Here is a mid gameplay review from my experience (day 9)
First of all the game as itself is amazing, great concept and inspiration and well executed.
The gameplay is engaging and the atmosphere is spooky!
I loved to analyse signals having the hope to find something strange and the propotion of normal/strange signals is just right for me.
Having to go in the wild to correct antena's servers is a good idea but can be a bit frustrating sometimes for X reasons:
- Navigation to antennas can be difficult due to the important number of trees in the way (maybe add roads?).
- Limited time plus fuel constraints can leave you overwhelmt by the number of downed servers.
- The sound effect (echo) outside make you feel like you are in a cave.
Now in 9 days I didn't got the opportunity to found something really weird yet appart from a strange voice sounding signal but the dude from the mail was already freaking out well before ^^.
Though the game did managed to give me goosebumps thanks to well thought sound effects and power cut!
My gameplay was overall a great experience but on issue might have changed more or less my experience, the fact that I couldn't understand how to do daily task properly, limiting my abilities to upgrade components...
What "levels" and "signals" means should be better explained. I still don't know what levels really mean, is it the component level or the level of study pass on signals ( 1 2 or 3)?
Fixing servers can quickly get frustrating due to the repetitive gameplay so I suggest to reduce the number of upgrades needed to get more stable servers, though this might be due to the precedent issue.
And an other tip, I think you can make the river a bit less deep! I was scared to cross it with the cyberquad ahah, also on an other note, I felt like I had to sleep a lot.
You made an amazing work and I can't wait to see how you will improve the game over next updates, thanks!