All That Remains

I would hesitate to even call this worth the $4 base price. It's fine, but it's easily beatable in around 30 minutes, without really all that much to show for it. The environmental message is topical enough now, but the game doesn't give itself time to really explore that with any depth other than "manmade pollution is bad and we should maybe start doing something about that". The game does a good job of contrasting natural beauty from the past to the bleak, Silent Hill-esque landscape of the present, but there's not really much around to explore. Gameplay is mostly a combination walking simulator and stealth, with a few soldiers here and there that you have to sneak around, but most of these sections are easy enough to get past on the first try. Sound design is pretty solid, and probably the thing that stands out the most to me about this game. The voice acting is pretty good, the soldiers' voices in the distance are garbled and appropriately menacing, and even the sound of labore...

I was intrigued by the premise but this game bored me, frankly. The heavy "smog" effect covers up lacklustre design.

I am sure there is an ecological message here , and well worth making , but as a game ....no . Voice acting given the nature of the dialogue is a little flat , and why does the player keep getting shot ! It sadly did not hold my interest long enough to find out . Wandering round in a fog/smog was not that entertaining . Given the nature of the write up was expecting another " everybodys gone to the rapture " type of thing but sadly this was not it . For the price you might give it a try as a lot of work has gone into it but .... not for me .