Change the World

Change the World did one thing to anger me but it was a big thing. It lists multiple endings on the store page and while it’s not outright lying it also isn’t totally honest. There is really just one ending with a whole bunch of ways to fail getting that one ending. Every other ending is basically you getting killed or thrown in jail. I would have liked to see some actual branching with well thought out alternatives to the main ending. Past that there were some positives. The music was well done. I also really enjoyed the back and forth between Farlen and Izzy and wished there was more of it. The art style was also appealing and soft. The story was overall decent but what was impressive was the world building. There was an incredible amount of lore explored with various alien races; factions; rules; etc. I woudl certainly like to see the developer set more games in this universe. I played Change the World on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any bugs or spelling issues. You can manually save whenever you want and there are forty eight save slots. Alt-Tab didn’t work. Game Engine: Ren’Py 7.4.0.1167 Graphics API: OpenGL Disk Space Used: 137 MB Game Version Played: 1.0.5 GPU Usage: 0-88 % VRAM Usage: 672-1136 MB CPU Usage: 3-0 % RAM Usage: 3.0-3.3 GB It’s a tough call but while I liked the world building and Izzy I can’t get past the poor branching to recommend Change the World. It would have done better to market itself as a kinetic novel. It’s not a bad game but not what I was expecting. I finished it in eighty three minutes. My Score: 6/10 My System: Intel i7-6700 | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | XFX RX 590 8GB Fat Boy | Mesa 22.3.6 | Garuda | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.2.1-zen1-1-zen