Wide as an ocean deep as a puddle is the best way to describe this game. It can show you some beautiful landscapes and views, but more you play and try to make sense of it - more disapointment you achieve. Pointless grinding everywhere. It just forces you to waste time doing boring repetitive actions like searching planets with needed resources and excavating them. Exploration? You just go from one to another result of advanced random number generator and sometimes it can catch you eye for a moment, but later you will understand that it is all the same after all. SPORE with similar aproach is much more interesting than this game. Only 3 races, identical bases, unbalanced economy with ridiculuos prices on ship cargo hull upgrades (to open i cell you must scrap several other ships to get needed units amount). NPCs dont even try to seem alive. Just few boring encounters when you give some resources to them in order to help repair their ships. To learn alien language in order to read poor dialogs you must grind word stones on planets or grind aliens on starbases (every new one gives you 1 word and to read full dialogs you need to do tens and hundreds of encounters). Unscippable boring landing sequence animation you need to watch each time you visit new starbase completing this masterpiece of time wasting. I got this game on sale and I knew it has problems in past but I thought after so many years it became at least worth to check and complete. But this was a mistake.
This game is interesting, with good storyline and deep slavic folklore background. Card fight mechanics is similar with other card games like Slay the Spyre, but has its unique features. There are two types and two classes of cards - black (mostly used for attack) and white (mostly used for defence), words (main action cards) and keys (additional action cards). You can build your deck and develop your own fight strategy, also you can have 3 different saved presets of deck and switch between them. Also game allows you to skip the fight if you loose more than 2 times, so it prevent you from really frustraiting dead end situations. Game has different endings which rely on your choices. Also your choices can change fate of other characters in the end. Graphics is stylish low-poligon animation. I liked it, but for somebody it will not be pleasant, I guess. The only thing I dislike in this game is its duration. It is too long for such game type, in my opinion. Game creates artificial walls to prevent you from progressing fast. To achieve goal X, you must first do A, B, C, and every A, B, C mission has a lot of sidequest fights. So with high speed of fight animation I finished the game only after almost 35 hours. Controls of character movement also not ideal, but they are not so bad either.
Simple and beautiful design, challenging but nevertheless fun gameplay, which requires balanced set of your agents party from the beginning and careful management through all the game. You must think about every turn and use the maximum of your resources in the best way possible to defeat this game. I got the best ending only in the third walkthrough, so it requires some luck too. This game is like Fermi Paradox, but much more developed and interesting.
It was fun and interesting to play stealth at the beginning, but game became more and more challenging and frustrating after each level. At some point, I stuck on one level and rage quited. You do not have much of a choise and must try and die too many times. You can not make any mistake, you can not shoot your way in and have fun - only infinite tries and caution at every level. Very timing - sensitive game. In order just to see the whole story - i edited hp and ammo clip parameters in saves and then game became a real fun for a bit - cyberpunk top down shooter/slasher at it best) But even then it is hard to find the way on big levels with very similar rooms, it is boring to search every one of them. On the other side - pixel graphics is stylish and beautiful, there is some story, simple and linear, but nevertheless... I guess this game will be fun for gamers who like retro pixel style, stealth gameplay and who is very patient and has good reaction. For me it was mediocre.
It is stylish, interesting turn-based strategy with exploration mode where you search items and resolve puzzles in dark future wrestling show. Many different game mechanics and relatively short total duration makes this game almost impossible to get bored with. Little lack of balance in characters (but may be it depends on playstyle). Characters with higher damage and health were better for me that ones with some special abilities. Also, the impossibility to sell old equipment for money is sometimes frustrating (for example, you just wasted 10k+ for new rifle and now you got better new one from loot box, but you can not sell old one to purchase equipment for other teammates, only give it to charity for honour). Bright and beautil masterpiece in TBS genre of this year. If you like XCom-like games you mush try it
This game is not for everyone, it requires patience, you must be careful with your decisions on every fight. Last unbalanced boss (the suffering itself, suffering egg, that appears before him was defeatable for me) ruined the perception of the game for me, I just lost my temper on the last mission, because he requires too much specific initiative boost memories grinding and even good prepared with necessary skills you are not guaranteed to defeat it. I gave up on him after 2 full cicles, because all gameplay became just really frustrating and boring grinding with no reward guaranteed. I used cheat engine to defeat it just to be able to watch final video and complete the game. All other bosses are hard, but defeatable with correct approach. Game is beautiful, stylish, immersive, soundtracks are really great and created just the right mood and atmosfere. Fights do not became boring fast because of smart developers approach to difficulty curve. But for me the last boss was just too much.
I have finished the game. It is more easy to play compairing to original Out there. It has beautiful visual design, decent plot, different balance and some new game mechanics. But game need technical improvement. Microfreezes and unexpected perfomance drops, visual artifacts, impossibility to interact with any unvisited place in planet expedition mode, game crashes - all of that ruined to a certain degree my impression. I hope that developers will fix this in next versions. Also I hope that there will be Android and Linux version of this game in future.
