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Genuine pain to play this. The game is one giant escort mission with a stupid amount of just walking around and collecting resources all the time.

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Wall-E + ICO + Rust = NT

cute robots ;3

It's a nice puzzle, kind story, but you have to look for a solution!

I had played Cloudpunk in anticipation of Ionlands upcoming Nivalis, so I wanted to play their first game and was pleasantly surprised to find a great little exploration and platforming game. You play as ION a robot from a civilization that is implied to be Earth in the future that chose to discard bodies in favour of becoming mechanized. After crash landing you must assist another robot ANI who is part of the 'Oxy' movement that wants to convince society to reintroduce life to Earth. It's very indie, essentially a sequence of open world biomes connected together by portals, the player must scavenge various resources to craft items to carry forward the quests and overarching story across the biomes. Aside from the main quests, you must look after ANI who is susceptible of corrosion from the various storms. You need to keep topping up her protection and find for her shelter. You can toggle whether or not she follows you or if she should attack for herself. The story and music was surprisingly heart warming and the anthropomorphic relationship between ION and ANI is adorable, particularly when you discover that if you leave ANI to corrode for too long her speech functions start to falter and its almost like she is slowly dying and this is actually felt in the visible changes of her behaviour after considerable corrosion. I felt this was really well done. The tasks are simple enough for the most part aside from a notorious sequence when the player needs to navigate across various icebergs where you must think outside the box with the teleporter. The game also goes out of its way to not hold your hand too much and allows you to explore at your own pace and come to your own decisions about how to for instance navigate the desert to switch on radio stations. Achievement hunters will face challenging playthroughs that force you to limit your resource consumption, however be warned regarding the pacifist achievement which seems to be problematic. Overall a great game to mess around with and explore and a charming first title from Ionlands, I'm really looking forward to their future titles.

At first is seems as a cute game. But even in the first minutes you can feel the little annoyances that will come later. Resources don't renew, so you might end up with a bunch useless items and not be able to finish the quest. You lack sensors, so the only one you have (apart your eyes) is the hull damage. Lack of logic in world-building makes plot holes bigger than the one in your ship (they say you represent highly intelligent species able of interstellar travel - and everyone act like bunch of kids from a movie stranded on an desolate island). And this is labelled as open-world... but the game is about going from A to B and then back to A. There is nothing open in here except that vast nothingness you're forced to pass back and forth with a very annoying companion. If you like dumb linear escort missions in a cute environment - go for this game. Otherwise spend your time on something better.