When opening this game for the first time I realized that this was going to be a different experience. I was completely right. Hi my name is phant0m and these are my thoughts on… Sixty Four.
Visuals
First thing you’ll notice about this game is the fact that it takes place on a white open plane that is literally empty, but slowly you end up filling it out. After a while you’ll have multiple blocks all over the place, random structures all over the place. And eventually this white plane does become a more colorful and filled up area, but sadly I couldn’t help but feel that it was still way too bare bones. As a matter of fact I remember booting up the games a few times ending up completely bored at the colors, and being dulled out by how little new things you’ll see. At times there would be random encounters of some weird looking things that would change up the visuals. There was also a twist in the game that introduced new visuals, that did excite me a bit more!
Gameplay
The gameplay here might be familiar. To those who regularly play the tycoon genre, or maybe the clicker genre, and maybe mobile game enthusiasts. You will quite literally feel at home! Because this game has you produce cubes by holding the left mouse button on a structure, then you will take down said cubes by clicking on them multiple times until they break and give you materials, this is how you can explain nearly the entirety of the game. After repeating these steps multiple times, you’ll find yourself with different upgrades to collect towards. Although they all ultimately help you, they just don’t seem beneficial enough to make me want to keep playing. I just really felt like closing the game more times than grinding to a certain amount of supplies. Like I said earlier. It just bored me. And sadly that ended up being the entire gameplay loop, there wasn’t much outside of that, which ended up being a good thing, because too many hours would have made this game much duller.
Story
The story on the other hand impressed me, at first when playing this game I didn’t think there would be a story, and surprisingly a pretty good one. The game has a constant messaging system that sounds like messages being passed back and forth between friends, what seems like simple fun messages actually becomes kind of eerie and dark. The game seems to question a lot of ideals within the main character, ideals that the main character doesn’t consider, it gets dark when you reach a twist in the gameplay loops, a twist that also affects the mc, but luckily by the end wraps it up in a pretty nice bowtie. Although a bit different for some people’s taste, I believe most would enjoy the story here as it’s truly a great one.
Music
The music in this game is literally nonexistent, so just turn on some tunes on spotify or something, that would probably be the best case scenario considering how empty the visuals already are for a good chunk of the game.
Performance
The performance is pretty solid here, My computer maintained a high framerate with nearly 0 stops or stuttering or even frame dips, i didnt even experience any crashing. The game also had 0 issues with controller of keyboard inputs
Verdict
If you’re wondering, I kinda do recommend this game. And if you like clickers/tycoons games, Sixty Four isnt a momentous game but it’s definitely an interesting one. With lots of great dialogue and story moments, and a simple design that ties it all together. If you don’t like it, well lets just say you’ll have a worse time with this. I give it a 6/10 Not horrible, not amazing, dead straight in the middle. It seems like a good starting point; with plenty of opportunities to improve either their formula in this game or future ones! Anyways those were my thoughts on Sixty Four! Thx For Reading! Keep doing great things! You’re good at them. Bye 🙂
Side Notes
My PC runs an RX 6750 XT and an Intel i5 13400f. And controller support was absolutely amazing!
