I was really enjoying Science Girls. It has a great turn based battle system; a good variety of skills the girls can upgrade to; and until the end was a well balanced game. I say until the end because the final boss fight was far and away vastly more difficult than anything you encounter before it which throws the difficulty curve into the shredder. You lose whoever your most powerful girl is right off the bat and it goes downhill from there. I didn’t finish the boss fight as I just became annoyed at it. I found myself getting steamrolled rather quickly and no strategy I was trying was working. The game just stacks the deck against you in a way the rest of the game didn’t and it felt unfair and sadistic. The story was decent as was the art.

    I played Science Girls on Linux. It never crashed on em and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. You can’t change the difficulty level after starting the game which is something I really felt was a terrible choice once the final boss fight showed it’s ugliness. Alt-Tab didn’t work. You can manually save whenever you want and there are 54 save slots.

Game Engine: Ren’Py
Graphics API: OpenGL
Disk Space Used: 104 MB
Save System: Manual

GPU Usage: 0-44 %
VRAM Usage: 631-652 MB
CPU Usage: 1-3 %
RAM Usage: 2.6 GB

    I am conflicted because up until the final boss fight I would have given this game a glowing review and a good score but I can’t bring myself to do so anymore. I spent 11 hours and 42 minutes on this game and paid $5.49 CAD for it. Outside of the final fight this game is worth it but as a whole it was an uneven annoying experience.

My Score: 6/10

My System:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 21.1.2 | Manjaro 21.0.7 | Mate 1.24.1 | Kernel 5.12.9-1-MANJARO