Flat Eye

Pushes and pushes and pushes its themes and story by talking directly at you with cutscenes Fun at very first but gameplay loop becomes grindy and unfun quickly

Boring. A game that plays itself off as an automation game but has very little automation. The gameplay consists of a repeating loop: Build stuff, repair that stuff, refill that stuff, talk to annoying "special" customers, move on to the next day. If you manage to "do well" you get stars, and the stars allow you to very slowly unlock new technology so that you can do the repeating loop...more, I guess. I put 3 hours into the game, and I'm done. The characters are annoying, their individual story lines supposedly some kind of wry observation on technology in our lives blah blah blah, but all it really just breaks down to is a series of characters whining about their problems. Supposedly there's something about time travel in there too, but I honestly just don't have the time or patience for this. It's not a *bad* game, per sè, it's just...nothing. At $18.99, I *can't* recommend it. I got it through a Humble Choice bundle, so the actual price I paid was probably only around $1, and...yeah, it's definitely worth that. Otherwise, no. Buy it on a steep sale, if you buy it at all.

Went back to this years after dropping it and realizing why I did in the first place. Narratively interesting but mechanically really really boring.

Cool game, I just wish I could increase the text size so I could read it more comfortably, that is the only draw back I see so far. It's running a convenience store, but with a lot of things to manage that you don't expect.

woke

I really wanna love this game, i do....but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game would have really benefitted from producer oversight and proper q&a, because there are so many design decisions that leave me baffled as to why they had to be implemented in this way. Thus this game slowly becomes not fun as the hours continue, until it just drags on and overstays its welcome by a long while. What i like about the game are the conversations with the customers, the documents, text messages and of course the musing of "Ms. S". Sometimes serious, sometimes whimiscal and funny. It was good food for thought (not always super high-level, but i didnt expect it to and can fill in the blanks myself). What i didnt like about the game was the game itself and how it was designed...especially after the hours mount on (like after hour 4 or 5), sucking out the fun that was to be had. This could have been avoid by making cuts and making the game shorter. Then, if the players wants more storylines or endings, they would replay it. But as is, it so much feels artifically lenghtened, and together with some of the bugs it really feels like a slog. Thus, i really cant recommened it as much as i want to.