spacefall

Last night I started playing Observation: a science fiction/ space horror game in which you play as the AI of a stricken space station. It's the classic space survival scenario with a damaged and apparently unreliable AI, only in this case you aren't playing as the human survivor. The feeling of being dropped into an unfamiliar facility in the midst of crisis reminded me a lot of SOMA, where you explore an abandoned and badly damaged facility, or the lived-in and battered quarters of Alien: Isolation.

Gameplay is similar to Tartarus, with a mix of exploration and computer-based puzzle-solving, albeit based on controller input rather than a command-line interface. As with Lightstep Chronicles, you're restricted to what you can access via the ship's cameras, remotes, and electronic systems. One thing I'm less keen on is the use of time-based puzzles. Still, I don't think Devolver Digital has ever let me down, so I'm hoping to see this one through to the end.

Steam also has a backlog-cleaning event, which ... oh dear.

[ETA: It's really good!]