Outpost 13

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7520163/]You can find hundreds of other reviews through our Curator page[/url] [h1]"The scam’s The Thing"[/h1] If you were to look up the definition of ‘squandered potential’ in the dictionary, you would find a brief series of words that, when applied contextually, would adequately describe obscure indie horror game Outpost 13. Except, let’s throw a few more words onto the funeral pyre. Words like ‘broken’ ‘unnecessarily confusing’ ‘infuriating’ and ‘borderline scam’. Now I’ve sufficiently put the boot in, let’s talk about the game Outpost 13 should have been. It’s also the sort of game Outpost 13 initially is, but we’ll get to the mounting sense of crushing disappointment soon enough. Openly inspired by the John Carpenter classic, The Thing, you take control of a dog living in an arctic science station. It’s your classic tale of a dog meets a symbiotic alien then goes on a stealthy homicidal rampage, killing all the humans before they’re able to figure out what’s wrong. On the surface, this is a wonderful idea; Fenrir the dog is a beloved part of the base’s family and, as such, is initially free to trot around the encampment as he pleases. He uses this trust and freedom to figure out new and exciting ways to kill all the humans as inconspicuously as possible. Here’s an example. There’s a man in the garage working under a suspended bit of heavy machinery, and the release lever is just the right height for a canine assassin to manipulate. But just scampering over and flipping the switch is a bad idea. There’s another guy just chilling in the workshop who will not only casually saunter over to reverse your work and save his colleague but will notice that you, the adorable fuzzy-faced pet, might be harbouring some murderous intentions. A lot of Outpost 13 revolves around not blowing your cover. Each occupied room of the station has a suspicion gauge attached, which you will damage by undertaking decidedly un-dog like behaviour. Like trying to crush someone to death. As such, you need to plan further ahead. You need to find a way to distract the pesky onlooker. Fatally, ideally. To begin with, exploring the station and slowly building plans to kill everyone within it while jealously guarding your true intentions is a lot of fun. There’s various stages of the day you can cycle through, including a night cycle where you can skitter through the air vents and spy on the staff in their sleeping quarters. With a bit lot of trial and error, and a bit of cautious planning, you’ll slowly find ways to eliminate your targets in a number of gruesome ways. The problem is, one way or another, you’re going to hit a wall. It doesn’t matter how clever or sneaky you are. In what initially felt like a massively laudable feature, you could bring around the demise of various humans in differing circumstances. The problem here is that Outpost 13 very secretly subscribes to the one true path doctrine, and any deviation from this will result in a dead end. Of itself, this is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanic, but the game never lets you know this is the case. Fail to do something in a specific order, or a specific way, and circumstances required to advance are simply never triggered. To this end, you’re left wandering the base for an eternity, trying to figure out what to do next without ever truly knowing that you’ve already lost. [url=https://www.honestgamers.com/15295/pc/outpost-13/review.html]// Full Review[/url]