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This game died because everyone thinks it's dead. If everyone that likes to play the game actually played the game it'd probably still have a few thousand players per day. Enough to queue up some matches.

Regardless the devs are also to blame. They've kept the game actively updated all throughout the early access and 2 years after the full release but once they were done, they dropped it. No more updates, no more patches. All they'd have to do is track data on which heroes are played the most and which the least. Tweak their numbers and call it a day.

I really wish this game would get a resurgence update, even if it's just the devs saying we're back to keep the meta ever changing but no more new content. Sadly without the playerbase it's not interesting for the devs to update it and without the devs updating the playerbase isn't coming back.

Changed my review to positive, game seems to be fixed from launch. Servers seem to be working properly again.

Took them a while but it was worth the wait. The game is genuinely a lot of fun with friends. Would recommend.


Old review:

Mediocre launch at first, missing a lot of key features for a game like this. Regardless, the game was a lot of fun to play with friends. Gameplay wise, the game is very solid, it's just a shame what they did with the servers. Randomly disconnecting in the middle of a match... That's really what pushed me over the line. I really wanted to like this game and regardless of how much fun I had... getting disconnected like that ruins the entire game.

Dog ahead
therefore,
try friendship

I just finished my first run and I must say, This is the best game I've played in years. the combat is fluent, the bosses are fun to fight. the world is beautiful and traversing them becomes better the more abilities you unlock. uncountable amount of secrets to be found everywhere. When I thought I had explored every area I find a complete new region I hadn't explored! there's a lot of content to this game and I'm far from done with it. Can't wait for Silksong to come out! I WANT MORE!

Still haven't found a wife. but I'm gonna keep looking just in case

What?

Where do I start.
I loved the original game when I was younger so this might be nostalgia talking but this game feels great to play. the game is very easy to control. can even play the entire game with only the mouse. they did a great job making it feel like the original game but with a few very welcome ease of life changes (which you can actually turn off in the settings as well!)

though the original was fun and all, the game wasn't perfect back then and it seems like they didn't fix some of these annoyances.
the pathing of units is very wonky. not always taking the fastest path. sometimes not even going to the right direction. sometimes units walk way further than they have to before attacking.
I get they wanted to keep the game feel like the original, but things like this they should have looked at.
Grenadiers have a chance to instakill units and the AI loves using them. early game you don't have a good way to deal with them and it gets quite frustrating having to deal with them.

even though these annoyances are still there, I love playing the game. if you love RTS games, it's worth a try.

Well... ♥♥♥♥ this game.
it's 5:30AM and I have to stop myself from playing any more of it

the game feels as smooth as something very smooth (5:30am too tired to think of words) just very smooth okay trust me. I know my smoothness when I smooth it.

gets frustrating if you forget to save at certain points. cuz you'll die more than you die in dark souls. (it's just like darksouls confirmed) once you die and there's a cutscene you have to re-watch it without being able to skip it.

I don't even know why I'm writing this review, it's just a good game go buy it now, k.

Oh boy, I sure don't like writing reviews but after playing this game I think I might have to.

First of all do not buy this game if you dislike buggy and or short games.
If anything i'd recommend buying this game in sale as it took me 50 minutes to finish. With the survival mode being 'coming soon' I would say it's not worth the full price yet.

I'd like to start off the actual review by saying this game is bad. It's awful, to start the game I had a 2 minute loading screen and that might be an understatement. after the tutorial I got another loading screen where a voice said inpact after 30 seconds. ~2 minutes later I got the loading screen to the next level. This game is filled with stupid bugs that the devs should have found by playtesting. For instance I fell through a platform that was supposed to open and release a type of enemy. There's an inventory for only 1 item and the menu is buggy like crazy. Area's are very dark to the point where I once fell off the platform because I couldn't see the floor. combat is easily broken by just slowing down time permanently and walking through the level without enemies being able to even hit you. In the final level it wasn't clear at all where I was supposed to go until I accidentally found it.

enough complaining about the game, I've given it a positive review so might aswell state why it's still fun rather than just bashing on and on about the problems it has.

During the tutorial I got bored and just ran through because with the limited controls the game has there was very little need for an actual tutorial. though I was running through the game said out loud what I was supposed to do so I still picked up on the mechanics.
If you don't abuse the slowdown the gameplay gets rather interesting. It's punishing but at the same time very easy to pick up. I'd say limit the slowdown of time to some counter that has to re-charge once used.
the levels were quite well designed. Though it wasn't very clear where to go, I managed to find everything. Maybe add a minimap for directions or see if the brightness alone will fix this problem.

As I'm turning this into a tell the dev what could be done better I'll write down the rest of the things I've got on my mind aswell.

A strong point of the game was the unforgiving gameplay. At points I got shot and died instantly. Rather than being upset I liked it, it meant I was being careless and I learned from my mistakes. I'd say use this to the game's advantage and make the game difficult. 1 shot maybe 2 shots to not make the medkids useless. talking about the medkids, as it's the only item in the game and the inventory being so buggy, why not make the Q-key a medkit hotkey, there's space on the HUD for a medkit counter aswell as the slow down time bar.
the space level was AMAZING I had a lot of fun just flying around but I wish there was more control in the air. Flying around felt very limited, though this is realistic, you're a robot in space... might aswell cut some realism for some fun. Also make the jump less high, it kinda broke the entire first part of the level by just pressing shift twice.
I also noticed in that level when you respawn, you respawn in the air. Probably to not get stuck in the floor but once I respawned it took a few seconds before I landed because of the gravity.
Another thing I noticed is that the orb enemies only showed up once. they came up through the platform which I fell through.

Damn that was a lot of typing... Hopefully that was helpful and dev if you need more playtesting done, just hit me up. I'm known to be good at breaking games ;)

Ever wanted to play a game where the finish of a level is one of the main causes of your deaths?
Because if it is, this is your game.

Cons:
- Weird controls
- Ai that jumps off the platform (even the enemies don't want to be part of this game)
- Back story which is more likely to make you cry from cringe than from laughter
- Everything is bob

Pros:
- Hours of entertainment
- Still better gameplay than press F to pay respect
- Everything is bob
- bob

All in all it's a brilliant game definitely worth spending hours in.