exodrifter

Snake Pass is a disarmingly charming game that has a really interesting premise: What if you made a game where you had to move like a snake? Well, I like snakes, I think this is a great idea, and I finally managed to play it on stream.

But... I didn't really like it, and I think I know why? While the basic premise is pretty good, the game generally feels uninteresting and not rewarding. Alarmingly, if you can imagine it, comparing it to Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is probably the easiest way to explain how I feel.

I really enjoy playing colony building/simulation games like Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, Prison Architect, and my favorite in the genre, Banished. I also love hard sci-fi.

Per Aspera happens to be a hard sci-fi colony building game about playing as an AI responsible for terraforming Mars so that it is suitable for humans to live on, so it's long been on my backlog of games that I really want to check out and play. It totally gives me the vibes of something I would be really into! Today, I finally played the game... but only for just under three hours. The music is fantastic, the UI looks amazing with the kind of overloaded data drivel sci-fi nonsense I crave, and I think the story is pretty interesting so far! But I have to say, this game frustrates me in a deep, conflicting way that I don't think I've experienced in a game for a while. If you're alright with spoilers, allow me to tell you why.