Recent reviews by jColborn

Amazing, great work! I can't wait for this to come out on mobile. Card costs vs effects feel unbalanced to me, but that can be ironed out easily enough.

The best exploration/adventure game I've ever played. It's completely open-world, and you progress by learning about the system via exploration. I played this without reading into it at all, and I can confirm that it's definitely best to play this without any knowledge of it- even the steam description and video spoil key surprising events that are best experienced as a surprise.

Adorable, beautiful, engaging, short and an amazing soundtrack.

Great writing and art! Well done!

Great core game-play with cool bosses, amazing music, awesome art-style, and a heart-wrenching story. Make sure you get through chapter 5.
The English translation is VERY good.

This game has amazing depth and is making astounding progress for being developed by one dude in a garage. It can take a little while to learn and it's fairly easy to make mistakes. You earn achievements that can be used as modifiers in future saves, so don't be afraid to restart if your growth stalls out. Definitely try the free demo before getting the full game, the settlement-building is mostly the same aside from a few extra buildings and changed titles, but the main improvements are to diplomacy, combat, and the late game. The demo its self is a great settlement builder, but the full version makes it a good empire-builder on top of that as well as supporting the dev.

This game has the best 2D combat bots I've ever seen, and the stealth mechanics are decent too. They'll stack up in cover to wait you out instead of walking single-file into a room for you to kill them, yell insults at you, and when investigating suspicious sounds/activity they'll get another bot to join them as backup. It seems that different types of enemies have different combat styles, too- for example, there are brutes that are aggressive and will charge you down with a shotgun. Regular goons seem to get spooked by sounds in the darkness while alert, shooting blindly towards noises they hear (which can cause some hilarious friendly fire).
-Textures are simplistic, but lighting is done very well.
-The levels are fun to move through and offer many different routes to the objectives rewarding you with new guns or modification blueprints for exploring them.
-Gunplay feels very nice. There's a large selection of guns, including non-lethal primaries such as dart guns and grenade launchers. Most guns are heavily customizeable, too.
I'll definitely be getting Intravenous 2 when it's released, this is a great 2-level demo showcasing its gameplay, with lots of fun achievements to get. My only complaint is that the story, told through dialogue cutscenes, is bad. It doesn't intrude on the rest of the gameplay, though, and you can skip cutscenes.

holy moly, there's SO MUCH content in this game. It has cohesive story lines (yes multiple) while being open-world. It's crazy that this is free, I'm so glad I found this.
If you ever feel like you're doing really well and you're not sure what to do next, fly around and visit the spaceport to pick up special missions that can lead you onto the story missions that will expand the game. Also, don't be afraid to do a little exploring- you never know what you might find in a backwater planet's spaceport or hidden in an out-of-the-way uninhabited system.
Also, this game has a LOT of reading. The missions immerse you in a story that spans far beyond the core gameplay, and the writing is done VERY well. Different species have their own dialects, speaking in different ways. The amount of effort and passion put into the writing in this game is outstanding. That said, if you don't enjoy spending a significant amount of time reading in RPGs, then this game probably isn't for you.

very nice

Riveting gameplay