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Ahh, yeah…just buy it!
Update: A back button. It could use a back button. A bug where the music turns off when app is put in the background. I have to turn the music off/on to get it back. It would nice if it played in the background, as the music is both inspiring and relaxing. The ‘pop-up’ labels for icons and numbers is excellent! …ORIGINAL TEXT And I’m not a ‘text-based-game’ aficionado, per say (yet I read nonfiction incessantly, go figure). Smoothly moves between landscape and portrait orientations at any time! I found the instructions more challenging then just starting the game. :-) The UI is perfectly arranged and yet out of the way. Game play text accessible during the game. Everything about this production is intelligently designed. The one thing that would put this product over the top, I don’t think I missed it, and that would be both font pitch and a selection of script types everything is ‘very easily’ read because of high font/background contrast. THANK YOU! :-) Sometimes my 72 year-old eyes get tired. I see Stargate, and several other classic science fiction ideas from movies and TV. Kind of well-rounded. Very cool. Oh, OH! Beautiful music, with a Music On/Off setting, BUT ALSO a music volume adjustment control too! intelligently designed.”Show lessEriptron
Repetitive and shallow, far too pricey for content
Seedship was great, but lacking in narrative depth. This game somehow manages to feel even more narratively sparse, probably because the expanded adventure highlights the repetitive gameplay even more.
The systems play out like mad libs in space, you land on a [hot/dense/rocky/icy] [planet/asteroid] and then discover some [ruins/anomalies/microscopic life] that has been destroyed by a [cosmic ray/weather event/interstellar war], and on the way your [engineer/pilot/scientist] is imperiled by some [radiation/heat/cold/crushing atmosphere] and your other [engineer/pilot/scientist] has a [25/50/75%] chance of saving them from [injury/death]. All of these situations play out identically, with identical impacts from your pass/fail result. Get some biology points, or don't. Get some xeno points, or don't. Repeat for the entire game, like multiple times. In a single play-through your engineer is going to fix a space suit radiation leak like a dozen times, identical dialog, identical choices, maybe 5% bump to success because you gained a level. Every system description ends up reading the same. Once you've read the description for a gas giant, you've read every description for a gas giant.
Completely soulless dialog, probably assembled on an excel spreadsheet. $10 is just a joke of a price for this game. It's a shame, the concept is there, but the execution completely misses the mark. 2/5Show lessCutty2k
Great game, limited replay value
Really enjoyed the mechanics and the focus on exploration, like the Out There chronicles. I was a little disappointed by replayability, after playing through 2-3 times (which took maybe 1-3 hours), I felt like I’ve seen pretty much everything.Teach Em Up