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Absolute treasure of a game. I got the platinum trophy on playstation and I still wanted to double-dip, and I don't regret it. Even compared to PS5 performance, 200+ FPS on PC is unmatched.

For those that never got a chance to finish the game on Playstation, I recommend picking it up again. For those who have never tried it, I sincerely urge you to give it a try lest you miss out on a great experience.

Make no mistake, this game is difficult. It is very hard, and you will almost certainly need to restart a few times before you learn how to efficiently manage your resources, figure out what needs tend to arise and when, and how to effectively placate your fundamentally nihilist population before you can reach your goal.

When the game first launched, I admit that it was perhaps too difficult- almost oppressively so. Constant factory accidents would cause too many injured workers, which would mean less healthy workers available, which would cause the remaining healthy workers to overwork in order to make up for the work not being done by the injured, which would cause the workers to strike because they were upset about being overworked, thus stopping all production of the very goods that the self-same workers need to survive, eventually killing us all. However, the devs have already addressed the issue (on Day 2, might I add) and applied a balance patch since then, making it much easier to progress, and with a very fair accident rate. The devs have also stated that they are committed to continually tweaking the difficulty of the game based on feedback, and though I personally don't think it needs it, I am sure that the community would more than welcome it.

And that's because, the difficulty is what made it so fun for me. As someone that thoroughly enjoyed Frost Punk, which shares a very similar gameplay loop to Ixion, I finished the story craving more and was even upset that so few games exist in this genre. Optimize, gather, and prepare for the coming storm (literally and figuratively, in the case of both these games) is the name of the game, and if you fail to achieve any of those objectives, then you will most certainly not make it to the end. If the game were any easier, the core tenets of this gameplay loop fail to have any meaning, allowing anyone to finish the game without any sense of achievement.

Moving away from the difficulty aspect of the game, I believe that Ixion has a very strong foundation that is simple where it needs to be, and complex where it needs to be. Finding synergies, unraveling the story, and slowly building up your station has all the sanctification you would expect, and more. Some claim that the game gets boring, or tedious, but I personally never felt that. For all 40 of the hours I spent on earning my first successful run, I was hooked and absolutely could not step away. This is somewhat embarrassing to admit, but since the time the game came out to the point where I first reached the credits, I had spent 45% of my entire time playing this game. And that's because you need to pay very close attention to your resources and manage what you need lest you end up going into an unrecoverable death-spiral that started an hour or two back. Most of my failures stemmed from my excessive use of the 3x FF, thinking I could just let the station run itself as it gathers resources, either not realizing that the cargo ships have run out of material to gather while the station continues to burn resources, or I had accidentally left de-cryo on making my population balloon without the infrastructure to back it up (to name a few).

Because of these things- the micromanaging, the difficulty, the continuous retrying, etc., I understand that the game is not for everyone. However, if you don't mind the Dark Souls-esque grind to build your skill rather than your stats, and you are interested in applying that idea to a city-building strategy game, then you're in the right place. Ixion is the game for you.

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Steam Deck play-ability is 7/10. Sourced from about 30 minutes of playing the game on Deck.

Performance is limited to just about 30FPS, text is sometimes difficult to read, gamepad controls are somewhat difficult for a game like this, and there are quite a few quality of life features that you are missing when you're not playing on M/KB. That said, you *can* still play the game on Deck, even finish it on one if you got used to it, so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

The game itself is fine. But I cannot stand idly by while the community is silenced (see: Valhalla’s Steam Forum) and ignored.

I’d recommend staying away from the game as a result, but I won’t lose sleep if you choose otherwise.

Love the game, hate that it feels like I paid $70 for an ad for Warzone.

GOTY 2019

Buy it; if not for the story, then for the atmostphere. At the very least, it's fun, and that's all you really need.

It was great- at first. Everyone thought this would be the status quo breaker of Early Access Games. We all had hope that maybe, just maybe, PlayerUnknown would be able to deliver us a game that we wanted- a game that was perfect after the imperfect testing phase. But as it stands, I don't think that will be the case. PlayerUnknown promised for the game to be out before the end of 2017, and so far, it looks bleak. So far we've gotten delays, broken promises, performance that gets worse each patch. If the game does come out before the end of this year, then I'm afraid it will be no worse than all the other games out there. The game was built around hype, and I think it's about to run out of steam.

EDIT: The developers have kept their promise of a late 2017 release, but it's sad to say that the 1.0 is just as bad as it's previous iterations. Now we're getting empty updates under the guise that they will fix things, but in reality, they're masking the real problem. Things like removing the guns on the starter island to "help reduce lag" isn't something that should even have been considered. The issue lies in the way the game works, not the extremeties that branch off of it. I must concede, however, that it IS a fun game. But as it stands, with all the hackers and all it's problems, I cannot wholeheartedly reccomend this game to anyone looking for a nice, clean experience. If you're just looking for some quick fun, however, then I suppose I can't argue that PUBG doesn't do that well. Simply keep in mind that you will run into numerous problems, bugs, glitches, and hackers as you play.

I bet this game would be more fun if it actually ran. I know for sure the problem isn't my hardware when I can run games like PUBG just fine, and in this game only get 15 FPS. I know I am just preaching to the wind here, but please optimize your game. PUBG isn't even out of early access and has done no optimization; this is a AAA game. Get it together.

I never even liked the game to begin with, it was unoptimized and boring. But that was my simple opinion and I was too lazy to post about it. Now that they released Paid DLC for an Early Access game, I must voice my opinion and hope no other company follows suit. A game claiming to be Early Access to ignore the bugs and the glitches and the opitmization should not be allowed to sell DLC, simple as that. If they believe they're ready to push out paid DLC, then they should at least stop claiming the game in in Early Access, because at this point, it's clearly not. It appears that they don't care much anymore for the main game and are focussing on outputting paid content. I don't like that, and no one should. It's shady and overall bad practice.

I really like this game.