It sits somewhere between the Ultima Underworld homage of Legend of Grimrock, the debuff-firing turn based combat of Darkest Dungeon, and the base and squad management of Alien Defence Squad Trouser And Hairdo Customisation Adventure 2012, which I believe you proles call XCOM.Īs a set of systems, Conglomerate 451 does some nifty things. Cyberpunk, eh? Cyberpunk indeed, says Conglomerate 451. Eyes glued to the screen as you watch a text crawl tell the terrifying story of corporate goons going around with big buckets of glue and sticking everyone’s eyes to screens.forever. Corporations did this.”Īnd that’s you, sucked into a charybdis-level whirlpool of immersion. “This isn’t very interesting.” And then the screen goes all crackly or whatever, and a disembodied voice materialises and says: “The year is 2483, and all humans do is click on menus. “Hmmm, I’ve been clicking on this menu for a while,” You think.

My latest big brain critic realisation is that dystopian sci-fi settings are a clever way to make basic (and possibly tedious) elements of interacting with your game, suddenly thematic.

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