A Long Journey to an Uncertain End

I think 25 euros is too high of a price for the content you get. The art style is beautiful. Sadly I felt the characters were less complex than their character art made them appear. The gameplay is very simple and the resource management is not that fun cause you get rewarded a lot of resources so it felt a little like a chore and not a challenge to me at some point. For a very text based game I did not enjoy the writing as much as I would like and I appreciated that it is not very long cause I am someone who would get impatient and click through the dialogue without reading it. I was dissapointed when I finished the game. Citizen sleeper set the mark really high for these kind of games for me.

First time I launched the game, had to restart because of a bug during character creation. Second, I saved right after the tutorial and left because of some business I had to tend to, came back, only to discover that the save wasn't taken into account : had to redo my character and tutorial (not too long, but still : that's twice already that I'm remaking my early game. Then, when I was able to play, I got a crew chat during my first travel, who included someone who wasn't - and COULDN'T BE at that time - in my crew. I just thought "meh, probably just a prompt mistake, no worries, it's gonna be okay". Second travel : again the same person talking as if they traveled with everyone else, without me ever meeting them. But let's talk about my second travel : after doing all the jobs from first planet, succeeding and collecting supplies, fuel, and a new crew member, I took of for the next planet. In the events I had, one was from the crew asking to eat something else than their canned food. I could either waste supplies, or lose two hours. I chose the second option, for them to go to a space restaurant. Only for the food being disgusting and the crew eating a good part of the supplies in the end. I lost time AND food on that event, which would have been okay if the next event didn't take the rest of my food. On two travels, I was left with nothing to feed my crew, entirely based on RNG. And given the already multiple bugs I've encountered (I can't "quit" the game normally. If I do, I just have a black screen and have to Alt+F4 to close the window) after only so little time spent playing, I will stop here and ask a refund. The game seemed really good, but playing it in these conditions is just not fun.

Nice little game that adds some gameplay to choose-your-adventure visual novels.

A good concept, poorly executed. The art is well done, but the limited animation, lack of voice acting, and simplistic game-play loop is something I would expect to find on Newgrounds for free, not on Steam for full price.

Este es un videojuego de los que abundan. Lo que más llama la atención de la historia es que somos la nave espacial, en cualquier otro videojuego seriamos el capitán de la tripulación junto con su compañero y su nave espacial, pero aquí se cambian las tornas de un modo muy refrescante. Antes de empezar con los pros y contras tengo que mencionar la [u]traducción al español está fenomenal[/u] y se nota un especial esfuerzo en traducir los géneros de cada personaje correctamente. [b]Contras[/b] -El tema de que tu expareja malvada te persiga, aunque es el punto central de la trama, se cuenta con prisas y sin muchos detalles. Se puede decir que este antagonista viene. Creo que habría sido mejor otro tiempo de introducción menos confusa y más sentimental. -El tema de las decisiones en la historia se limita casi exclusibamente a como eliges desempeñar cada misión segundaria y a si aceptas a un nuevo pasajero en la nave (no se me ocurre porque no deberías aceptara a todos). No está nada mal, pero uno espera que se puedan tomar decisiones que cambien la trama principal (y no solo la decisión final); al menos yo no he sentido que así fuera. -Sé que no es algo que se prometiese en la página de Steam, pero que no haya posibilidades de romance, es algo que realmente esperaba desde que vi el tráiler animado, aunque no fuera una relación muy profunda. [b]Pros[/b] -Considero que es un juego con bastante rejugabilidad dado que habitualmente puedes elegir en que planeta aterrizas y con ello que misiones y personas conoces; de tal manera que si no rejuegas al videojuego no puedes ver los planetas que no visitas. -Las pequeñas animaciones dibujadas a mano que aparecen son realmente deliciosas, están tan bien que uno no puede evitar pensar que debería haber más. -Los fondos en general, tanto en el espacio como en los planetas, cumplen dando una atmosfera distinta a cada lugar, pero no invitan a la contemplación debido a su simpleza y uno desearía que tuvieran algo mas de detalle como los personajes. Sin embargo, esto no molesta debido a que los personajes tienen todo el protagonismo. -Es muy agradable tener tan tas opciones diversas para crear al personaje aunque se agradecían más peinados (aunque a lo largo del juego puedes obtener más opciones). -Me gusta que como recompensa por completar misiones te den nuevos complementos estéticos. Algunos son realmente creativos. -Los diseños de los personajes principales son realmente increíbles, son tan atractivos y fascinantes que puedes quedarte contemplando durante bastante rato sin aburrirte y tienen una gran calidad en los detalles. Esto choca enormemente cuando vas a crear tu personaje o cuando ves los personajes secundarios, en comparación paren caras de prueba en estado Alpha. Me parece incomprensible la falta de calidad en este aspecto a unque he de decir que no debe ser nada fácil hacer 3 versiones de cada prenda de ropa para adaptarlas a cada cuerpo. [b] Spoilers[/b] 1. [spoiler] Que la antagonista de un momento para otro “desaparezca” sin más, es un desenlace bastante decepcionante.[/spoiler] 2. [spoiler] El tema de que las naves sintientes quieran irse al espacio profundo, donde no hay humanos, para ser libres... es de lo más simplista. Durante todo el videojuego puede verse que necesitas a los humanos para que te reparen y te den combustible, por lo que, habiendo una inexplicable falta de personajes robots en esta historia, no me parece realista querer prescindir de los humanos por completo.[/spoiler] 3. [spoiler] La inexplicable necesidad de que el personaje principal sea el líder de estas naves sintientes es algo que no entiendo ¡Ni siquiera conocemos a ninguna de esas naves y no hemos hecho méritos para que ni siquiera conozcan nuestro nombre![/spoiler] 4. [spoiler] Se habla ne varias ocasiones de los robots e incluso se te da la opcion de combertirte en uno,estaria genial que en un dlc o proximo videojuego se exploren personages robots.[/spoiler]

