Completely unapproachable for new players due to the sheer complexity of the combat, and the community's burning hatred for new players to the point they will sniff out your weakness and personally hunt you down for easy kills. This mixed with low player numbers kinda means the game is teetering on deaths door with only the same handful of sweatlord players further makes is a miserable time for anyone looking to just have fun.

If you do get this, get it on a MASSIVE sale, and with some friends to play it with (and those friends better be fine with just goofing around).

After 1.6K hours i can safely say that Mordhau, is more than a game.

For a small group of us this game has been a safe space, a little community of people all spamming v and x1, spending time with eachother.

The angry dwarf calling you slurs as you try to chamber the waxe look down merchant.
The bard playing the same 6 songs over and over that eventually just become background noise.
The player with 10,000 hours finally putting down the zwei and picking up the lute.
The group of friendlies (and at least one enemy) all bussing it down to a medieval remix of The Smiths.

Its all so beautiful.

Mordhau has been an amazing part of my life and i have such love for everyone i have met through this game. It may be a dying game, and will almost certainly become a memory for me eventually, but it has given me thousands of hours of fun.
Thanks to all of you, except you Chris.

You know what you did.

The most Undertale-like game I've played since Undertale.
The gameplay loop is very simple. Some creature will approach and try to kill you. Try to defend yourself, don't fight back and do something funny instead. Chances are, the creature will stop attacking and you can "spare" it.
Playing the pacifist route will get you the most fun and unlock the true ending.
You can play neutral or even genocide, killing everyone and keeping your warcry counter under triple digits. But I can promise you this - you gonna have a baaaaad time doing that.