Recent reviews by Kixel

9/10. Absolutely recommended.
The demo did a good job hyping this game up - and the full release delivered. I had an absolute blast for the 10h playthrough I just finished.

👍 The Good:
- 🖥️ Cute, clean visuals
- 🔊 Pleasant Soundscape
- ♿ Accessibility options ON TOP of normal difficulty options
- ⬆️ Satisfying upgrade system
- ♻️ Respec anytime - even in combat!
- 🚿 Good bullet-hell gameplay (even though I'm not the biggest fan of that generally)
- 🪙 Great implementation of secrets and collectibles in the game
- 🕹️ Movement feels responsive
- 📈 Upgrade pacing is well done - lots of games give you the cool stuff right before the end of the game, this game actually lets you play with the fun stuff from quite early.
- 🕳️ Falling down a crevasse or into (deep) water doesn't cost health, so "platforming" sections are quite forgiving.

🤏 The Neutral:
- 🏎️ I kinda hate races. There are 8 races. Those are not mandatory for finishing the main story. You will need to complete them though for the true ending. Luckily I could just respec into move/boost and turn game speed down to 50% (Accessibility options), so they were ok.
- ☠️ Dying in the overworld is kind of harsh since it respawns you at "town". It's located in the center (and there will be tons of shortcuts) so it's not too bad, but still annoying. Didn't happen often though.
- ⏳ Strangely you can't pause the game at all (neither ESC or uprade menu) while the level-up animation plays; the game still runs normally (moving/shooting etc), you just can't pause it. 🤷

👎 The Bad:
- ⁉️ Sometimes progression through the map is not very clear. I got "stuck" twice in the game (separate occasions) and had to re-check quite a bit of the map to find where I needed to go

It's free.
It's 1-2 hours long.
It's about a cute doggo.
You get to make a horrible mess.
You don't have to clean it up.
What more is there to say?

Put a 10$ price tag on it and call it Portal 3. It's legit that good.

Difficulty is alright to easy (if you played 1 and 2).
Voice acting is great!
Maps look fantastic.
New puzzle mechanics fit in well.
Took me about 5h of playtime - some people might take longer.

It's alright, bit bland and shallow.

Usually i would recommend the game. Barely.

Here's why i absolutely cannot:
- The recent price increase for DLCs.
- Thinly veiled threats of "abandoning the game if we don't buy their overpriced DLCs".
- A plethora of bugs, some of them years old, which are fixed by a mod, but CA can't be arsed to do it themselves
- A lethargic developer, that takes ages to react to anything from the community.

I do love the series, but this is enough.
And no CA, this is not review bombing (a bullshirt term anyway) - it's the only way we can get any message to you.

A sweet little game that takes around 4h (for me) to 100%. Simple puzzles and a nice and calm atmosphere create a chill experience from start to finish. Timing puzzles were (kind of) present, but not hard or obnoxious, everything else is some kind of platforming "puzzle" and exploration.
I got this as part of the Humble Choice bundle, and as such would recommend it for the price I (kind of) paid - 18€ might be a bit steep though.
8/10 - still don't really know what was going on storywise.

THE perfect multiplayer game for a quick session in between!

+ dwarves
+ beer
+ nice graphics
+ good gunplay
+ decent mission variety
+ mission length usually between 5 and 30 minutes
- not a lot of viable gear variety
- not a lot to do in endgame (except rank grinding)

TLDR: Stay away until they fix their ♥♥♥♥, probably at least half a year. It's buggy AF.

Short and sweet:
Pro:
- shooting and moving on foot works and feels great
- graphics upgrade is nice to look at
- variety of small planetary bases to explore
Alright:
- weapon/armor upgrade system
- suit energy system
- bases feel quite same-y after a while.
Cons:
- badly optimized, runs fine in space but drops to ~30 in combat zones (ryzen 7 3800x, rx 6700xt, 16G ram, NVMe ssd)
- gamebreaking bugs at launch (e.g. materials not added to inv as mission rewards)
- co-operative play does not really work right now. instancing is very buggy
- small variety of weapons
- very grindy weapon/armor mod system that greatly discourages experimenting
- very instransparent weapon/armor stats. i have no idea what a lot of these upgrades/mods will actually do
- UI is very unintuitive now. most things done with 2 clicks are now done in 4
- various server connection errors are common
- a lot of planets feel very flat now

Great game. Absolutely loved it.
Mechanics are implemented and explained very well.
Movement feels very fluent.
Very forgiving combat-wise.
Has a lot of "Oooh!!", "Aaaah!" and *facepalm* moments.
I totally love that every nook and cranny has some goody hidden in it. Literally everywhere. Seriously.
9/10

Old review

Actually a great game. I really recommend it if it WORKS.
Why is my review negative? It crashes to desktop constantly! There's no actual fix in sight, googling it for hours did not yield anything. Last crash completely broke my in-game UI.
Still a great game. I still recommend it if it works.
For the constant crashes: update your BIOS if you have a recent AMD CPU. That worked for me and a friend.
Unfortunately this isn't mentioned anywhere on forums.
For the f-ed up UI: changing the resolution scale to anything below 100% glitches in-world labels.
Good job.