The Signal From Tolva has a free expansion with a new Polar Region to explore

Big Robot Ltd has given all owners of The Signal From Tolva a big update with an entirely new area: The Polar Regions.

This new free expansion will give you a new map to explore, new missions and a new story. There's new secrets to discover, some difficult combat and talk of a maze to complete at the end. The new campaign is actually set before the original and it has a new soundtrack too.

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I've tested it out myself and it works just as well as the original campaign. It's a strange game really, a lot of it is quite lonely exploration with random sections of combat mixed in. The combat isn't massively exciting either, something about the gunplay just feels too static, it's hard to describe but as an avid FPS fan I don't find the combat all that great. There's a lot worse and it can be quite fun in certain situations, like when you're outnumbered and friendly robots suddenly come running in to help.

It's a nice experience overall and quite a beautiful game, just don't go into it expect some seriously slick FPS action. It's more for those who love a good sci-fi setting with exploration. Nice to see it continued to be updated, especially a whole new campaign for free, it's not often we see that kind of effort.

Here's a few shots from the Linux version:

Performance on highest settings on Linux seems to be okay in the new area, with it staying mostly around 60FPS.

Find it on: Humble Store, GOG, Steam.

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