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Beautiful Desolation (PC)

Other than the crappy cop out ending, I recommend this. So usual for a post-apoc game to be all about how humans continue to survive and nothing really changes blahblahblah. This game takes place centuries after the end, to the point that nobody even remembers what exactly happened. The world does thrive, but is instead filled with these weird inhabitants, some mutated, others mechanical. Or a combination of both. There are alot of moral quandries in this game and the choices while obvious, still make you want to see them all as it isn't just as simple as good=great and bad=worse choices. In an interesting twist though, your choices don't really affect the ending in that you play in the future, and the ending dictates what kind of asshole/saint you were decades ago.

One thing I really like is the lore and worldbuilding. It does that Dark Souls thing where not everything is explained and so the mystery is up to you to piece together and speculate. I think kinda get what the ending is going for, and to truly understand it unfortunately you're going to have to go back and get like 4 more kinds of endings (and a secret 5th one) which I don't wanna bother honestly. Though beautiful and mystical in its appeal and aesthetic, the game is rife with traditional point-click adventure foibles like pixel hunting and backtracking. And it'd be fine, if you didn't move so slow and everytime you jump into a world you have to call your ship and jump through a gate and land and---its padding basically.

Play it once. Maybe twice a week after, then be done with it unless you're an achievement hunter.

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