The Signal From Tölva

pleasant, fun, an easily digestible brief stalkerlike

I had mixed feelings about this one. After the main campaign I was a bit more positive but the polar expansion campaign really tipped the scales. Like others have said, the game is a ton of walking/running with some combat, mazes, and scanning tasks sprinkled in. The interesting environment kinda eased the exploration/traversing for me, stumbling into scenes of scattered shipwrecks and giant robot parts. A significant issue I had was that the movement was clunky and glitchy particularly around the edges of objects and on most inclined surfaces. I would constantly try to skirt around rocks and buildings while in combat then get mysteriously stuck in place for several seconds while being completely vulnerable to enemy fire. The clunky-ness of was sorta understandable given the characters but it did wear on me. It does have a radar system (once you understand it) with a fairly generous range that lets you know important items are near, easing the hunt for the collectables. The combat isn't great. There are 4 different kinds of weapons with 3-4 levels of quality; Repeating rifles (with varying traits), long range rifles, command gun (allows recruiting and directing allied bots), an…

Boring, Just boring and very long and hard to progress.

unique world, thats it tho, game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring as hell bruh, ♥♥♥♥ this

fun!

Fun little open-world game with some fun gimmicks and a rich lore that is largely buried in text. Game can be beaten in ~10 hours, so not a huge time commitment.