There’s a lot of interesting bits to Doomsday on Demand. On one hand the post apocalyptic world is pretty fleshed out at first as the game goes into detail about different kinds of monsters and hazards. There are some good characters introduced and some difficult choices to make. One of my few issues is that by the end of the game I felt a little pigeon holed in my options and didn’t quite like any of my options fully. I would also say that the epilogue felt a bit rushed and some characters that the game featured early on got little more than a passing mention by the end. The game also felt like it had unresolved plot points. A couple things that felt like they were being made into a focal part of the story just never got mentioned or barely mentioned by the end. Despite this I did enjoy most of the game and felt it was worth it.
I played Doomsday on Demand on Linux. The game has had a rocky history for me. It worked years ago then it went through a period where it would only display a white screen and today it was back to working so I took the opportunity to beat it while I could. I didn’t encounter any other bugs and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. Like other games by Hosted Games the game auto saves on exit and you can’t have multiple save files so every choice you make is for good. I’ve never liked this save style but I understand wanting to add tension to your choices.
Disk Space Used: 239 MB
CPU Usage: 1-8 %
RAM Usage: 3.5-4.1 GB
Overall if you enjoy visual novels I’d say this game is worth your time. I think more could have been done with parts of the story but as it is it was solid enough. I finished it in two hours and four minutes and paid $3.39 CAD for it which felt like a fair price. Hopefully the technical issues stay fixed.
My Score: 7.5/10
My System:
Intel i5-12600K | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | Intel UHD 770 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Western Digital Black SN850 500GB | Trisquel 11 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.6.9-gnu