wooooo sounds sooo good. I'll give it a try ASAP

I’m curious to try this game as well.

Audio doesn't work when I play it on my phone, but at least it works on my pc. nice find!

Wow this one's great!

I just unlocked the second area, though I did unfortunately break the game at one point by beating the alien boss before I was supposed to .

Ironically, the problem I kept having was running into bosses before I had got enough chips for the upgrades to fight them, since it seems the differences between regular fights and bosses is quite large and in the first area at least, I didn't get to the point of needing to turn back before running into the boss, and with no flee, or back off options prior to the encounter, it basically meant a wasted trip.
Indeed, the only way I found of avoiding it was keeping track of how far out, IE how much the return cost, was.

This is awesome though, love the exploration, weird world and combats.

My only miner downer is a personal one similar to that I've seen in some of the cog games, which is that my character doesn't really feel like he's behaving like a straight guy, EG pouting, having people tell him he's cute etc, which would be %100 fine if my character weren't! a straight guy.

Again, I suspect this is a consequence of trying to satisfy all romantic interaction options with the same npc and a few basic toggles, but personally, I'd really prefer if I were just playing a single defined character here with their own personality, love interest etc, , rather than an attempt by an author who seems to be writing for one gender/sexuality to make one size fits all.

Certainly not a deal breaker, I love the game, and atmosphere, but I do find it takes me out of the story a little sometimes.

@Jase, just got past that bit myself.

The game actually has those sorts of questions covered, use the talk option to talk to esra and she/he will tell you where to go next, though you might need to level up to take on the next boss.

I will say in fairness to the design, I'm now getting to the point where zones are large enough that I have to actually head back, also the boss encounters now come with yes/no prompts which is nice, so it seems only the first couple of fights in the ruins had the problem of you running into them when just chip harvesting.

Oh, and thumbs up for the classic scifi references, my lady will be most amused when I tell her this one references anne McCaffery .

so i have a question
does this game have a roguelike element like random generated things so i can replay many times?

spoilers ahoy! stop here if you don't want delta colony spoiled.

Oddly enough, in my game the expedition members were injured not killed, and while I did wind up in the deathtrap with Shay, I shot myself in the head, died, and returned and rescued her a week later.

I also got the choice of how to deal with the food thief, and  chose to threaten rather than kill him, which worked.

Btw, not sure if you have to toggle the lethal setting for this.
mostly I've been playing none lethal combats, accept for a couple of occasions where subduing gave error messages, like the first alien you encounter outside the ruins, which I suspect are bugs which will be solved in later versions.

There is! another portion later where you can choose an alternative for dealing with a situation, I decided to grind my levels and abilities up until I could handle three rather tough fights one after another, leading to what was imho the best outcome, or at least the one that got fewest people killed.

I suspect, at least given the revealed backstory of the game, I am getting close to the end now, or at least approaching the final area, given I've maxed out several of my upgrades, though actually I was thinking that previously and found it not to be the case.

I am really enjoying the exploration, fights and evolving story in this one, even if the occasional mangled pronouns make me wince occasionally, though it would be sort of nice to see somethign that didn't! depict humanity as basically doomed to destroy themselves, contrasted against noble primitive hunters and benign robots who are really nice when you get to know them .

'Jase, weirdly enough, appearance isn't tied to abilities, you can still have all the upgrades in any of your forms, but yes, having the wrong appearance will definitely get you killed.

In terms of tactics, this one actually favours all rounders and upgrading as much as you can, especially considering that the upgrade pricing scale literally goes up by a factor of 10 per level of upgrade, meaning you could get 10 level 1 upgrades for the price of one level 2 one, etc.

Also, there are a lot of points in the game that require you to use literally everything, EG enemies that you need to use physical attacks on, others you need to shoot, some you need to use the stun or acid on, times you need to just defend  etc, indeed most of the tactics in the game are more a case of finding the right tool for the given situation, than just finding a single ste of winning strategies.

I've now also got one ending, though from the looks of it there are a great many others available, there's also the option to new game plus just before the point that the path diverges most heavily which is interesting, though for the second run I think I'd like to try playing through on hard.

Okay, I admit my complaints with some aspects of the plot were somewhat dealt with, or at least slightly explained by the ending I got, EG why the aliens didn't really feel alien enough to me.

though it was a little biz wordy in places, and the moral a bit heavy handed; especially given the rather clunky pronowns that did make getting to grips with character personalities a bit difficult at times, in the end it did work! I particularly liked the classic scifi references at the end, .

Definitely one I'll be replaying.

And here for sense of completeness is my final score, and don't worry, it's not got spoilers:

Your Final Score
Title
Champion of Trigaea
Lowest Difficulty Level Used
Normal
Level
21
Opponents Subdued
147
Opponents Talked Around
22
Machines Healed
0
Killed - Humans (Colonists)
0
Killed - Humans (Outer Tribes)
0
Killed - Machines (Infected)
0
Killed - Machines (Other)
0
Killed - X'irii
2
Killed - Beasts
1
Times Died
14
Total Chips Collected
663.62k

@Jase, as a hint, you'll know you're getting close to the end when you run across Leon agaon, though I'm not sure at this point how much there is after this, as I suspect the path I personally took possibly shortened things slightly.

I'm going to try a new game on hard and try different options, as well as pick up the last few upgrades, and some more character levels, as well as trying as a lady this time around.

Edit: ooh, cool, seems the dev uploaded a short bugfix version with properly labeled buttons and stats just this morning! So I'd suggest people redownload the game.

Okay, I'll admit the ng+ isn't quite as much fun, since with all the upgrades, most fights are literally one hit kills, I can see why you have the option of restoring close to the ending.

I'm also going lethal in combat now, though imho none lethal is rather more fun.

I have started to play this game. So far, I think it’s pretty interesting although I haven’t gotten very far yet. Sadly, I’m playing a game on my iPhone and it appears the sound effects won’t work there. I guess I’ll have to try it on a PC at another time.

@Jase, after the ending screen with the credits etc, after you hit "new game", there should be several buttons "restart from the beginning", and restart just before you meet you know who."

The only sad thing, is I don't think it tracks which endings you've seen, that and as I said, the new game even from the beginning isn't half as much fun.