Lost Crew

I consider myself a veteran of interactive stories genre and a somewhat skeptical person, but I have to admit that Lost Crew did really impress me. Pros: * Great immersive story. You really want to find a way to help those people and find out what's going on. * Lots and lots of branches to take and secrets to uncover. * Surprisingly good and enjoyable prose (*I played the original russian version) * Its stylish and atmospheric with a nice futuristic sci-fi setting * Its insanely hard to reach any real ending, much less the perfect one. The best I did was 67% happy ending. But each time you really want to try and make it work! * It has somewhat unique interactive fiction game mechanics. You won't find another game like it on Steam and I doubt you've ever played something like this before. Cons: * The 'tutorial' at the beginning is really messy and will likely annoy you. Please suffer through it. * There is lots of trial and error and restarting. But each time there's something new, s...

If you like puzzles via trial and error then you would like this game. If you are extreamly bored and want to sink a few hours in, then you might want to try this game. Im one of those people that judges games by hours of fun per dollar and I can say it kept me interested for around 5 hours (until I beat it and decided to not go achivment hunting). Here is a small preface to help you understand on what you will get. So you you are in charge of making sure the crew survives, however you are you and you can only communicate to the crew via some weird mind communication thingymadoodad. In an effort to save spoilers the crew's ship is geting to get destroyed in 6 ingame hours and you gotta communicate to and for the crew on how to survive. Luckily for you the ship is stuck in a timeloop, and you can just reset the whole thing at your leisure (with exception of one part). [spoiler]However it affects the ending somewhat[/spoiler] Now personally this game wasent bad, I mean it could of be...

A quite ingenious and very well put together game. I normally despise puzzles but the storytelling, plot and craft to this really took me by surprise. There's an awful lot to discover in this game considering its engine. Very much worth it at the price, a novel experience.

I didn't expect much, and I was still disappointed. The riddles, unfortunately, were the exact thing that ruined this for me. The direction of the game seems to be pretty unclear from the beginning. 3/10

If you like puzzles or games that touch on time travel you may like this game. The player is tasked with saving the crew of a space station that is falling out of orbit. Your only tools are your wits, a comm device, and the ability to bend time backwards. As the crew faces their many trials and gruesome deaths, you will come to understand more if the mystery surrounding the station and the planet it orbits. The game itself is engaging, well written, (which is saying something, as it is translated from Russian) and the characters seem really fleshed out for such a bargain bin experience. Some players might get annoyed with the mechanic of having to loop back to the start after each "failure". You usually obtain useful information with each wrong decision, but again, users might find it tedious. Overall I would consider the game a success and recommend that anyone interested in puzzles, text adventures or just looking for a few cheap hours of entertainment buy this game. It's $2, peop...

Story is well thought out and very engaging. Interesting puzzles. Great game.

{Have more hours than visible as I used to play games entirely in offline mode} Really good text adventure choice game with some wacky time looping stuff. Once in awhile you may get frustrated with not knowing what to do but you'll figure it out. But all in all it's very enjoyable. Also cheap as chips and definitely worth the cost to enjoyment ratio.

It's a good text-based game for its price. The initial walkthrough takes an hour and a half or so and the second one (if you are willing to get the best ending) is another 40 minutes. There are some bugs and story inconsistencies [spoiler] A dying crewmate can be mercy-killed by a second crewmate, while a third one is in the process of saving them. And the third can eventually save the first one eventhough they have been already killed by the second [/spoiler] and there are a couple of answers that don't work as they seem to intend to but otherwise the game is pretty solid for how cheap it is. The first half of the story is great, the second is fine. The lore of this game is immersive and more or less complete. Another cool feature is that you get to talk to multiple people at the same time and you have to synchornize their actions to beat the game.

The very beginning was a little more frustrating and obfuscated than it really had any right to be, and there's a lot of questionably-translated English throughout, but if you can look past those problems there's a really enjoyable story and characters to be had in here. There's also a generally frustrating trial-and-error nature that this game inherits from its Zork-esque roots, but the game rather cleverly rolls that into a narratively-justified gameplay mechanic, so you shouldn't end up losing too much time to restarting and it never gets TOO bogged down as long as you've got a mind to do a bit of multitasking. 6/10 - Fun little game that's somewhere between a VN, oldschool point-and-click adventure games, and even older-school text adventures.