Recent reviews by Kat in de Boom

It's a fun game but I feel like, for a factory game, there are more performance issues than I'd like. There's also some throughput issues with factories where you only get like 70% efficiency for factories because belts aren't keeping up randomly.

I feel like this game has great potential, but I think it is a bit too much to already have performance issues within 18 hours on a high-end system. I'd still buy it - I expect it to get better in time :)

This game is not an easy city builder. It is a complicated balance of many variables, where one mistake can spiral out of control. The way the game is balanced requires you to have a constant balanced flow of resources - you can't just stockpile an infinite amount of anything and eat your infinite storage. There's no global storage either - everything needs to by physically moved anywhere.

Combine this with some very obscure graphics, extremely complicated menus, an overwhelming amount of numbers and tables and more tech upgrades than you'll ever be able to unlock while your citizens are killing each other, and you get a game that will only satisfy the most die-hard colony sim & city builder fans.

If you enjoy Anno, Rimworld, Sim City, Factorio and/or Oxygen Not Included, and you're not scared away by numbers and graphics like... well... look at the screenshots, this is the game for you.

This game is technically flawless and runs smooth. It is obviously a labor of love by an experienced developer.

I'm 4 hours in so i don't know about the quantity of content, but the quality is there. The game drops you in exiting and ethically challenging choices where you basically play as androids that develop "feelings".

The game has tons of little details and beautiful scenery, but I find the choices you can make as a player rather limiting. I also don't like how the game reveals all possible paths you've taken and could have taken, kinda spoiling if it's worth replaying certain parts of the storing (EG if you see you had 4 options, and you know they all lead to the same outcome, why would you replay?)

The story is very linear with only a few outcomes. While the story is interesting, it's also a bit predictable. I think I'm just spoiled at the freedom Baldurs Gate III gave me.

Also, I feel like the controls and quicktime events are stupid. I don't think they add anything to the story or gameplay except in some rare cases where timing matters (like fighting humans where a miss-press can result in a loss). An example or "i don't like this" is where you basically have to climb or crouch alternating all kinds of buttons with no cost of missing or pressing to late except having to repeat the sequence until you get it right. If there's no consequence for pressing the wrong button, it might as well not be there and play a cutscene.

Crashes on startup. Very poor performance on high-end machine. It was once a great game, but this copy is clearly unsupported and broken and they don't deserve your money for it.

This game sets a new bar what an RPG should be. This game has exceptional gameplay and is a technical masterpiece. It's nearly perfect and Baldurs Gate deserves every praise it received.

Fun, casual base building game

Excellent gameplay, very immersive overclock simulator, actually simulates rebooting and crashing your GPU.

I can tell you about the mediocre performance, bugs, weird features, annoying limitations, horrible lag, questionable pricing in the store, but these things I can live with when I'm having fun. (and this game CAN be fun)

Inventory management is hell in this game. You're constantly too heavy, and there is no way to store "unlimited" items. (even though it was promised it would be!). To "fix" this, they released a special box that can store unlimited amounts of some resources, but... it is locked by a monthly payment.

They locked features that were promised to be free behind a monthly payment. I cannot forgive Bethesda for this.

So imagine you're about to play a Yakuza game, but Kiryu is replaced by some weirdo, and suddenly you play with 4 characters at the same time, and instead of random button mashing you get jRPG mechanics with some timed button presses. That's this game.

**It's a jPRG** So no more button mashing. You play 1-4 characters at once and take turns in fights. You still get the cool fighting animations, but instead of trying to remember combos, you just choose a skill. Because you have many skills and multiple characters, and characters also have multiple fighting styles so there's tons of cool and wacky animations. They really went all-out.

**Tons of cutscenes** You thought Yakuza 0 had a lot of cutscenes? Hah! I hope you like pressing a few buttons once in a while when you're watching your movie. Most cutscenes are fully voiced and animated, so instead of reading text boxes, you can listen to their voices while you're reading subtitles. (you are going to switch to Japanese, right?)

**Gotta fight 'm all!** Enemy encounters are like collecting pokemon encounters. Gotta find them all, and you can browse them like a pokedex.

It's a fun game. Yakuza 0 is still better.

Edit:

By now I've completed the game. It's a fun game, but the story gets boring and the end-game battles are tedious and boring. Yakuza 0 is still the best.

Fun unique shooter with unique art style. Gets hard pretty fast. Great with a controller