Recent reviews by Carvell Wakeman

Half Life 2 meets Atomic Heart, but with creepy cerebral story elements like Control.

Great game, pretty environments, interesting enemies, satisfying weapons, and an interesting story that's just the right length.

This one is high up there on the list of favorites for me.

The shooter aspect is decent, you can feel the panic from the enemy soldiers when you start taking them out. Played on Hard and it wasn't very challenging, I just had to switch weapons often while running out of ammo. Limited weapons - Pistol, smg, G36-esc rifle pretending to be an smg, and the shotgun. Couple weapon accessories that don't change much. Not enough cover or dynamic environments for cloak to be useful. Mostly used it to reload and re-position.

Other than great gunplay, I wouldn't recommend it. Story was dry and un-interesting. Buy it for $5-10 for a couple hours of fun on a week night.

Launched with a lot of issues, but they've genuinely fixed those issues and rebalanced the game.

But I can't play it because I have an AMD graphics card, and the game has crashed on startup or 10-20 mins into a round ever since 2021. The displayed error changes over time. Different driver versions cause different issues. Doesn't happen with any other game.

An 8hr length cerebral scifi game with some somber moments and some action moments. Really good dialog between the various characters and the protagonist is awesome. Greatly recommend if you want a weekend game that will leave you thinking. I loved the alt-soviet future styling. Game has a really pretty color palette and good effects, but a lot of the terrain was low-poly in places.

Criticisms:
1. There were so many endings but they didn't feel super necessary and distinct. IMO they could have had a couple other "choose your own adventure" decisions in the game instead of 11 different endings.
1a. I would be happy with one "bad" ending and one "good" ending, ideally even re-uniting with your crew in the good ending.
3. Wish the rover was more physics based and bumpy. Have the player's path matter instead of floating over everything.
4. Let me fall off cliffs and die please :)

Would highly recommend even without sale price.

Fun story driven puzzle game with some unique elements that kept me engaged. Several of the puzzles were fairly difficult, and a few of those I had to look up but was not particularly wowed with the cleverness of the solution. I think the game was maybe 10% too long but I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone that enjoyed portal.

Not great, but good. Solid game to get ~10 hours out of. Lots of platforming and colorful environments and enemies, a few boss fights and a small tech tree for your abilities/pistol.

Hilarious the first time, aggravating the second. Physics suck and too much cosmetics.

Amazing gameplay, and steam remote plan worked really well for co-op. Absolute blast, hope to see more content soon!

Workshop/modding support and some kind of level editor (whatever they use for the in-game levels but polished up) could sustain this game for years and make some amazing stuff!

Either way, hope to see more levels and story from the devs.

Quite a fascinating little adventure! Uncover the story of a dead civilization in a small but dense solar system. Your ship is your anchor but don't worry, if you die it's pretty easy to get back to where you were. Look forward to continuing the story!

Underrated game. The menu is a mess and way too busy. Has microtransactions.

But the actual game play is great, really repeatable, and fun solo and more so with a team. Super atmospheric world and weapons, sound is important, lots of small "mini games" (crows make noise when you get too close, map gets smaller as clues are found, etc).

Worth full price and has lots of replay ability.