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  1. Nov 4, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very short.

    Was fun for the first half of the game until it threw in a twist out of nowhere. You don't really get a full picture of what is happening in the story, and I feel like it could have done with another chapter or two in order to really flesh things out. The ending does not make a ton of sense given the context of the rest of the game. It starts out as a very gritty crime drama, escalates to a full-blown conspiracy, and ends suddenly with you dying because, aliens? The art, writing, and music are all top notch.
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  1. Nov 29, 2021
    96
    Backbone isn’t an overly long game, maybe 5-6 hours at most, but what it does in its trim time frame is craft a world and characters that we care about, a narrative that is constantly intriguing and surprising, and offer us just enough interactivity that we can progress almost without having to worry about any challenge. It’s a marvellous example of what the indie game space can do, and a title that everyone with – or without – a Game Pass subscription should check out.