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Very interesting premise with so much potential for the story and the mechanics, but very short. The game is very good at building intrigue around this world and setting up the story. I haven't seen a hacking game before use the environment in the way this does. However, it ended before it could really do anything with anything. Would've imagined this being better fit as a demo instead of the full game. Still though, not bad.

I really REALLY enjoyed this, wish it was longer, like with a build up to the end. I wanna know more about the Tartarus Engine, and how they're using it to keep these inmates in a perpetual prison, where 1 second in there is a year in earth time. That's absolutely terrifying. In Tartarus Engine, from Unsorted Horror, the group trying to, from what I can tell, was them trying to steal the code, or living in the Engine itself, where they could be gods in their own worlds, able to do whatever they wanted to do, only to find out the guy running the op didn't check the code he found online, and stuck them in a perpetual cycle of entering, and exiting the simulation. With this one, it expands on the whole Engine, and I love the concept. I want to know MORE. I wanna know what the guys at the end are doing, what is the centrifuge? (I'm guessing it's the power source to the Engine, but why it that important it doesn't go uninterrupted?) I just love the world building that a 50 minute, all text game provides. Now looking at it, I wouldn't be surprised if Buckshot, and Machine Party are just presets of the Engine, and the "players" are the inmates, forced to play, until the Engine is completely turned off. Either way, I don't think I've been so obsessed with a world building in a game in so long, probably the last game that really enthralled me like this was Death Stranding.