really liked the gaming mechanism a lot. My only complaint would be that you can't really explore freely but proceed from section to section which also makes the game even easier as the area to search for hints etc. is rather small. While the graphics are not top notch and there is nothing really spectacular about the world (well, station) design either, Tacoma looks pretty good most of the time and the station feels somewhat believable. There are lots of objects which you can investigate or throw around in zero gravity and lots of background info on the crew. Also voice acting is very good. The story is interesting but feels very rushed towards the end. Actually, while I enjoyed the two hours I played it, the end really felt like money was running out so they needed to cut out three chapters that were originally planned. So with something like 8h, I would have given it a better rating, but really, 2h is much too short.

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Posted on: August 28, 2017

OdanUrr

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Jeux: 359 Avis: 15

A short, but creative, detective story

If it feels like I was playing a similar game at around the same time last year, it's because I was. Tacoma reminds me in several ways of The Turing Test, another first-person adventure game where you also explore an abandoned facility in space and gather clues by exploring your surroundings. Both games feature an AI, though in different capacities. Whereas in The Turing Test an AI accompanies you throughout your journey, in Tacoma you explore your surroundings via augmented reality (AR) and see the crew's interactions with each other as well as the onboard AI, ODIN, at different times before the accident. It's a really creative way through which to build the narrative and you'll soon find yourself tracking the different crew members to find out what they were up to in the hours or days leading up to the accident. In a way, it feels like you're solving a murder mystery, piecing together the clues to reveal the villain at the heart of it all. Unlike The Turing Test however, and save for a few codes you can find to open lockers, there are no puzzles to solve in Tacoma, no obstacles to stop you from advancing the narrative other than the aforementioned events' reconstruction. This does make for a rather short experience, clocking at around 3 hours going by GOG Galaxy's records. Still, if you're looking for a purely story-driven experience, Tacoma might be the thing for you, managing to create a suspenseful atmosphere that will urge you to figure out what happened to the crew of Tacoma and what your purpose aboard the station is. Having said that, its asking price of $19.99* is probably a little on the steep side for such a short adventure. Recommended at a discount. *In the interest of full disclosure, I paid $11.39 due to regional pricing.

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