(This game was a gift from a friend)

The Descendant is a sci-fi Point & Click set inside an underground bunker after a nuclear disaster. The description gives it some Fallout vibes but it's honestly a very different game, but if you've ever played a Telltale game, the dialogue choices will feel very familiar.

You play as two different protagonists:
Donald Freeman, a no-nonsense man who was previously a janitor of a bunker different than the one you're exploring in present day. You're tasked with rebooting the systems of the ark, finding out why the cryogenically frozen descendants weren't woken up along with the other arks, and waking them yourself.

And Mia Howard, a resourceful woman who is janitor of the bunk Donald is exploring, but centuries in the past just after the bombs fell. As Mia, you're tasked with fixing any errors and issues that pop up in the ark's mechanical and electrical systems that would threaten the descendants.

As both of them you complete various puzzles around the inside of the ark, all of them fairly unique from each other, and along the way you learn what happened to Mia, why the ark didn't wake up, and why Donald is actually there. It's a pretty gripping story with some twists you don't really see coming.

The graphics are also very nice, although sometimes lips don't quite match up to the dialogue (or move at all for dialogue). Some of the animations also don't line up quite right (swiping a keycard on the door itself instead of the keypad) but it's good overall.

The voice acting is great, although the actor for Donald has a very... unique accent. It isn't hard to understand, it's just hard to place where he's supposed to be from. The music and sound effects are also very fitting, if forgettable.

But, I do have some gripes about it.

The camera angles specifically are annoying. While it makes sense for the story that you're watching your characters from a fixed angle, as if you're a security camera, the transitions to a new angle are jarring and more often than not lead to you clicking wrong and running in a circle or going backwards.

You also can't speed up any dialogue at all. I understand not being able to completely skip conversations (I wouldn't want to since decisions do change dialogue) but not being able to skip to the next dialogue is incredibly annoying. I read a lot faster than the voice actors speak, and when you have to replay certain episodes over a few times for all of the achievements, I'd like to be able to skip forward if I recognize that the dialogue is the same.

That said, I still give this an overwhelming recommend. I'd suggest waiting for a sale because $15 is a little much for ~9 hours, and because it has been as cheap as $1.00 in previous sales through third party websites ( $1.50 on Steam).