PsychoCarbo Ambition: A Minuet in Power Review

06/10 Houlala! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ DaVinci created a new reality ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Red Dead Redemption II ☐ Beautifuuuul ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Don't look for too long ☐ Bad ☐ Atari ☐ Tamagotchi ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Can your PC run Paint? ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Entry-level gamer ☐ Fast ☐ Rich Cow ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Story }--- ☐ Story? What story? ☐ One word. Pewpewpew! Three words. Pew pew! ☐ Some fancy talking ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Beautiful! ☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis and Tolkien joined forces to write it ☐ It will replace your life ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Smashing your hand with a hammer would be more fun ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Yeah... no ☐ Mehh ☑ Good ☐ Excellent! ☐ "I know kung fu!" ---{ Grind }--- ☐ You'll need a second life to grind ☐ Grind maniac ☐ Medium grind ☐ Only if you care about achievements ☑ Not necessary ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn, hard to master ☐ Requires attention ☑ Significant use of the brain ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ☐ What's your IQ? ☐ Hawking joined Neil deGrasse Tyson, built a time machine, and recruited Einstein and Tesla to create this game. ---{ Game Length }--- ☐ Time enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Medium ☐ Long ☐ You start, your grandchild finishes ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{ Replayability }--- ☐ One playthrough is enough ☐ Only if you're hunting achievements ☐ Worth it with DLCs ☑ After a few months... years... mods... ☐ You'd better have some free time ☐ Well... it's not like you needed a life anyway ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of any ☐ Minor issues ☐ Can be annoying ☐ You'll be swearing... ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a giant insect breeding ground ---{ Multiplayer }--- ☑ No multiplayer ☐ LAN ☐ It says it has multiplayer, but your PC will explode if you try ☐ A lonely forgotten desert ☐ Meh, it's kind of fun ☐ Call your friends! ☐ Basically an MMO ---{ Audio }--- ☐ I am deaf now ☐ Bad ☑ Acceptable ☐ Good ☐ Very good ☐ Audiogasmic ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Children ☐ Teenagers ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ☑ Everyone ---{ Price }--- ☐ No longer available on Steam ☐ It's free! ☐ Fair price ☑ If it's on sale ☑ If you have some spare money ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ 06 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 I think this is the first time I've played something quite like this. Because Ambition, while it shares some similarities, isn't exactly a visual novel. In fact, there's a lot more strategy here than I expected. Your choices matter, resources are limited, and the game seems to offer several different paths and endings. And maybe that's exactly why I ended up feeling conflicted. Because I can clearly see what the game is trying to do. There is depth here. There is planning. There is decision-making. But for some reason, the experience never really hooked me. More than once, I found myself more interested in seeing the outcome of my choices than actually invested in what was happening. It's not a bad game. Far from it. In fact, I found it interesting precisely because it tries to do something different from what people usually expect from this kind of game. The problem is that, for me, it lacked that special something that makes you think, "Just one more chapter" or "Just one more run." As a result, I finished the experience feeling more curious than excited. I recommend it to people who enjoy narrative-driven games with strategy elements and multiple endings. But honestly, at full price, I find it hard to justify. On sale, though? That's a very different conversation.