Badge catalogue
315 badges for the good bits, the bad decisions and everything that earned a closer look.
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315 badges
- Positive Systems With Teeth ✓
Systems and depth
The systems react, collide and punish lazy decisions.
2 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Targeting Betrayal +2
Gameplay
Target selected: the decorative pot behind the actual threat.
View badge → - Circus badge Terms Changed Mid-Game +3
Monetisation, platforms and ownership
The deal changed after the money and users were safely inside.
View badge → - Positive The Art Team Carried It ✓
Art and animation
The artwork keeps making me interested in a game that keeps giving me reasons to leave.
1 post with this badge → - Positive The Audio Does Half The Work ✓
Sound and performance
The sound does a fantastic job of making you feel like you are there.
View badge → - Positive The Bones Are Good ✓
Early access
The core idea works. I want to see what they do with the rest before recommending it.
View badge → - Positive The Bugs Made It Funnier ✓
Polish
Completely broken. Also the funniest thing the game managed.
View badge → - Circus badge The Future Has Been Decided +2
PR and hype
A corporate business plan announced as the inevitable future of humanity.
2 posts with this badge → - Circus badge The Game Plays Itself +2
Gameplay
Very impressive to watch. Occasionally remembers there is supposed to be a player involved.
1 post with this badge → - Positive The Game Pushes Back ✓
Gameplay
The game reacts to your plan and occasionally ruins it. Good.
View badge → - Positive The Loop Has Me ✓
Overall verdict
I know exactly what the game is doing to keep me playing. It is bloody working.
1 post with this badge → - Positive The Plot Twist Landed ✓
Story and writing
The reveal lands cleanly. Nobody had to become an idiot to make it work.
View badge → - Circus badge The Trailer Got The Budget +3
Budget, ambition and jank
The campaign made this look enormous. Playing it makes you wonder where the development budget went.
View badge → - Circus badge The View Fights Back +2
Gameplay
Would quite like to see what I am doing. The camera has other priorities.
3 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Time Vampire +3
Player time
Fifty hours of recycled chores. Basically employment with worse benefits.
8 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Too Powerful Until Next Month +2
PR and hype
Today’s forbidden supertechnology becomes next month’s budget tier.
1 post with this badge → - Positive Took Responsibility ✓
Company conduct
They named the mistake, owned it and started repairing the damage.
View badge → - Positive Tools With Personality ✓
Gameplay
Each tool has uses the others cannot cover. Worth learning what all of them can do.
2 posts with this badge → - Circus badge Tooltip Avalanche +1
Systems and depth
An exhausting amount of text for something that still manages to be badly explained.
View badge → - Circus badge Touch Grass Needed +1
Money and management
An astonishing amount of confidence from people this disconnected from everyone else.
9 posts with this badge → - Positive Tough But Fair ✓
Gameplay
It pushes hard and plays fair. Your stupid mistake belongs to you.
View badge → - Circus badge Toxic Cesspool +3
Multiplayer
The real ranked mode is surviving everybody else’s personality.
View badge → - Circus badge Trope Recycler +1
Story and writing
Recognisable character types doing their expected scenes. Nobody has done much else with them.
10 posts with this badge → - Positive Ugly As Sin, Somehow Works ✓
Art and animation
Ugly as sin and completely committed to it. Fair enough.
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