Recent reviews by TECHQ__

Simple, fun, cheap game, good flying sim, good points sounds, big number go brr, chill game. Personally probably never gonna play it again but that's me lol (18/24 achievements)

MINIMAL SPOILERS (only about gameplay no spoilers for story)

This game is mixed. The story, world, characters, actors, etc are all absolutely fantastic, I love it so much and I can't overstate that enough when speaking to others. Also, you should get the dlc because the gameplay is better in those 3, specifically the best being "We All Fall Down".

But when it comes to gameplay, int he base game, it just kinda sucks. The ideas for the gameplay are good like having to wear certain clothing to "conform" to different areas and having to take Joy (or alternative stuff) to blend in and not get detected by machines as being a "downer" survival mechanics like thirst which risks stuff like drink potentially drugged water are all good ideas.

But that's about it, this game has procedural generation in it and while that could be good for replayability, it's only good for the "sandbox" mode and that's it. What it does is pretty obvious when you play, when in the Garden District (Outside of the "Joyful" society) there's a lot of nothing, some kinda big islands with a few repetative houses and streets with only very few sidequests scattered about randomly. In the Village its less obvious until you see postboxes in front of benches and stuff like that out of place but it all kinda looks the same too. The Parade district looks good though but I only spent about an hour there my entire playtime of the game and most of that was inside buildings.

Most of the quests too are fetch quests; go here do that, go there get me that etc. The survival system is just a bit of a hassle, the combat is mediocre, stealth is really challenging in the way it looks like you are supposed to be able to stealth but it just kinda doesn't work. And then there's the bugs too, most are visual but some not just that, the 2 prominent ones that I can think of are the NPCs being placed incorrectly (sitting on a bench, backwards or to the side hovering in front of it) and when you're "stealthing" behind some enemies, they'll just disappear, you'll hear you've been spotted only to find they've teleported behind you and are calling attention to you.

Yes, I have wrote a lot of negative things but if you can get past all that (play on Easy, there's no difficulty related achievements), maybe use some console commands to make it a bit easier, I used "DemiGod" a lot. This can be a really good story and setting, get it on discount too and definitely get the dlc if you want some good/better gameplay alongside the base game. Plus the last dlc "We All Fall Down" kinda felt like what the game should have been, a handcrafted world with good imagery and stealth/combat. Be aware the dlc however removes almost all of the gameplay features of the base game and are completely separate from the base game in terms of accessing them (from the menu, autosaves only, not accessed in world), there's no blending in, no requirement to consume anything but for health and no procedural generation. I wish the actual game was like the last dlc mixed with some of the ideas of the base game (needing to blend in and no procedural generation), it could be so good.

If you somehow read all my rambling, wow thank you I guess. I hope this gives you an understanding of the game. Seriously the story is SO GOOD, that and the dlc, the only reason I'm giving this a thumbs up, everything else gameplay-wise, just wasn't implemented well enough, take a look at the percent of the achievements too, when I wrote this, only 6.5% of players actually finished the main game and about 9% got halfway through unless a lot of people were doing something that disabled achievements, that says something (I used console and still got 70% of the achievements, including dlc).

I have no friends and there are no lobbies....

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Something about it being the best game you'll ever experience