บทวิจารณ์ล่าสุดโดย Akhlys

This is a borderline recommend.
I decided to recommend it based mostly on the price.
While much of the game is nice, it does have it's instances of "guide damn it". One key was hidden so well, only visible for a second while you're at another location, that I would have never found it myself, not in hours. Another time the solution was pretty moon-logicky, imagine using a crowbar to open a cookie jar, and yet another time the solution could only be found by brute forcing, not logical thought. No help system is in the game either, so in that cases you have to search externally. Thankfully there is a nice text only guide on steam.
It's also very short, just 4 rather small rooms. Expect about 2 hours, I just have more because I went after the achievements.
Oh and your progress isn't saved inside rooms. Just after each one.

This game also does the cardinal sin of puzzle games. On the normal game mode, it hastens you along with a ticking clock, and half it's achievements are behind time gates.
How are you supposed to enjoy a puzzle game if you're hurried along?
I hate time limits in most games, but in puzzle games is the very worst place.
The game would have fully deserved a "not recommend" for that alone. It's saving grace was that there is another game mode without a clock (insultingly called "easy" even tho the puzzles stay exactly the same) and it's low price.

This is all I wanted from Everspace 1 and more.
No time limit. Free exploration. Space Combat. Many ship types. Memories of Descent 3, but in space. Trading.
OK it gets a tad same-y after a while but I love it so far.
Worst thing I can say so far is that I really would have liked if jump to hyperspace was not behind a loading screen. Seriously you guys (devs), hyperspace screeen is mostly empty, why does it need a loading screen that changes my bearing? you really couldn't load this in the 2-3 seconds it takes to power up the drive?

Not sure I would want to have paid 60 bucks for it, but as I got it on sale, I got my fill.
Really, 60 bucks is likely too high, but then again, I don't pay that for AAA games. It's good to be a patient gamer :D So I'd say, get it on a sale and if you like pew pew space games that are mostly just shooting things and not managing boring stuff like "deploying hardpoints" you'll be happy

I would love to recommend this, it came so close.
It's a roguelite where you are in a spaceship and do dogfights and stuff.
Gives me big descent 3 vibes, just that it's open space and not mines.
And mostly it is fine.
But the game has two things that destroy my liking of it and double handedly change this from a recommend to a do not recommend.
Firstly is the fuel. You need special fuel to travel between systems. That would be fine. That fuel being rather rare would also be fine. But in most of my attempts, the fuel was not just rare, it was non-existant. ONCE, yes, a single time, I found one of those fuel rocks from the tutorial. Exactly one time in 5 hours of play. In the other attempts there were sometimes vendors that sold way too little fuel. You will run out and that may be the end of your run.
Second is the enforced time limit. Spend too long in a level, likely in the search of fuel, and enemies spawn that quickly kill you.

If either fuel was just rare instead of the stuff of legend, or if you actually got to fullly explore the areas with no time limit and perhaps find more of those fuel rocks, this would likely have been a recommend.
As it is, I'm glad I got it on winter sale for a buck, because then I can say it's well worth it, but I'd be pssed if I paid full price

Honestly, with that name (and that price) I expected a bigger city. The playable area is so small the fast travel provided is wholly unneccessary. A better map would have been much preferable, but the map provided is cute.
But it's still a cute game. Expect around 3 hours if just working through or 6 hours to 100% it (and if you plan to.. You can put cans into the small blue recycle boxes and meowing at cell phone zombies rarely gets them to photograph you. Ah and exit to menu/reload replenishes all destructibles. you're welcome)
It's basically a 3D jump and run where they managed to capture cat movement as good as Stray. Well except the way too short jump length/height, that was kinda pathetic, cats can easily scale up 1.5-2 meters, little potato should train more!
I should also mention that the camera likes to be behind obstacles so you can't see your kitty.
And I wish the second or third fish gave you, I dunno, kitty shoes or the determination to walk through water. At that point you found ways around all the water patches anyway, and they're just annoying traversal blockers.

In the end, if you like cats, if you ever just watched cat movies on youtube, and if you like 3D Platformers/collectathons, you will like this.

The question is just the price. Because as said, you can probably complete it in 1-3 hours and 100% it in 6 (not quite sure, still working on the cans and photos), so it's a very short game where the explorable part of the city is very small. Honestly 30 bucks feels too much for that. Stray is als $30, and stray has like tripple the play time and way more stuff to explore. Sure, stray is 2 years old by now but still. IMHO this game shouldn't be above 20 bucks. Get it on a sale, like the winter sale right now.

Also just mentioning, this is another game where there's a steam overlay telling you to use a controller.. And it works perfectly fine using mouse/keyboard. I played some bad JRPG ports that hardly worked with PC peripherals at all that didn't have that steam splash page XD

Another great cat quest game. Bit saccarine at times, but that's kinda to be expected.
The map looks deceivingly small at the start, but there's enough to do, 100% took me exactly 12 hours.

Only real complaint is the ship combat. It feels unfair that enemy ships can shoot in any direction while you can just shoot straight.

Oh and also, steam tells you to use a controller. Absolutely not needed, mouse and keyboard works fine.

But I gotta say, I didn't grind, just did everything, and by the time I faced the final enemy..
Maybe it was choice of weapons or my level, but with the dragonbone, which takes a while to get, it's high attack rate and high damage bundled with the artifact that makes attacks faster.. and the ice aura spell.. I basically shredded through the last boss, it was over in mere seconds :D
(dragon boar, a hidden boss that is thankfully not needed for 100%ing, still ended me quickly, maybe I try to best that on a NG+ in the future.

