March 7, 2024 - Day 432 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 467

Game: Conglomerate 451

Platform: Steam
Released: Feb 20, 2020
Installed: Aug 17, 2022
Unplayed: 568d (1y6m19d)
Playtime: 18m

The store page for Conglomerate 451 describes it like this: "... a grid-based, dungeon crawling first-person RPG with roguelike elements set in a cyberpunk world."

Grid-based, dungeon-crawler RPG with a cyberpunk aesthetic, and roguelike elements... sure.

It's technically first-person, but most first-person games don't have a fixed camera and snap turns, leading into turn-based combat encounters.

It cribs from a whole lot of different game genres, and then kind of mashes them up in a way that feels like it's less than the sum of its parts.

Unfortunately, it feels like it's not quite sure what kind of game it wants to be, so tries to be all of them, and fails to achieve any of them.

Don't even get me started on the giant twin ventilation fans on the sides of buildings that look almost exactly like a graphics card twin-fan cooler.

Conglomerate 451 is a:

1: Nope

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