Fun horror light turn based game
I just finished playing this game for the first time on my Twitch channel. I completed my first playthrough as a "student". The first character of few available to unlock as starting characters.
You have a camp/base where you give orders to your camp mates. The orders are called jobs and they are like "go hunt" or "build this" etc. This way you acquire resources, products that you can use or sell. The meat of the game is the turn based combat that takes place, if you want to, each day. You choose a path, a part of the world, and fight it out over 1 to 20 battles. At the end of them there is a boss fight and some cool loot.
You can use the usual typical type of weapons, handguns, automatic rifles, shotguns, melee. All of them can be very useful. You can level up your characters who gain experience through combat or from doing jobs at the camp. The skills are combat or job focused and each time you level up you gain points you can distribute as you like. I do advice to try to specialize as that can make things easier for you. Having said that, you don't have to.
The story is hit or miss. It means well, but some parts make no sense as a story or even grammatically. Still, it all adds to the game. It provides character.
There are apparently multiple endings, mostly as at times you will have to make decisions like do mission A or do mission B. Other times you have to make decisions on events that take place outside of combat. It all actually fits very well, even if at times the only options you have are bad because of how silly they are.
Still, they work.
It was a fun experience to play through my first time, it took me 9 sessions of 1.5 to 2 hours each on average. At the end of the two good endings I got (no idea), I got some points to unlock future player characters and bonuses.
While I don't plan on streaming the game again, I do plan on keeping it installed and play on my own till I unlock the rest, probably one more complete playthrough. Plus I want to see how the game unfolds with difference choices etc.
For me the game is 100% worth its asking price, as long as you don't expect a AAA presentation. I was going to say quality too, but let's face it most AAA games nowdays are rarely that polished either.
It's a B-Movie game and IMO worth it.
On sale, obviously it's even better.
I don't know if the sequel is good or not, I don't own a copy of it, but I don't doubt if it is at least as good, I will buy it one day.
I played the game without any issues (performance or crashes) on Windows 10, i7 4710HQ laptop with 16GB of RAM, GTX 860M GPU with 4GB of VRAM and a 2.5" SATA SSD.
I had the music off, just in case.
I played the game on "casual" difficulty, of which there are 3-4 IIRC.
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