Lost Crew

I didn't expect much, and I was still disappointed. The riddles, unfortunately, were the exact thing that ruined this for me. The direction of the game seems to be pretty unclear from the beginning. 3/10

If you like puzzles or games that touch on time travel you may like this game. The player is tasked with saving the crew of a space station that is falling out of orbit. Your only tools are your wits, a comm device, and the ability to bend time backwards. As the crew faces their many trials and gruesome deaths, you will come to understand more if the mystery surrounding the station and the planet it orbits. The game itself is engaging, well written, (which is saying something, as it is translated from Russian) and the characters seem really fleshed out for such a bargain bin experience. Some players might get annoyed with the mechanic of having to loop back to the start after each "failure". You usually obtain useful information with each wrong decision, but again, users might find it tedious. Overall I would consider the game a success and recommend that anyone interested in puzzles, text adventures or just looking for a few cheap hours of entertainment buy this game. It's $2, people, it's worth it if you have the time to actually play it.

Very decent game made with minimal resources. Solid game design and interesting narrative with minimal animation and mechanics.

{Have more hours than visible as I used to play games entirely in offline mode} Really good text adventure choice game with some wacky time looping stuff. Once in awhile you may get frustrated with not knowing what to do but you'll figure it out. But all in all it's very enjoyable. Also cheap as chips and definitely worth the cost to enjoyment ratio.

It's a good text-based game for its price. The initial walkthrough takes an hour and a half or so and the second one (if you are willing to get the best ending) is another 40 minutes. There are some bugs and story inconsistencies [spoiler] A dying crewmate can be mercy-killed by a second crewmate, while a third one is in the process of saving them. And the third can eventually save the first one eventhough they have been already killed by the second [/spoiler] and there are a couple of answers that don't work as they seem to intend to but otherwise the game is pretty solid for how cheap it is. The first half of the story is great, the second is fine. The lore of this game is immersive and more or less complete. Another cool feature is that you get to talk to multiple people at the same time and you have to synchornize their actions to beat the game.

A quite ingenious and very well put together game. I normally despise puzzles but the storytelling, plot and craft to this really took me by surprise. There's an awful lot to discover in this game considering its engine. Very much worth it at the price, a novel experience.