Basement (2019)

The story missions tell you nothing, rugpull you when you think you understand, then laugh at you for being an idiot and not reading the dev's mind. I didn't realize I could be bullied by a video game, but here we are. It's a mind game with a neckbeard flexing a superiority complex. It's not fun.

This game could be good, but it's unfortunately just not. There are lots of reasons, but for the TL;DR, it's basically just badly designed. The gameplay is mediocre, the ui is not just buggy, but poor design, and the level design is bad and confusing starting at about level 3, which is way too early to be confusing players. For the details: UI - Trying to click between employees, and direct them is just not smooth. If you accidentally select an employee and click a room, they immediately replace the one that's there. And typical behaviour if you accidentally click an employee would be to click "out" of the employee, which you can't do. It's also frustrating trying to assign employees to a different building. Level design - By level 3, this is already just a pure exercise in frustration. You're only on the third level, barely have anything new or any upgrades, and the game is already demanding you figure out a very specific set-up to win. Quest design - Level 4 displays why the quest design is severely lacking. There's a point where you're told to take over a heavily defended building, which generally requires sending a full force. However, if while you're doing that, …

I wanted to like this game but the people will not stfu and let me play the game. Indie dev thinks he is bill shakespeare over here.

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Definitely a fun productivity-timing game, though sometimes you do run into an unexplained wall and have to figure out why you keep getting caught/attacked mercilessly. Still, genuinely a fun game.