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Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Linux • 2014

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Quick resume

As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life.

Global score

92/100

Genres

Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Free To Play, Adventure, Visual Novel

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    Pros

    • Free to play
    • Engaging story with moral choices
    • Challenging tactical combat
    • Well-developed characters
    • Excellent soundtrack

    Cons

    • Some technical issues and crashes
    • Combat difficulty spikes
    • Linear story progression
    • Limited replay value without multiple endings
    • Basic graphics and animations

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention during combat and story; not suited for casual or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Leadership, Survival, Violence, Strategy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Experimenting.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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