Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week, he descends into the depths of a demon-infested moon base in Jupiter Hell.
Developer: ChaosForge
Publisher: ChaosForge
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows, Mac, Linux
From: Steam
For: 19.49, $25, 21
Often I think my life would be better if it operated as a roguelike, where I could wait as long as I needed before every step I took, to consider all possible moves before committing to one. In practice, the ability to pause time for a think would be a kind of living hell. At age three I would become wracked with decision paralysis for two centuries next to some swings. By fifteen I would be many thousands of years old inside my skull, an ancient god trapped inside his own decaying mind, having spent a few millenia here and there trying to think of which words, when spoken in the right order, would make me seem cool in front of an older boy.