Recent reviews by Djeb

As of now, 4 days into the release, pre-FTL societies are bugged so that they will always bomb themselves into extinction during the atomic age.

Other bugs includes a plague wiping out pre-FTL societies, but only if you choose to aid them.

The game is well-written, the story is very engaging, and it actually has some interesting characters, unlike most CYOA-games. The branching narratives are also more ambitious than most.


However, the original promise of "from birth to death" wasn't really fulfilled, you never get to play as an old man or see the long-term consequences of your actions, instead the game ends after the revolution, which itself was very short, and you are simply told what happened afterwards.

Overall it's still one of the best CYOA out there.

the best

There's a good game text-based game in here, but half the time the English localisation is unreadable, and sometimes it's literally just in Russian instead, which severely hinders most people's ability to enjoy the story. Once the localisation is fixed, along with some bugs, I'm sure this will be a worthwhile game. The setting is unique, the game's systems are interesting, and the grimdark vibe is very well delivered through some great art. The music is a bit on the generic side, although it is well-matched to the setting.

The first episode was great, the second episode is probably going to be great as well, but that's all we're going to get. The studio has shut down.

I like you Paradox. I like a lot of your DLC as well. I don't like this.

I guess I should add something constructive, since the Devs are apparently paying attention to reviews (Props to you Bjorn). The DLC adds a very miniscule amount of content. I usually expect my Paradox DLC to focus on specific nations, but still adding something to refresh the experience. I think a great example of good DLC is the EU4 DLC. Cossacks, Res Publica, Rights of Man etc. They all added something to change up the experience. They'd usually come with a free update as well. You'd get development, fort reworks, map reworks, expanded mechanics for a plentitude of nations.

All I feel we really got for 15 bucks here is:
Some decent national focuses (Foci?), easily modded into the game otherwise.
An autonomy mechanic that isn't really very interesting, sadly.
I do believe that India wasn't playable before? That's a nice change, but not exactly groundbreaking.

Flew for half an hour, then crashed into the Mun.

10/10 would bust again.

I just played a little bit, I guess it was alright.

I liked a character, then he died. The game is very true to the theme of the books.

Fun
Buy
Bugs
Alpha