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How would you react if we discovered a sentient alien civilization, challenging everything we know about biology, chemistry, physics, religion, and answering the questions man has asked throughout history? But what if this alien world was discovered in a state of civil war? Determining that the rewards outweigh the risks, an undetectable space station with a small three-person crew deploys to research the alien culture in search of a means towards a peaceful relationship. Unable to contact the crew, a recon specialist to sent to uncover what happened. What players discover will challenge their view of surveillance, imperialism and moral law.
Steam User 12
How many millions of hours have been spent studying space in the pursuit of finding life in the universe? Now, this search has finally come to an end. We detected a sophisticated alien life form on a distant planet. Unfortunately, the aliens are engaged in a widespread civil war. Is this the right time to make first contact? How violent is this species?
It was decided to study them first. A crew of three upon an undetectable space station is sent to research the alien world. Halfway through the mission the space station's navigation, communication, stealth, everything mysteriously shuts down. Prove that we were spying on a potentially violent Alien civilization now floats helplessly above their planet.
In a panic to understand what happened you are sent to investigate and coordinate a rescue with the crew.
‘The Station’ is a short but very atmospheric walking simulator. The game concept is simple. Solve a few puzzles and find and read audio logs from the crew to gradually uncover what happened. Additionally, there are some e-mails and chat messages to complete the story.
It's a fine little game with beautiful graphics and very good sound effects that's quite enjoyable if you play it at night with headphones that help underlining the menace mood on the seemingly abandoned space station and increases the intensity of the few jump scares that will give you the creeps. But although it has some scary moments and the whole setting is nerve wrecking ‘The Station’ is not a horror game.
The game shines with an incredibly beautiful design of the space station. The crew's compartments, the lobby, the different type of stations, it all looks fantastic.
But the play time to finish the game is only about two hours. I like these kinds of short games but in my opinion the current price tag of 14,99 Euro is too high. ‘The Station’ is an OK game. It's interesting and enjoyable but nothing outstanding. Therefore, I recommend buying the game on sale if you’re interested.
Pros
- Beautiful graphics
- Very good sound effects
- Great atmosphere
- Easy achievements
Cons
- Short
- Predictable end (at least for me)
Steam User 4
Unfortunately too short :(
But
Great Game
Good visuals
Very interesting Story
...
Loved it !
Steam User 3
The game does a really good job of playing on the expectations of the player. The story is also interesting, and you can get get a more detailed info about the events on the station if you read the many logs scattered about. Getting 100% of achievements requires a bit of extra work. The game does have a few "scary" moments, more of really minor jump scares, but the game does not require any shooting, hiding or running away from danger. There's no way to die, and the jump scares are for story/aesthetic purposes only.
Two minor things disappoint me:
1. The description says "unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations" - which kind of makes it sound like there's some decision the player can take. But as far as I know, there's no decisions in this game - it's an interactive story - a pretty good one - but still, no decisions.
2. At least one puzzle made me think that it required more thought than it did. Without spoilers: You find a piece of a solution in one room, and the other piece is nowhere to be found. So naturally you start looking around the room and notice some patterns on the books (and there's a ton of books) - so you may think that you have to match the piece to a pattern or two on those books and try those. Nope. You just find the other piece of the solution in another room - requiring far less thinking that I thought.
Steam User 1
If I had a nickel for every time I played a good walking sim set in a space station, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Basically, it reminded me a lot of Tacoma entering in, but The Station does manage to have its own identity through and through. While I did fully predict the plot twist from minute one, they do a good job of concealing it and it was still a good payoff for the commentary.
My only big criticism is that one of the puzzles is a bit obtuse as to how its solved, and I admittedly used a guide to figure out how to open the lockers. The other puzzles were nice, not overly complicated but worked with the setting.
If you're into the interactive storytelling experience, definitely give this a try. It's short but sweet and it's clear a lot of love was put into creating the environments and world of the story. Also made my heart break a bit by the end, but I get easily attached to characters.
Steam User 3
Short and immersive. Loved the twist at the end.
Steam User 1
Enjoyed this game very much. Would like to see more games like this.
Steam User 1
An absolutely beautiful atmosphere, I felt like there could have been more done with it (So many empty drawers)! The environmental storytelling is spot on and I really understood all the characters simply from notes and details in their bedrooms. The puzzles were simple but interesting, and fit really nicely into the overall design of the station.
I give it:
Periodic table/10