A Day of Maintenance

Do you like chill working games, like Snowrunner or EuroTruck ? Do you think those gamea should stop with pretext stories with white dudes talking about boring stuff? Instead losten to your robo space boyfriend and unionize with your robo trucker comrades

Damn that was good. That ending was such a mess of emotions and that's exactly what brands something as one of my favourites. The gameplay was some solid ASMR. I highly recommend playing the demo (although the demo alone is about 2.5 hours so be prepared for that). Keyboard and mouse works fine and are probably even better, although I wish the controls were a bit MORE obtuse as the obtuse controls are originally what drew me to this game. I have a few criticisms. The MSSIRT has quite janky physics (I suspect the gravity is the problem), the savepoints were a bit too infrequent, and the conversations with other MSSIRTers are usually too long and wordy (the background radio chatter was good though). Orby alone is enough to override all these crticisms though. EDIT: On my second play-through the game crashed in the final cutscene. Didn't effect my feelings towards the game, but if it happens to someone else it may sour the entire experience.

This has come to be my favorite game of all time. It's design is simple, a robot trucker in an abandoned world doing assigned maintenance work, but the way it's depicted and the dialogue makes this game a masterpiece to me. The game is just driving between remote sites performing rudimentary tasks, but the drive and way you communicate with the others on the planet is what makes this game so special. The long distances, open horizons and mostly empty landscapes creates this sense of contemplative loneliness, and the simplicity of the environment seems to enhance these feelings. When your truck picks up radio chatter from other robots, and even better when you get to talk to Orby the dialogue is so natural and human. The juxtaposition of these robotic workers having some of the most warm, real and well-written dialogue just makes you immediately immersed. The story builds to a climax over about 5 or so hours and tells the story it's trying to tell without distractions. The size and pacing of this game is perfect for a short narrative experience that will leave an impression on you. I'm extremely glad I played this game.

It is BEYOND ME why this isn't an indie darling that's lit up Twitter and YouTube. ADoM ticks all the boxes of good sad queer sci-fi game full of excellent writing and longing. I'll be back with a full review once I finish the story, but for now for the love of all that is holy buy this dang game.

ENG: Lovely, I finished it yesterday and am still reflecting on all it brings. It is a very relaxing game, ideal for a drink, the driving is slow because it is a huge truck, many times in bad roads or dunes, apart from having chill puzzles with the crane and so on. All this accompanied with the constant chatting and video calls with coworkers, the game delves much into this world and society with working robots, it is long, it took me 12 hours to finish it. The only negative thing I could say is that the interface is a bit overloaded and that sometimes the truck can tip over quite easily (luckily there is a drone that we can call to reset it). Even so, this is nothing compared to everything it offers, the story and dialogues are very well written. And it is a quite unique game. --- ESP: Increíble, lo terminé ayer y todavía estoy reflexionando sobre la historia y todo eso. Es un juego re chill, ideal para jugar tomando unos mates, la conducción es lenta porque es un camión enorme y muchas vamos sobre rutas hechas m*erda o en medio del desierto, aparte que tenemos puzzles chill con la grúa y demás. Todo esto acompañado con las charlas y videollamadas con los compañeros de trabajo (cosa que a la empresa mucho no le gusta jeje), el juego profundiza mucho en este mundo y sociedad con robots trabajadores, es largo, tardé 12 horas en terminarlo. Lo único negativo que podría decir es que la interfaz está un poco sobrecargada y que a veces el camión puede volcar con bastante facilidad (por suerte hay un dron al que podemos llamar para que nos acomode). Aun así, esto no es nada comparado con todo lo que ofrece, la historia y los diálogos están muy bien escritos. Es un juego bastante único, un distinto.

この文章は翻訳サイトを使って書いています。 (私は日本語話者であり、英語が得意ではありません。) デモ版でOrbyに惹かれ、購入しました。 自分がネイティブであればよかったと思うくらい、同僚やOrbyとの会話は楽しいものでした。もっと細かいニュアンスを理解できれば、もっとよりよい体験になったかもしれませんが、これは自分の語学力の問題なので。 Orbyという、とても理屈っぽく、聡明で、それでいて心配性なボーイフレンドを生み出してくれたことに感謝します。 労力に見合う対価をこちらが支払えるわけではないので希望するだけに留めますが、日本語へのローカライズを密かに待ち望んでいます。 良いゲームを遊ばせてくれてありがとうございました。 追伸：できればOrbyとの通信のログをまとめて観るモードが欲しいです。クリア後の開放などでよいので…… This text was written using a translation site. (I am a Japanese speaker, and English is not my strong point.) I was attracted to Orby by the demo version and purchased it. I enjoyed talking with my colleagues and Orby so much that I wish I were a native speaker. It would have been a better experience if I could have understood the finer nuances, but this is a matter of my language skills. Thank you for creating a very logical, intelligent, yet concerned boyfriend in Orby. I can't pay you for your efforts, so I can only hope, but I am secretly waiting for the localization into Japanese. Thank you for letting us play your good game. P.S. If possible, I would like a mode to watch the logs of communication with Orby in one place. It can be opened after clearing the game, etc. ...... Happy Fixing. 🤖💘🤖

I love this game. Driving around, chilling and talking to the squad is fun, the story is interesting and I can tell a robot that I love him, what else could you want.