Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation

A great prequel to Episode 1 'Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos' and although it doesn't give any dialogue choices it does give more story and world building to Episode 1 (which is recommended after or before playing). Disclaimer: Dysfunctional Systems had a kickstarter (which passed) but with studio troubles there was refunds and it seemed the series wasn't going to continue. Episode 0 suddenly appeared one day and as an original backer I was given a copy; hopefully they'll be able to continue the series.

Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation is a prologue to a game that is absolutely overflowing with style, beauty and expectations. I hope Chapter 2 will be released according to schedule, and that the developers' efforts will come to fruitation. I understand that feeling, after all.

Terribly short and a story that frankly has almost not beats to it to mention. Definitely a game that was salvaged from the devs disaster of a kickstarter. If you want a little more perspective on the world of Dysfunctional Systems and some new characters, the game will do that but it's a 90-100 minute game at best so you're not going to get much from it. All that said, I'm not unhappy about the purchase. I'm eager to see what the devs are able to do starting fresh on the next main episode. Episode 0 was never the main draw after the initial Learning to Manage Chaos released. Hopefully the devs have learned a lot and are able to craft another solid epsidoe. As it stands, Orientation is more of a promise that the devs are back and that we should get more.

Defs worth the wait. It was exactly what I wanted. Really hoping for Ep 2 and 3.

This is tough. Learning to Manage Chaos was an amazing, ground-breaking game. And then the developers had that bit of a Kickstarter disaster. I am not sure if Orientation counts as a game on its own, or even if it's consistent with what was already established in Learning to Manage Chaos. However, if buying this means a possibility of something like Learning to Manage Chaos happening again then I wholeheartedly recommend it.

If you haven't played the "original" episode, Learning to manage chaos, this is going to be a tough sell. What this episode is, in essence, is salvaging kickstarter funded assets of an ultimately abandoned "proper" episode, and making it into something that furthers the plot ever so slightly and gives the fans something to chew on. It's not much, but I give it a good rating because it breaks that failure state and is an inspiring indication that we may yet se more of the good that once was.