Dex is a game that went kicking and screaming. (tldr included at the bottom)

There are a lot of design choices here that really didn't work well. For example, you really HAVE to savescum. In order to add more to each area they have doors set in the backdrop that you can enter and exit through, this has been done before, but the problem is that you cannot possibly know what's on the other side, and often it's a trap, where you will be surrounded and instantly die. There are no skills to allow you to peek or anything like that. The only choice is to savescum at every opportunity...

There are many instant death falls, and what you can "land" on is often indistinguishable from the backdrop (they often use the same art for both). So again, more savescumming before every jump and leap of faith. and to really put a cherry on it, there's very aggressive fall damage.

The combat is clunky, and with AI that happily swivels on that terrible AI pivot of being both incredibly stupid and perfectly accurate, you'll have find the one way to kill enemies without taking damage or just hemmorage money and resources through the whole game. Once you do find that solution, you use it to breeze through every enemy you find. And never use another bullet again. I found myself getting into gunfights just because I was bored to tears and wanted to use all the guns and ammo I had stockpiled, and after sitting there trading blows akin to a JRPG and having my ammo and health whittled down, I was reminded why it's a bad idea.

"hacking" is just a joke. It's like they smacked a thoughtless phone game on top of it just to, whatever, zoom around and shoot colorful balls at things. easy, boring, tedious, and time consuming

Voice acting is painfully bad. at least you can turn the voice volume to 0. I did, and enjoyed the game that much more for it.

Total game length is really short. I did every quest, and talked to every NPC out there, and even left the game paused by mistake for hours on end on multiple occasions and only racked up 20 hours.


TLDR: There's definitely some love put in to this game, the idea is solid, the story is... okay, the atmosphere is where it should be for a game like this, but it just doesn't work overall, it has no polish and the small budget they clearly had wasn't used well. I had some fun with it eventually, but it was rough going.

If you're looking for a dystopian cyberpunk experience, you just can't go wrong with the shadowrun games instead, they're far and away better on all fronts and less expensive than this game to boot.

Dex is a game that went kicking and screaming. (tldr included at the bottom) There are a lot of design choices here that really didn't work well. For example, you really HAVE to savescum. In order to add more to each area they have doors set in the backdrop that you can enter and exit through, this has been done before, but the problem is that you cannot possibly know what's on the other side, and often it's a trap, where you will be surrounded and instantly die. There are no skills to allow you to peek or anything like that. The only choice is to savescum at every opportunity... There are many instant death falls, and what you can "land" on is often indistinguishable from the backdrop (they often use the same art for both). So again, more savescumming before every jump and leap of faith. and to really put a cherry on it, there's very aggressive fall damage. The combat is clunky, and with AI that happily swivels on that terrible AI pivot of being both incredibly stupid and perfectly accurate, you'll have find the one way to kill enemies without taking damage or just hemmorage money and resources through the whole game. Once you do find that solution, you use it to breeze through every enemy you find. And never use another bullet again. I found myself getting into gunfights just because I was bored to tears and wanted to use all the guns and ammo I had stockpiled, and after sitting there trading blows akin to a JRPG and having my ammo and health whittled down, I was reminded why it's a bad idea. "hacking" is just a joke. It's like they smacked a thoughtless phone game on top of it just to, whatever, zoom around and shoot colorful balls at things. easy, boring, tedious, and time consuming Voice acting is painfully bad. at least you can turn the voice volume to 0. I did, and enjoyed the game that much more for it. Total game length is really short. I did every quest, and talked to every NPC out there, and even left the game paused by mistake for hours on end on multiple occasions and only racked up 20 hours. TLDR: There's definitely some love put in to this game, the idea is solid, the story is... okay, the atmosphere is where it should be for a game like this, but it just doesn't work overall, it has no polish and the small budget they clearly had wasn't used well. I had some fun with it eventually, but it was rough going. If you're looking for a dystopian cyberpunk experience, you just can't go wrong with the shadowrun games instead, they're far and away better on all fronts and less expensive than this game to boot.