The Captain

Fun story, puzzles that are fun, but not completely unreasonable (they are a bit easy at times), amazing artwork. If you are a fan of the genre, you're in for a treat!

Really good self-contained subchallenges, lots of options, well worth a play

In short, a superb retro adventure game with huge replay value. Your choices matter and due to the time limit not all places may be explored in one play through. I was very surprised when I realised how much my choices matter and how they impact the game. While there seem to be no "wrong" choices there's at least certain consequences to them making the game feel a lot more alive then many other games in the genre. The pixel art is superb. Just my kind of style. Sound effects are retro but not annoying. There's a lot of dialog in the game ... none of which has voice over. All conversations have to be read. At least different people's dialog are in different colours making it a bit easier to follow. The humour is refined and much more mature then in some other pixel games. Puzzles aren't super hard and feel logical. The UX is good. I think given that this is a pixel game it's pretty much perfectly executed. I find it a bit annoying that inventory items have to be dragged all the way to the intended point of use instead of a click & hold mechanism being implemented. But that's just nitpicking. Another lovely surprise is the combat engine. It's quite simplistic but as you progress along the journey you might get to enjoy some weapons upgrades making it a good place to try new strategies. But mostly i appreciate this game mechanic as it breaks up any last feeling of being on rails. And that's what hooked me so very much to this game. A cool story line with many options to choose, a sense of urgency and the occasional shakeup to keep things interesting. This is a great game I highly recommend for fans of the point & click and pixel art genres. If pixel art isn't yours, maybe give it a try anyway as this one is among the best I've seen and it's well implemented with some more modern effects, etc. From my vantage point however I can only congratulate the developers of this game. I consider it an all time favourite and enjoy every time I launch the game.

This game is fantastic. It has a lot of fun Star Trek like details and choices. It kind of feels like a mix between FTL and the old Interplay Star Trek adventure games. Your choices actually matter.

This game has soul and style and was memorable, but I see a lot of reviews saying it's perfection, and that's going too far. Yes it allows for lots of player choice and yes the puzzles are quite fun and well thought out, but the combination of a non-linear point and click game style with a lack of quicksaves and an uncontrollable autosave is just unforgivable in this day and age. There's times when you might click something out of curiosity leading to a horrific outcome you didn't at all intend...and then BAM an autosave and it's seared into stone for the rest of your playthrough. Better hope you were using the userdata folder on your computer to manually fake save slots. The quick ending feature is nice, but doesn't save remotely enough time to make up for the lack of save slots. The end result if you're like me is you then end up using a walkthrough out of fear for the rest of the game, not because the puzzles are too difficult but because you are terrified to lock in an outcome you didn't intend. Which is a shame because discovering some of these fascinating outcomes spontaneously is half of the fun of the game.