Giving 5/5 for the development and comittment by the developers. Game is pretty intersting though some mechanics are not ready yet, but the developers are putting great effort and following a committed roadmap. It's a top-down , tactical rpg with interesting collection and extraction mechanics.
Game has some original ideas and cool mechanics, though at one point it becomes Asian-style grindy, which is my problem for why it's not 5/5 and instead 4/5. Stardew valley requires much less grinding to progress.
I haven't played the original, but the game runs smooth and is very good. Interesting story and original gameplay. No bugs or issues, great experience.
The game is pretty solid, vriety of weapons, skills and approaches to solve the problem. Story is good, world building is also very good. I've heard this game was launched with bugs, but I've completed in on patch 2.2 with Phantom Liberty and I cannot find any fault with this game and didn't encounter any bug. I won't spoiler anything, solid title 5/5!
The game is very addictive, although a bit outdated. I've had problem running it on my laptop in 2025, but with an older version it was fine. Gameplay is addictive, though once you complete 5-6 games, you've pretty much seen most of it. One downside is that this version doesn't support cloud saves, though I worked around this with Google Drive to move my saves between my laptop and PC.
I've put around 70 hours into the game and I can say that I covered most of the content (quests, zones etc.) Let me give you the good and the bad and then a bottom line: Good: - Mechanics work - No bugs or technical issues - Sufficient amount of quests and activities to cover the zones - Interesting story that steadily evolves - The two DLCs - Murder on Eridanos and Peril on Gorgon are very, very good DLCs and complete the game and the universe as a whole - Multiple ways to achieve the goals - stealth, diplomacy, fighting - Almost all skills are useful - Interesting world that isn't based on a duplication of Earth's biome and locations, Halcyon realy feels like an alien, strange place Bad: - Game is not very difficult, I've played on Hard and didn't find difficult encounters - Itemization could be better and more randomized, at certain point you find the same number and types of weapons. The DLCs add more weapons though. - The mockery of a corporate world failure that is the Board and the sheer incompetency of every corporation is intended for caricaturistic purposes, but it feels way too unrealistic and a bit over the top. It should've been done with moderation and introduce a bit more nuance - As other reviewers pointed out, the second half of the game feels kind of empty and rushed Overall - a good game, give it a try and get it on a discount, but make sure you get the DLCs otherwise you are missing on the better content, in my honest opinon. For the standalone game - I would say it is 3/5, but with the DLCs, simply because they are pretty well done and show the effort of the team to finish what they've started, I will put it at 4/5.
