5 reviews
Duskers
In Duskers you pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard. You are a drone operator, surrounded by old gritty tech that acts as your only eyes and ears to the outside world. What you hear comes through a remote microphone. What you see is how each drone sees the wo...
Details
- Released
- May 18, 2016
- Developer
- Misfits Attic
- Publisher
- Misfits Attic
- Platforms
- PC
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The spaceships you explore in this spooky strategy game are abandoned... but not empty.
Duskers is a great blend of suspense and panic. Its sparse visuals and text logs contribute to its mood, and the need keyboard commands force you to type nimbly and be familiar with basic terms that you may have to input quickly when the situation is going all to hell. It is a delight when you find a new component, learn a bit more about the world through captured files, or reach an automated trading post and are able to switch out junk for something better. The randomness of the game can be daunting but seems a bit more manageable than in most games of this ilk. At times Duskers can leave the...
I never thought I could grow so attached to a handful of drones who I knew only through fuzzy, real-time surveillance footage, but here we are. Duskers is a solid lock for one of my personal games of the year.
I began this review with a comparison to Alien, the nostalgia for which has been thoroughly mined in recent years within the games industry, in good ways and bad. This is saying a lot - because I enjoyed Alien: Isolation immensely - but I don't think any Alien games have come as close as this has to recreating the same feeling as the original movie - panic, claustrophobia, distrust of machines, and a gut fear of the unknown.