Never in my life would I have expected a game about infrastructure to be so good. It casually handles so many things expertly, which most games fail to do. Firstly, how to make urban environments interesting. How many sewers have you been crawling through, how many caves explored, industrial plants traversed, and now you realize how well and interesting these locations could have been instead of running through them in seconds. Even the actual street sections which are rather short show so much intricacy you would never find in another game.

The second point are the mostly optional puzzles, which are my favorite type - getting somewhat complicated and old machines running again. It feels so good. It even sets up the more absurd parts well. And the sheer length and amount of locations are admirable.

Absolutely incredible how someone who, as I understand it, is mostly interested in engineering can not only make a game with those parts interesting, but make one of the best adventures to date almost in passing. Great work, there's nothing like it. Masterpiece.

Reviewed on Apr 25, 2023


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