MIRO

Overall impression: C -. There are some great ideas here. The game is rough in ways, but it functions. There are some bugs, but they are minor. The game is really story centered, so I will not say too much about the core themes. You are on a exploration mission that takes you to several planets. You gather materials as you explore and you bring them back to the ship to make new items and to move on to the next part of the story. I do not want to call it a walking simulation with a story and some tasks tacked on, but that is pretty much what it is. There is some light 'combat', but it is stretch to call it that. I think that some people will like the mystery of the story enough to overlook the games wonky parts. However, I think only some will really enjoy the game overall.

Beautiful and atmospheric planet exploration game with one of the few good uses of procgen I've seen, making gorgeous planets with varied geometry and weather and etc. so that every place feels fresh. It's a game about going places nobody has ever seen before and the sense of wonder and discovery never really wears off across its (admittedly a bit short) runtime. Which is probably my biggest gripe - the game is almost too nice in streamlining the progression path and you can craft most everything in the game pretty dang quickly which, uhh, gets you some really good schmoovement that makes exploration a breeze, like, it feels good but it all happens so fast, haha. And the planets tend to feel too big as a result - rarely do you ever have a reason to travel too far from the center, given where locations tend to end up and how the closest location to spawn is always the progress location. Really, that's a minor gripe though - if i ever replay this game in the future, I know I'll get...