why on earth would someone play this instead of into the radius ?

Makes absaloutly no sence whatsoever!

purchased for 5 mins , left this here for you to make you to see sence before buying

refunded .

LOL LOL AND MORE LOL

Once again a situation in which I dislike blatant YES or NO ratings on reviews, but I'd give this a solid 6.5/10.

The game unfortunately feels very much like an early access game, but almost a year post-launch it definitely feels better. Either the voice actors they hired are delivering lines strangely, or they used AI for the voiceover in the beginning.

Pros:

- Really cool aesthetic.
- Rewarding loot mechanics
- Anxiety-inducing gun jamming when low on durability.
- Flexibility in story missions or raids.
- Backpack is incredibly satisfying to use. Imagine Into the Radius' backpack system, but instead of weight limiting your capacity, it's instead the physical items' collision geometry. Your backpack for the most part only has room for the items that actually fit (leeway with phasing through edges, but still).
- Guns are satisfying to fire, decent sound design.
- Physical menu in-world.
- Wrist PDA a great touch.
- Home inventory area.

Cons:

- Enemy AI is sadly complete garbage. You can walk up, shoot the ground next to them, and they still won't notice you sometimes. Most of the time it feels like you're in no danger whatsoever. They need to be far more aggressive. They notice you, play an animation, have a 1-3 second delay, start chasing you, then pickup speed maybe 5 seconds later. They also don't pathfind at all, they only walk directly toward you.
- Text is often formatted in huge blocks of text that aren't condusive to an enjoyable reading experience in-game.
- Ejecting mags would benefit from the "half out" feature ITR has. You'll lose mags very often.
- No options to switch difficulty after starting.
- When confirming Loading or Saving, it only shows "Confirm", leading to some circumstances of accidentally loading a save instead of just saving.
- Lacks a sense of true identity. Would greatly benefit from just being open-world in the way Into the Radius is, letting you go to an area where a mission is located instead of being dropped in exactly the mission location from your home.

Overall, the game is VERY janky... But I'm still enjoying it. If they were charging $40 USD or more it'd be a ripoff, but for the price it's a solid enjoyable experience. Just feel like it needs a bit more structure to the overall gameplay loop. The raid missions are somewhat boring since most containers you find are just empty.

All in all, for a game that's been greatly set back by a literal war, still a solid game. Just needs way more work to be a "must-buy" for anyone's library.