Honestly I just stumbled over this game after I saw the other, new release. After reading the latest two Reviews I got curious and wanted to "try" it out. That was yesterday and when I looked at the time after some time of playing and naturally reading the story, I was astounded. I sat for 6 hours straight on it, without getting bored or sidetracked. (granted that I repeated some of the slide-showish a few times because they where interesting). That only happens when I find a story very engaging which is pretty rare with games for me. And with that, this is the reason why I even bother with a review, which I do pretty rarely too.
Overall I liked Garret, especially after we get to know him a bit better over time. He reminded me very much of an Roleplaying-Character I created years ago, without the psionic traits though so I could relate to his attitude towards some people. To quote from the game itself: "When you look past all the shit...."
The story itself was very intriguing, the characters realistic to some extent and even pretty deep in character and not just "ready to jump and fuck the MC" persons. Another plus was, that they are not all entirely "humanoid" but have distinct features, customs, likes and dislikes, that makes them quite different from each other. Lastly there are some subtly funny moments, not sure if they are intended as such or not, but I had a few times I just had to laugh because of what was happening. Personally that made me like the story and some of the characters even more.
And now after I finished the game I am left with a longing for more, as even with the "good end" it leaves one wondering what the future brings for them. I sincerly hope that Talothral will make a sequel to this game or even a prequel. I read that he wrote the prequel already, but that it is pretty dark. Guessing from the bits we learn in this game about the past of Garret I can only imagine, but it would still be pretty interesting to see how it all started, with Chiel becoming "involved" with Garret and how all that played out until "Shit for brains" got taken out. (at least I imagine that this would be the summary of the prequel)
Naturally same for the Sequel. As I stated above, I yearn for more story of the station and its inhabitants. The story got nicely wraped up without giving it a definite end, but one to end that specific arc, so it could be continued.
A fair warning though, this game may contain lots of sex (without making it a pure fuckfest-game), but for me that is not the selling point so I rate them as ok.
The graphics are nothing to shout about but honestly, for the first game the Dev has made and from what I am gathering through the posts in this thread he made do with what he had at hand and for that they are not rateable as bad. I saw much worse. Almost no clipping, pretty detailed too. But most importantly, they are consistent. No mish-mash of different qualitys as far as I noticed. Again for the first game a pretty well done job.
The english is ok-ish, as his third language, even moreso. Can only say again, I saw much worse and some of these claimed to have it as second language. It didnt give me a headache or made me yearn for a gibberish-translator. And even if english is just my second language I can read it just fine, better than writing and I am sure I wouldn't have as good as it is in this game.
The only downside for me was the non-existence of any sounds or music. Sounds mostly for when there was an incoming message or other sound-effects in general. (As my memory is still fresh, I saw only once a text, hinting that the commuication console gave a signal about an incoming message, all the other times it was just the characters reaction like: "who disturbs me now?" mostly giving the reader a feeling it came out of the blue.) A soundtrack or more for the entirety of the game and/or depending on the situation the characters where in would have been nice too. I realize it is hard to find matching sounds and/or music, especially if the creator is picky about what sounds right. But in my opinion it would have given the story more color.
If you, dear reader, are interested in a good, intriguing story, interesting characters and not only sex I encourage you to play it and make your own judgement. As for the charachters, make your judgement when you reach the real end of the game and not partway through, since you will learn about them over the entirety of the story.
Even with the absence of music or sounds I still rate this game with 5 stars.
I wish Talothral all the best with his games and will have a close eye on them in the future.