![]() So, getting stranded can lead to some of the game’s nastier combat encounters. Refueling outside of an event requires time, time which allows the sector’s controllers to become aware of your presence. Any movement requires fuel and while the game doesn’t allow you to strand yourself, depleting it has a cost. You use it to travel between points of interest, both within and between of star systems. The first, and easiest to acquire, is Neo-N, this game’s version of fuel. The game ostensibly has only three resources to manage, alongside the condition of your ship and its components. While many games try to capture the complexity of such a task, Crying Suns keeps it mercifully simple. You must keep your ship intact for the entire duration of your journey, through whatever means necessary. The JourneyĪs with many sci-fi rogue-lites before it, Crying Suns is a game built around resource management. ![]() This, paired with the exemplary universe-building that supports it, makes it one of the more compelling narrative rogue-lites around. It’s an unoriginal premise, but one that’s utilised in combination with the game’s mechanics, rather than in-spite of them. The clones serve to facilitate the game’s rogue-lite elements, while its tone and art style perfectly capture a derelict, dying universe. With supposedly the last functional OMNI in tow, the game follows his journey to unravel the mystery. The game’s narrative follows a clone, copied from a legendary admiral, awakened to find his empire absent. Their dependence on machinery left them incapable of fending for themselves and entire colonies succumb to the elements. ![]() With the empire that once dominated space withered and dying after the mysterious absence of the OMNI governing its vital functions, humanity is dying out. The same could be said of the game’s narrative and tone, which proudly borrow from some of sci-fi’s greatest. But while other games of its ilk are mired in complexity, it embodies their best features, forgoing their worst. Crying Suns is the latest in a long and storied lineage of tactical space-age rogue-lites. ![]()
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