I jumped into this game after spotting it on my Steam library – it turns out I got it in a Humble Bundle a while back. The cover image showed a terminal and it looked interesting. Jumping into the game you have a lengthy period of time where you are waiting for short sentences to appear on the screen. I was intrigued so overlooked it, and I suppose that it was a failed attempt to build suspense. After the text you reach a ship, and you get a terminal with some pretend AI. I love these AI things, however the AI in this game instantly felt shallow and didn’t have responses to many words at all. When attempting to run commands such as ‘ls’ in this terminal it says something along the lines of ‘good for you for knowing these commands but please just talk like a human’. Not so easy when that speech is so limited but okay, it is a story telling technique. Once these small annoyances were overlooked and the bounds of this universe were found I started really getting into the game and a story starts to develop. Then it just stops. You solve a couple of ‘puzzles’ (I use that word loosely. With the puzzles in this game it feels it is more of a case of finding something hidden then actually solving something.), you get to the bridge of the ship and the game just ends. I played every ending of the game just to make sure I wasn’t just ending it prematurely for myself and no, that's it. Its very disappointing. They built the foundations of that could be a very interesting game and story but there isn’t really anything more than those foundations.
TLDR; It feels as if you are served a hot chocolate with cream. You eat the cream with a spoon and get hyped for what is to come only to find there is nothing under the cream. No hot chocolate. A cool concept for a game that turns out to be very shallow, short and disappointing. Getting it as part of a Humble Bundle I’m not too bothered but I wouldn’t bother going out of your way to spend money on this game. (And I certainly would never want to pay the £15 asking price!) Watching the credits for the game reveals that it is ‘based on’ a student project.. If it was advertised as a student project rather than a game it would be awesome - a student project is all it should ever have been. Good on those guys.
