DROP - System Breach

Banger!

If you've played the first hour, you've played the game. Occasionally some more stuff gets added to it where you have to hit shift to automatically complete something (or stop something from happening) but if you are expecting a hacking game like Uplink or Hacknet, this isn't it. I bought this for $6.99, I probably would not feel ripped off if I paid $2.

WoW

Fun gameplay and a really nice artstyle.

A wonderfully addictive hacking game which gets hectic and at the same time enables a kind of flow state that is exhilarating! I recommend playing with a controller, just as the developers say. The story is told in emails and is pretty linear, if that matters to you. The build up of new challenges, skills and difficulty level wa just right for me. I did have to restart the story/campaign at a late point because I bought the wrong updates. But had fun doing the second start!

For 10 bucks this is worth it. 5-10 hours of solid fun. Outstanding gameplay and UI. My only gripe is that the story is kind of one dimensional. If Micro Pose decide to invest one more year into this title, it could potentially be GOTY worthy... There was just so much potential...

Under no circumstance purchase this game. Note: Spoilers in review. you are warned The game begins as an enjoyable puzzle experience couched in a cyberpunk-esque puzzle style game. Mechanics are interesting though the keyboard based interface is, unbelievably bad for this day and age. Each 'mission' is locked to an exacting 5 minute time frame. This is important to remember. Spoilers: By the end of the game however, mechanic piled on top of mechanic turn the game into a miserable frustrating slog of overlapping defense systems and unavoidable pauses designed to kill time on the already stringent clock. The final straw leading to this review is the 'AI" that begins talking to you, locking your actions, BUT NOT LOCKING THE CLOCK. Couple with a defense mechanic that appears on almost every end game mission that causes a potential 2-3 second stun on EVERY node action. As many nodes will have 'ice' or 'viral infection' that has to be cleared to activate, if you stop to clear a node, you WILL get hit by this stun. Furthermore, this games, truly horrible flaws do not manifest until well after the time limit to refund under Steams policies. One of final levels of this game involved taking down 5 network nodes to trap the Ai. This causes the ai to talk to you everything time you do it It speaks to you for 15 seconds everytime you drop a node, without stopping the clock or any attacking programs. It also speaks to you for 15 seconds at the start of run, costing even more time, The ai communications are unskippable and you cannot take any actions while this i happened. That means you will automatically lose a minimum of 1:30 out of the run to unskippable text., The developers should frankly be ashamed of this travesty of what they call 'game play'