I'm having an ANEURISM

[MrChester]

Y'all ever heard of this game?

It's hardcore af. Kinda like a cross between gmod and 1984. Very lite rp meets a dystopian survival sim. You join a server, are issued a number (which acts as your only identification, so if you wanna be a massive fucking weirdo, no one will ever know), and can take on a variety of roles within the city of Aneurism IV. Stuff like working your ass off as a filthy proletariat, executing criminals as a filthy cop pig, or causing a ruckus as a filthy underground-dwelling cultist.

I haven't spoken to loads of people on this forum, but from the people I have spoken to, I think this could easily be someone's new favourite game.
It's a bit of a genre breaker, so let me sum up some of my experiences during the first few hours of playing, and if you find any of this stuff interesting, check it out for yourself:

- A guy asked if I was new to the game and I said yes so he gave me a beverage for free. I gave the beverage to my friend and he immediately died upon drinking it.
- As a prole I met a guy at the laundromat, who I asked about how the game works. Another guy joined in on doing laundry, and another showed up with a radio. We chilled on and off at the laundromat just doing laundry and listening to beats for like an hour and when it got quiet I haggled for the radio and bought it.
- As a doctor I saw a guard was low on health so I healed them but it turned out they had gone rogue and were a wanted criminal, and by helping them I was now wanted too. We part and I round a corner, see a police dude and run away. The police catch me and he doesn't shoot but asks "why?", I tell him it was a rogue guard and I didn't know, but then before he can say anything, the rogue guard busts in and blitz them down in front of me. The guard says "it's ok", runs out the door and get slaughtered by some more police who proceed to bust in and gun me down as an accomplice.
- As a scumbag I spawned in the undergorund to meet a guy who I quickly realised was very VERY concerned with the meta of the game (something common amongst cultist players) and had stock piled all of the underground chests with tons of guns and other dangerous contraband. He armed me up, legit sweettalked a doctor into healing me (illegal), and we went to raid the surface. I then almost immediately got spotted by armed guards and mistakenly jumped straight into a meat grinder in my haste to escape.

Really awesome, chaotic game. Perfect blend of social but still very comfortably detached. Totally engrossing. Give it a look

 

[trickybus]

I like the concept but I think this boils down to how much one is willing to tolerate the shenanigans of others players, especially when they're disruptive.

I do love the use of color as shown in the Steam page screenshots. It's eccentric in a way that conveys the dilapidated state of the setting. Not only do the colors set the tone, they also seem to visually categorize the different elements on screen

 

[MrChester]

I like the concept but I think this boils down to how much one is willing to tolerate the shenanigans of others players, especially when they're disruptive.

I do love the use of color as shown in the Steam page screenshots. It's eccentric in a way that conveys the dilapidated state of the setting. Not only do the colors set the tone, they also seem to visually categorize the different elements on screen

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I've seen people complaining about other people's shenanigans but I think that kinda misses the point of the setting. Without getting too socio-political, there's this concept in Laissez-faire capitalism that suggests that capitalism is necessary as a means to defend what is yours. This game challenges that by putting you into a hyper-capitalistic society and making you fend for yourself. It highlights how the "defend what is yours" aspect of Objectivism is only necessary because capitalism promotes selfishness and a willingness to fuck over your fellow man. As well, it highlights how it's impossible to defend yourself in a system that denies you the necessary resources to keep yourself safe. There's currency but if you've played the game you know just how much more useful connections are than cash. You ever play Bioshock 2? This game is probably what it was like to be a Rapture citizen. If you're a prole (the lowest of the low), and you're getting harassed by a cultist, you either gotta go to the police and hope they do something, talk it out with the cultist directly and hope they don't whack you, or get some contraband and illegally clear them off yourself and hope you aren't killed in the process - it's tough, but that's the point of playing a prole (and also, realistically, you only need to be a prole for like 10 mins max whenever you join a new server so I don't see the big deal anyway).

Secondly - and much less politically charged - this is a minecraft anarchy server of a game. Balance this, meta that: nah - imo this is not the right place for that sort of granular adjustment. There are trolls, and if being trolled makes you really upset, yeah, it's probably not the game for you, but it's not like they can be that disruptive anyway

 

[FlowersSunRain]

I've played this game a decent amount, and it's a lot of fun! It can be fairly funny and stressful, especially during wartime or the purge.
I like the amount of player responsibility there is, if people aren't doing what they're supposed to then things can quickly get completely out of control, having players basically control the banking system especially is really funny.