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Excellent walking (floating?) simulator. Really liked it. Why am I not recommending it, you ask? Automatic saves with no back-ups simply do not mix with permanently missable logs that are, additionally, required for both 100% completion and all achievements. I am not starting a third new game just because one of the areas I entered locked the door behind me and the game auto-saves at a cutscene rendering an entire area inaccessiblie until the end. Screw that noise, that's grounds to uninstall and mope on the game's review page. Oh yeah, and I guess characters and the player camera clip at times, with jarring, unfinished animation. Eh. It really mostly shows towards the end; guessing the idiocy that is a deadline rush got in the way of yet another good project.

good to play if you have a guide to refer to but is not designed to be easily navigable

In spite of the negative review, I think that the game is extremely well made, the voice actors all do a great job in the roles, and SAMs mechanics are exceptionally interesting to fiddle around with. What's ultimately my dealbreaker is the writing, the confusing pacing, and the lackluster use of the game's mechanics to advance or impact the story. The script feels completely disjointed right out of the gate, and several characters say or do things that get immediately dropped between scenes only for the plot to go on trucking through like a brick is glued to the gas pedal. [spoiler](I understand there's a in game reason for this, but that doesn't excuse the fact that it completely obliterates any semblance of a narrative.)[/spoiler] Compounding this is the fact that the overwhelming majority of the game's 'memory data' collectables have very little supplementary information for the actual plot and instead spin off into tangents about the personal lives of characters that either aren't in the game AT ALL or are there extremely briefly. Likewise, the different mechanics you have to control the station are SUPER in depth at points but are almost never touched on for more than one or two scenes, and are ONLY ever used when directly prompted to by the game itself. Very rarely does the game ever expect the player to try to solve a problem it presents intuitively, and instead everything is just directly spelled out for you. I think that if this were a sandbox game where you were aiding or subverting the crew with only vague instructions from [spoiler]the marker[/spoiler] then there could've been a lot more nuance in how the game actually played. Hell, if they had done that you could've wound up with some intrigue with Houston or some actual character drama between the crewmates that was caused by the player! That aside, the mechanics are still super fun to play with, I just wish it had more player freedom and narrative decisions.

Just came here to say two things: 1. I played through this on Steamdeck without any problems 2. I liked it

Отличный нарратив и задумка. Но как игра плохая, не рекомендую Сначала нас затягивают действительно интересным сюжетом, приятной графикой и ролью ИИ помошника в решении задач космонавта. Но в конечном счёте игра не справляется с балансом между реализмом управления (в т.ч. во время самостоятельного полёта по кораблю) и получением удовольствия от самого процесса, очень часто может возникнуть ситуация что вы будете летать снова и снова по кораблю по причине пропущенного интерактивного действия (коих будет очень много). С головоломками ситуация получше, но иногда тоже удручает - попадаются то до безумия лёгкие, то просто отвратно задизайненные. В конечном итоге всё сводится к тому, что сей проект лучше употребить в виде игрофильма, нежели самостоятельно проходя, иначе вы рискуете потерять много нерв и в конце концов интерес к завершению истории (что и случилось у меня, после титров я испытал облечение от скорейшего завершения не самого приятного игрового экспериенса).

Игра очень атмосферная. Зайдет тем кто любит тематику космоса. Проблемы будут у тех, у кого проблемы с вестибуляркой ) Ну еще тут не очень удобное управление, но к нему быстро привыкаешь. Определенно стоит пройти данную игру.

Felt different while and after playing this, kinda turned into AM towards someone. Really liked the concept to play as the station though.