ANEURISM IV

I love the atmosphere of this game. Very depressing but a weird uplifting vibe. It's also very buggy and dead. Also everyone that plays it is a literal scumbag. Expect to die for no reason and lose everything a lot and get no explanation whatsoever. But the game is great, but the servers are dead, please revive this gem of a game.

I want my life back.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY UNTIL THEY FIX THIS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME. Developers will do anything but actually fix/improve existing problems and will add new half-baked mechanics and content instead. The game has been out for a year and they can't even manage to do metalworks right, every patch that "fixes" stealing just doesn't. This game is actual misery (and not in the appealing way, or the map) Metalworks rework? Just sit in the furnace and take it! Or limitbait! Better yet, you can stand on people's heads to force them to crouch! or, get this, quenching metal causes it to just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ be void to the stealing system, meaning anyone can just snatch it. And that's not to mention the cyte baiting. Wanna mine on Nightmare? Nope! someone's guarding the door! Wanna make metal bars? Nope! someone's sitting in the furnace, or there's a cop hugging you waiting to shoot the ♥♥♥♥ out of you when you hit them on accident. The only consistent way to get cytes hasn't worked since launch and it makes this game a pain in the ass to play. The mechanics that allow you punish stealing players doesn't even work either! Someone snatch your bars? Well, you can kill them without losing cytes, but your ass is never going to kill them in time before they hide/turn in whatever they stole from you unless you like carrying illegal guns around and being limited for their murder right after. And you know what? At least they show they're trying with the band-aid fixes and the new map(s). (Yes, they're working on a 3rd map while you can still freely walk behind a counter in one of the shops on Misery) All of this would be fine if the weak fixes didn't take SO. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. LONG. Cops being able to limit bait was fixed just recently (metalworks rework was June of last year) and it's just unacceptable with how long you could get away with ♥♥♥♥. The devs ARE improving the game, but just not fixing the problem that makes the new content so hard to reach in the first place. Another thing is the map asymmetry. After Misery came out, it was easily going to be the most played map for a while, so the developers were obviously going to focus on it for a while. However, this also lead to almost all of the new features that came with/after the release of Misery to not be present or translate horribly to nightmare. Good luck getting contrabundles when about 4 properties have a workbench for you to interact with, know that problem where scum entrances were too obvious and easy to camp? Still a problem on nightmare. The devs made rogues unable to use armories underground.... Unless you're on Nightmare. This is why the game has dropped down to 2, maybe 3 active and full servers forever until it dies. Im just repeating myself at this point, but the main problem is this cycle: Mechanic sucks/is buggy/isnt fun ---> people complain/leave ---> devs either ignore it and add content that doesn't fix anything but is an actually good idea that will probably never get expanded upon or add a bandaid fix that does nothing ----> people come back with the promise of a fixed game and new content ---> the novelty wears off ---> back to step 1 I think the worst part is that every time this cycle happens, the "mechanic sucks/ is buggy/isnt fun" part amplifies by about 2x until you have the game right now as of writing this review. This game was fun while I could ignore all the issues and honestly it's given me some of the greatest memories in a game I've ever had, but enough is enough, I dont care how small the dev team is, if you can make a whole new map but can't fix a fundamental mechanic of the game after one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ year just stop making games altogether man. If you want to buy the game, it could be worth a shot, but if something is buggy/frustratingly bad in execution expect it to be actually fixed in the coming decade. (or never)