Recent reviews by albino_munchkin

if you miss telltale you should play this

still the best space 4x game in 2023 even if some of the DLCs are mid

Update after Patch 3.0: I told myself I would switch this review to recommend if I stopped finding new bugs every single day. Even after all the 3.0 bugfixes there are a million ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken things in this game. I want to recommend this game to anyone who has an interest in RPGs, and it would be one of my favorite games ever if, again, it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ worked. 3.0 made the game a lot better but it looks like it still has months to go before you can complete a playthrough without running into a myriad of bugs that will break individual quests or entire storylines, not to mention the incredibly janky pathfinding and line of sight issues that make moment-to-moment gameplay a complete pain in the ass. Inventory management in this game is some of the worst I've seen in modern gaming and the recent patch somehow found a way to make it even worse.
At least they fixed the framerate and stability issues.

It might seem like I'm making a big deal out of nothing, after all how much can I dislike the game after playing it for 150+ hours and saying it's one of my favorites? But I'm sick and tired of modern developers releasing horribly unfinished games, and once I've already given them my money (oops) the only means of recourse I have is leaving these negative reviews.

If you have a job and work 40 hours a week, and then the game you play to have fun wastes your time with bugs that undo hours (or dozens of hours) of progress, I think you have a right to be pissed. I know I'm an old man shaking my fist at the clouds, but I remember back in the days of the N64 and Playstation 1 when bugs in games were things you found rarely, and were usually mostly visual. The worst thing you could find back then was a save getting corrupted, which really sucked but was something I encountered maybe once or twice in a whole generation of consoles. These days I can't go 30 minutes without finding something that doesn't work the way it's supposed to.

I want to remind everyone: the way that you turn one of the "good developers" like Larian into lazy cashgrabbing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like Blizzard is by showering praise on them and saying "shut up and take my money" for a game that wasn't even close to being ready to leave early access. When devs figure out they can get tons of profit and prestige from releasing unfinished games, it creates financial incentive for them to cut corners and release an even less finished product for their next development cycle.

In many ways its a great game (although mechanically a step down from WH2, it has a lot more content), but I feel obligated to add to the negative review bombing since CA has adopted a policy of using their time to make overpriced DLCs when the game still has hundreds of terrible bugs and stability problems over 18 months after release and they have made it clear they have no intent to fix any of it. You'll at least be downloading the community bugfix patch if you play this, and they can't fix everything.

Again, it's not a bad game, I just want people to know what they're getting into.

this game has come a long way in the past few months, especially with the anniversary update, and I've had a lot of fun with it, I think in it's current state its pretty good and I love all the new content. at this point I could probably recommend it to anyone who likes difficult/gritty combat with a directional attack system (imagine if Mount & Blade had more refined combat). i still wish it had a few things (floating dmg numbers, moving stamina to the center of the screen, and more consistency with CTRL and ALT forcing the attacks theyre supposed to.

Would be an amazing game if the developer had ever finished/fixed it.

They say you can do anything in Kenshi, and it's true. If you buy this game you can:
Experience constant crashes
Have long load times even with SSD
Have framerate issues even though the graphics are on par with KOTOR 1
See a ton of cool bugs, like enemies walking directly through your fortifications you spent hours building and then slaughtering all your party members.
Enjoy 200 IQ AI behavior like characters being told to perform simple tasks directly infront of them and interpreting this as an order to turn around and start sprinting the other direction into the horizon forever.

Kenshi literally makes Skyrim look like a technical masterpiece with god-tier AI. Yes some of the bugs will be hilarious but at a certain point you will run out of patience trying to get the game to function even on the most basic level.

Super disappointing because in a lot of ways Kenshi is a unique and brilliant game conceptually with cool lore, visual style and art direction.

There is fun to be had here if you have no plan to engage with a lot of the game's core mechanics and only want to goof off a little and get your legs eaten by cannibals. If you try to "succeed" at the game so to speak, or you want to experience a positive sense of progression through the game, this means you will have to engage with gameplay mechanics that, as I said, are either simply nonfunctional, only functional at random intervals, or were completely unfinished. You might think the robust modding scene of Kenshi would be able to make up for this, and for a few small things that may be true, but the majority of the really big problems with the game are not something mods can fix because the game and the engine itself are composed of irredeemable spaghetti code.

I desperately hope we'll get a sequel that actually makes good on the enormous potential of this game and universe, but that won't really help any of the people that paid 30 dollars for something that's borderline unplayable.

as others have said it has a lot of potential but the terrible camera makes it pretty much unplayable

Think it took me around 90 minutes to beat it, which makes the 6 dollar price better value than a movie ticket if you want to look at it that way. If you liked Duskers this could be fun for you, or if you just like lofi / analog horror in general.

A very fun and well polished action-oriented space sim (no clunky spreadsheet nonsense, but enough trading and customization to provide some options outside of shooting stuff) that unfortunately falls into the same trap that every single space sim inevitably does: Once you've finally got the biggest, baddest ship in the galaxy with all the best upgrades, shields, weapons, etc, there's essentially nothing left to do. Especially since you're likely to finish the (extremely uninspired) main storyline well in advance of that point. Not that this specifically makes Rebel Galaxy any worse than other space sims, as I mentioned this problem is essentially endemic to the whole genre. And I did thoroughly enjoy the progression up to the endgame but, as I said, there just isn't enough endgame content here to continue playing it past about 50-60 hours, and there's essentially no reason to start a new game unless you somehow ridiculously ♥♥♥♥♥♥ yourself over in the first hour or so. I do recommend it because, as someone who is constantly starved for more space sims that arent merely spreadsheet simulators, it satisfied me for a couple of weeks. But it's still not the holy grail (read: a version of x-3 that didnt suck, a freespace 3, other space sim pipe dreams, etc) that we've all been waiting for.

one of my survivors got killed trying to beat someone to death with a shovel to get a bandage and a can of food

11/10 would die again