Ice Caves of Europa

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"Ice Caves of Europa" is a failed paid game with an ambitious concept that didn't match the promise. This is a game where you control a robotic probe and explore ice caves on the moon of Europa... with a backup sci-fi fan-fiction around humanity and science and all the things that can go wrong. What do you do in the game? It's basically a precision navigation simulator... with finnicky controls, repetitive and tiresome gameplay that's interrupted by even more tiresome narrative that you'll be keen to skip so you can get back to seeing if the clunky controls and bland repetitive visuals get any better (spoiler: They do not). This game is fairly dated at 8 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. The graphical assets and presentation in this game are almost passable for 8 years ago, but could have been a lot better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay,…

THE CONTROLS ARE SO BAD AND THERES NO CHECKPOINTS AND THERES SO MUCH UNNECESSARY TRAINING AND DIALOGUE AND THE GAME MOVES FOR YOU AND DRIVES YOU STRAIGHT INTO WALLS SO YOU HIT THE SURFACE SO HARD BECAUSE OF THE GAME NOT YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO RESTART YOUR HOUR OF PROGRESS 30 TIMES AND YOU CANT EVEN SKIP THE OTHER HOUR OF DIALOGUE OR YOURE GONNA MISS 50 KEYBINDS THAT ARE NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE GAME AND THE GAME STOPS YOUR PROGRESS EVERY 5 MINUTES AND THERES NO SETTINGS AT ALL YOU CANT CHANGE ANYTHING AND THE MOVING KEYBINDS ARE THE ARROW KEYS INSTEAD OF WASD AND THERES NO WAY TO CHANGE IT BECAUSE THERES NO SETTINGS AND NO KEYBINDS ARE EVEN USING THEM THIS IS THE WORST GAME EVER

"Ice Caves of Europa" — атмосферный шутер с элементами выживания в ледяных пещерах. Графика впечатляет: холодный свет, мерцающие ледяные образования, детализированные текстуры. Геймплей сочетает исследование, стрельбу и решение головоломок. Сюжет разворачивается вокруг поиска ресурсов в опасной среде, с неожиданными поворотами. Управление плавное, но иногда сложное в бою. Минус — ограниченная длина кампании и повторяющиеся механики. Для фанатов жанра — достойный выбор, но не для тех, кто ждёт глубокой сюжетной линии.

This is a nice indie physics drone controller game. You want to change to Stable mode as soon as the game sets Unstable as the default. The "Stable" mode is a great sim of a little europa drone and it feels fun to control. Even if you're fighting it abit, you eventually get a hang of it. Idk what the devs were smokin when they came up with the idea of unstable mode, its literally like they made fun sim controls then were like what if we took all the good design out of it and made this drone fly like its been hit by a rocket. Anyways as soon as you set it to Stable it stays there it looks like and its easy to change. There is also abit too much tutorialisation for what is pretty simple ideas, I feel like going back to the 'test' room just messes with the flow of the game. This game is abit of a gem and I might try and finish it to see if goes somewhere. Definitely has a nice atmosphere with the music and sounds. Hope they play into that.

Worth the price, and although it is not exactly the most complicated game I've ever played, it was ok and I don't regret spending time on it.