I wished for a game that was a bit like descent 3 for a while now.
Not a flight siim where you have to care about every little thing like "deploy hardpoints" or fuel or stuff.
This scratches that itch. The dogfights are fun, exploration is kinda nice, you just often can't find much more than sights. If something is on the map but far off, and has no marker, the story will bring you there sooner or later anyway, or a side mission will be there in the future, so not much need to visit there before.
The story.. well the less said about it the better, it's pretty crap to be honest. And the writing is pretty bad, the player figure becomes a messiah and.. you didn't do much besides blowing up ships and watching hallucinations.
All in all it's not a great game, but not a bad one either and if you want space dogfights you can do worse.

I just wish the player character wasn't so ugly. But oh well, that's all of western gaming in the current era.

It just didn't really grip me. Normal enemies too easy, bosses too hard, badly telegraphed attacks or rather long windups, a pause you need to remember for every enemy and then an attack in a millisecond. The story.. I dunno if it stays as vague as it is where I'm at at the moment, but it really does not give me any incentive to continue. You do stuff because you're told, not because you have any own motivation to do it.
It gripped me so little I played a whole other game from start to finish in the middle of that one.
Even while writing this I debate internally if I should continue or just uninstall it.

EDIT: ok now it expects me to do platforming with this awkward, slow and unresponsive movement set. I think I had enough

This upvote is conditional on getting it on a big sale. For full price, this is a "not recommend".
I was wondering if I should put it at not recommended, but decided against it because it is a good game despite all what you will read further down. Just not worth the asking price. Nearly no game is worth that much.

It's a nice game all in all. It's pretty polished and so far I found no way to make it bug out or softlock. You are an aspiring psychic adventurer that goes in peoples brains and messes them u.. I mean fixes them.
On its own it's great, just compared to the first one it feels off.
And I'm going to complain about this in relations to the first game now.

Your powers are fun, but they're mostly the same ones as in part 1, and levitation was so nerfed they really just should have put in a third jump instead of dangling that carrot in front of you. Some quite interesting stuff gets introduced early just so the game can berate you for using it and it gets never used again, which is a shame, that would have been a fun mechanic.
You won't find iconic levels like the milkman conspiracy or whatever the goggolor level was called here, but the levels that are around are nice. But they all played the same, maybe with the expception of a cooking show. The variety we had in Psychonauts 1 is not here. They did look very different, looks wise they were not at all all the same, just gameplay wise, which honestly wouldn't be an issue if we didn't have part 1 to compare.
Also, in the first entry, the levels seemed to be very much connected to whose brain you are in. And now? They feel way more random. There's nothing connecting cruller to a mailman after all. Sure it has the framing device of a letter he apparently didn't send, but that's all there is to it. This is not to say most brains are random, just.. many of them are connected by the thinnest of threads.
In general it's a pretty linear pretty standard 3d platformer. Where you run way too slowly and invisible walls are aplenty.
It's also way less funny. Most humor is just "oh so random" and puns.
But I gotta say, having a way to know in which area you still lack collectibles thanks to the alien slug was a welcome addition.
The story was all in all pretty good, but they foreshadowed stuff so heavily I really kinda rolled my eyes at Razputin not putting it together and being surprised. I mean, even knowing there were 7 at the start and the 7th member of the psychic 6 is never mentioned is such a dead giveaway and that happens extremely early in the game.
The characters are also not that great. The best one are recurring ones. The interns you now get instead of the campers are just.. Yeah not great. that they did get promoted to junior psychonauts alongside you despite doing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but insult you for all of the game except the last fight felt like a personal insult. I did all the work, why are those token bozos being promoted?
All in all, as a fan of the first one, it's a bit of a let down but still a fun game.
Your standard part 2 that doesn't live up to part 1, I guess.

Oh, I should mention, it plays great with keyboard and mouse. I crap on games aplenty for not supporting the primary peripherals of where they sell, but this is not one of them.

But no where in hell is it worth the price they want. Maybe it's heavy on localized prices, but here it's 74$. After more than 4 years. Ludicrous. Play the first one or get another collectathon like Hat In Time.
Or, wait for a sale, don't get it over $30. Maybe 40 if you feel generous but..

The dude that made it, Tim Shafer, hates gamers anyway. He can't stand you. He used literal sockpuppets to make fun of you. Now that may have been 10 years ago but I doubt he got better. Screw this dude. I have a signed copy of the first psychonauts behind me in my shelf, I loved it so much that I actually bought it again with signature directly from double fine, despite international delivery. That was before that dude showed how vile he was just to gather sympathies of people that don't play games. That's why I waited 4 years for a big sale and it was well worth the 8 bucks I paid. But not 74 even if you don't share my contempt for the guy.

maybe at half the price tbh
It's quite repetative and so difficult that unless you're an affectionado for bullet hell games or don't mind doing the same levels over and over again you won't get particularly far. But if that's your cup of tea, why not

Nice Platformer.
Gotta say I rolled my eyes hard at the second island, is there no platformers without universally hated ice levels? They are never liked yet you see them in nearly every platformer. At least only one or two levels on that island had slippery ground.

Everyone getting it, consider the easier difficulty. It gives you one health point more (max 3 instead of 2), whch is not the important part. It also gives you more checkpoints. I probably just don't have the patience to do large swaths of levels time and time again any more, but that was a godsend.