ATOM RPG: Post-Apocalyptic Indie Game (2017)

I thought this game was mid but I really like CRPGs, so I had fun with it. There's a lot of bloat to the game, especially with the NPCs. For some reason the devs decided that the player needed to be able to have a conversation with every NPC. The problem is that writing an interesting conversation for 500+ NPCs is basically impossible for a team this size, so most of the conversations are boring and pointless. It makes it hard to distinguish the interesting NPCs from the NPCs that are just there to fill space. Which is a problem because sometimes random NPCs will say something interesting, but most of the time it's boring filler, so you have to talk to every NPC to hope that one of them has something interesting to say.

In order to make every NPC have a dialogue tree, they have to make it so that you ask the NPCs the exact same 4 questions: What can you tell me about my quest, who are you, where are we, heard any rumours. For Every NPC. It just makes it really boring to talk to the NPCs.

All that is a shame because there's some really interesting environments in this game.