A Better World

Fundamentally, this game has an amazing concept. The first time travel assignment serves as a strong introduction to the mechanics and the potential consequences of your actions. Unfortunately, the next two assignments fall apart completely. The writers demonstrate a flawed understanding of history, geopolitics, and even the core concepts they attempt to explore. Instead of committing to a meaningful alternate universe, the game retreads history with superficial changes—like the internet magically appearing in the 1960s, yet the world unfolding almost identically, just with a presidential livestream replacing a press conference. It’s all gimmicks masquerading as substance. As a time travel story, the first three assignments failed to convince me in any meaningful way.

I don't normally post negative reviews but I'd like to state that the developers had an amazing concept but executed it poorly. Not only that, but the game has seemingly been abandoned by the developers immediately after launch. Certain endings or paths are completely unobtainable due to soft-locks, and they have yet to be addressed.

This game has a great concept, but the game is realy superifical and the game developer has too little of the understandanding of historical and geopolitical context to develop such a game, which makes this game more of aparody than a real game. For example in the 1960 us and ussr suddenly become allies because european countries and china want to go to space????? The whole story of the game feels like it was written by high schoolers. But the biggest sin that this game made is that the Polish-French physicist and chemist Maria Skłodowska-Curie is mentioned as a French scientist Marie Curie.

The original ABW Blue put my expectation wayyy too high for this game. The game feels restrictive and shallowed. The plot and choices are weird, like you have to go through loops and holes to make someone a famous actor, but you can just remove Richard Nixon from history outright (BASED) and nothing of substances changed, like what?! The Earth character (Globo?) doesn't even speak, and I don't want to read subtitles in a game where I have to read other things that's happening while the subtitles running. Also, the achievement implementation is awful, your completed objectives per assignment aren't saved, so if you move on to a different assignment, you'd have to do every objective (including ones you already did) in the previous assignment again to get the achievements. tldr: Go play ABW Blue instead. It's free, on browser, and more enjoyable.

Ill leave others to talk about the timeline choices as for me personally they seem fine, however there is a clear problem with the interface and gameplay presented. I constantly felt, "oh this has lit up i click that now," rather than every button having a purpose that you learn and come back to. I became frustrated that you couldnt click on a tab to see what they are doing at that date even if nothing substantial has happened yet, and you are often forced to click on another tab only to come back to the next event for the page you were just on. It feels less like a chose your own adventure game and more like a click the next button. While this is a shame, as the game concept, art and writing are cool, its moment to moment gameplay soreley lets it down.

It's a two hour game for $12 usd. That's kinda a high price ngl. I was expecting at least 8 hours of content for that price.

Honnêtement, le jeu est sympathique. Pas très cher, le résultat final est moindre que ce que je m'imaginais mais est malgré tout très sympathique et vous donnera un bon moment de gameplay et de texte à lire. Alors pourquoi un avis négatif ? Deux raisons. La première est que pour avoir els succès d'une mission, il faut en voir toutes les fins en une session de jeu. Soit faire une fin et redémarrer la mission jusqu'à toutes les obtenir ; SANS QUITTER LE JEU. Vous ne pouvez pas le faire en plusieurs parties étalées sur plusieurs sessions de jeu. C'est frustrant. Et la deuxième, parce que comme si ça ne suffisait pas, le jeu souffre de bugs bloquant parfois les missions et nécessitant de redémarrer le jeu. Par exemple, dès que je redémarre la 5e mission, celle-ci est bloquée, plus moyen d'intéragir avec quoi que ce soit pour la lancer ou redémarrer. Vous vous dites sans doute que ce sera corrigé ? Et bien non. Ca fait des mois que els bugs sont connus et reportés, mais rien n'est fait. Par contre, quand le jeu a eu l'opportunité de recevoir un prix, l'équipe qui jusqu'ici ne touchait plus au jeu nous a fait un joli post pour nous en faire part. Mais des corrections ? Rien au programme. Si vous voulez juste faire une partie, allez-y et amusez-vous. Mais si vous voulez en plus récupérer les succès, passez votre chemin.

Jeu sympathique qui rappelle la série Loki avec l'impact du voyage dans le temps et des décisions qui changent la réalité le tout accompagné d'une "Miss Minute". Le jeu pourrait/devrait être un peu plus complexe par moment.

it is mostly well-written and I like the vibe. My only complaint is that they didn't really build a branching narrative between assignments, only within each assignment, which makes it feel a bit hollow. It's like a 6/10, it's not bad but it's well-made and enjoyable enough I wouldn't reccomend against it either. It's the classical "Would be a sideways thumb if Steam had the option".

(This review was written by a human, not by a robot like Globos. As a matter of fact, Globos has more soul than any glorified buzzword could ever) Pretty fun game, overall! The premise of traveling backwards and forwards in time to change history for better (or, usually, worse) and dealing with the butterfly effect that is the consequences, whether it be jolly absurdities or (literal) apocalyptic calamities, means there's a lot of replay value. And I felt engaged from beginning to end. The writing is also [i]really[/i] well-done! I legitimately laughed several times at some of the lines and references, some of which are sometimes unhinged (which just makes the game better). Globos's voice lines (well, they're [i]mostly[/i] just sounds) can be pretty funny too, especially her quips, her cheerful laughs, and her lines of disapproval (there's one in particular that made me laugh every time she said it, and if you've already played you might know which one I'm referring to lol). Same goes for her facial and body expressions. I don't want to give an example because I don't want to spoil the humor! It's really well-executed! Oh, and fair warning, this game tests your ethics constantly. In the game, you're already working for a morally dubious corporation that has made everyone, or rather [i]multiple versions[/i] of everyone at the mercy of them. You can either solve climate change by ending fossil fuel production or... "eradicating the source" to use a euphemism. Um, good luck? The only feedback I can think of is the lack of localization of some languages, but honestly that's understandable because translating a fully-fledged game (especially the humor aspect) is very lengthy and sometimes [strike]like the lives of the people you're about to either directly or indirectly ruin by changing time over and over[/strike] hell. All in all, a really solid game that takes a really peculiar idea and makes it funny, really well-written and delivered, has a great hook, and is very much a passion project that has immense soul and effort poured in, and definitely stands out as an original title. A true chef-d'œuvre! EDIT: I've just thought of something else! Globos does have voice lines, but there's no actual dialogue for the subtitles, which can make the pauses where there should be dialogue feel... quite long. I hope there can be toggle-able spoken dialogue someday; I think it would really add to the game's character and humor, but that's all easier said than done. Still an enjoyable experience!