Starless

A charming, challenging stealth-adventure with dark sci-fi, tactical puzzles, multiple paths, and immersive atmospheric design

Pretty neat actually. It's a simplistic stealth game, but still got a decent array of approaches on each map. It reminds me somehow of a certain era of shareware PC games, around the early 00's. You'd find some ramdom PC games to download, maybe on a forum or some geocities in a corner of the early "wild-west" web. This one gives off that same vibe in a very good way. Just enough polish to make it work, with a direct and to the point gameplay that is both enjoyable and challenging. There are elements of survival horror as well with limited resources and such. I have only a couple of minor grievances, with the cumbersome equipment UI which can get furstrating to navigate and equip items, many items end up being situational at best, and a handful of difficulty spikes here and there. But other than that, I do recommend it, even more so when it's on sale.

I can recommend this game for its price, but I'm not satisfied because it has more potential. It’s got a really strong dark sci-fi atmosphere, it looks great, and it has some genuinely good ideas going on. But this is also where it kind of falls apart. The only reason this is a positive review is the price. Were it any higher, and it would be negative. And I wanted this to cost 15 dollars and be the game that deserves it. And honestly, it feels like the game should have been better without really changing much about its design. The main issue is how it plays moment to moment. There’s a lot of restriction in how you move through situations, so you often feel pushed into very specific solutions rather than being able to experiment. It works as such: you have Switch A which unlocks Switch B which unlocks a door that has Switch C which unlocks the teleporter to leave a map. You’re basically following a set path of interactions rather than solving things in different ways, which takes away a lot of player freedom. The map is filled with enemies that patrol randomly, enemy behavior is very RNG-driven. Sometimes you get lucky and enemies spread out, letting you manage things sm…

You can pet the cat.

Another nice little gem from the Indie game world, I only wish the demo was included as prologue in the full game, and suggest to still play it (it's not on Steam anymore but can be found on Itch). The game plays wonderfully on controller, so I highly recommend using one. Overall a satisfying little game, with great atmosphere, as well as the most unique spin on a limited lives system, and next objective for me is gonna be a deathless run!

Alien isolation survival horror game. Oh and You can also pet the cat.