Recent reviews by lcarsos

One of the telltale-like games of all time. It feels pretty modern-audience-y with the main character always being great, and it just took everyone noticing how great she always was. Not particularly well inspired, but it does feel more like Star Trek than anything that's been made since 2005, so it has that going for it.

It's not very idle. You can do only one thing at a time, and you have to be really careful to manage your resources. You literally can't leave it idle more than 24 hours, it'll stop you from whatever one thing(!) you were doing.

The game as it is now would be acceptable if it released into Early Access. I think the story glitched in my play through since I seem to be getting dialogue happening out of order. The gameplay needs a lot more playtesting to have the rough edges pulled out of it. I'd like some way to turn off the icon noise so I can find where new mineral patches are for putting down new miner.

I don't know what the district or travel overlay does for me, or why it's unlocked first. It's entirely AI managed, and you have no influence over it until much later in the game when you unlock faster roads, but you have to individually upgrade individual roads, which isn't worthwhile because the AI will always path around your upgraded roads, so you have to upgrade everything.

And speaking of the AI, your playthrough can crash and burn because the AI won't transport items from one location to another. Even if you have plenty of it.

There isn't enough game here to pay $5. There isn't even enough, if it were on sale for $1.

It's a branching path story game that decides what story to give you based on your alignment of a couple sliders. The choices are obvious as to which alignment they affect (building a metallic robot increases its military, and decreases its grace; giving it wings gives it grace and reduces its military usefulness). But, the story has to keep prompting you to interact with different parts of the decision tree, so you get weird things like being a multi-millionaire and choosing to employ humans in your factories in Detroit, but then you go to war with China, and now you're sorry you ever let the Chinese get near these things. What? When did the Chinese gain the ability to rip off my robots and make them militaristic? Oh, because I used cheap chinese lithium ion batteries? That's ridiculous. If my company is successful, and there's design changes happening, and materials are getting upgraded, let me source better batteries from somewhere else. Don't make me pick a motorcycle battery when my company is supremely profitable.

It's not open to be whatever you want it to be. You're allowed to type only on fields that don't matter: your name, your robot's name, your robots pronouns. You can't affect the story, you can affect the flavor text. If you choose one of the built in options you will rarely have a tie in back to the originator (Isaac Asimov names are one of the built in options, so you can get references back to those books in later dialogue if you themed correctly). But if you manually type in a name, Suddenly the game has nothing pithy to say about how your name and your situation relate back to the book.

It's not a very visually delighting game. Black text on a white background. Only one button is styled. The Next button. All other buttons are your OS' default look and feel. It's lazy design, and it hurts that it's not free.

The author chose to point out on every page of the UI that he is a Ph.D. which bears out my experience with most Ph.D.s. More concerned that everyone knows you spent a lot of time in school, than putting that knowledge to work. Good job on your Ph.D. now do work that isn't already bested by a group of people posting on free Choose Your Own Adventure forums.