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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.7 hrs on record
Posted: 1 May, 2020 @ 7:44pm

short and low-effort to the point 10 bucks is actually asking too much, imo. Pretty standard walking simulator with rough-shot pixel graphics and so many filters that it's actually hard to look at without getting motion-sick. Render distance is strangely abysmal for something that looks like a ps1 beta, which doesn't help when graphics are swimming in and out of existence.

The game is bogged down by a pretty lame "genderswap" mechanic that messes with the UI if you don't "change genders" using expensive consumable items, and there's really only one "quest" in the entire game. this is annoying both as an activist and as a gameplay consideration, the former because apparently gender is a joke to the creator to the point it feels either out of touch or mean-spirited. There could have been an interesting story mechanic about dealing with dysphoria, but as it is it's just a glitchy interface aesthetic that blocks you from knowing if you're hungry or not.

It would work as a relaxing walkaround game, if not for the bad graphics. The options upon booting the game are "bad" and "worse" and you should really trust that assessment.

The actual gameplay loop mostly revolves around collecting pittances for resold trash to cure yourself of a cursed skull. That seems like it would just be the first of a few questlines, but... well, that's really it. You get rid of a skull and that's the end of the game. It stinks because there's the makings of a cool setting here to explore from the sidelines and it just doesn't deliver on that interesting premise.

AI is basic to the point of non-existence, they're just gif images that walk about and get caught up in each other in immersion-shattering clumps of bad pathing AI, and there's annoying soldier characters that will come up to you and eat your money sometimes, which was effective the first time and just annoying all subsequent times.

overall, this wasn't really worth my time. The game needed a lot more than it had, and it sucks because some of the writing here is genuinely charming. Item descriptions are funny, but it's all so shallow as to make me not care what happens to my blobby little janitor drone.
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