Decent attempt at a spiritual successor to Bioshock. Game mechanics like crafting for armament upgrades are fun but unfortunately tend to rely too much on the exploration side as you know, every game nowadays has to be open world in one way or another and have lots of filler side content. In all fairness, this is semi-open world and totally optional, but if you would like to be the best version of yourself you'll have to do a lot of digging and side quests. Besides that, I appreciate the linearity in most of the game's levels. Combat is challenging but fair as far as I'm concerned, you will have to strategize as you encounter the different types of enemies, including the most annoying ones.

Visual design is great and really captures that retro-futuristic, alternate timeline aesthetic of sagas like Fallout, and the biopunk style of the previously mentioned Bioshock.

There is a notable and awkward language barrier since the original dubbing of this game is Russian, and the English dub is, let's say, not so great and gets involuntarily goofy at times.

Is a good game, sure it falls flat at the finale but the story and worldbuilding is interesting enough to give this one a try.

Reviewed on Mar 19, 2023


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