The 2019 what we are playing thread

I finished Technobabylon. Probably the last of my holiday season playthroughs.

It was enjoyable. The story and gameplay are slightly cliché without much of anything to say, more of a mood, but generally well executed. Sometimes gameplay suffered for story reasons and vice versa. I consulted a walkthrough two or three times, one time because I overlooked a couple of pixels in bad retro.

The “big reveal” was telegraphed well in advance, and I’m not sure if the dramatic irony worked in the story’s favor.

For those who care about such things, it doesn’t seem to have achievements on GOG.

Oh yeah, and if you die it just resets to right before you died. Definitely a good thing.

tl;dr Not as good as Primordia, Unavowed or Shardlight, but definitely worth a look. Depending on where you place episodic titles like Dreamfall: Chapters, it might even be the best 2015 game I’ve played.

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