REVIEW Ixion
Genre-hopping from the skirmishes of Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus to the automated production chains, developer Bulwark comes up with a compelling premise: what do you do when your experimental vessel accidentally dislodges a chunk of the moon, ending humanity’s existence on Earth? But the migration from squad-based tactics to colony administration and trauma management comes with a cavalcade of technical hiccups.
You would think that, with so much Greek nomenclature going around, someone would have bothered double-checking the brand on whose hands the future of humanity rests. You see, Dolos, the name both of the company that funds your ambitious endeavor into space and the CEO whose philanthropic proclamations sound fishy even before catastrophe strikes, means ‘malice’ in Greek, which, in retrospect, paints the ‘accident’ that nearly wipes out the species in a new light.
Stranded in the Milky Way, my first concern as administrator of the Tiqqun space station is to ensure the continued survival of the crew and discover what went so wrong during launch. As
