Conglomerate 451

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3.2/5

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Posted on: March 1, 2020

MischiefMaker

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Games: 819 Reviews: 66

It's a cyberpunk Darkest Dungeon 2

Conglomerate 451 is a spiritual sequel to Darkest Dungeon set in a cyberpunk dystopia. The premise is you work for the government trying to regain control of sector 451 from the mobbed up megacorps that run it, and carry out this mission using an unlimited number of 3D-printed battle clones. On the upside, if you liked Darkest Dungeon, this is more of it, albeit played from a first person perspective. You pick out a team of clones from various classes, select the best four active skills for the team to complement each other (things like one character marking targets and another getting a damage bonus against marked targets), go on random missions to fill up victory completion bars, and between missions upgrade your base to better kit out your existing team, and print new characters with superior mutations. There are lots of gameplay improvements to the DD formula. Characters are less disposable in this than DD because they not only go up in levels but also have full skill trees to fill out with various bonuses, cybernetics to install, and dozens of slots to fill with artifact-equivalents. In combat you can choose from 6 enemy body parts to target, each with a different hit chance and possible debuff. Also distance is now a factor in combat. On the downside, while the locations and enemy animations look great, this game lacks the clear aesthetic vision of DD. Your characters models look generic, and for some reason all wear matching tron pajamas that look ridiculous. No long coats? Worse, DD's ancestor narration is replaced by a WACKY floating AI drone sidekick who LOVES making nails-on-chalkboard jokes INCESSANTLY! Thankfully the 1.1 patch lets you mute it at least. I'm still too early in the game to make balance judgments, except if anyone tells you the game's too easy due to impenetrable shields, they probably only played the tutorial mission. It's Darkest Dungeon with deeper gameplay but shallower world building. 3.5 stars.

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Posted on: November 8, 2020

LinuxFire

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Games: 295 Reviews: 26

Good Surprise

You must guide your agents through the dark streets of a cyberpunk world, entering buildings, exploring and securing. Choose a leg shot to immobilize the guy with the sword, load the shields or hack the cyborg attack... It's up to you to choose your strategy! I would like to be able to personalize my agents, ethnicity, sex, hair! The game could have more options, but it's already a good game. Without a doubt, it is indispensable. I give 5 stars for fun! A "Unity" construction, a bug-free game, a controlled consumption of RAM and CPU resources. Played on Linux in 2020, AMD card, Logitech gamepade. I give 5 stars to this technically well built game! I’m not done yet, I’m going back. Have as much fun as I did;)

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Posted on: September 1, 2020

Bloodrunsclear

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Games: 1219 Reviews: 143

Old School With Bells and Whistles

I've been looking for a game like this for a long time! A persistent grid-based turn based RPG even in a novel cyberpunk setting. I'm the kind of person who enjoys micromanaging and brooding over attack efficiency without wanting to worry so much about RNG, and this is great fun as far as I've played it. Feels a bit like an RPG version of Syndicate which is ingenious. You command a squad of clones which can be upgraded, tweaked, die in battle and be replaced or improve and develop with new abilities and mutations and plug-ins. The dark dystopian atmosphere is sumptuously realized with very pretty graphics, but the writing is firmly tongue-in-cheek which I also enjoyed. No stick up the rear here: you're having fun, exploring, fighting, and getting influence and money to do it again in another location with better equipment, powers, and strategies. ONLY hiccup I found was the hacking mini-games. They're reflex based which was a little irritating but thankfully they aren't required, they just give you goodies if you search for them. It's like Darkest Dungeon without the random insanity and dying torches. It's like Bard's Tale with better progression and a more interesting setting. Very nice game and surprised I never heard about it before this!

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Posted on: September 28, 2022

XYCat

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Games: 1157 Reviews: 35

Grind

Cyberpunk Duckest Dungeon is probably an accurate description. You do the things you do in that game, as in, you have a base where you do improvements and equipments and whatnot and then you have 5 types of dungeons that you visit over and over. The game gives you an objective to defeat 4 corporate bosses. To do that you need to do dungeon runs that harm their corporation and once it's damaged enough you can go attack the boss. The story mode gives you 75 weeks to do that. A week passes when you do a dungeon run. However, if you defeat the bosses you still have to wait until 75 weeks pass. It's very much possible to defeat them all in half the time. And then literally nothing happens. All you can do is doing the randomly generated missions in the same dungeons over and over. I didn't finish the game because this is what happened to me. And I found out that people asked the same question as me: "What happens now that the bosses are dead?" and the answer was that you have to wait until the time limit runs out. So if you're into doing the same thing over and over, and in this game it's an ok-ish fun at least for a little while, then go for it. If you don't want to waste time completely pointlessly then this game is not for you. (I'd feel bad about leaving just one star, because it's not exactly a super terrible game, but two stars is pretty damn generous if the game forces you into pointless grind just because it lacks content and nobody bothered to give you the option to finish the story earlier)

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Posted on: March 7, 2020

vocnox3

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Some work has to be done...

Still it's the beginning of March 2020 so for a Indie Crew it's already a good game with sophisticated perspectives. Some contents are still missing, the game feels unready BUT as Sci-Fi game with its own character it's already worth to be played. The change between mission and HQ is nice: I still miss the private RPG character: You only have soldiers ATM to run missions: Why there is not the boss itself as character that can also put invastigations or can itself lead the company into corrpuption affairs. Good to have RPG like trading which means BUYING: Why not also Black market sales and illegal stuff. The game structure itself is very stable and running. Others mentioned boring.. At least working with GREAT atmoshere. I miss the option to enter (as mentioned above) some private Clubs and locations in the free time of the boss. That would give the town more character. Also you only meet merchants and enemys: Why there are no neutral and fun NPCs. ATM (03/2020) a lot of potential not programmed but all in all a great little game with a very.. specific atmosphere. A dark future where you really don't get the feeling there is hope: Neither for the city, your genetic created soldiers, yourself or the gangsters nor companys. Wishlist: Clubs, private Character, towns npcs, street jokes, gambling, private income, newspaper, Pubs, Food Stores, Resturants(inside), Freetime of the character, Boss Character developing, Politics, Parks, a River, maybe flying, aso

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