The Station

With the easy games of my Bean Dive slowly coming to an end and the many, many horrible issues I’ve had with my hard drive on the Xbox One filling up (to the point where I’ve uninstalled Elder Scrolls online with its 90GB of space), I thought I would take the time to knock out a few of those smaller games I bought that auto installed on the drive that take a relatively small time to complete. The Station was the first of these that I started and finished in one sitting due to its easy list and short completion time.

The idea of The Station is that you are exploring an abandoned space station in search of survivors after a distress signal was sent out. Some aliens have attacked it and you need to find out what’s happened. This is no lead dialogue, the object of the game is to explore and find stuff. I thought the story was very meh right up until the end and I get the feeling this was the one reason the game was made. And I enjoyed it. It made the playthrough, despite its brevity, worthwhile.

Gameplay there’s not a lot to do. It’s essentially a non-combat walking simulator that’s better than the others because it has a story and doesn’t concentrate on art of fannying around with some highbrow other meaning bullshit.

Musically and graphically it’s atmospheric and pretty. It’s doesn’t outstay it’s welcome in terms of the music and if you don’t spend too long staring at the scenery, you are unlikely to notice the imperfections there too.

Achievements – 1,000 Points – 11 Achievements

With six of these being unmissable story related achievements and the other five being missable ones, there’s not a lot to talk about here. The entire thing can be done in less than an hour too.

The missable ones relate to solving puzzles, finding specific items and picking up all the audio logs. The audio logs are quite easy to see as they are big blue orbs. The puzzles were relatively tricky and involve some clever mind work but they, like many other things, are made easy with the use of a guide as they don’t change per playthrough.

Downloadable Content – N/A

The Station, while being a quick completion with an easy achievement list suffers massively from overpricing. I got it in a sale for around £4 which is probably about worth it. It retails at £11.99 which, for an experience of less than an hour, simply isn’t worth it for the story.