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If you enjoyed Blade Runner, Total Recall or Johnny Mnemonic, you'll probably like Technolust. It has incredible music and great environments that really make you feel like you're trapped in a 90s vision of a dystopian future.

Before playing this game, I've got to warn you: It's not action-packed (except in the arcade minigames), and it won't hold your hands. It's an exploration game, and while it's possible to sprint to the ending in relatively little time, you're going to have a lot more fun if you slow down and try everything in the environment. There's a reason the world is full of collectables, arcade games, TVs and advertising - Technolust is about getting you immersed, and it does an exceptional job at that.

It's the first first-person VR game I've played that hasn't given me sudden motion sickness, and there is even a "cloudwalk" mode that further reduced camera movement for when I felt a bit out of place.

Pretty awesome rendering of motion-captured people. This is just a tech demo, but if you're interested in computer graphics it's worth checking out. There's no gameplay - just a few minutes of character animation and dialogue.

Most other reviews mention the performance. It's worth noting that the performance is fine in the first 2 out of 4 demos - only the last 2 demos have issues. Thankfully the most interesting characters are in the 2 demos that have good performance.

I recommend you watch a Let's Play or come back when it's finished. It's gonna be a great game, but it's not there yet.

The first 2 hours of Survival Mode were fun, but then I hit a tech ceiling due to a lack of blueprints & missing resources. It can take 30+ minutes of searching to find a new blueprint or resource. When you're stuck with basic gear, this searching gets pretty boring and the new thing you unlock is usually completely underwhelming after putting so much effort in. According to the wiki, there's a lot of gear that you can find, but most of it has very specific locations in the ocean. Even with this knowledge, it's kind of tedious collecting gear.

It seems like they're planning to put more story in. When there's actually objectives and stuff to do in the world, it's gonna be a lot of fun for more than 2 hours.

OpenIV may be back, but Rockstar's new modding policy is garbage.

"Take-Two reserves the right to object to any third-party project, or to revise, revoke and/or withdraw this statement at any time in their own discretion."

Wtf? That's not a policy. That's not an apology. Modders put hundreds of hours into their art, and Rockstar/T2 won't even spend a few hours defining what is and isn't acceptable in a mod!

Nothing has changed. These companies are still prepared to sue their greatest fans for completely trivial reasons. Don't give them your money.

Completely engrossing. I wish there was more though. I spent a decent amount of time AFK, so my actual playtime is closer to 3 hours.

If you're into games that don't have guns or pickaxes, this one is definitely worth picking up.

I had grown weary of indie puzzle platformer games, and only tried Tick Tock Isle because was on sale. I was surprised to find that it was actually quite enjoyable.

Tick Tock Isle has interesting characters and a very charming aesthetic. It has so many hidden references to pop culture and literature, I remained interested in the setting throughout. Unlike many games like in the same sort of genre, TTI doesn't try to draw itself out with bad controls, repetition, a slow moving main character or non-interactive cutscenes. It just delivers a series of interesting events and challenges, held together by a story that wraps up before anything gets boring.

It's the perfect game for a Sunday afternoon - cheap, fun, not at all frustrating, and a good length.

As much as I hate Ubisoft for the scourge of Uplay, and despite all the complaints I have about quirks of this game's gameplay, Grow Home is a highly novel experience and I definitely recommend it, especially if you're fazed by how unoriginal games have been lately.

I spent some time AFK, so I'd say this is a 3-4 hour game unless you want to hunt achievements. I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't iron out the last few kinks (climbing is awkward and you will sometimes just randomly fall, you'll randomly drop objects when trying to drag them, walking up a slight incline often won't work, the camera is pretty awful), because this game could have been on the same level of enjoyment-per-minute as Portal. Still, it's a very good game. I hope Ubisoft makes more experimental smaller-budget games like this.

Pretty awesome. Only 2 hours though. Worth the price. You won't find any other game like it. Except Calendula. Kinda weird that 2 very similar looking games came out so close together. Anyway, Pony Island is awesome and you should play it.

It feels like the people making the design decisions never actually had their hands on a controller - like the game is optimized for sitting back and watching someone else play. It's full of cutscenes, menus that are really slow and horrible to use (but pretty!), lots of wall-humping animations that your character will do if you miss the "jump over the chest-height wall" prompt, camera effects that look nice but will start to make you nauseous after a few hours.

There's a really interesting story under there, and the broad structure of the game seems like it would be really great, but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ controls and the need to constantly use those awful, awful menus really detracts from the experience. You will ragequit this game a lot.

UPDATE: After 30 hours, I'm actually enjoying this. It took 5 hours for me to get used to the controls, and the fan-made FOV fixer greatly reduces the motion sickness (get the FOV fix before you start playing!). The controls are still insultingly bad though. I mean, did they even playtest this? Every contextual action requires you to wait a second for the button prompt to appear before you can do the action. You can't do anything through muscle memory, you've gotta wait for those prompts or else you'll probably do the wrong action. It's really bad and completely unnecessary.

If you liked or are interested by The Stanley Parable, you'll definitely like this. It's a 30 minute self-contained experience. Definitely worth your time checking it out.