4089: Ghost Within

The latest offering from Phr00t, 4089 has the player take control of an infiltration droid, sent to investigate a cube-shaped mothership that has begun orbiting the planet featured in 3079. Gameplay involves investigating rooms for recharges, weapons, and other items, while dealing with various robots that serve as the ships defenses; these enemies may be destroyed or avoided as per your play style. There are skills the player character has relating to elements such as health, damage, energy, as well as skills for stealth, hacking, and construction tasks. These skills can be increased by collecting a particular type of consumable; each one provides an extra point that can be assigned to any of the available skills. Difficulty is relatively high, although the player can choose whether to play in "Challange" mode (Perma-death) or "Adventure" mode (infinite lives, but lose a random skill point upon death). Enemies are fairly accurate, so dodging is a highly valued tactic; a quick-dodge ...

I wanted to like this game, I really did, it has many of the same great aspects of 3089, but the hacking, and the randomly generated levels are not fun. The combat is marginally dumbed down, with that sick time slowing feature removed, along with early access to invisibility, alongside that gun that let you teleport, alongside the hoverboard and I haven't encountered some of the gun types I encountered in 3089. The omission of melee weapons irritated me a great deal. I don't care how objectively strong they were in 3089, they were fun, and a great addition and I see no reason to remove them. Also, you no longer have any armor or chips. These simplifications are irritating, but they wouldn't matter if the game stood on its own as a fun roguelike, and it doesn't. The hacking is unbearable and the combat is irritating. The enemies' projectiles borderline home in on you which requires you to play stupidly safe, and the hacking, oh god. The hacking is essentially based on whether you can lu...

In comparison to previous games, I feel its a step away from rpg and more fps. While it tried to do the whole FPS rouge, it didn't include permadeath. Instead it drops some of your stats on death with no way of reclaiming it. Stats are gained by an item you pick up that are generated on room creation. Enemies cannot as far as I've seen drop the stat increasing item. There is no difficulty setting for the game, there is no go back to previous areas to get stronger, there is only keep moving forward untill you feel like its impossible.

While I've not had much time to spend playing this game due to some earlier (now resolved) tech problems, one thing I'll say: Phr00t (the developer) is *on it*. He really cares about this game, is responsive to technical issues and user feedback, and incorporates that into his project to make it better. I have to say, I like that style and wish more devs would be as active with their users like this one. It's worth supporting that kind of hard work.

I picked this up for the VR support. Unfortunately it just isn't playable in VR. The game is designed so that head tracking aims your gun and character (basicaly, your head has to do the job of a mouse). Unfortunately this means there is no way to turn. I spent about five minutes in the game hurting my neck trying to navigate and laughing at the poor design and the rest in the menus trying to see if there was an option that made it playable.

I've edited my review after the recent update on 06/08/2016. I must say this game is actually enjoyable now. Enemies still have near dead aim (which is just fine), but you are now able to survive more than 2-3 hits without death. Playing in "Limited Lives Mode" also helps make any deaths less painfull (pun NOT intended) and I highly recommend this mode for players new to this game. A big "Thank you" goes out to the developer(s) for being responsive to our (the player's) concerns.

Cool roguelike rpg shooter if you like games like Heavy Bullets,Paranautical Activity,Eldritch, or Fancy Skulls chances are you'll dig this. You can get almost all the info you need on the games mechanics by watching the trailer at the top of this page. The dev is cool and very helpful and even found a work around so I could play this game when my graphics card didn't get along with the game's engine.

I don't know why I continue to buy this guy's games, I can't name a single one of them I've enjoyed. They all feel cheaply made with lacklustre user interfaces, sound, models, and gameplay. This game in particular has no permadeath despite claiming to be a roguelike, and, just like all of this dev's other games, has no sense of direction. I'll give it a 2/10, and that's only because I like the difficulty level. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone without feeling bad.

On first impression this game is great. Phroot has managed to construct a rich world, in which the story and theme complement the rudimentary polygon graphics. As a rogue-lite, this game is a strong entry in the genre, blending many facets of FPS, rogue, and RPG mechanics in a palatable and flat-out fun way! After a few hours of game play I'm left only with excitement about delving deeper into the mother ship! ABSOLUTELY WORTH THE PRICE!!!

I have been a fan of Phr00t's works since they were released on steam, and this game is really clever, I wasnt expecting much as its a different style of play compared to 3079 and 3089 but its because of that reason it offers you more. So its a stealth action game, And to me that basically says, "Stealth is not a priority, But its an option" and that personally is the best way to play the game. I cant see myself sneaking around everywhere but this game has clever tactics you can use, Like jumping on corners of walls and holding yourself against that wall just so you are off the ground from enemies, and grappling away to the other side of the room. Also the mothership is a CUBE! This may not seem all interesting, But as a fan of the movie cube this is actually really awesome as everything is divided into cubes as you would expect, but also you can be in a room where you may be able to go up, or down to another area instead of just going through corridors all the time, theres also a g...