Lifeline...

I’m a fan of choice-based story games, but this one has an added feature of being “real time”. Meaning, you have to wait hours to see the consequences of your decision. And sometimes, you wait hours only to find out your character died, so all those hours waiting turned out for nothing.

The concept is just what I expected when I found the game- Taylor is a student &quot;scientist&quot;, working on some &quot;experiment&quot; with rats on the &quot;Vario&quot;, a multi-million (billion?) dollar extra-solar system ship. The ship crashes, Taylor manages to be shoved on board a now destroyed escape pod and needs to find water, food, warmth and possibly the rest of the crew along with .... well, I think the less obvious needs of Taylor change with the choices the earth bound assistant makes for Taylor, within very limited strictures. <br/><br/>Those are some of the basics of the scenario but moving on in gameplay I'm able get more of an impression of who Taylor is, and it begins to seem that this is someone with the emotional and intellectual maturity of a middle school student. A huge contributor to this is the attitude he (Taylor was originally female but I didn't want a stereotype of a confused, lost woman so I changed her gender) displays toward the metric system. Anyone in the sciences has a working familiarity with the metric system, beginning with, at a minimum, grams and milliliters. In fact, I don't know a single individual who shows the level of ignorance Taylor does. I'm not sure what purpose this demonstrated ignorance serves; it doesn't advance the plot or give the player the feeling of helping a peer. <br/><br/>Overall, I don't see this game as thrilling way of expanding game expectations and boundaries. Instead, it strikes me a standard look at what can happen when we make one of two choices, with an unfortunately unintelligent character carrying out our suggestions.

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This game gave me one of the best experiences I’ve ever experienced in a game, the real time gameplay was crazy! One tip if you are thinking of playing, turn off notifications while you sleep because playing this at night gives you the chills. Especially at 3 AM 😳👾

I love that. I’m getting prompted by text from the game. Feels like I’m communicating someone from out of space through a text message.

Finally a mobile app worth paying

My son turned me onto this years ago. This game is fun of course the first time I played I like killed poor Taylor a gazillion times. But it’s a playable game. This is the first one in his series. There’s four adventures for him and those games are just as fun. It’s one of those games that have you play. He let sit for a while when you can’t remember what happened and then you play again. It doesn’t get old. And I like the fact that you can just kinda take your time he’ll send you a text and then he’ll be off doing something and it’s not a Constant thing, unless you decided to turn on fast mode

Amazing game. You really feel for this snarky yet determined little goober even though you know they’re just prewritten lines of code. Response times are enough to keep you in suspense, but not so long as to be annoying. Here’s to future adventures!