42 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.1 hrs on record (2.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: Oct 24, 2016 @ 11:30pm
Updated: Jan 10, 2021 @ 9:09am

THE GAMES ARE EXCELLENT !

Or at least, Blue Sky::Acceptable Casualties and BS Hacker Unlimited are.

Why the thumbs down then ? Well, unfortunately, I cannot recommend buying this bundle simply because of the state that half the games in it are in right now, and it's a problem that's been plaguing Steam for years. It just doesn't know how to handle old games at all. I don't know where the fault lies; whether it's the developers, Steam itself or Windows, I'm not sure.

What I'm certain of, however, is that half the games in this bundle are broken for many users, myself included. Blue Sky::Acceptable Casualties works like a charm, BS Hacker Unlimited works but is in 800*600 or 640*480 in the top left of my screen which makes it very hard to read and immerse myself (no idea if it was intended or not however, but I will assume it wasn't), Digital Hazard functions at the correct resolution but is HEAVILY lagging, and BS Hacker suffers from the combined problems of unlimited and Digital Hazard plus some more bugs like displaced text.

Until the games are working in acceptable conditions (ie. when the heavy lag issue has been resolved, and perhaps when all the games can run in fullscreen (it bothers me but I don't know if it was meant to run in windowed mode so i'm gonna keep my mouth shut for this one for the time being)), I do not recommend buying this bundle.

Will change to "recommended" when they are.
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5 Comments
Jun 11, 2025 @ 8:53am 
You're welcome !
Jun 11, 2025 @ 8:49am 
Thanks.
Jun 11, 2025 @ 8:13am 
Kinda. BSAC now lags heavily in gameplay, BS Hacker seems unstable (lots of freezing) but plays okay, DH lags heavily. Only BSH Unlimited seems completely fine. None of the games have the windowed + low res problem I had ten years ago. I'm still not gonna recommend it, but if you're fine with that sort of jank, then it should be playable for you.
Jun 11, 2025 @ 7:45am 
are the games still broken?
Mar 26, 2022 @ 6:58pm 
I hate to see this because I absolutely loved these early exosyphen games back in the day. For the resolution/fullscreen issue, have you tried something like Borderless Gaming? BTW, you don't have to buy that here on Steam, you can download it free from the creator's website.