I guess main question is: What are your plans for the future? You have started a new project (which I admit, I don't know if this is larger game or only one-shot story) and Astreon have two paths now, which seems to be going in different directions.
Regarding Astreon itself: Is there "correct" way to play this game? This mostly comes down to choices and their consequences, or rather lack of thereof. I've listed a few problems with continuity in playthroughs, where player ignores certain interactions or characters in my previous post right above yours.
As commentary about characters and this may be invalid, as I've continued to play latest release from the end of chapter 2, but whole MC persona is, for the lack of better terms, weird (or at least, now explained properly to players). What players know is: his presumably dead wife seems to be alive, his son is killed, he got multiple mechanical implants in him (cybernetics or something) and he awakes on different side of the universe. I think that regardless of how badass you are, your reaction shouldn't be "oh well" as it seems to be the case with MC. Then there is the fact that Lora seems to be somewhere on this planet, which MC doesn't know unless is nice to Astoria. If player, like me, is an asshole towards her, we don't know that, so our (MC) motivation is to survive, which is as basic as it gets.
The second project is just a story about a clown — naïve, silly, and funny.
Astreon is the main one, and theoretically, future updates shouldn’t affect it much.
As for the choices… at first, I thought “the more choices — the better.” But the longer I worked on the game, the more painful that idea became. In the end, it all got casualized. There are only a couple of key choices that actually affect the story; the rest are more like flavor — a few extra lines of dialogue here and there.
Now, about the MC.
The original goal was simple: he was supposed to find a wife. By Act 3 at the latest. Then take her and return to a normal, peaceful life.
But there’s a twist — instead of the kind, loving woman he remembered, he meets
her: a cruel, selfish, arrogant person.
And since everything happens so fast and intensely, he doesn’t really process it all — he just acts on instinct, bottling everything up as it goes.
So, what am I getting at?
We’ve got two options:
In the first one, the MC survives and goes to the tower. His reasoning — there’s a portal, which means he can finally go home. He just follows Yong’s original advice — simple, straightforward.
Or, he can throw it all away and play the hero. Why? Just to do
something with his own hands.
And of course, it’s a stupid move — whether it’s with the Nameless One or, even more absurdly, with Ember.
Stupid? Definitely.
Naïve? Of course.
How could anyone follow a man like that?
Perfect.
In the end, he falls — hard. Very hard.
But now it’s time for growth.
That was my original idea, and I still stand by it.
The main reason it didn’t land the way I wanted is simply the lack of text — or rather, the lack of information.
