IXION

its a slog to get through, the difficulty on normal makes it so you either need to be a genius or the luckiest city builder around, slow and steady isn't an option even though the gameplay loop actively trys to death spiral you, cant finish. the vibes ok enough, next time design a gameplay loop that actually gives the players options. like dude it makes no sense to add a penalty to staying in a system when you also get punished for leaving a system. ♥♥♥♥ the crew, and ♥♥♥♥ the gameplay loop dear god i wish i had my money back

[h2]분위기 좋은 똥겜[/h2] 건설 시뮬레이션이나 시티빌더를 기대하고 왔다면 절대 사지 말 것. 게임 완성도는 기본적인 건설 시뮬레이션의 기초조차 지키지 못한 수준이다. 제한된 공간에 일부러 불친절한 크기로 설계된 건물들을 억지로 끼워 맞추는, 말 그대로 테트리스 플레이를 강요한다. 쓰레기 같은 물류 시스템과 반복 작업, 그리고 게임 경험을 망치는 밸런싱까지, 마치 경력 있는 신입을 구하는 듯한 말도 안 되는 자원 구조와 연구 트리를 가지고 있다. 이 때문에 한 번 삐끗하면 복구조차 불가능한 불쾌한 상황에 빠지기 쉽다. 후반으로 갈수록 상황은 더 악화된다. 모기 소리처럼 거슬리는 사고 경고음을 계속 듣게 되고, 정작 내가 만든 도시를 관리하기보다 텅 빈 우주만 바라보며 유전찾기에 시간을 쓰게 된다. 중요한 선택지는 건물 어딘가에 돋보기를 눈빠지게 찾아서 클릭해야 되고, 출시된 지 4년이 되어가는데도 버그조차 제대로 수정되지 않았다. 도전과제 하나가 끝까지 안 깨지는 바람에 결국 100% 달성도 포기하고 게임을 접었다. 다시 한 번 말한다. 이 게임은 시티빌더로서는 최악에 가까운 작품이다. 차라리 다른 인디 시티빌더를 사는 게 훨씬 만족스러울 것이다. [h3]하지만 SF, 우주를 좋아한다면 명품이다.[/h3] 아이러니하게도 SF와 철학을 결합한 스토리는 꽤 잘 짜여 있다. 기술뽕을 차오르게 하는 웅장한 영상미와 브금은 만족감을 가져다 주었다. 최저난이도가 얼마나 쉽게 할 수 있을지는 모르겠지만, 원하는대로 건물 대충 지어가며 분위기를 느끼고 영상을 느끼고 텍스트를 읽으며 스토리를 볼 거라면 충분히 추천할 만하다. 다만, 다시한번 말하건데 게임성 자체는 절대 기대하지 말 것.

I want to preface this by saying this: I typically don't enjoy city-building games. With that out of the way, the review: IXION is a city-building game through and through, with some extra systems attached to give it the science fiction coat of paint (i.e planet exploration). There are plenty of standard sci-fi themes here as well if you're willing to read flavor text and sit and have a think while you're waiting for various events. It's a little on the nose in some places with, for lack of a better word, the "final boss", being heavily implied to be a caricature of a tech-billionaire, which isn't inherently a bad thing, and I do like the way it's presented. The overarching goal of IXION never really changes: you MUST find a new home for humanity, and you will need to Make Decisions that Matter. To be frank, the game is quite linear in it's storytelling, with admittedly little replay value outside of achievement hunting because events have no randomization and outside of small things like people dying or exactly how much resource you get, your decisions really don't matter all that much. The soundtrack does a fantastic job setting the mood as well Despite that, I found myself much more attached to the people living in my space station than I ever have been to citizens in other city builders, like SimCity. By the end of my first play-through, I had a final death rate of ~2%, but I cared a lot more about each death, each industrial accident adding to the body count. Part of that is absolutely influenced by the scale IXION is working on, with there being a good chance your final population probably hovering around 5-6 thousand. I played on normal difficulty and I mostly stayed away from wikis and threads, and I will admit I was a little surprised that it felt rather forgiving given the pitch. The first two chapters are far and away the hardest in my opinion as you scramble to get your bearings and refine your approach, and the latter half is basically a time sink if you put literally any amount of thought into your planning. There's a specialization system that feels intended to reward you for building your sectors to do one thing, but for the most part I ignored it, aside from dedicating one sector to waste processing simply because those buildings are very large and it was more economical to build 8 of them in one place rather than spreading them out. There are at least two endings to the game, but really it's a red/blue situation, with one focusing on liberating yourself from the chains of a mega-corp or simply doing what you are told. Near as I can tell it literally doesn't matter, with no real incentive to go one way or the other. Flip a coin, there's not really any way to lock yourself out unless you left the game running by accident while you went to the store or what-have-you. I took my time with this one. There being on-paper penalties for staying in one place for too long, but as long as you aren't overworking your workers or expanding too fast, the penalties are quite literally a non-issue, and there's plenty of leeway for messing up if you don't rush through the first couple of chapters. Take your time, make sure you gather up everything you can, and I have no doubt you'll be able to weather any challenge.

