I knew I was going to get Fallen Aces the second it hit Early Access after playing the first demo a year or two ago. Now that it has it didn't let me down in the slightest.

Fallen Aces is a fantastic immersive sim FPS even if it’s early state of just having Episode 1 of 3 currently. The combat feels so good with a great visceral physicality to what you do. The basic hand to hand is fun and the melee weapons have a good variety to them, one of my favorites being the power drill. I'm usually not the biggest fan of limiting your inventory in a shooter but Fallen Aces does a great job of making it feel not limiting and instead pushing you to use what you find.

The level design is some true immersive sim quality, with a bunch of avenues of approach, with some of the levels being quite expansive, namely the docks. The game rewards exploration by having a wide variety of useful weapons and items such as painkillers which heal you and give you armor and a tonic that is essentially the Berserker Pack from Doom.

Visually the game is phenomenal too with all the hand drawn characters and the mix of film noir, pulp stories, and golden age of comics aesthetics. The cutscenes for example do an actual great job emulating the look of golden age comics, making what usually is considered to be a budget way to do video game cutscenes into something appealing and inspired.

The only thing that I can think of that might needs some expansion is that you can collect treasure for cash but the only use there is for money is buying soda from vending machines to heal yourself and you easily amass more money you will ever need. I don't think the game needs upgrades or anything, but maybe some rewards can be gained with your cash.

Overall Fallen Aces is a fantastic game and if it keeps it up may well end up being easily my favorite New Blood published game (Though Gloomwood may very much be its rival) For nine dollars the game is a steal in its current state and I’m already completely satisfied with it. I highly recommend and eagerly await for more.