Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $17.99. It has been as low as $7.19.
- Story and characters: 107 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 61 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 43 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 244 sampled reviews
Based on 574 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 244 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The writing for each urban legend/conspiracy you use to spread fear across the masses and bend them to your will... they all fall into one of two extremes: incredibly campy and fun or legitimacy a bit spooky.
Overall, the vibes are immaculate and the gameplay is fun yet challenging (just don't try to exploit grinding and be prepared for it to ramp up deliciously in hard mode).
Fun art style but gets old fast.
Still at least 10 hours just going through the story on the standard mode and easily double on the harder difficulty (highly recommend btw) so it's still worth the price but the way the story was structured it felt like there easily could have been two very obvious characters with their own campaigns The Conservative President that you bring help bring to power in Camp. 2 that is "a freind of the Machine" (a pawn or an implied user... with timeline and magic shenanigans (I don't belive two people can control the machine at once and it may need to be operated physically... but maybe not) it might not work but it feels like a good continuation from Camp. 3 to go from dominating a county election to sweeping the country.) and the leader of the mysterious organisation that is trying to destroy The Machine... the only one who was able to escape it- which I NEED to see if there's a sequel. and/or campaigns for each of your mysterious little helpers who are all prior users of The Machine.
You'll spend majority of your time in maps, all are easy to navigate- the HUD is nice, the sounds are okay- there are times where I wish there was voice acting, (you will get some at the end of each chapter but that only made me wish it was all fully voice acted) but the star of the show?
Theme by theme
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No themes split opinion in this sample.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
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Currently $17.99. The lowest we've tracked is $7.19.
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