Recent reviews by rdm51

My experience
-Great combat
-huge mob and boss diversity
-pretty sure replay-ability will be insane as with POE 1, but only time will tell for sure
-good build diversity, which I expect to increase with more classes and a broader passive tree

Things to keep in mind
-if you are new to path of exile games plan on spending some money on additional stash space (this is the only feature that I believe is recommended as an additional cost if you play this game for awhile)
-slower pace than poe 1 (to me this is a plus)
-less loot drops than poe 1 (your screen won't look like a christmas tree) for me also a plus
-passive tree is different, less diverse and a lot of surviveability is no longer available in the passive skill tree, not sure how I feel about this but for the amount of fun I'm having this is a non factor for me
-same dark gritty feel that we all want from GGG
-with the diversity of mobs and bosses, some bosses or rare mobs going to make you feel op or weak depending on your build, I believe this is the cost of diverse boss fights but most feel well tuned

For way less than diablo 4 we have been delivered a much better arpg

TL;DR - Very fun game, I have enjoyed it a lot. Give it a go, satisfying gameplay, very unique playing champs. If you start out not good just switch around who you are playing as, most players will find some champions they take to faster than others.

I play solo a lot but the game is sooo much more fun when you can play with a friend in Duo's.

Review
This game is skill based, you have to land your auto's by aiming and landing them. You drop onto a map and try to get loot to upgrade your skills, and items that add certain stat buffs. I can also pick up consumable effect items that do a wide range of things from setting up a sentry to making you invisible to putting down traps that root pepole and much more. The goal is to be the last one standing. Some very good players will make you feel like any champion is over powered, it takes some time to get good and know what other people can do so you can try to find the window to out play them.

This game is early acces but I have had almost no early access problems with gameplay, they are mostly expanding the game, adding new stuff, and polishing the match making and MMR ranking settings along with balancing.

Cons:
The only cons i have are that sometimes you will have to wait a few minutes for a match, if you do this and die in the first few seconds that sucks, sorry. It happens. Also I wish matchmaking had a setting for playing with teams of 3 or 4. Other than that so far a very good experience for me.