CAPSULE

Backloggd Review

Score:

★★★½

It's a cool little resource management game in which you control a capsule navigating through space. Your objective is to dock at various outposts and research labs to uncover the secrets of a mysterious anomaly. The game is presented entirely through a diegetic, low fidelity radar-like interface and features minimalistic gameplay systems and narrative elements.

You must scavenge for fuel and oxygen by scanning points of interest and either flying over or avoiding them. Discovering what each of them do and how they work is part of the fun. For instance, drones attempt to collide with your capsule, while some enemies are drawn to your scanner pings.

Running out of power and getting stranded in Capsule is distressing: unless you find a way to prime your engine and restart it, you're stuck watching your character helplessly struggle for breath as your oxygen depletes. This game is best played with a surround sound system or headphones to fully immerse yourself in its immersive audio environment.

Personally, I found this game really boring and spinny. It just wasn't doing it for me.

Starts out very strong, but then doesn't switch things up enough to sustain itself. On top of that, I started dying, and it generally didn't feel like I had any control over that. I guess in space you can die for no real reason, huh.

It is a great game for the price however the biggest faults this game has is it doesn't have a reset button and you need to close and reopen the game,also one of the achievements didn't pop out

Short and immersive. Light horror elements, but I think there's a lot more horror in the situation it presents and the feelings it elicits. Worth it if you like the idea of being lost in the unknown and having only the least possible tools to figure out and a very old and warped CRT to view the world from.