CORPUS EDAX

I'd give it like a 5/10. Ambitious with a barebones execution. It's buggy but playable, and completable. This game feels like someone's little side project/tech demo and as a proof of concept I'd say it mostly works. Below are my cricitisms: The World is mostly barren and empty, and there's not much to interact with. Containers are frequently empty and exploration is poorly rewarded. You get a lot of money but only one place in the early parts of the game give you a means to "sort of" meaningfully spend it, but you pretty quickly get to a point where you can't go back there and utilize it, so the only way to use your money is on vending machines that only spit out 2 small heals before they're empty. That is unless you save-reload and then they refresh. Lockpicking is underutilized and not particularly worth putting points into to get use out of doing it. Hacking is overused and a lot of the game is annoying if you don't invest into it. Technique never seemed to affect throwing items well enough to get consistent use out of, I levelled it extensively but my weapons never actually flew directly at the crosshair, I suspect you could probably use it well enough without levelling it…

Excellent work by a solo dev. some areas of the game are rough around the edges, the atmosphere is excellent as is the music. I did not explore the stealth or speech paths I focused mainly on combat and I had an amazing time going through this game. My only complaint is I truly wish it was longer, with more and/or interesting combat encounters but that is just me being greedy. I eagerly look forward to seeing what this developer does in the future, with hopefully a larger team and more money behind it.

How to describe this awesome game? A mix of immersive sim and RPG, it plays like a cyberpunk Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, and it is great, fluid combat, brilliant level design and well structured pacing makes this a must play for fans of any genre

At a first look the game might look wonky and kinda ugly. And it's wonky and kinda ugly BUT it's also AWESOME. It's one of those kind of game full of soul and passion, a project that it's obvious that has a person behind that loves to work on it and that it's trying to make something that they themselves enjoy. The game is just fun, the combat is chaotic, weird and wonky but it's fun and during the gameplay I ended up in a lot of stupid situations that were solved by chaos and weird physics and I just had so much fun. The story, setting & ambient just works, with simple graphics it really gives you the feeling of being a dystopian tower-city, mechanically I had the most fun with the combat/throwing mechanics but the immsim DNA of the game is there, so you can also stealth around, hack computers or lockpick doors, also exploration is good, the game rewards you mostly with skill points, so exploring feels rewarding as it gives you real progress. It's a fun immsim, I'm really excited for whatever the dev is going to release next.

While the game is definitely janky, mainly due to the extremely unique control scheme. I had to come back to it a couple times for it to finally click. But once things did start to click it became an extremely fun game giving me very similar vibes to the original Deus Ex. Would recommend, not too long, not too short.

[h1]General Impressions[/h1] While Corpus Edax touts itself as an immersive sim, I'm not sure if I'd agree with the definition on immersiveness to the title. Putting into context over what I mean here, it'd be like saying Fallout 4 is a narrative-driven immersive sim, where three of the four communication options are Yes in a varied tonal shift, while "No" is unavailable, or you're looking for more context. When you try this game out, the community guide that spoils where all the little additions in stats is your best bet to getting a fun experience. There are goodies absolutely everywhere that boost your character's attributes permanently, but you'll likely be able to get by with checking through 50-60% of what the starting locations have while having a heavy focus on Grit/Strength, With how Corpus Edax is currently setup, there are other attributes like Charisma and Intelligence, but these options simply are not long-term solutions that require them as an effective strategy. Allure, for example, straight up has no pairings to any of its attributes. If you tried chatting with any of the NPCs, you'll notice how Allure only carries weight with any story-focused character. There …