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Oat Studios make some of the most original or twists on original ideas and keep you hanging on the edge of your seat. I can't wait for continuations of some of these stories. They're teasing us by cutting the story short of the greatest of cliffhangers in almost every single one of their short movies.

Anyone who grew up with horror movies, sci fi movies, or is sick of the same recycles story lines, Oat Studios is a refreshing take on what good scifi and horror should me. They will be a powerhouse, indiestyle studio with big name connections and excellent quality.

100/10

Despite the ridiculous 'always connected' crap and the fact that one day, the servers for this game will be redeployed for something else, I am a die-hard Hitman fan. I don't care that someday I won't be able to play online, because I plan to play this game as much as I can until I've exhausted the entertainment value.

My first play through, I was pleased with how they went back to what works best for 47: wide open areas and multiple ways of dealing with targets. If you want to climb to a vantage point after you've received the sniper rifle and plink your targets from the comfort of distance, you may do so. If you want to make conditions unsafe and have your unsuspecting target cause his own death, you can. If you want to go old school and get your target alone and slip the old garrote wire around their neck that is your prerogative.

This game is the heir to Blood Money's throne of Best Hitman game. The environments are massive and there's always something you didn't know about before. Case in point, the first level I thought was just a big house, but there's three floors and a basement, several courtyards, and a large platform tower. I'm continually learning more about it as I'm playing it over and over again, racking up challenges and achievements. And the achievements! The first time I looked through them, I lost heart, because some sounded difficult to pull off (Kill both targets by pushing one off a balcony and have it land on the other), but once you learn the tricksy ways, you'll get it.

10/10, will continue to buy new episodes.

Good god, please let me play god. I've been waiting for a game like this for longer than I can remember. I am stoked.

Great game. Good balance of resrouces. You really have to think if you can do what you want to do based on the resources you have and if you have enough people to support it. There's a fine line between want and need, and you have to keep track of every resource, or you'll need another graveyard soon.

Awesome game. Great story, great progression, responsive story line (I went to a location out of order and the woman yelled at me). Tension builds as you discover you may not be alone out there. What's going on out in the middle of nowhere?

Pretty decent game. I love management games and RTS games, and this is a good combination of the two. You do jobs for cities, trade, fight outlaws, Native Americans, and the Confederacy, or you can pay them off and then trade with them. It's up to you. The game does have some limitations, and is rather short (beat it in under 8 hours). It's still in Early Access, and I really hope that they add more content, have rails going West, and expand on what they already have done.

8/10, would run a railroad again.

This game is so good, I named a kitten after it.

It's an easy to learn but hard to master game, pretty much all about rocket science. If you start in career mode, you'll have a few parts and a few missions. Complete the missions and you'll reap the monetary rewards, and gain science research to unlock new parts.

I would strongly suggest playing a couple tutorial levels, as it takes a little bit of how-to knowledge for the orbiting and landing mechanics of the game. I bought it in BETA and it's one of the best things I ever bought. I'm still learning about the new parts, and still trying to master the space plans section.

10/10 would name a kitten after this game again.

Feels exactly like the movies. Immersive, tense, put me on edge and made it so stressful to move when I first encountered the xenomorph for the first time. Great buy, espcially at under $13!

Pretty solid foundation for an Early Access game. Hoping to see more great things added to it. If you've ever played any of the Worms games, or any tank battle turn based game, this game takes it to a new level. Build your interplanetary defenses and weapons and unlease a volley of attacks on other planets. Sounds easy, until you realize the red targeting line isn't going to take into account planetary movement and the influence of the gravitational pull of the other planets moving in the solar system. Takes a bit of though, but of gut calculation, and a bit of luck at times to really hit your enemies home with your weapons.

Pros:
- Awesome concept executed well
- Resource management is simple, yet forces decision making. Do I want more new weapons or defenses next turn, or do I want to attempt to do more damage now?

Hopes:
- I hope you'll be able to designate names for your missiles, because if you have half a dozen, but did specific upgrades to some and not others, it's hard to figure out which missile has the upgrades. And I didn't see a specific name for the individual missiles like I did in targeting mode.
- Maybe have a variety of orbit types?
- Take over other planets or moons?
- More weapons

Great game. Give it 8/10. Pretty realistic story, you can do realisitic things, some characters have pretty useless talents (eg excellent mathmatician), but there's a few bugs. So, pros and cons:

Pros:
- Characters you can develope an attachment to and care about when they die. Inversely, there are some characters I could give two less craps about.
- Sneaking is fun, Roman has some good takedown moves.
- Environment is a factor. If it's too cold, your characters can get sick and you need meds.
- Forces hard decisions. You can't just pickup everything. You have to manage your backpack for resource gathering and take what you need most desperately.

Cons:
- A little glitchy. I glitched through a barred door and didn't have a saw to get out, so I had to wait out the night.
- A few times now I have killed a guy from a hiding spot and tried to reenter said hiding spot, only to have no reaction from my character, ending up losing time to run and hide and getting my character killed.
- One of my characters died without the game telling me. That day, my living characters kept commenting, "Roman looks bad. He needs to get those wounds bandaged." Roman was nowhere to be seen and when I beat the game, apparently he died on day 32.
- Pretty high cost on resources to upgrade your metal shop, workshop, oven, furnace, etc.

This game is totally worth the money. I've played 8 hours in two days and still am driven to play more.