Very sweet, very fun. Healing. Probably needs a slightly better explanation of some of the mechanics, but it isn't difficult to intuit.

A tentative recommend--probably with the caveat that I would wait for a sale in retrospect. Overall, it's a charming game that clearly had a lot of love put into it, and a great concept with a mid-execution. I paid day one price for it and while I don't regret purchasing it at that price, that mostly stems from the fact that I am supporting an indie studio and a passion project that I hope they work on or spin-off. Pros: -Interesting concept: The world and lore is more interesting than the central story, but I like the layers of "VN meets timed escape meets resource management." And I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi. Would love to see more in this universe. -Not too easy: had two failures before really understanding the mechanics and nailing my third attempt. -Little hand-holding. I appreciate the game letting me figure it out. -Art Style: I'm seeing some complaints and I disagree. Yes, it's different, but it looks best on the characters in-world, not the PC. -UI: Once you get the hang of it, the UI is clean and the mission system makes a lot of sense. -Text and click-through: VN at your own pace, but if you don't like to read skipping through is easy "Beige" Flag -More customization options are available for your character as time goes on. Fun idea, but more base options should be available at start. Cons: -The main story is fairly short -I don't anticipate replaying it--there was not enough time with characters to want to dive back in and get them all -Bugs: Changing costumes was a nightmare and never worked for me. Additionally, it forced an early game character on me when I didn't recruit them, including all cutscenes. -[Potential Spoiler, or something I missed in game] [spoiler]You have a character that does drag, and we never get to see the drag persona, despite being hinted that the character wants to perform?? A crime! [/spoiler]

This felt like a graphic novel with minor game mechanics tacked on to me and it just did not click at all with what I was expecting.

A long Journey has so far been fun for me, I can see a lot of replay potential by making different choices. I started my game on my PC , but then out of curiosity wanted to see if it would run in my steam deck and it runs perfectly without me having to change a thing. This type of game is really perfect for the steam deck as it has a pretty casual pace if you need it to. I can see a lot of room for variability between runs by taking on (or not taking on) certain crew members as well as in the dialogue choices you make. The crew building aspects of the game fell somewhat similar to Mass Effect (which I consider a good thing) where crew members have different strengths and weakness in different situations. Each crew member brings unique dialogue choices with them as well. Some of the core game play feels like a mix between FTL and other mission bast rouge like games. To me the game goes the extra steps to have options in there related to pronouns and sexual preference that some may feel are unnecessary, but I don't feel like it is obtrusive, to me it is just like doing initial characters set up in almost any modern RPG, with just a couple of extra steps. Within the games story line you come across people with all kind of preferences and the characters back stories are built up enough and the dialogue is well enough constructed that it doesn't feel like a modern (forcefully all inclusive) Disney movie. My favorite character so far is the gigantic muscle bound guy who gives you access to intimidation and muscle checks for dialogue and just so happens to also be a famous drag queen. The contrast presented in just this one character is hilarious and there are many many more I just haven't come across yet. I havent completed my first run yet, but am already planning on different choices to make on my next go around.

This game is great for a pretty specific group of people; queer scifi-loving casual gamers who like the kind of moral decisions you'll find in a Starfinder Society RPG game. This isn't a "trigger reflex" game but rather a story that's being unfolded by your actions and team assignments. The characters you pick up along the way are all coping with the definition of "humanity" in different ways and have fun back-stories that are revealed during game play. The challenge of the game is pretty low and the decisions you'll need to make are pretty black-and-white but there are some different paths you can take. If you are also looking for a game helping you get over an abusive relationship then... this is really the game for you.