I don't really know if I'm meant to be the target audience for Tacoma or not. The game comes off as incredibly shallow and painfully average. The game doesn't have some truly great sin that means one should skip it, but it's also not noteworthy enough to stick out from other games.

There's nothing inherently wrong with walking simulators, as they can be very enjoyable (INFRA and SOMA being great walking simulator games) but Tacoma never challenges the player in any meaningful way. There are no noteworthy puzzles or interesting avenues to explore. You're very much on a linear pathway in the game and there are no meaningful areas you could miss.

The story that is told throughout the game is honestly paper thin. It's very much the corporation-is-evil type stuff we've all seen before and the crew has very few flaws. The most one could say is that one character was foolishly seeking the avenue of least resistance, but that's hardly a deep or concerning flaw. The story is very straight forward.

The game forgos character development for romance. It's pretty eh, honestly. None of the characters seem really deep and there isn't like any sort of love triangle or anything interesting. One dude is crushing on a woman. Two members are married and the remaining two have love interests elsewhere. If you're into LGBT, three members are gay. Meh.

Oh and the game also features Gone Home's ability to examine items by moving them around. You can do this with (nearly) every single item you can pick up in the game. But because there's nothing to the story outside of the cutscenes there's very little to learn (the most you can get is a little bit of background from papers, but the rest of the items contain very little information otherwise).

The game is short which is good considering playing this style of game for 8 hours would be an incredibly painful experience. I took my time checking a ton of things and getting all of the cheevos and beat it in 4 hours. I listened to every conversation, etc.

Overall I'm feeling really meh. Nothing noteworthy to speak of. Would prefer a middling rating here but will instead recommend skipping instead.

I don't really know if I'm meant to be the target audience for Tacoma or not. The game comes off as incredibly shallow and painfully average. The game doesn't have some truly great sin that means one should skip it, but it's also not noteworthy enough to stick out from other games. There's nothing inherently wrong with walking simulators, as they can be very enjoyable (INFRA and SOMA being great walking simulator games) but Tacoma never challenges the player in any meaningful way. There are no noteworthy puzzles or interesting avenues to explore. You're very much on a linear pathway in the game and there are no meaningful areas you could miss. The story that is told throughout the game is honestly paper thin. It's very much the corporation-is-evil type stuff we've all seen before and the crew has very few flaws. The most one could say is that one character was foolishly seeking the avenue of least resistance, but that's hardly a deep or concerning flaw. The story is very straight forward. The game forgos character development for romance. It's pretty eh, honestly. None of the characters seem really deep and there isn't like any sort of love triangle or anything interesting. One dude is crushing on a woman. Two members are married and the remaining two have love interests elsewhere. If you're into LGBT, three members are gay. Meh. Oh and the game also features Gone Home's ability to examine items by moving them around. You can do this with (nearly) every single item you can pick up in the game. But because there's nothing to the story outside of the cutscenes there's very little to learn (the most you can get is a little bit of background from papers, but the rest of the items contain very little information otherwise). The game is short which is good considering playing this style of game for 8 hours would be an incredibly painful experience. I took my time checking a ton of things and getting all of the cheevos and beat it in 4 hours. I listened to every conversation, etc. Overall I'm feeling really meh. Nothing noteworthy to speak of. Would prefer a middling rating here but will instead recommend skipping instead.