As the title hints The Arrival had a lot of potential riding on it. The addition of story, graphical overhaul and gameplay changes were meant to make it something else than Eight Pages. The problem is that it doesn't really breaks the formula to go beyond the original experiment. It is a real shame since for as much flak Eight Pages got, first playthrough was really quite something. Sadly The Arrival is just the same ol' with a lot more frustration when new threats are introduced. Not to mention the utterly botched technical side of the game. Hopefully the promising mythos will be picked up by someone else, who tries to make something different than another clone of Eight Pages. 1/5 ...just don't do it
FTL: Faster Than Light is a great game. Combination of something like Star Trek: Bridge Commander with Rogue-like RPG. Randomly generated systems and encounters that never repeat and you'll never go through the same game twice. FTL is deceptively simple, you are just clicking on few buttons but there's a lot of strategy and decision -making behind actually doing good in FTL. Managing your crew, specializing them, keeping your supplies of fuel and ammo up and possibly buying upgrades and new ship parts at stores. There's pletny to unlock and also to do. With the randomly generated universe you will hardly run out of fun with FTL. If you at all are a fan of Star Trek and other sci-fi series and wanted to try and command your own space-ship there are hardly any better games than FTL to try.
