Recent reviews by Agent_137

Cool concept, but I can't save and quit mid-mission which is insultingly impractical especially when you're evidently supposed to win by dying and starting over repeatedly. Sometimes I get tired of that and want to stop mid-mission, among many other reasons I'd want to stop mid-mission, but you can't. Also the text sometimes gets cropped, and there's a disappointing lack of programmability. This game is more true rogue/nethack than anything else in that you learn by dying and only retain your knowledge, and you will do that a lot to learn even the basics or you go read the wiki.

update: hoping setting the "UI scaling" to not be the default of 720p will help with cropping text, and Enemy Types Reset to reset will make it so i don't have end-game enemies at the start of every reset, Why would "don't reset" be a default?! I don't get to keep my drones or equipment, and I certainly don't know what the hell I'm doing.

update 2: still trying. It's better with the changed settings i mentioned, but new frustrations crop up: dooming a run because it doesn't mention in the manual that broken equipment cannot be repaired, and no way to drive a drone by hand without moving your hand from the home keys. The game should come with a demo copy of voice attack so i can open and close doors with my voice and drive at the same time.

update 3: I bought the upgrade for teleport which lets me teleport things. I did help teleport to see how to use it. See manual, it says. I check the manual, and nothing about how to teleport objects like this stun mine into the room that I want to check for an enemy. So I try something: I leave the mine alone in r1, move to r2, and type "teleport r1 r4" hoping it'll teleport what's in r1 to r4. NOPE. IT TELEPORTED MY DRONE IN R2 TO R4 AND THEN THEY GOT EATEN. WHY DIDN'T IT AT LEAST TELEPORT TO R1??! Ridiculous. Also ridiculous is that if you give a command to move to a room and the door is shut, the drone just sits there instead of moving toward the damn door. Swapping between terminal and the arrow keys is not fun, i don't want to do it. The drones should be marginally less dumb. They should make space for each other, they should move toward closed doors or at least have a command I can input to make them do those things. I think I'm done.

Got stuck but game is too good to wiki, just need to get back into it!

I really enjoyed playing this and have cool memories of it. Space corporate dystopia wilderness really ticks a lot of boxes for me and they went above and beyond.

everything great about the first game now with better looking explosions and other great stuff

update: still awesome

IT'S SO GOOD TO BE BACK. For those new to this game, it's like ski-free in first person with a banging sound track. Gone is the zany punk attitude and early difficulty, but the mouse control is much better and all the levels are new. Update: 20 levels in... is it ever going to get hard?

Alternating relaxing and exciting but always absorbing. Spent about 15-20 hours on content, the rest of my play time has been achievement hunting or idling. There's no need to replay it for all the content either. For good or bad once you're done with the story you can be done unless you just love the fishing part of the game.

I got sucked into this game and loved every minute of this mashup of FTL and Homeworld with an interesting story, narrative decisions, and officers to collect on top. I moved on after managing a successful play through, but this May 2023 update has renewed my interest.

Saw a buddy stream his visit to the clockwork sun, played a bit of fallen london, got hooked on the creepy story telling, exploration, and its stately combat system. The game delivers deliciously. A lot of my hours played are AFK leaving it paused, it's great at playing in both short and long spurts.

Best coop horde game I've ever played and I've played a lot! It also has a fantastic solo mode with a capable and loyal bot named Bosco in lieu of dumb ai replacement of other players. It's updated seasonally too. The developer competes with the likes of Hello Games for "company that most loves their players and rains free content on them."

Fun with friends, fantastic visuals, varied and excellent atmosphere, and a horrible grind to level up your multiple weapons and armor pieces. On the whole, watch some live streams of this and skip unless you're just hooked.

Edit after finishing the game: I played on medium until the final fight which was ridiculous. I wonder if playing on easy the whole time would have reduced the grind and made the game more enjoyable. I won't be trying again to find out.