The game promises to be interesting and when you start out the story seems to be cool. But there is just nothing behind it. You do the same things for the whole game and the get really repetitive. And the story is so shallow that it can't hide the boring gameplay.
Just a waste of time, don't play.
I feel like i wasted my time with this game.
It was interesting at first glance, but the management is tedious, there is very little gameplay wise, you just gather resources and repair/upgrade things, that's it.
The story is fairly none existant, you get a few moments cutscene at the start and the end.
The characters reveal some as you play.
Overall intereting concept, but boring.
I greatly enjoyed the simplicity of time management in this game. The overall tasks are straight forward, but keeping all your crew alive to survive is a challenge. I have yet to beat "Try Harder", but I play it just to test myself
This game keeps me engaged and entertained. I find it highly replayable and I enjoy it every time.
There are a couple of major game flaws that need to be stated:
1. The AI is absurd. Humans will simply keep doing what you last ordered them to do until they drop dead. They will NOT pause on their own to eat and sleep, and they will NOT warn you that they don't have enough energy to complete a task before dying, they will simply wander beyond the point of no return and die on you. So, the majority of this game is just about micro-managing these human automata to keep them alive.
2. The goal, or the way to get better endings, is not obvious and the game never tells you about the fact that there's another ending you could have achieved. For the amount of time a playthrought takes, this is just inconsiderate. The objectives should be well-defined, at least after your first playthrough.
Note to devs: We're going to look it up on the Internet anyway, so, you might as well think ahead and design a way to convey the "ending" information into the actual game. It would have made you look more thoughtful and like better designers. Getting the most out of your game isn't supposed to be a trial-and-error secret.
Having said all that, the game has a compelling, if slightly predictable/cliched story, and the fact that you can get different starting characters each time keeps it fresh between plays. The ability to quickly pause and change speeds keeps it from becoming too tedious, although if you have a bad run of luck with breaking equipment, you'll be ready to just walk away sometimes. Still, I've been playing it 5 years and I occasionally still get the hankering to reinstall it and play it again, so, that speaks well of the great job this team did, creating the right atmosphere for a time management/survival game.