Fortune's Run

Pretty good. But why are you even reading this? You can't buy this game anymore!

An excellent immersive sim, only complaint I have is that being forced into stealth can leave you stuck sometimes, not just in wanting to stealth but the game making it hard, but also in being able to progress at all as the enemy can be very overwhelming if you're not careful. Still, this game is a masterpiece of design and deserves an updoot.

Brozouf? E.Y.E. mentioned?

Thanks for an awesome game!!! Keep your head up I hope you get out soon to finish this masterpiece!!!

It's wonderful, very clever, creative, fun and intense. haven't felt like that since System Shock.

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Heard about this game from some lesbians on Grindr. Seems pretty cool

Outstanding project in terms of ambition and the degree the dev is able to deliver on it. Movement, stealth, combat, level design, it's all well executed and when the game is firing on all cylinders I genuinely can't think of much that compares in terms of fun. For the scale of the team they're operating with Dizzie should be insanely proud. The first level is such an incredible display of imsim design, you're encouraged to go stealthy because of how deadly combat is, but when things get loud you can still fight with some really satisfying gunplay and unique melee mechanics instead of just defaulting to loading a save like in so many other stealth games. There's tons of little side objectives and secrets, all sprinkled throughout an immaculate grungy scifi world that calls to mind Alien: Resurrection of all things for me (in a fantastic way). Plenty of games tout their nonlinearity and giving the player "options" but Fortune's Run actually does it and ALL of the options are awesome. At least in the first level. Unfortunately, the second level has a lot of bugs and some pretty rough patches when it comes to platforming, progression, stealth, and puzzles. The gear platforming and fan puzzles in particular really killed the pace and were pretty frustrating to navigate. The main thing for me though is that playing the mission as intended (pure stealth, no alerts) really is not fun. Enemy placements can get so obnoxious with such specific execution needed to avoid detection that you're constantly loading quicksaves and trying to figure out what the "right" path is, rather than experimenting and dealing with the consequences as you play. Most of this could be fixed with another pass over the level, ironing out the rough patches and bugs (watching sigmar float off into the distance was really funny though, keep that in). The stealth requirement could definitely stand to be eased up though. Maybe instead of an alert instantly failing the requirement, you get a timer to eliminate all alerted enemies before they call for reinforcements? It would be a nice parallel to the patrol timer that activates when you eliminate them stealthily. Either that or make enemies less omnipresent. This is more abstract but I love it about the game so I'll put it here: this is obviously a very personal project. I'm not going to try and psychoanlyze Dizzie (and I would ask everyone else to stop doing that too, it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ behavior) but Moz's experience with discrimination, imprisonment, and abuse are written in such a way that they seem to come from a very personal place, and the emotional impact of the story is greatly heightened because of it, punching way above its weight in spite of the less than stellar writing and voice acting. In a world of soulless slop made to be about nothing, this may be my favorite aspect of the game. I'm confident that if Dizzie is able to continue her work, Fortune's Run will grow into one of my favorite imsims, if not one of my favorite games period. Unfortunately, I do have to acknowledge that the game has already experienced some severe setbacks in this regard. Dizzie only just recently got out of prison and seems to be in a pretty dire financial situation, and has openly acknowledged on several occasions that the game has come close to dying outright. That said, she has also shown a dedication to the game that borders on psychotic, putting out quality content under circumstances most people wouldn't even be able to get out of bed under. I will always root for underdogs like Dizzie because they represent the kind of artist that can fight against the hideous machine slowly destroying human creativity. If I could buy the game twice I would. If DIzzie ever sets up some kind of campaign to help support her while she works on the game I wil be the first to donate. I will continue to ask everyone I meet if they've heard of Fortune's Run and shake them like a crying baby until they buy it and leave a positive steam review. I hope this project explodes in popularity and joins games like Hollow Knight or The Binding of Isaac in the pantheon of meteoric indie success stories. It deserves all that and more. Good luck, space convict.