Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

I want to believe the disclaimer in that the text was thought up entirely by humans, but after reading it - I struggle to believe it. Okay, your writing style may match OpenAI's finetuning corpus styleguide one-to-one, I get that, but the vagueness and disconnect from the gameplay that some of the text has is too telling. Example: One event's choice would have you "Shift to short crew rotations", so I click it, stats change, but the actual crew rotation setting doesn't actually change. And I can't help but think that this event was written by a bot that was given the description of the game world, but the only effects it could wire-up to event outcomes were stat modifiers. Sure, a dev could have forgotten to make the event affect ship settings, but it's not the only instance like this. I wanted more of Seedship. It was thrilling to encounter an unusual event and wonder what's in store for me , but knowing that Scam Altman or Dario decides my events is far less fun

It is a satisfying game as it stands. Expanded as intended it should be very exciting.

Sad to say that a strong AI writing vibe detracts significantly from the experience - despite the dev claiming no ai influence on the creative side. I don't know if the dev perhaps copied too hard from llm prompts, or trusted an outside writer who lied, or simply didn't have enough confidence in their own voice, but this is clearly heavily ai-influenced writing and the experience suffers heavily for it. The rest of game systems also feel heavily vibe-coded, but I don't actually think that takes away so much. In fact, this game is a fascinating case study in vibe coding. The simulation is fairly complex and interesting, the overall idea is cool, and there are a lot of different ways a run can go - right now I'd say it's worth a purchase if the idea interests you. $15 is a fair price for everything but the writing. My advice? Hire a writer, especially if you want to hold the price where it is.

Incredibly interesting seedship-inspired colony/generation ship simulator that explores the expected themes. If you wanted more from seedship you can try this out. Vastly improved from demo. Looking forward to what development brings in the future. A lot more stuff than seedship since this also goes into what happens after you land.

I hereby strongly challenge the claim (which, in my view, is an obvious lie) that everything written was created without the use of AI. I am very familiar with AI markers and have so far been able to identify them in a great many of the in-game texts that have been shown.

I REALLYl like the concept behind this game as well as layout of the A/V. I thought it was cool how when my power dropped the screen didn't quite work right. The "colonist" however are too passive, one "colony" calmly starved to death. There would have been rioting, destruction, and cannibalism long before the wasting death of the crew.