Alexandria IV

A sci-fi space opera game in the same vein as Babylon 5. Decent variety to the plot so far, but the game logic has issues - first it will say things like 20 dead, 8 in critical condition, then in the next scene it'll say that because you assigned an officer to screen patients, only 12 were dead. It's a good game, but it needs more time in QC to iron out issues with how your decisions affect the writing. Until then, it's not a must play.

Alexandria IV is an interesting space opera themed visual novel where we play the role of the commander of one of the large space stations. The game takes place in the far future when humans are already freely travelling through space and have come into contact with many alien species, some of which are vastly more powerful than us and do not even bother to pay attention to what we do unless things badly escalate. As a visual novel Alexandria IV is quite fast-paced. Things kick off from the first 5 minutes and as a commander you have to start making tough decisions from the get-go. Yes, who thought this job would be easy? Many visual novels can be slow to get started and introduce the world. But Alexandria IV doesn't waste any time and is great if you enjoy stories that are always moving forward. And before you could even resolve one problem, two or three more occur that require your attention. Did I mention that the job as a commander of a space station is pretty hard? The game helps to convey that across pretty well. The gameplay itself is not hard though, but because we're often given choices and are asked to assign our people to different tasks, in a hope to achieve the best…

A short VN on the management of a space station. Translation and continuity is sometime imperfect but the tension is very well managed and the choice and consequence is amazing. The game does an impressive job, considering its a VN of asking to do tradeoff of scarce resource that always manage to be impactful. A very good surprise overall.

Game randomly switched to Portuguese at a point where I had to make a crucial decision. Thanks - refunded.

short but fun