Aether & Iron

I had a great time with this game, though I'd recommend buying it on sale (as I did). It's a fun indie game with some very likeable characters and the tactical car combat gives it a unique flavor.

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Un gioco di ruolo narrativo (con tiri a 2d6) con elementi di avventura punta e clicca e di azione a turni. Ambientazione ben costruita e affascinante, il design generale tipo Steampunk mi è sempre piaciuto. Direi che mi sta dando un sacco di contenuto interessante e mi intratterrà ancora per un bel po', il mondo mi sembra abbastanza vasto. Ben disegnato, bella musica. Mi piace.

Сильные и независимые женщины против цисгендерных мужемразей в эстетике нуарпанка.

Amazing story and beautiful writing, the world building is incredibly engaging and there's a fun cast of interesting characters. I wish the combat was a bit better, and some of the "choices" you are asked to make have no real impact on the outcome of the narraitve, but I still thoroughly enjoyed my play time. Would love to see a slightly more polished sequel in the future from these devs.

I really wanted to like this game, but I could not really get into it. Honestly, I would give this a neutral score, if I could, because I know some people will be very happy with how the game plays. I finished the first island, and although the story was fairly engaging, and the art is quite gorgeous, the gameplay part is lackluster. Basically, the whole game is a visual novel with few combat encounters thrown in here and there. And while the story is decent, the voice acting is superb, and the worldbuilding is interesting, the gameplay loop doesn't justify going further. I came for a mixture of tactical combat using retro-futuristic cars, and got a bunch of verbose info-dumps on top of a handful of very easy battles. I tried coming back to this game several times after breaks lasting days and weeks, until I finally realized that I didn't want to continue playing at all, because between the wordy dialogues, all that awaited me were boring, unexciting battles that offered very little challenge.

This is a super straight linear VISUAL NOVEL. The clickbaity "game mechanics" are just there to widen the customer base, but completely irrelevant to the game itself (which is the visual novel, and not some tactical whatever it tried to claim to be). Talent tree? Irrelevant, you can still lose dice rolls, and combat is laughably easy. Dice rolls? Irrelevant. It is a check for getting nothing or something extra that is so minimal it might as well not be at all. (in example a success gives you like 12 xp and 20 money, a story event gives you SEVERAL HUNDREDS xp and even more money) the game is ballanced to a level where you can do everything even if you lose every single dice check, so getting some of them is irrelevant. Dialog options? Irrelevant, main story is on rails (it even has auto dialog options), the rest of the option is just minor changes in conversation and does not branch or split the story line. Random encounters? every single one is hard coded and tied to the story, you can't run around and "farm". Combat? Damage is practically unavoidable, its just attrition and the game throws repair kit at you like its free candy, the only way you can lose if you decide to do so. Which makes tactical decisions or build options irrelevant. Oh yeah and the whole story is DRENCHED in feminism. I never tought that i ever notice something like this as im unbothered by such things, but this pushes female agenda so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard im pretty sure even an advocate of feminism would whince on this level. So yeah, this is a simple on rails visual novel, a story and not a game with things that you can play with, just something added to sell it.

A fantastic retro-future noir story, with superb voice acting, a nicely twisty plot, characters you really connect with, and a flawless noir tone (which is really easy to mess up). I've been humming the theme song for days now and I have been recommending the game to everyone I know who enjoys rpgs and classic noir with a fun twist. Now if they'd just let me write a tabletop rpg version of this setting for them that would be about the only other thing that could make this game better. Outstanding work.