Life of a Space Force Captain

This is more of a "neutral" recommendation from me, leaning towards not recommending it. It's really not a bad story, it's just not particularly flexible. You need to specialize very heavily into a couple skills or the late game will punish you and you'll get a bad ending. I don't think I've gotten a single ending I found satisfying, actually. I also found the way that the author kept playing the pronoun game really irritating. I genuinely don't care about pronouns, just write characters that are male or female and stop wasting my time virtue signaling about how progressive you are. Playing a game where I'm in the military and being forced to hear about some boring character's struggles with gender identity completely takes me out of the story and kills my immersion with the setting. The good parts are quite good though. The overarching story is fairly compelling and it seems like there's a good amount of choice regarding your character development, whether you wanna be commanding and strong, smart and handy, quick and charismatic, etc. There's also room to mix and match a bit, seeing as some choices take multiple stats into account before determining whether you're capable of making certain choices. Sometimes your build gets shafted and you have no valid options despite having a few maxed skills, which I find pretty off-putting. The alien races are... Well, they're unique and kind of different, but I wouldn't call them particularly cool. I just kept choosing human because I didn't have much interest in playing as a space cockroach or a shiny dude. Overall this really kind of straddles the line between good and mediocre, but if you're looking for one really good game to play, I wouldn't say this is it unless you're in love with the setting or are a big fan of the author's previous works (for the record, I'm not, I've only played Life of a Mobster and Life of a Wizard and have similar feelings about those two). My advice for (or request to) the author would be to introduce an option at the beginning for the game to make the irritating pronoun choices for you at random, and possibly to tone down the difficulty on some late game checks to allow for more build flexibility. If that were done, I'd rate it positively. In its current state, I'd rate it 5/10 and advise passing on it if anything in this review sounds like it'd annoy you.

A very well written story especially for lovers of sci fi RPGs. It goes in full detail of your character from birth all the way to around middle aged. I appreciate the diversity of alien races introduced as well as the detail of each of their own societies. Knowing that, however, the lack of a codex in this game when Hosted Games have them in others with comparable world building it's a bit odd that it is left out. Overall it's quite a standard sci fi storyline until the Doctor Who-esque twist towards the end. But hey if you're a huge Whovian I doubt you would mind it. No spoilers. ;)

quite dissapointing how hard you have to railroad your character choices in order to get anything meaningfull out of the story choices and checks are too binary and rarely give you an option to actually "save" checks, its either "you have enough stats to win this check or you dont", often times completly ignoring your previous choices and other abilities. This starts to become a real problem during the late game. In addition, there is a lack of polish throughout the book, agian, especially noticable during skillchecks. Most of the time the game cant decide if it wants you to SEE what each option is going to require, then sometimes skillchecks are completly hidden, some skillchecks have more than one option for a check while most others are exclusively binary checks. Again this is an issue if the skillchecks are binary checks instead of rolls. The fact that there are no checkpoints compounds those issues, which means you are basically forced to completly forgo roleplay and exclusively min max your main stats, kind of taking away from the whole rp aspect also, fyi, dont go the psionic route, ur gonna regret it

The opening chapters of the game are cute but I'm really grossed out by the way the author apparently thinks Elon Musk is some kind of hero. The space station your character grows up on is named for him, and the backstory all but explicitly names him as one of the people responsible for humanity's push into space. After the past year, it should be obvious that Elon Musk is not just a fraud, but also an out-and-proud bigot, and it makes me really uncomfortable to play a game written by someone who thinks of him in such an uncritically positive light. I hope there's an update that erases his name from it.

游戏实在太普通了，这作者很高产但是游戏质量非常一般。基本各方面没有任何出彩的地方，说你是舰长实际上一直到最后你才能真的干到舰长，然后还没坐热乎就结束了。所有角色，是真正意义上的所有角色，都没有任何吸引人的特质。剧情也只能算普通。总的来说算是平均值。

“Life of a Space Force Captain” was good, but I really wish more time had been spent introducing the different races and characters to give a better mental picture of how they looked. It took me quite a long time to get invested because I felt overwhelmed by a constant stream of new information without sufficient context to make the best choices early on. (7/10) As a result, I didn’t know any of the factions or why I should care about them at first. I also felt that it was a mistake to invest heavily into charm because it almost never seemed to come up in any life-and-death situations. Luckily, as the story develops, you get invested, and by the halfway point, I had a good grasp of what was going on. The romantic interests were pretty good too, though they were a minor part of the game and quite tame. All in all, I liked reading through the story and would recommend it with a small caveat. If you initially feel overwhelmed like I did with too many things to memorize, try to stick with it for at least a while before you give up. There’s a fair chance you’ll end up enjoying it just like I did in the end. (7/10)

Not bad. I love Luum to pieces, the story has some good vibes (nice and easy mix of Harry Potter and Mass Effect), and Lieutenant Groban reminds of the hilarious Varvatos Vex. Some choices are pure cosmetic, some don't change anything at all. Sometimes the text isn't adapted to a chosen character. Try playing as a synth and reach the Tree Fort VR incident.

This is one of the best Choice of Games games I've played. It will make you want to play every race. Sure, you're going down the same story, but it feels like you're playing from the perspective of a different person depending on your choices. Having now played through two of the races, I've noticed they aren't all created with a unique flavor, but they are still different enough to try the different ones. There is one big negative I can say about this game, though, and that's the gender confusion. You have a robot who's unsure of how it should be referred to. It changes between male and female in a VR world. This is fine. It's a robot trying to understand people better, which isn't terrible. It even lets you help make the decision for how it should be referred to, which is fine too, in spite of some ridiculous options offered. However, when you're playing as a synth character and have/create a child, your captain comes up to you and asks for the child's 'pronouns,' which is very weird and something no normal person would ever ask. Since it's a robot child, he might ask, 'How should I refer to it?' In which case, an appropriate response would be like, 'His name is Daniel,' or 'Her name is Stacy,' and you'll know the presumed sex. However, this Captain gets weirder. If you play as any of the organic races, he asks the same thing, 'What are your baby's pronouns?' Even in the context of a progressive Choice of Games company, that's inappropriate. First off, you'd ask, 'Is it a boy or a girl?' like a normal person. However, even in a more progressive context, you aren't allowed to assume someone's gender, so the appropriate answer in such a scenario would be, 'HOW DARE YOU! My baby isn't old enough for us to know his sex!' Now, I would never want to be on a ship with such a delusional, mentally unsound captain who somehow misses this point.

量大管饱，同题材里算是文笔比较好的，剧情合理

After 2 playthroughs, I think I will say this may be Mike Walter's best work yet.