Gears and Grind: Clockwork Ambrosia is a 14-Year Labor of Love
The player character Iris isn’t your usual action hero. Instead, she’s an airship captain, so she’s more used to engineering than fighting. When she finds herself stranded on an island and trying to solve a mystery that involves fighting legions of automatons, she puts that expertise to work on making her weapons do most of the job for her. I mean, work smarter not harder, right?
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes - All This Has Happened Before, But Never This Well
While I appreciated how much of the world Alt Shift got right, the experience never felt quite as harrowing as its premise promised. So much of the pressure and drama in Scattered Hopes comes from management systems that feel very sterile, while the combat is the only part that feels tense and decisive in a satisfying way.
