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5.9 hrs on record
Just finished it, roughly 6 hours from start to finish. Seems fair for 15€.

It has a smaller cast of characters to interact with than the first game which does lessen it a bit in comparison but ultimately the gameplay and storytelling Is just like Oxenfree I... so if you liked the first, you will like this too. If you have not played the first game, do that before starting this one though, it expects you to know what happened in the first game (also, the first game is cheaper and better so just do that first in any case).
Posted July 16, 2023. Last edited July 16, 2023.
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12.0 hrs on record (3.3 hrs at review time)
HEY I FOUND SOMETHING!
LOOKS LIKE A DATAPAD!
Posted June 20, 2023.
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15 people found this review helpful
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0.0 hrs on record
*happily throws money at developers*

Posted February 22, 2023.
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44 people found this review helpful
5 people found this review funny
0.5 hrs on record
If your game isn't finished yet, don't release it without an Early Access tag.

Tried it, it felt decent but pretty barebones without anything that sets it apart except for the underwater setting... and then i found out that there's a laundry list of a roadmap of things that are still coming up later.

Might revisit this in a year or two when it's actually finished, but selling this as is kinda felt like false advertising to me.
Posted January 13, 2023. Last edited January 13, 2023.
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28 people found this review helpful
3 people found this review funny
8.2 hrs on record (3.9 hrs at review time)
If you think Spellbook Demonslayers has too much visual clarity and not enough projectiles on the screen, this is the game for you!

Seriously though, this is a good one in its genre. But certainly on the excessive side.
Posted January 7, 2023.
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42 people found this review helpful
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0.0 hrs on record
You keep the DLC coming for this fantastic game and i will blindly keep buying them.
Posted October 21, 2022.
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16.4 hrs on record (12.7 hrs at review time)
That's a lot of game for very little money.
Posted October 20, 2022.
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0.4 hrs on record
I've seen and read and played the story of Alice in Wonderland in various versions, but this is by far the most beautiful version of it. Looking at the scenes in VR and controlling them works perfectly. The puzzles are not hard at all (at least so far), but that's totally fine. I am just here to watch a beautiful little story unfold in a way i've not seen before and i'm very pleased.

I will say though that i got this in a Bundle with two other games for 15€ somewhere else. I would never pay 20 for this alone.
Posted October 11, 2022.
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133 people found this review helpful
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297.4 hrs on record (149.7 hrs at review time)
This game is insane. The sheer amount of ... stuff ... in this game puts fullprice games with 5 DLCs to shame. And the best part is that it's good stuff that actually enhances the game.

Basically, imagine that Firaxis-XCOM and a korean RPG had a baby. And that baby then got addicted to tradeable card games. That's Troubleshooter. A tactical squad game held together with RPG story and a bonkers amount of stuff to collect. And every piece you collect gives you more options on how to skill your characters.

To give you some points of reference, it took me 130 hours to play through the game (including the first DLC, which is free btw) on Hard. And i still have not seen 35 of the almost 290 enemies. I am still missing 90 of the 730 skills that you can equip onto your characters to customize them. I still didn't discover 120 of the 380 combinations of skills that unlock further bonuses. In the 150 hours i played the game, it constantly offered new stuff to me, it didn't get stale along the way even once. AND I COULD STILL PLAY FOR ANOTHER 50 HOURS AND STILL CONSTANTLY FIND NEW STUFF. How insane is that for a game that costs 20 bucks and is actually good?

I am a huge XCOM2 fan, i spent 4 years playing and modding that game fanatically (If you are aware of A Better ADVENT and the related mods... that's me). Troubleshooter has all that stuff in it that the modding community put into XCOM2 over time: Varied character classes, oodles of skills, varied enemies. Along the way it also solves the alpha-strike issue that XCOM2 has by making defenses equal to offenses. I genuinely enjoy the tactic layer here more than in XCOM.

Let me be fair and list three things that Troubleshooter doesn't do as well as XCOM: It doesn't have permadeath for your characters, so it's missing a good deal of that XCOM-style suspense. As a korean game translated on a shoe-string budget, its english translation is shaky. The missions are fixed and not randomized. There's some minor variation in some of the missions (like being able to choose one of 4 entry points) but the lack of randomization is certainly a negative. There you go, that's literally everything i have to note on the negative side.

Oh, and i didn't even talk yet about pets, constructable robot minions, the crafting system, random Diablo-style loot, buddy systems and some of the other extra mechanics this game has. You know, all that stuff we modded into XCOM2 after the fact. Frankly, this game has too much in it. Didn't think i would say that about a game, but here we are. It's the Gloomhaven of video games.

And this was put together by 6 people in Korea. Eat your heart out, 2K.

This game deserves awards. It's a 10/10 for me and i am eagerly awaiting the next DLC. Whatever Dandylion puts out next is going to be an instant day 1 buy for me on principle alone.
Posted July 12, 2022.
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1 person found this review helpful
1.3 hrs on record
What's the sound of the world out there?
Those crunching noises pervading the air!
It's man devouring man, my dear
and who are we to deny it in here?


Obvious Sweeney Todd references aside, this game is fine enough considering that it costs less than a beer at some places. Not the deepest thing and can be an awful lot of clicking but it's good enough to give you something to do for a couple hours and it actually looks really nice.
Posted April 29, 2022.
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