Reviewers Liked
- A good challenge. Some neat ideas that come together in places
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Randomness is unfair at times. Nothing truly original
Skyshines Bedlam
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By Hooked Gamers
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Off to the wasteland Skyshine's Bedlam combines a couple of modern gaming mainstays: permadeath, and a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's a game about making it across this wasteland to the rumoured utopia of Aztec City. But it's not just you, you have...
By Gaming Illustrated
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Skyshine's Bedlam offers an addictive tactical experience where player choices affect how the game and story plays out. The randomized events during each playthrough make choices fresh every time you start a new game. It also gives the game a solid...
By videogamesuncovered.com
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Skyshine's Bedlam is so caught up in using all these mechanics from the indie toolbox, that it forgets to forge its own identity as a game. A ultimately shallow RPG, which has nothing as of yet to establish itself as a diamond amongst the rough wastes...
By moviesgamesandtech.com
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In principle your goal in Bedlam is simple, reach the Aztec City and its promises of relief from a barren apocalyptic desert. To get you there you need wheels, or claws actually in some cases. Not just any wheels but impossibly gigantic ‘Dozers' made...
By CGM
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Perhaps more than any other tactics-based game, Skyshine's Bedlam both rewards and punishes well-thought-out...
By Cheat Code Central
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No one ever asked for a video game that was one part Roguelike, one part Oregon Trail, one part Mad Max, and one part tabletop miniatures game, but Skyshine is giving it to us anyway in Skyshine's Bedlam. Bedlam was one of the biggest and most pleasant...
By eurogamer.net
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Permadeath can make all the difference. With the right game built around it this one simple not-really-a-word can transform a player's experience into something that feels consistently important. Screw up and you suffer the consequences, but if you make...
By The Wargamer
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We picked the wrong year to go to Burning ManSkyshine's Bedlam is one of the most brutally unsentimental games I have ever played. This is a tactical combat game where the average squaddies' life expectancy makes X-Com look like a day at the paintball...
By gamestar.de
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Benjamin Danneberg: Ich gebe zu: Obwohl eine komplette Runde in ca. anderthalb Stunden zu schaffen ist, habe ich es in 15 Stunden nicht fertig gebracht, Bedlam zu knacken. Ich hasse dieses Spiel. Und ich liebe es. Kein anderes Spiel hat es bisher...
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