Spaceland

I just beat the campaign (and perfected 26 of 28 missions) and overall it was a very good experience. The combat is good and the variety of levels and characters kept it interesting. I encountered a few bugs, but nothing game breaking, and support for the game is amazing. The one major bug I reported already has a fix for the next app update. My one and only complaint is that the game feels a little short. It is impossible to collect enough chips (resources) to fully upgrade all your characters. There is also no way to purchase all of the weapon upgrades without a crazy amount of grinding and replaying levels. I really think the campaign is about 10 levels to short. With about 10 more levels I feel like it would be just long enough to 100% all your characters and gear if you took the time to get perfects on all the levels. Once again I highly recommend anyone play the game and keep a look out for an update which adds a few more levels.

The game is fun enough to hold my attention for a few hours. The concept is good but the execution seems to be a bit lacking. I have a few complaints. This is a turn-based strategy game, but you don’t know your chances of hitting your target. It’s very easy to accidentally move your character to a wrong spot, especially if you want another character to move first. What happens is that you want to move X character out of the way for Y to go through. Y is currently selected, so you tap on character X. Then Y just walks to a square adjacent to X instead because your tap was slightly off. You can get around this by selecting who to control by tapping on their portrait on the upper left but this is less intuitive. The story is pretty simple. At least so far. You’re on another planet uncovering the mystery of what happened to a human base that is now ravaged by fairly unintelligent aliens. Interesting enough for a strategy game. I have only played about 4 hours of this game. I have the entire crew now. All the characters are pretty one dimensional, but maybe they get more interesting? I may update this as I play through the game. Maybe I’ll feel a little differently about it in the future. But for now, it’s a good time sink for when you’re bored. The gameplay has just enough depth to encourage you to think through your decisions while at the same time not demanding a lot of your attention. It’s a good game to have on the go.

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Plays well, fun for a while. Cool concept and well made. Unfortunately, later there are some missions with some real “got ya” moments where enemies just appear and you couldn’t have known because of fog or otherwise. Leads to needing to memorize enemy pop locations and that’s no fun. Because you can’t save mid-mission, you end up starting over because an enemy popped out and you didn’t have just enough action points to do anything about it. I’m fine with strategy games as “puzzles” but the missions are too long for retrying to be enjoyable.

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The character go to a square that I didn’t want them to go to more often than they go to the one I wanted. Often if i want to shoot an enemy and select the wnemy, the character will just walk up right next to the enemy instead of shooting them like I wanted. If that uses up too many action points, then Now I can’t shoot AND I am right next to the enemy. Annd then there’s the unreadable without a microscope text. Why are Apple Arcade games not made for phones? This is just another game to add to my list of unplayable Apple Arcade games with text too small to read. Is it really hard to program large font sizes in an iOS game or something. I love tactics style strategy games so I was sure I would like this game but from the opening screen it already is convincing me not to play it.

SPOILERS AHEAD ______________________________________________ So, beautifully done game: animations, game style, and mechanics are all done amazingly. But the music is kinda lacking? I fell that it is boring there isn’t much depth to it. But onto what the title says, what does the 3 question marks mean is there more content coming in a later update. I finished the encyclopedia and thought that would let me into the level. What does the giant Mineral-X octopus mean? I just have so many questions about the end and would just like a response even if it’s just that more content is coming in a later update.