I play this game when I want to feel like I can actually control my cable management

The bad: This game is quite buggy! Some bugs that I've seen:

- Floating polygons if you dig in just the wrong way
- The engine uses character codes instead of scan codes, so it doesn't understand that , and < are the same key, which is a problem if e.g. you use Dvorak (<AOE or >OEU instead of WASD/ESDF). This causes unintended "walk toggle" mechanics if you press Shift+W to start running, but let go of Shift before you let go of W.
- Outright crashes on my laptop on startup - looks like the engine is trying to allocate a texture that's too big and doesn't know how to split a big logical texture into small GPU textures
- You can fall through the map if you fall fast enough (the game uses 3D lazy-loaded chunks and may not load them quickly enough)
- Performance is pretty poor especially later in the game - looks like the engine can't unload/freeze objects (or maybe the network logic is implemented directly on the 3D objects?)
- Walking speed is capped by FPS, so when the game starts dropping frames, the gameplay becomes really tedious
- The script can sometimes be inconsistent, for example the supervisor may tell you to go to a location while you're already at that location (so you have to figure out that you have to leave and then come back to trigger the next step)
- You can die while staring at a solid wall (simply because there is something bad on the other side of the wall)
- You can aggro monsters simply by running nearby a building that they're inside of, even when they have no way to pathfind to you
- Typos in the technical manual (e.g. there are two sections with the same number)

The good: it's fun! You get a few basic primitives, out of which you need to build your network. Throughput, latency, and packet loss are metrics to account and optimize for. Many scenarios and headaches that ISPs need to deal with are tastefully represented in-universe. Personally I found the horror aspect as mostly a distraction.

Hopefully the bugs will get fixed eventually.

Its a pretty fun concept but the fun doesnt last very long. Really this networking mechanic should be a mechanic in a larger game. Like possibly a programming game or a survival factory game could include this networking stuff.

It also does a pretty poor job explaining stuff. I had to figure out a lot of things on my own via trial and error simply from noticing that certain things weren't working. It doesn't really explain the "basic rules" of the game to you, you're supposed to figure those out yourself.

But for $6 its pretty much worth the few hours of fun you'll get.