Mesmer

I feel I have spent more time with this game than pretty much anyone else. Finishing every NPC mission, burglarizing every building, getting every Blackmail, acquiring every Achievement, and collecting every Crowdhorn. As close to 100% completion as anyone could wish for. All for the purpose of making a video about the game's lore. But the amount of research I have put into this game has not gone to waste, because I also published a series of guides within the Steam community showcasing everything I have found. Now with all of that pedigree out of the way, what do I think of Mesmer? The graphics are fully 3D rendered, bright and colorful. The music, like the rest of Rain's games, is excellent. But those things are superficial. The gameplay is the biggest determining factor in whether someone will like it or not. Mesmer is a unique genre, a social survival game. It is not an action-focused game. Instead, it is a puzzle. In going around town, talking to NPCs, completing their missions, getting hints and clues about what's going on in town, all while managing your resources, it plays a bit like a board game. You are being challenged mentally rather than through action or reflex, th…

An delightful unique little experience, basically its an adventure with an very open ended nature. It's not procedually generated, everything has its place and as such the time managing aspect stays motivating even if you fail to spark the revolution during your first runs. The city has a lot to offer and while the quests might be very fetchy, they tell interesting stories and are not trivial in a sense that everything is tied to time as a ressource, so even trivial quests might be not that trivial if you know that you have a lot of time to spend for them. Unfortunelately the game is very buggy, merely by opening the menu in different cutscenes. I had to restart it several times during my almost 7 hours of playtime. I'm also not that fond of the sneaking at night, simply because there are no ways to distract guards, you are at the mercy of their random route, which can become very annoying if you have to carry a crate or lockpick at night. But asides from these complaints the game felt very unique, basically it's a large sandbox and I was really curious to get accustomed with the city, sometimes in buildings the game even turns into a text adventures. Also I truly value that the …

Mesmer is hardly a democracy simulator, rather an exercise in balancing notoriety and security, and using it to topple power in a brief burst of rebellion. It benefits from a simple, straightforward presentation in offering a short, but replayable and enjoyable run that delves more deeply than the initial impression would suggest. It offers a number of systems for players to experiment with, and they play into each other in creating moments of cozy tension.

Odd but fun. A good deal of strategy im a janky game

Communist propaganda training simulator. No build up, one-dimensional. Laughable dialogue.

I can't play the game for more than 30 minutes and losing