StarCrawlers is a nice dungeon crawler with its own flavor and charm. The story is nice and interesting and you can side with three different groups, having three different endings, so there is replayability value here. The problem is that story missions jump 2 or 3 levels each time and then you have to grind. Grinding is part of dungeon crawl games, but boy, the grinding here can get tedious. And you are always wanting to skip it and go to the next story mission to see what will happen. Loot is RNG dependent and can take a while for you to get good gear specific for your builds. Also, each character has 3 different skill trees and you can respec your points paying some cash. Music is nice too, nothing amazing, but do its work of immersing you in the game.
People complain that the game is short. Well, it is. But for some people like me, that don't have the time to keep playing open world sandbox games (a la Skyrim) and invest 1000+ hours into a game, I find that 4-20h for a game is a good match. Deadlight is a nice game with a good atmosphere. The story is a bit basic, but kept me goind. Also, for 4h of gameplay it's hard to expect a Lord of the Rings level of storytelling. Controls are a bit clunky sometimes. Maybe because I used mouse & keyboard to play. Probably a controller would have made the game easier. Overall, the game delivers what it proposes to do.
