But the story itself is often told in a clumsy way-through large exposition dumps, or long conversations with prisoners or enemies that ended up making my eyes glaze over after a few minutes. The mystery is interesting, and something that propelled me forward, even when the gameplay got a little repetitive. Smarter than humans, they were so ubiquitous as to make life without them a hardship-causing billions of deaths when they shut off–and people continue to die without the Omnis and the Empire. The whole enterprise is set on the back of a mystery, the main question being: what or who shut down the Omnis? The Omnis are the the robot caretakers that enabled human interstellar colonies to thrive, and made space travel easier. The story is deep, and the lore is well thought-out. But Idaho is reborn as a clone with no emotional memory-much like a robot, with his only directive being: seek out answers. The game starts when Admiral Idaho awakes from cloning, and is informed by the last remaining Omni robot that he just died, and is now reborn. To do this, Admiral Idaho has to lead his battleship and its fleets of ships across dangerous sectors of space. In it, you play as a clone, Admiral Ellys Idaho, who is trying to find the answers as to why the Empire he serves collapsed and the robotic Omni servants shut down. Crying Suns feels like it would be the answer to that.Ĭrying Suns is a strategy-based rogue-lite that takes inspiration from FTL, and some cues from Homeworld. Despite thinking that’s a great design philosophy, I always wondered what it would be like to have more fat, and what would transpire if FTL was set to a grander scale. FTL is a small, hyper-focused game that cuts out all of the fat and keeps the strategy the main focus.
In both games you control a lone ship against impossible odds, using your wits and relying on a bit of luck to scavenge supplies from encounters and make your way to the goal intact. Crying Suns keeps getting compared to FTL: Faster Than Light-and for good reason.
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