DROP - System Breach Reviews

Under no circumstance purchase this game. Note: Spoilers in review. you are warned The game begins as an enjoyable puzzle experience couched in a cyberpunk-esque puzzle style game. Mechanics are interesting though the keyboard based interface is, unbelievably bad for this day and age. Each 'mission' is locked to an exacting 5 minute time frame. This is important to remember. Spoilers: By the end of the game however, mechanic piled on top of mechanic turn the game into a miserable frustrating slog of overlapping defense systems and unavoidable pauses designed to kill time on the already stringent clock. The final straw leading to this review is the 'AI" that begins talking to you, locking your actions, BUT NOT LOCKING THE CLOCK. Couple with a defense mechanic that appears on almost every end game mission that causes a potential 2-3 second stun on EVERY node action. As many nodes will have 'ice' or 'viral infection' that has to be cleared to activate, if you stop to clear a node, you WILL get hit by this stun. Furthermore, this games, truly horrible flaws do not manifest until well after the time limit to refund under Steams policies. One of final levels of this game involved taking down 5 network nodes to trap the Ai. This causes the ai to talk to you everything time you do it It speaks to you for 15 seconds everytime you drop a node, without stopping the clock or any attacking programs. It also speaks to you for 15 seconds at the start of run, costing even more time, The ai communications are unskippable and you cannot take any actions while this i happened. That means you will automatically lose a minimum of 1:30 out of the run to unskippable text., The developers should frankly be ashamed of this travesty of what they call 'game play'

This is a very fun idea for a game, and I got nearly 6 hours out of it, so I'm calling it a win. I'm not going any farther in it though, the repetition is too high for me.

Great little game with interesting main story. If authors add there some side stories of other participants it will be superb.