The Away Team: Lost Exodus

I'm enjoying this game so much!! The dialogues and stories are so well written and often hilarious. Here are some memorable things that I loved: I have a comedian in my crew who often cracks me up, even in the most tense of situations. One of my crew members is so competitive that he decided to jump over the others during an EVA to be on the lead, and you can imagine how that turned out. I almost resort to cannibalism after running out of food, but my engineer found a way to "eat the ship"... I indulged a robot on the recreation of their history as a Shakespeare play... It's full of amazing and fun moments, each character feels really different and can surprise you. It's like a really good novel you get lost in, but you are driving.

It's a noble effort, at its best I get vibes somewhere between Prometheus and Interstellar, the descriptions of the worlds convey alienness and inhospitability with bizarre artifacts and dangerous atmospheres to deal with. However, I don't think the choices work that well most of the time: inside the choose your own adventure sections you get a lot of options either like "go left, or go right?" or "go through the clear passage or the blasted hole->blasted hole->now you get a description of how the blasted hole is so sharp and jagged you'd have to be desperate to want to go through it, but it's too late to change your mind" Outside the choose your own adventure sections, it seems like engaging with the planets doesn't result in much valuable treasure or anything, but does often result in deaths, so it might be better to just skip past all the non-main sectors. Also it crashes to desktop a lot, but it also autosaves a lot, so that's only a mild annoyance.

A neat evolution of the classic text based games.

The quality of the writing in this game is really stunning, and the stories are so imaginative! I was stunned by not only how fleshed out and well paced it was, but also how many different choices it presented in the story sequences, and how crew members traits sometimes played into outcomes etc. This is a real gem, pick it up!

I actually played this a while ago so I don't have fresh memories for an in depth review, but I had a great time playing The Away Team. Also a bit more hours than counted here as I played it with the DRM-free version from itch.io too. The Away Team is a beautifully written and well executed interactive fiction with a great UI. There's a lot of depth to the story, which a good amount of replayability. Your design your start crew and need to survive in a long and unforgiving journey - don't get too attached, and be ready for losing the whole team and having to start anew, much like in many trendy roguelites with permadeath. It runs great on Linux too, and you can even play Tux ;)

Its not a game, its not filled with any meaningful or logical choices, I guess kind of a choose your own adventure without any sense or meaning or originality behind any of it?

Bu etkileşimli bilimkurgu macera romanında, Dünya'nın son yıldızlararası gemisinin yapay zeka pilotusunuz ve mürettebatınız için bir yuva bulmakla görevlendiriliyorsunuz , insanlığın son kalıntıları sizi bekliyor.. Seçimleriniz onların ve sizin kaderinizi belirleyecek.

Text based game where you choose 4-8 (difficulty dependent) crew members each with a job and different positive and negative personality traits. You are an AI that has to find them a world to live on. There is some good writing but like most games like this it is often too limiting, traits and choices are rarely logically used, death can be too random (extremely random on some planets/stations), and you need to try to manage fuel and food as is the common thing in survival space games which just adds even more randomness that never does anything interesting. Simple but can be good on the more interesting planets and I liked the ending I reached. No ship events or crew interaction outside of planets.