Blimps Reviews

Excellent game about blimps. Highly recommended.

Honestly think this is a sleeper hit. Its really fun to play and has lots of little secrets and mini games throughout. A bit of learning curve with controls and I found it best to play with a mouse to menu around and a controller to explore the world, but its a good game.

I really enjoy this game, but it's not for everyone, especially people who only play modern games. This game is purposely trying to appear as a classic Commodore 64 game. That alone makes it interestingly enough to pick up. The art seems perfect for the tone of the game, which is somewhat silly in places while still never overshadowing the rest of the game. The reason its not for gamers who only play contemporary games is because it almost too perfectly emulates a C64 game you picked up from a garage sale with no manual. It provides almost no instruction of what to do or how to do it. The first 10 minutes are going to be spent trying to figure out how to leave the hangar. You'll be flying around slowly putting together what does what and where you need to do what in. Heck, there isn't even any auto-save (at least, none that I have found). If you enjoy classic games with management elements, you will probably enjoy this game. As soon as you figure out how to play it.

This game is fantastic. It's a roguelike, not quite like instant death, but in that, you can potentially end up in a crushing amount of debt based on how crappy of a captain you are. But if you are an excellent decision-making-capitalist-smuggling-hacker, you can dig yourself out of any hole you might find yourself in this game. Besides, you can always just start a new game. There's a bit of a learning curve, but it's not that hard to read the Help tips and what Falcon tells you to do. I like the fact that it has its own way of doing things. The game itself is like an operating system mainframe. It reminds me of FTL and a bit of the old school PC Sim City that had all those secret text-based codes! The game treats the player's decisions fairly. It's almost like a turn-based board game, in a way. Every decision seems to be determined by the random roll of a die or rock-paper-scissor outcomes. It's super fun to pirate the other Blimps for loot as well. But I recommend holding off trying to do that until you've got insurance and can craft a "Super Capacitor." The soundtrack is super cool as well. I find myself just drifting off listening to the music collecting ice. After all, what's the rush? Well, you do eventually run out of Blimp power, but not if you've made a Salt Water (NaCl) Battery! The game doesn't really push you in any way. It's entirely up to you how you play this game. Are you a Capitalist, Smuggler, or Pirate? The real challenge this puzzle adventure game presents is how the heck do you "win" this game by escaping its world!? I highly recommend this game. It's like an old 1980's computer game you never played!