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16% of the reviews describe the game as addictive, call it "crack" or a "one more day" game, or report playing until 2, 3 or 4 AM. Some reviews are nothing more than a playtime confession: 12 or 15 hours in a first sitting, a whole weekend gone. One player called it "The game that ruined indie sims for me (in the best way possible)", because it held their attention well past the point where similar sims had lost them.

Each day is short and turn-based, there is always another upgrade or deal within reach, and the weekly rent gives a steady target. A couple of negative reviews see that pull as a problem and compare the game to doomscrolling or a Skinner box, and a couple of players who recommend it joke about uninstalling it to get their free time back.

Reviews keep listing the side trades: purifying sewer water into "pure" grades, breeding rats and fish, growing crops, cooking drugs at the right temperature, 3D-printing gun parts, aging wine, appraising sandwiches and cybernetic hands. Players are surprised that a game set behind one counter goes this far, and some say they had barely scratched the surface after dozens of hours.

None of it is required, and players like that. One wrote that the game has "Lots of varied ways to make money and a wide variety of game mechanics, but critically for a game like this, they are all optional." The systems also connect (clean water grows plants, which feed the rats), and chemistry and water purification are the ones positive reviews most often call deep. Critics disagree. One negative review says that "while this game has many different systems all of them are very shallow and almost identical to each other," and another says drug making and water purification are "kept vague to hide their lack of complexity."

7% of the reviews compare the game to Papers, Please. The inspection side (spotting counterfeits, checking the wanted list, catching Augs) borrows that game's look and feel, and players who explain the difference point to the lack of a clock on customers. "There is no timer forcing you to rush through customers," one wrote, and another said it "doesn't play like a job." Players often call it cozy, chill or relaxing even with crime and rent pressure around it, and say they can play it in short sessions or let it run for hours.

Some came in expecting Papers, Please and left disappointed. They say the story is far lighter, the choices matter less, and the gameplay leans toward trading and inventory management rather than tense document checks.

The reviews are full of crime stories: lacing water with narcotics to bring customers back, relabeling tap water as glacier water, selling 3D-printed guns to the revolution and then reporting the buyer to security, hiding contraband before a surprise inspection. Reputation with Security, the black market, the revolution and the upper and lower levels shapes which risks you can take. Some reviewers got arrested at the end of a long run and started a new one anyway, laughing about it. Some critics feel the factions do not push back on each other enough. Several note you can max reputation with everyone at once, and that Security stops checking a shop it trusts.

Georgio, the junk-selling scavenger, is the character players name most, and Eleanor and Serpico come up too; Officer Lun gets a few mentions, mostly as the villain players love to hate. Players also like the Space Station 13 references and the cameos by streamers such as Ohnepixel and CaseOh (see the split section for those). One reviewer found "so much more world building and characterization than I was expecting."

Several players who recommend the game add that there are too few of these storylines and that they stop without a clear ending. One wrote that "there wasn't enough of these unique character stories overall."

Reviews that bring up the price mostly say the game is worth the money, some mentioning paying about $20 and getting 30, 50 or 100 hours from it. Several say they would happily buy DLC. A few critics disagree and would only pay $5 to $12 for what they saw as a few hours of content, and some advise waiting for a sale until more content arrives.

The pixel art, the dirty cyberpunk setting and the synthwave and lo-fi soundtrack get regular praise. Several players like that new tracks come on cassette tapes you buy from customers, and some say the soundtrack alone was worth it. A few found the music repetitive or the art plain, and some feel the setting is more generic sci-fi than cyberpunk.

Reviews mention the public roadmap, frequent patches, developers who answer bug reports on Discord, and the ability to carry over demo saves. Day-one Steam Workshop support is a plus for players who bring it up. Several use mods for quick saves, real-time clocks and inventory fixes. The catch, raised in several reviews, is that the Workshop filled up fast with low-effort and untranslated mods; one player said "the Workshop is FILLED with AI slop."

A smaller group notes the game runs well on old laptops, Linux through Proton, and modest PCs.