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About reputation ranksLiminal industries is aesthetically extremely strong. Each of the dimensions you have to go to are interesting and fun to explore, and while the poolrooms can get a bit repetitive, there is more than enough generation designed for the backrooms to make every journey away from your base unique and unsettling.
The tech progression itself is solid, but I wish it was more entangled with the setting. The first two chapters feel like they take advantage of the backrooms really well, but as the tech tree spreads out into all these different mods it feels like the cool, integrated elements like echo shard production and having to route items from your igneous extruders in different dimensions get drowned out by all the noise.
That being said, a modpack with the same progression but without Liminal Industries incredible setting would still be like a 6/10, and overall it is more than impressive enough to be a 5/5 in my book. Lastly, as others have already noted the late game is a bit bare.