So, I'm playing this year GOTY
and I can finally talk about it (a bit).
(Part of these impression were already posted on another forum).
I'm testing a game in alpha state (even if it's already much more polished than finished games) that has been in development since forever.
You can imagine my surprise when I received a test build all of a sudden about the game that was still in the top place of my wish list since 2009.
Wanting a game so much, for so long, usually brings disappointment when you finally play it. Expectations are always high, maybe too high...and the time passing makes all this worse.
But not always.
Because, let me tell you loud and clear, I was simply
BLOWN AWAY
from what I played....to the point I started playing the alpha at 11pm and after what it seemed a blink of an eye my watch displayed 3 am.
Clearly a temporal malfunction.
What can I say...I do not want to be too specific, but I was literally teleported to another weird, colorful, brutal, deeply scifi distant universe.
As soon as my alarm remebered me I had to go to work, the first thing I did was launching the game to 'explore just another bit'.
It's everything I hoped it could be, just better, and then some.
It's like Space 1999, Star Trek TOS and all the '70 scifi book covers got mixed up in a mysterious tabletop game that is masterfully rendered between my hands (iPad and iPhone, equally awesome).
The sense of mystery, danger, exploration...are GLORIOUS, as are the graphics and sounds.
I won't even mention all the details and classy touches that bring back sooooo many memories from my D&D modules childhood more than 30 years ago; I won't spoil anything.
But if, like me, you were following the game since the beginning and hoped it would turn out great...watch this space.
Everything can happen between now and the release version...but it would really take a HUGE effort to ruin what seems already so awesome.
I've been informed by the dev (like 5 minutes ago) they want to open up testing to some more people in the next weeks.
I told them here there might be serious people that want to contribute in making the game perfect and a success (it's not a free game...testing is serious and more always than not a real chore...apply only if you want to help)...so when the time will come I'll post a link to apply for a TestFlight build.
Ah...I almost forgot.
The game is
Galactic Keep
ice Battles.
It's a mature themed scifi tabletop/RPG experience for iOS.
It's a turn based RPG, heavy story based, with a damn beautiful and original setting and art style.
