Transmit your disembodied ego between robots and devices and exploit their capabilities in the first-person, very British 70s/80s-era immersive sci-fi simulator Ctrl Alt Ego. Tool up and break bad bots into broken bits, or sneak a bug quietly into the system as if you were never there.
A very lukewarm thumbs up; the story in this game is terrible and the dialogue is somehow even worse most of the time but the gameplay is very "genuine" and gets quite good once you get past the initial slog of the quite bad introductory chapters, when I thought the game was going to end it threw in a whole new big chapter two times in a row, some might...
This is one of those games that you play and simultaneously think to yourself "How the hell did they think of this" and "Why hasn't anyone thought of this yet." Really fascinating innovation on the Immersive Sim design. Absolutely buy it if you're interested in ImmSims.
SUCH A FUN IMMERSIVE SIM
The ending falls kind of flat, but overall an excellent game with unique mechanics, dry humor, and horrifying existential implications.
Very impressive and ambitious game that feels half puzzler, half immersive sim, but comes with some flaws.
The puzzle-like sections revolve around bypassing turrets and patrolling robots in a way that reminded me of Portal, crossed with immersive sim elements that felt a bit like System Shock 2 in how you approach some of the levels and the tools/abilities...
