Gripping story and writing
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“Game has an amazing story.”
Steam review · 18.6 h played ↗
Gods Will Be Watching
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 71%Mostly Positive · 71%Deconstructeam2014Point & Click · Adventure · Puzzle
$9.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 4 h ago
The verdict
A brutally hard, RNG-heavy resource-management game with a memorable sci-fi story and music. Skip it if you want a real point-and-click adventure or hate trial-and-error.
Great for
Patient players who enjoy trial-and-error resource management, dark sci-fi stories and moral dilemmas
Main risk
Replaying long chapters from scratch after RNG failures, so it feels like a chore
What players love
Tense, unique resource-management gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“Management gameplay is peak.”
Steam review · 12.4 h played ↗
Difficulty is rewarding and ties into the story
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“It's the game which makes you mad everytime you fail a level, but you keep coming back again and again just to feel the story”
Steam review · 12.6 h played ↗
Excellent soundtrack and pixel art
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Soundtrack is fantastic, it invokes exactly right feelings for every chapter.”
Steam review · 10.2 h played ↗
Easier modes make it accessible
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“choose ORIGINAL LIGHT or NARRATIVE difficulty”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Repetitive trial and error with long restarts
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“THE ENTIRE 30+ MINUTE SEGMENT OVER AGAIN!”
Steam review · 1.5 h played ↗
Heavy RNG makes failure feel unfair
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“sometimes you will literally just lose russian roulette halfway through a chapter can have to replay the same 10-15min you just completed.”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗
Opaque mechanics and hidden information
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“locked behind spending hours brute forcing micro management sessions with invisible status bars”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗
Choices don't matter between chapters
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“The tagline of this game should read "Your choices don't matter."”
Steam review · 5.6 h played ↗
Crashes, freezes and bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“There is no mid-level saving, only when you complete a chapter. This means that when the game crashes, which it is unfortunately prone to, you can be forced to restart entire chapters.”
Steam review · 11.3 h played ↗
Chapter 5 desert is a miserable slog
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews
“For the fifth chapter alone, I cannot recommend this to anyone unless you enjoy being at the mercy of RNG”
Steam review · 15.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable460 MB
Minimum
OSWindows Vista or Windows 7
ProcessorIntel Core™ Duo or faster
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirect X 9.0c compliant video card with at least 512Mb
Storage460 MB available space
OSWindows Vista or Windows 7
ProcessorIntel Core™ Duo or faster
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirect X 9.0c compliant video card with at least 512Mb
Storage460 MB available space
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