Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure

"I am sorry, Chief. I don't know what to say about this right now. Why not try one of the other 153 items, or just come back later?"

I enjoy almost everything about this game. Personally I always feel I'd like to know about things people noticed negatively about a game and discover the positives myself. So here are the only two things I didn't like. The game really lacks a mechanism to find out where a specific person is on the ship at any given time which in some cases means you just litterally have to just check every conceivable place they could be, workplace, public zones, residential areas. For some people like engineers and technicians this could really be anywhere at all. One of the major story beats is something that happens relatively early but doesn't exactly make very much sense sci-fi-technically ( [spoiler] the ship's habitation ring stops unreasonably suddenly, causing some mayhem [/spoiler] ) which is really not a major gripe. I love the pixel art style, I like the control scheme, I liked the soundtrack enough to buy it and I very much like that the outcome is VERY MUCH up to your choices along the entire game. I've seen some people complain about "the ending" and really all i can say is, play it again and make better choices next time. Tho even in my first playthrough I felt I got to an ending I could very much live with.

Está bastante bien como juego de detectives, con casos interesantes, muchos personajes, algunas conclusiones que debes sacar por tu cuenta... Aun así no es perfecto y vas a recorrer la nave MUCHAS veces buscando algo que seguro que te falta. O no, nunca sabes si te falta algo o alguien por conocer. El juego te ayuda poco en ese apartado, aun menos cuando los 40 personajes, las decenas de localizaciones y tooodas las pruebas están en tu inventario en todo momento. Si, puedes poner filtros para que solo te enseñe lugares o gente, pero no es una forma agradable de moverte por el menú ni un poquito. También hay algún que otro puzzle que he sacado a fuerza bruta, no se si es la manera o no (ya que hay que probar como 100 números) y creo que si los personajes estuvieran mas desarrollados en lugar de haber tantísimos, se sentiría mucho mejor las posibles traiciones o personas con vida doble. No me impacta tanto si he hablado dos frases con esa persona. Aun así un buen juego, me lo he jugado de dos sentadas y es raro que yo eché 3/4 seguidas de jugar, así que algo claramente hace bien.

A solid little indie story game with a few minor issues. The atmosphere and the aesthetics are great, especially seeing how the ship changes over the course of the game, it makes it feel somewhat alive. The story is pretty good, though a lot of the twists are foreseeable and very trope-driven, so as long as you don't expect your mind to be blown you'll probably enjoy this story. My biggest gripe with it is how the game fails to give you actual dilemmas through its choices. Most choices are "against the codex" or "for the codex", but there's rarely a good reason to uphold the codex other than for the sake of it (i. e. getting the relevant achievement). I'd take this as criticism towards tradition, authoritarianism or the rigidity of laws, which is a message I can get behind, but it doesn't make for an interesting game if your choices are this one-sided. The music, sound and voice acting are all rather good and while the gameplay feels like a step down from Lacuna, it's still complex enough to work as a vehicle for the story without ever making you feel stupid or overwhelmed. All in all it's an enjoyable experience!

Go play Lacuna instead. That one had a superb music and visual style. Story is good in both games. Here mix of 3d and 2d looks lazy after Lacuna. And what is up with load times between screens that has less data than games on NES, and it has to load for seconds on a system that has 16Gb? I'm leaving Yes in "Do you recommend this game" only for people to find Lacuna after this one. I hope next game won't have 200 clues in a list to scroll every time you need to talk second time to someone.

This game was a very enjoyable experience. Its scope is remarkably ambitious, especially given the constraints of the point-and-click format. The world feels surprisingly vast, capturing much of the atmosphere and freedom typically associated with AAA open-world titles. Achieving that sense of scale within this genre is an impressive accomplishment. That same scale, however, can occasionally work against the experience. Even with a fast-travel system, the amount of backtracking required can become repetitive and, at times, tiring. Traversing the world remains engaging early on, but repeated journeys across familiar locations eventually begin to wear thin. The gameplay mechanics are similar to those that prevented me from fully engaging with the developer's previous title, Lacuna. Here, however, those shortcomings are offset by a strong narrative and a cast of compelling characters. The influences of Mass Effect and, to a lesser extent, the original Deus Ex are evident throughout, particularly in the emphasis on player choice, world-building, and dialogue-driven storytelling. The story does much of the heavy lifting, helping to sustain interest through the game's more tedious stretches. While the decision-based structure appears designed to encourage multiple playthroughs, I'm not convinced many players will be eager to revisit the game given its length and the amount of travel involved. That said, my first playthrough remained engaging from start to finish. Overall, I would give it a solid B. It's not likely to become an all-time favorite, but it's a worthwhile experience that I can comfortably recommend. Most players who enjoy narrative-driven games will find enough here to justify both their time and money.

Overall good mystery game. Interesting and fairly unique setting. Loved the 2.5D aesthetic and music was good. All the cases felt fair, though some of the early ones felt a bit too easy. Only complaints I had were that running around the ship was maybe a bit too slow. A faster running speed or slightly more fast travel points could have helped, for example in the maintenance section. And I felt like characters didn't react to enough presented clues. Characters wouldn't react to any clue that wasn't immediately useful for a case, even if they, in my mind at least, should have had something to see about the presented clue. An example, presenting their own name to them could have had them talk a bit about themselves, flesh out their background or something similar instead of just saying "that's me". Or presenting them the name of their child or another person to talk about how they feel about that character. Just anything other then "I have nothing to say about that", I think would have gone a long way to make the world feel more alive. Still overall I enjoyed the game and look forward to the devs next one.

Менее интересная, чем предыдущая Lacuna от той же студии, но тем не менее - интересная концепция (расследование преступлений на корабле, чьи посажиры всю жизнь проведут в космосе - и только их внуки попадут на планету) и красивая графика. Местами затянуто, слишком много персонажей (из-за чего они почти не раскрыты), но сами задачки - сложные. Без карандаша и блокнота - не решите