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    Tacoma

    Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Aug 02, 2017

    The second game from Fullbright, the creators of Gone Home. What mysteries await, 200,000 miles from Earth?

    carsend's Tacoma (PC) review

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    • carsend has written a total of 5 reviews. The last one was for Tacoma

    Satisfying story driven game

    If you played Gone Home or Firewatch it's a very similar game to those. It's sometime in like the 2080s, you're a contractor in space assigned to collect an AI from this space facility called Tacoma, where something happened to the crew. You go along section to section of the base investigating logs in AR (augmented reality) documenting what has happened on the ship. You get a feel of the various characters, their motivations, their relationships with others, their personalities and struggles, etc. The AR logs are supplemented with email, documents, pictures, books, etc to learn more on each character.

    It took me around 3 hours to basically do everything I saw.

    Overall I think it's pretty good, the story ends in a satisfying way. I think it's paced very well, has a good twist, etc. Some of the characters maybe don't get much depth, but I felt like it was a good balance. I got basically enough of each. In some way, if they kept going might have been too much. I think maybe could have done with another section or so to expand some out more.

    If you like story driven games, it's a really good one of those.

    Other reviews for Tacoma (PC)

      Video Review - Tacoma 0

      Tacoma is the latest space disaster tale from Fullbright, the company behind Gone Home. Those looking for an experience with more interaction than the team's last game should look elsewhere. Tacoma is very much in the same vein as its predecessor. The game follows Amy Ferrier, a contractor sent to an abandoned space station in order to collect its central AI. Along the way Amy encounters fragments of recorded AR recordings and begins to piece together what happened on the station. These AR segm...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

      A good tale with (mostly) good characters, this is another solid story teller from Fullbright. 0

      Good writing in gaming is certainly challenging, mostly since trying too hard makes you come off as artsy, while trying too little makes you come off as lazy. The line between those or being a legitimately good experience is a narrow one, and the tipping point is debatable depending on who you ask. While story isn’t something I tend to always hang my hat on when it comes to the purchase or value of a game, someone else may have a terrible time if there’s no enriched tale or character...

      2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

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