it was kinda misleading to me that damage made to the membrane is not displayed in the combat summary. the fact that you type out commands instead of choosing them from a list was nice, for me it made it more difficult to make a mistake, since you have to type the action, but I think it could still be improved (imo given the names of the actions it would be nice if incomplete words were recognized as valid commands, e.g. typing “r” = “regen”, “n” = “nav”, “de” = “deploy” etc., or the good ‘ol terminal “tab” key autocompletion could be implemented). it’s a shame you can’t take a look at the map without performing the “nav” action, to have a peek and plan ahead. the threat colors on the circles are very dark which makes the medium and low threat look pretty similar, I had to take a closer look a few times before I got used to that.
with all that out of the way, I just wanted to say I was wondering if I should comment with the team account so our game name appears next to my comment, but I decided to use my own one to make this a little more “personal” I guess (as silly as it sounds).
I spent a long time in this game, much longer than I thought I would after the first 2-5 minutes. after I realised what’s going on in all this, and memorised the commands I started playing this game as naturally as one would use bash terminal for their day-to-day work. The visuals are nice and clear, the choice of colors for texts is very on-point, everything is readable, after you get used to the layouts of particular screens it gets really straightforward to scan them for what you actually want to know and go forward (which is a very good thing). the game loop is pretty addictive, so is the feeling of having the little fella gain levels and actually become stronger. the game has a very nice presentation, and just enough depth to keep the player entertained until the very end. while rating I couldn’t give any points for audio (for obvious reasons), but personally I think for such games having no audio, to leave space for the music of player’s choice to play in the background is actually a good thing. it reminded me of an old text-based star trek game that was for some reason installed on every linux machine I encountered as a kid lol.
what I’m trying to say with all this rambling is that I like this game. I like it very much. thank you. this is great. you have something great on your hands, you know that?