Absolutely phenomenal, got my first game to the table over last weekend and we had a blast. I have had it for a couple years, browsing through it and loving the setting and vibes. The loosey-gooseyness and awesome setting and unique mechanics are just perfect for me.

I know some folks are mentioning that it is hard to hit some targets with say a 1D skill. Something I would mention is:

• Remember players can push gear which can give them +1D
• They can take advantage of the environment or tools which might give them another +1D
• They can use resolve to get another +1D
• You can also implement the house-rule of "help" in my game I allowed players to help one another if it made sense, one person was firing a mounted canon and the other who had high-wits was scouting which granted them +2D to the canon shots.
• My creatures could blob together so a bunch of 1D creatures could still be a threat. (5 skeletons rolling 5D instead of 1 each)

The humor and wildly spiky tongue in cheek take on "Grimdark" Scifi is really good. The rules themself are pretty uninteresting to me personally. Everything from the dice mechanics, armor is just hit points system, and enemies having some truly bizarre and limited random combat actions just does not make me want to ever play or run the game. Oh and the entire pages with one quote are very meh. Art is excellent and really great at conveying the games tone.

But. I got the game in a sale so I do not regret the purchase.

I will say for no particular reason I am not a fan of the Index Card RPG system either BUT I really think this game could have been my perfect merger of the two. Index Card plus VDS setting and some specific mechanics would have been very neat.

While it is not the game for me, I can see it appealing to Index Card RPG fans who should check it out.

The tone, the layout, the art style, it's all good.

The things I loved less are the mechanics. In short, the values don't scale well. I mean, if you have 1d in a "skill", and you have to beat a difficulty "slightly" bigger than your skill, for example 2d (rolled and summed up), you have very few chances to make it. This is true in reverse: if you have a skill of 3d (again, rolled and summed up), you are almost sure to obliterate everything that have 1d or 2d against you. So, it's "you lose" when you have just a die less; "you are equal" when you roll the same number of dice; "you win" when you roll even just a die more than the opposition (it varies between 80~90% chances to beat the opposition).

I think there are lot of different ways to have cooler, better scaling, ways to manage the core mechanic of a game.

I can't recommend this enough. This is a crystalline distillation of the best concepts of ICRPG (also inspired by mobile computer gaming) in order to create a brilliant melding of system and setting that is fun, action oriented, colorful and exciting. And the best part is the system SRD and license is included so you can use it for your own projects. The setting itself -SciFi grimdark post-apocalypse on Earth and in Orbit - is painted in broad strokes so you have ample opportunity to customize it to your own liking.