Fantastic game. Worth it to get it, just to have experienced a novel take on the city builder.
I had finished the game multiple times on Steam, then got it on GoG to make it easier to install Fallout London. Afterwards, I tried playing just the unmodded game, and I'm getting bugs that I have never gotten on Steam (across multiple playthroughs!).
Massively, breathtakingly unstable at the moment. I'll update this review if/when they fix it.
The core of the game is the writing, which I don't find all that good. And without the writing, the gameplay is far too weak to stand on its own two feet.
This game really, strongly expects you to stick to the main storyline as much as possible. If you don't, you'll be wandering around a mostly empty world, occasionally punctuated by random encounters that are either way too easy, or way too hard.
- Decent production value. - Has some interesting ideas. - The UI is quite poor. - The card minigame is just lame.
After multiple attempts, I keep dying to an early-game encounter, even on easiest difficulty. I'm sure I'm just being bad, but I have no information that I can use to get better. This feels like only a mild improvement over a game that doesn't start at all.
My personal litmus test for games like these is whether diplomacy does anything (or is just the place where the Declare War button lives). This game didn't pass. To be fair, it does add a few ideas of its own -- but only superficial ones.
