Ambrosia Sky

This game has made me wonder: Could you get me to do chores if you wrapped a narrative around it? Would I mow the lawn if I got a story about combat-car bandits? Would I shovel the driveway if, in doing so, I got to learn about the Law of Hammurabi? Or more relevantly, would I chemspray down all the fungus in a habitat if I learned about this lady and her attachment to this station? In this case, yes. The core of the game is that fungus. Giant globs of it, sometimes, bigger than an elephant. Bigger than a Hummer 2. Bigger than a Hummer 2 owner's malformed ego. Spray it down to get it off walls, unblock passages, free up machinery or circuitry. Sometimes a little light puzzling, nothing that will really make you work up a brain sweat. Your reward is story, told in snippets from terminals, and sometimes the protagonist reacting to something she's seen or thought. And apparently I quite like a story. There's almost no time-pressure in the game, apart from a couple sequences which mostly weren't hard. There's almost no threat to the game; a couple things have ranged cloud attacks that, so long as you remember to step out of them before several seconds have passed, you'll be perfectly fine. Some of the fungus have fruits that react badly to your presence; carefully severing that fruit and collecting it is how you get research points. I'm quite positive you can play the whole game without ever once upgrading, though you won't get secrets. You can go back to any level at any time, so even that's not a source of stress. It's just you, some scifi fungus, and half a story. I should have brought that up earlier: the story doesn't conclude by the end of the game. They intend for there to be episodes. And I guess I have to say I'm not sure where they're going with this. Anyway: if you're not much of a completionist, you'll beat the game in under five hours. But this game is a bit wired for completionists. The game will tell you if you've cleared out all the fungus. Don't you want to go back and 100% clear the area? It will tell you if you've missed secret collectibles. Don't you want those too? Did you like clearing the fungus enough to want to do it again? You can! Just regrow it and get back to it. Most areas are small and compact enough that a map might take 20-ish minutes, maybe less. There's a couple more imaginative bits: flying around in zero G, clearing off a spaceship's exterior, or being in the interior of an asteroid and its weird curved-up flooring. (The ceiling was unpleasant for me to look at and I'm not sure if it's meant to be that way, or is a bug.) So if they release more story, I may well pick it up. I'm curious and invested enough to want to find out. And I might go back and 100% some of those areas after all. That fungus isn't going to clear itself out. So if you're down here, by the way, you're my kind of person. Maybe I can interest you in chatting with me when I'm playing some other weird thing? I do a bit of streaming on the regular. Link and schedule are listed in my profile, along with my curator page. Thanks!

If Prey (2017) and Powerwash Simulator got together and contemplated mortality Really beautiful game

Boring, poorly optimized and constantly bumping into invisible things because either the hitboxes are way off or the game thinks that objects that are no longer there are still there.

Unfortunately, this game misses the mark in almost every way imaginable. The job sim element is basically meaningless and all you really have to do is clear a few patches of gunk to get to the end of the level. The game won't even keep track of how much fungus you clear unless you revisit the level later, and clearing a level of fungus does literally nothing anyway, even the mission select screen doesn't properly update to say you've cleared it. The immersive sim elements are present, you explore around through vents and do basic puzzles while harvesting some items. The upgrades you get are largely meaningless other than one or two that are needed for puzzles. There's a few collectibles too, but ultimately you're just running to the end of the level and there's barely enough mechanics in between to differentiate this from a walking simulator. The story is bizarre. Rather than focusing the plot on the imm sim or job sim elements (you know, the actual gameplay) the plot seems to focus on death and personal relationships in a game where there are no npc interactions. That is to say, the plot is entirely estranged from any of the main gameplay elements. The story is told through the melodramatic narration of the protagonist and audio logs. There seems to be a particular fixation on death, wherein you'll pass five corpses in a level but then you'll find a Corpse That Matters and be treated to some pretentious abstract cutscene that I suppose is trying to evoke the mystery of death but fails miserably. The premise of the game had potential I think but everything is so disconnected and pointless. Oh also it's still extremely buggy...

+ Цікавий науково-фантастичний сетинг; незвичний мікс механік наративної історії та… симулятора прибирання; унікальний візуальний стиль; просторові головоломки; дуже демократична ціна; другий акт усі покупці першого отримають безплатно – Візуальний стиль може сподобатися не всім; це поки що лише половина гри ! Ambrosia Sky: Act One – маленький прихований інді-діамант, який точно заслуговує на увагу поціновувачів наукової фантастики та наративних ігор [url=https://mezha.ua/reviews/oglyad-gri-ambrosia-sky-act-one-309408/]Повний огляд на "Межі"[/url]

Blue/Purple/Pink box art is a hard NO every time, even if i like it (i don't). They even threw yellow in there for their FAVORITE identity! (MAPS) You designers are sick and AI will soon take your job.

The first and only episode was 16 minutes long. Who in the world charges $15 for 16 minutes of gameplay? Cleaning fungus for less than half an hour ( I restarted to 100% hoping for a continue button at the end) is not the definition of fun.

Feels a bit like a mix of Powerwash Simulator and Tacoma. The clean-up gameplay is satisfying (if not quite as in depth as Powerwash) , and the world the game is set in is quite interesting. Looking forward to Act 2 to see how it develops.

Outstanding art direction! The creative vision really came to fruition. I like that most of the voice acting is delivered through monologues. This amplifies the sense of isolation and gives you a lot of space to ruminate and absorb the atmosphere. The notes and environmental storytelling beautifully weave together the narrative. While the gameplay is simple, it feels complete, and each location provides some optional exploration. I recommend waiting for the Act 2 update in August, which will conclude the story. However, it's also worth buying now, since the price is set to increase with the update.

It's a good game. The story is kind of depressing, but at least is fairly good. Sometimes the fungus spawns outside the area, so you will have to go back into the level to clean it out. Very interested to see the next part.