Flotilla

Very cool style, both with the sound-track and the story elements. The gameplay is simple and fun. I as really excited to try this out after finding it in my library from some long ago sale.

It is, unfortunately, not functional. Specifically there is no save system. Super strange to have a campaign with no save. After playing it a few times just leaving it on when I had to go do something else though I also realized that there is virtually no "content" in the campaign. The very cool animal-aliens and little story elements generally amount to nothing besides a quick blurb in your journal and after restarting a few times you'll soon realize that the few events you saw in your first 15-minute run are mostly all there is to be had. You'll find the same events on almost every play-through.

If this game was finished, much more content and a save system, this would be an amazing and memorable game. As it is it just feels like an extremely promising demo that never got finished.

The sequel being VR only is a pretty big roadblock, but also that it has no real campaign mode at all and is just a skirmish engine is unfortunate, I had hoped it would flesh out the framework presented here rather than scaling it back.

Shallow but fun.
I wish someone would make a proper successor.

Beam is so op