故事向模拟经营类游戏，自由度较少，内容线性，但如果音乐、美术、叙事能够对你的胃口，会是一个很享受的游戏。 不过重复游玩性很低，我打通了剧情之后就封存、不开了。

IXION has a lot of things going for it. It looks beautiful, the city-building is engaging and has interesting decisions to make, the system discovery and exploitation is fun, the story is reasonably interesting. A few annoying interface/QOL issues that will never be fixed. But ultimately, I can't recommend the game because the fundamental game design, from somewhere very early in the design process, is designed around two incompatible pillars: 1) you must replay the game a lot, with multiple playthroughs and/or savescumming, to be at all successful 2) you spend most of the game waiting. The replay mechanics are most obvious in the research events, which are completely static decision trees that can have either very good or very bad effects, and the only way to really know is to try them and then try differently next time. But there's also a lot of scripted events that you'll want to plan ahead for, and even building placement has an element of learn-and-retry because you can't move buildings and rebuilding them is slow. And when I say that you spend a lot of time waiting, I mean full hands-off-keyboard while the game runs at the max 3x speed, which you'll never leave unless you want to watch an environmental animation at 1x speed. If the game had a 10x speed I'd use it for most of the game. What this boils down to is that you simply cannot avoid spending a lot of time sitting and waiting for the game to run out some timer for the fifth time so you can fix some error or another. And that's simply not fun. If a full playthrough of the game took, like, three hours I think the retry factor would be fine, but I'm guessing a full run is at least 10 hours and that's just not happening.

Ixion m’a mis une claque. Une vraie. Je pensais lancer un simple jeu de gestion spatiale et je me suis retrouvé face à un puzzle exigeant, intelligent, presque obsessionnel. Chaque décision compte, chaque erreur se paie, et pourtant j’y revenais encore et encore. Mais au-delà du gameplay, c’est surtout l’ambiance qui m’a marqué. Cette sensation constante de dérive, de responsabilité écrasante comme si on était coincé quelque part entre 2001, Interstellar et un fond de Fondation. Le jeu réussit à capter cette solitude cosmique, ce mélange de fascination et de danger propre à la science-fiction. Et puis il y a toutes ces références, disséminées avec intelligence, jamais lourdes, toujours justes, qui parlent directement à ceux qui aiment le genre. Ça m’a même fait rêver d’espace. Littéralement. Et puis la BO de Guillaume David, c'est une masterpiece, Un poulet au miel pour les oreilles. Merci aux devs pour cette expérience. Vous avez embrasé une étincelle en moi qui est redevenue la flamme d'antan. Good Job Administrator

Очень рекомендую. Надеюсь меня не уволят с работы потому что я играл вместо того чтобы выполнять задачи на испытательном сроке. Не жалею

I'm not too familiar with city builders as a genre, but IXION manages to tell a compelling story of exploration and survival, full of tense moments and uncertainty, while maintaining a solid city / space station simulation. It's not perfect, there have been a few bugs and glitches I encountered, but even so it is well worth playing. Just make sure you save regularly and don't play until 3am if you can help it.

This review is not easy to write. Why? Because I really liked the concept to this game, and the story beats and they felt different. I would recommend it for this reason, and also the fact that you can change the difficulty of things. I don't know if it's just personally experience or what, but this game was very stressful to me on normal default settings that eventually I just had to lower it because it was too much micromanaging for me to keep up with, and I play Hearts of Iron. This game had a lot of issues with it that really bothered me, especially the last chapter. I won't spoil anything, but I had to reattempt the last chapter multiple times. Overall, I thought that the music, the environment, and the space jumping really kept me hooked. Hopefully the team behind this game will make other games around this IP, not necessarily the same genre, but more like it. Maybe the next game could be the colonists building their lives on the new planet. None of the issues presented in my review take away from this game, it delivers.