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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 121.0 hrs on record (53.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: Oct 29, 2015 @ 5:46pm

This is a game to zone out to, listen to some music, or put on a podcast and chill. Starting some of the maps feel like you've been dropped into the middle of a pacific oil spill with a pack of tissues and a bucket of good intentions, but that just makes it all the more pleasing to see the level be transformed as you work away at it like the gameplay equivalent of trying to get a gobstopper to fit in your mouth comfortably by licking away at it until your tongue bleeds.

The graphics are surprisingly great, and there's more to it than just mopping up messes and carting out bodies. You get bonuses for repairing level specific objects and stacking things in the right loading areas, or by using a welding gun to melt an eldritch tentacle into a single cauterized blob for easy transport. (That is a real tactic)
You can really be very tactical/logical about the whole thing, and for some people - myself included - many hours of slow methodical not-quite-work is a wonderful way of spending the time.

The levels are all interesting and distinct; from the enemies to the colours used in the lighting. There's a bunch of references and homages to horror and scifi throughout the game, and plenty of easter eggs, some you can even take with you to your office to start a trophy room. You're absolutely as much a traveller as a Janitor, it pays to be observant!

Music is...interesting. Apparently Polka really takes off in the future.
Workshop support is icing on the corpse. They even give you a copy of UDK to do your own things, no messing around with loading packages, it all works right from the menu.

Only problem I can see with it is multiplayer isn't especially user-friendly - I've never been on a multiplayer server since the browser doesn't work too good. That or there are no internet servers. LAN probably works fine though!
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