This game is a blast from the beginning, a very well balanced game with tough but fair difficulty that feels really rewarding playing. I like that it's quite focused, meaning that you start of isolated and only can scavange your close surroundings for supplies. Makes it feel doomsday like, just as the game's setting. There are however some annoying bugs that keeps coming up. I've had several problems with my scouts disappearing for example, which more or less killed my chances. It's also quit short, campaing wise, and some of the endgame grind can be more obnoxious than fun. Still, all in all, this is a great strategy game that I recommend.
First of all, in my opionion this game is more of a point-and-click adventure with RPG-elements than an RPG. I myself don't mind since I grew up during the "point-and-click era" with the likes of Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky and so on. But be aware, it's a heavily story/text driven game with a lot of back-and-forth traveling and with little to no action. The game itself starts of somewhat slow the first couple of hours before the story really gets going. But then it really starts getting interesting. The game features some solid areas to explore with interesting characters and some fun and clever dialogues. The skill-check system adds an extra layer to the detective aspect of the game. I really enjoyed most of it, at least the first half of the game. But the second half of the game is where it starts getting less enjoyable. It gets more and more linear and you quickly realize that it's a quite "small" game in terms of exploration and variation. Most of the environments look the same and the quests become more fetch-like. The game is also not particularly challenging, many times it just tells you upright, where to go and what to do next, even in extremely obvious cases, which is a strange game design for a detective game. Overall it's a decent game, but far from a masterpiece like many reviewers make it out to be.
