This is a little bit of a tough game to review, if Steam had a "meh" option then this would be pretty accurate. Genuinely, the game starts out with a very interesting premise, but unfortunately by the end of the prologue, they don't do much with it. To have a sci-fi RPG with competing factions within a massive multicorp attempt to seize power, that is interesting. To then get rid of most of it and replace it with the most generic post-apocalypse, it is a waste of a good idea. Still, I wanted to give the game a good shot, and I will admit that I had fun with it some of the time. I think the nuance of their leveling system was entertaining and I was having the most fun when I was leveling up.

However, the game has a lot of issues. It isn't very good with explaining itself, it lets you figure out a lot on your own or look it up, which is fine as long as the mechanics make sense which I don't believe they do most of the time. The combat is meaty and with very little ways to heal yourself reliably, it bogs down the entire experience. Additionally, the writing is dated for even coming from 2021, if I have to hear, "It came from the outside, like some kind of...outsider" one more time, I will lose my mind. Additionally, like most TRPGs, all of the good content is in the first or second act (in this case, only the first act as 75% of the second act is literally slowly going from one map to the next to do simple fetch quests), and by the third act it is the most barebones experience you can imagine. By the end, I didn't really care about any of the factions and the ending slides are almost all, "well, you made your choice, and things still ended badly eventually" which is just simply disappointing.

Credit where credit is due, they made a solid game. All of the foundations are there and that is why I am going to still recommend this game, but ONLY ON A STEEP STEEP DISCOUNT. I got it for like $2 and I can say with certainty that I got my moneys worth. However, do not purchase this game for $30, it is genuinely not worth that. The game could've been better and as the studio has shut down and there will be no more updates or future content, you're paying for an okay game that you wished took a different turn during production. I hope the people who made the game go on to learn from it and make even better stuff in the future, there is a lot of potential here, but that is what it stays at, potential.

I don't feel good about this, but I can't recommend this game. It was obviously made with a lot of love and care, a lot of reverence for the genre too, but it's not enough. Story is boring, quests lack variety, characters are interesting(companions are especially charming), but too verbose. The setting is overcomplicated(it's in 70's, and it's inside a Zone, with artifacts, and a soft apocalypse happened, and it has a psychic/mindmeld twist. like... pick one) and failed to pull me in. UI is terrible - inventory is hard to use, quest tracking is impossible to use(take notes yourself if you want to figure out where to go, who to talk to and what to do in what order). Movement speed is irritatingly slow, feels like half of my playtime was spent just running from one NPC to another, across town.
I tried to love this game, tried and failed. After another main quest NPC sent me on another fetch/collect info quest, I decided that I'm done with this.