Apr 27, 2023 - Day 117 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 132

Game: Phoning Home

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 8, 2017
Library Date: Mar 13, 2018
Unplayed: 1871d (5y1m14d)
Playtime: 95m

Phoning Home is a third-person open-world robot survival sim. It is also free on Steam (which is why there's a link at the end).

Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS, who went on to create Cloudpunk, (one of my all-time favourite games).

I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of sandbox survival games. Valheim left me cold, and V Rising genuinely left me regretting spending the money on it.

Phoning Home, on the other hand, is a narrative driven survival game, which takes the exploration and construction and gives it purpose.

I only intended to play this for 15 minutes before work, and was an hour late starting work, so deep did it suck me in and make me want to keep playing, and further the story of the cute little WALL-E inspired robot, ION.

To the point that the new Warframe expansion The Duviri Paradox dropped today (it's free too!), and if I'm to have any hope of giving it a fair go, I'll need to play that first, because otherwise I suspect I'll be up all night playing Phoning Home.

Which means this is:

5: Excellent

#PhoningHome #OpenWorld #ThirdPerson #Survival #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431650/Phoning_Home/

We almost forgot the most important part!

After doing the above reset the NetworkManager with:

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

If you run your packet sniffer now (Wireshark/tcpdump) you shouldn't see anymore phoning home (from Connectivity Checks at least. Doesn't include DNS leaks, NTP, pings etc).

#phoneHome #NetworkManager #phoningHome

@schestowitz
#Mozilla now sell #advertising from the #Homescreen, how can we tell what data they are #phoningHome, eg are these adverts targeted etc.

That is a concerning development. And why we advocate the use of #TorBrowser (and #i2p) etc.