Just work on the game part a little more next time. This narrative-driven format is still in its beginning stages, but if games like The Station can prove that worthy stories can be told through it then I’m all ears. Those games might have had a little more polish than The Station, which suffers some annoying gameplay hiccups, but the story this new game tells absolutely holds up. This week, Clayton Purdom gave us a review of Tacoma, the new game from developers of Gone Home.It’s very much an evolution of the style that Gone Home helped architect and many. The Station is a promising game, telling a magnificent story through a path paved by games like Gone Home and Tacoma. Also, and I can’t stress this point enough, the ending is beyond worth the technical mishaps I encountered getting there I was dumbfounded by how the game completely threw my preconceived notions out of the airlock. If I want to learn more about the company who sent this crew, there’s even a real-world website dedicated to them. Each member of the crew has his or her own personality that easily comes through their writings and recordings, and their interactions and relationships are complex and fascinating. Where is everyone And whats happened here Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright. The station I’m on has been monitoring them, but something went amiss with the three crew members aboard and it’s up to me to find out what.Įvery note, email, or audio log I find never disappoints in giving me more interesting facts about this trio, even if the voice actors sometimes sounds like they’re as interested as Peter Dinklage was in Destiny. The tags customers have most frequently applied to Gone Home have also been applied to these products: -70. The new alien life was recently discovered when the game starts, but the inhabitants were embroiled in a bloody civil war. The Station puts me in control of a recon agent sent to a space station overlooking an alien planet.
Why? Because the story is masterfully told, subverting every expectation I had going in.
The game probably sounds rudimentary or even boring at this point, but I still recommend playing through it at least one.