Today we played Our Last Best Hope.

Today we played Our Last Best Hope. In this one, you play a small team of people tasked with saving humanity from an existential crisis (think: Armageddon or World War Z). In our game, terrorists had unleashed a chemical weapon called “Ice-9,” which was causing the oceans to crystallize. Our team was responsible for locating the abandoned Ice-9 research facility at the North Pole, with hopes of being able to reverse engineer the substance using the data we found there. 

This game is a lot of fun. It has a real ‘edge of your seat’ quality to it, as your team is in constant peril. Death is always around the corner, but you have a lot of narrative control over how and when your individual character dies (with a noble self-sacrifice being de rigueur and quite thematic). 

In the end, it was down to the wire. We had a single team member left to eliminate the crisis, and he did so by the slimmest of margins.

One fun feature of the game is MIMIC, your vessel’s AI. We played it very much in the HAL/GLaDOS mode and it was pretty cool.

I enjoyed it and would definitely play it again. Thanks to Alan Schwing, Rob Ferguson and Russell Benner .