Link

I like a lot this turn-based strategy game. Each turn, you choose an action for each crew member, you can: create a room in the base or craft something (weapon, armor), or help a character with low stats to stay alive, giving him (her) food, heat or health in the appropriate room, or pick a mission and send one or more characters outside to find resources (there are also other types of missions). During a mission, the characters explore a map and fight enemies in turn-based combat. It's cold, so they can't stay outside for too long. You have to manage the characters and the scarce resources, with the lurking menace of a base invasion that will happen in a determined number of turns. There are various strategies to try and things to learn, with rooms that can be upgraded and the characters who gain useful skills with experience. I like the retro pixel graphics. The interface reminds in some aspects a board game: in the base, to do an action, you slide a character token on a room an...

TL;DR It's a cheaper small 'This War of Mine' with potentially deeper combat which in reality is not very interesting. I'll start with a deal breaker - it's unplayable due to screen resolution. Plays in tiny window and when scaling to full screen you have issues with mouse sensitivity. When it's fixed, it may become a nice game for a day or two. Base building mechanics - each turn you assign people to build new facilities and sustain life, heal etc. Tactics part - it's a simple TBS where you use explore map and use some abilities, and basically it's a risk assessment game as you may end up losing all your crew on an easy scavenging mission. Plays way too slow, it's not cool to go all the way back to starting square.

Can I really slate a game that cost me only €3.99?!? Well, here I go... I sort of feel sorry for the dev here as I've read a comment of his where he stated that a change in graphics/resolution would require a whole re-write of the game engine. Well, he'd better get started on that re-write because without a change in the tiny resolution, sprites and UI he is simply wasting his time putting any more effort into this game: it won't sell. Graphics generally are not that important to me, but this looks like something that should be played on an Amiga 500 in 1994 with the old Philips Monitor, not a modern PC, where 1080p monitors are the norm...but perhaps the dev is actually coding this on an Amiga 500 with the old Philips monitor in 1994! In any case, the premise of the game is cool and I was digging the base building bit, which is reminiscent of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown base building mechanic: You build improvements in each square to provide resources for your guys etc... The...

It's fun, but the screen is tiny (and unadjustable) and it's just too annoying to play.

This is an interesting little title. Link plays very much like a board game that varies based on 3 victory rules that you choose before starting a new game. Victory rules might include: -Killing a ringleader -Surving 15 rounds -Caching 20 units of fuel etc. This adds a lot of variability to the game once you understand the core mechanics as your strategy to achieving all of the three victory rules (and ensure rescue) will determine your strategy. Every game is a race against the clock. With each passing round your survivors will lose energy and heat and the increase threat of a base attack means that will have to be proactive with your strategy from the get-go. Do you hunker down, reasearch weapon tech and arm your survivors for a full on base attack? Or do you brave the surface of the alien planet to hunt down the native inhabitants in order to put off the inevitabilty of an invasion for a few more rounds? This is an early access game and as such still has many bugs and glitches...

From playing the Tutorial and one playthrough: Link is a fairly challenging turn-based strategy game. Balancing risk and reward, the game keeps you on a knife's edge. Do you send your tired survivors out to look for food, or rest them up, but risk starvation? Do you spend time sitting in the library gathering research points, or spend precious materials to build a pistol? Do you try for that last cache of supplies on the map, risking frostbite? Each character in your crew can be used for one action a day. These vary from building new rooms or clearing away supplies, to crafting new tools or exploring outside of the ruined ship. Exploration outside moves you to a combat map were you explore for supplies and either evade or confront the native people who are intent on overwhelming your party. Characters gain experience and learn new skills, so losing a crew member is always a fearful possibility. The game graphics are mainly static backgrounds and tokens that you drag across the scre...

This is a good little turn based survival strategy game. Expect to lose the first couple of times while you get the hang of it. In the end there are a variety of strategies to employ, and you need to constantly manage life/heat/food/fuel/rest to keep your colony running. BE WARNED: The game runs in a very small resolution and is not resizeable. I got the game on sale for $1, and for the price the small resolution did not bother me. But you should know this before you purchase, as if this is a deal breaker for you then you should stay away. Small resolution was not a dealbreaker for me, and I enjoyed the gameplay. 6/10

This game is quite fun. Early on until you figure things out it can be a bit unforgiving but YOU get to choose what the win conditions are. This makes it FAR more bearable until you can figure out what you are doing. Once you do that there will be ways you want to build and prepare - and that is where it gets interesting. The different characters you can unlock is what gives the game a lot of depth. One of the best Steam games I've DLed in quite some time and I really reccomend it!

TL:DR; This game is so horribly imbalanced to the point, where it is insulting BS. Also, no resolution change. Review: A promise of something, that could be a fantastic game, a survival against the cold, harsh alien world. We definitely need games like that, incorporating resource management, skill progression and turn based combat. Unfortunately this game isn't it. I will skip graphics and audio part. Graphics is 800x600 and attempts to switch to full screen will make this game unplayable. Audio is stock, but doesn't annoy. The real problem with this game is gameplay. Apparently, this game was not play-tested, or if it was, it was playtested by someone with a wciked sense of cruelty. You see, this title is one, total RNG bullsh1t. There is no difficulty setting - each and every game will see you fukked right up in the back end of your gastric system. Of course, challenging games can be fun, but in 'Link' this isn't even challenging. Let me show you what I mean. The rescue ...

Screen resolution sucks. One small screen with no way in the game to change it. I see from the review before mine that there is a way to change it, but I have to go to the discussion boards to find it. No difficulty factors. I beat the game in 14 minutes. I know the game is inexpensive but still.