Skyshine's Bedlam

The game’s music is as fitting as the visuals. The guitar twangs and bits of silence perfectly echo the barren wastes that you travel throughout the game. The low moody music greatly adds to the unforgiving atmosphere that runs rampant through the game, and really makes you feel alone in the desolate world of Bedlam.

Bedlam is a pretty amazing balancing act on multiple fronts. It has a feel that fondly reminds me of Oregon Trail, but with more head shots and acid-scorched bones. The game is oppressive and cruel, but it also never completely plays the same. I had over three hundred power cells and a gang of five elites on one play through, where on another I didn’t even make it half way across Bedlam. I wish it were a little more approachable, but the unpredictability hosted alongside its premise and mec...

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Encompassing many different genres, Skyshine’s Bedlam will appeal to fans of a number of different genres. It may not be revolutionary, but the harsh world of Bedlam calls out to almost all types of gamer.

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Skyshine's Bedlam is a competent game with a lot of surface polish, but somewhat unsatisfying gameplay. While it hits all the right notes for sci-lovers in terms of aesthetic and tone, it fails to satisfy for long with inexplicable mechanics that seem difficult for the sake of difficulty and a lack of opportunities to form an emotional investment.

Skyshine’s Bedlam takes us to a wasteland, somewhere between Mad Max and Borderlands. This time, however, not as a lonesome wanderer, but as a boss to an undertaking with thousands of lives at stake.