CAT Interstellar

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6.6

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  1. kezzyhko
    Aug 6, 2020
    4
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  2. Xzenor
    Mar 4, 2020
    6
    It's not a full game. It's a demo.
    Finished it within an hour. The story abruptly just stops, like you have to buy the full game to get the    It's not a full game. It's a demo.
    Finished it within an hour. The story abruptly just stops, like you have to buy the full game to get the rest of it.
    Except, there is no full game.

    I had fun playing though but just keep in mind that you're actually paying for something that's normally a free demo for a complete game.    … Full Review »
  3. PublicNuisance
    May 20, 2019
    6
    Cat Interstellar drew me in by mentioning it was based off of a short story from Robert A Heinlein whose writing I enjoy. The developer wasCat Interstellar drew me in by mentioning it was based off of a short story from Robert A Heinlein whose writing I enjoy. The developer was also a delight to deal with on the Steam forums trying to help out whenever they could with issues which is always good to see. I really wanted to like this game and in some ways I did but overall it had too many negatives to recommend it.

    The gameplay itself is simple but enjoyable. You play as a Dog class android whose job it is to go down to Mars and investigate missing androids who got lost in some caves as well as optionally help out with other tasks to reveal more backstory. The gameplay is mainly completing tasks like navigating the evnvironment and turning on consoles. The intro to the game brings you to a hub area where you can choose which mission to play. You can play them in order or not. The game is not a long game. I finished the 5 missions in 52 minutes. The story is the real strength as well as a sore spot. I really liked where it was going and the potential of it but I feel it was not explored enough as well as the ending was really abrupt. It leaves many questions that our imaginations aren’t given enough details to really fill in.

    I had many crashes when the game was trying to launch over the last several months. It worked fine when I first bought it but then started crashing a while later. I tried several different Linux distros with different kernels and Mesa drivers. Luckily the game started launching again recently so I decided to play through it while I could. The game never crashed once it launched. I quickly realized I couldn’t have my 3 monitors plugged in for this game. If I did when the game launched I couldn’t click on any of the menu buttons and several keys didn’t work properly for the key mappings. For example “W” to move forward would spin me around. After unplugging my 3rd monitor and having just my main monitor and secondary plugged in the problem stopped. The game is locked to 60 FPS. There is an option for Vsync but it still only went to 60 FPS and I couldn’t get it to go to 144 hz like my monitor supports. The game is fluid though as it’s not a fast paced game. It ran at a constant 60 FPS for me aside from a couple moments in the caves where during a cave in it dropped to 48 FPS for a few seconds. Alt-Tab doesn’t work. There are no manual save options but with the short length of the missions and game it’s not really an issue. There are two settings for AA and two other graphics settings to adjust. The game uses the Unreal Engine 4.10 and takes up 6.31GB of disk space.

    I think if the story was fleshed out more I would be able to give the game a higher score and recommend it. As it is the crashes, abrupt ending and general lack of polish keep me from doing so. The gameplay is decent, the story is interesting so there are good points to it’s favor and there are enjoyable parts to it. I paid $5.49 CAD for Cat Interstellar and I feel it’s a fair price for it. Had I not had the issues with it that I did than I would have said the $10 range would have been alright as well. This is not a bad game but one that couldn’t realize it’s potential.

    My Score: 6.5/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 19.0.4 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro 18.0.4 | Mate 1.22.1 | Kernel 5.1.1-2-MANJARO    … Full Review »
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