ANEURISM IV

The devs hate the fans. DO NOT BUY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE

Good luck trying to figure out how to run a shop or do anything thats not a basic job. There is a single server running in the entire game as of writing this with 60-80 players. Which seems to be way over a standard server's comfort zone. You probably wont get a chance to even touch the shops or anything like that because they pyramid scheme the shops and then hop off and make fat profit while offline. So if you wanna be a proper businessman, don't bother until the game has more players. The wiki is also extremely outdated and un-detailed in a lot of cases, and youtube is also outdated, making it hard to learn how to do a lot of things.

This game can absolutely be a fun time, and the concept is great, but a combination of declining player numbers and SOME people in the community being incredibly annoying and rancid, makes for some of the most frustrating game experiences right along with the fun ones

Dying game, community servers are never populated meaning you're gonna have to play on unmoderated official servers full of trolls, hackers, and just generally unpleasant people who ruin the experience of what could be a really good game otherwise. Would be amazing if there was actual moderation. The Anamnecyte debt system that makes you a prisoner and forces you to grind your debt away by doing the most tedious, literally sisyphean task ever is actual hot garbage because you ultimately get punished for fighting back against griefers, that is if griefers don't use it against you in the first place, i.e. deliberately jumping in front of your shots to get themselves killed when you're trying to shoot a Limitation target as a Cortex, or many other fun ways to try and bait someone into losing Anamnecytes. I've seen quite a few different techniques; and admittedly I've even fallen victim to a couple of them myself in the past. It's not fun at all. Arguably, it's a stupid mechanic that's only going to contribute to the playerbase dying out, because some people who would otherwise stay on the game and keep playing are just not going to want to spend obnoxious amounts of time pushing rocks for things that may not even really be their fault in the first place. And I think I count myself among that group. I have better things to do than play a game that does not respect my time.

DEAD GAME 2 servers left >300ms

Fun game. Great world, factions, setting, the whole shabangbang. Only downside is lack of players... which could be solved with a PVE mode or something. Horde Mode would be lowk awesome. Waves of ai of either Scum or Cotrex. Resupply at the end of waves, buy weapons, could be an opportunity to expand on lore, introduce new weapons, BRING IN PLAYERS (keyword for the dying game) who just want to get straight into the action without the need to grind for a fate that they'll just die in 2 seconds later and restart the process because of a camper, etc, etc. I genuinely think it'd be a W game mode. Would it be hard? ♥♥♥♥ yeah, I won't deny it. Would it be a great way to revive the game? ♥♥♥♥ yeah

Devs are out of touch and the game is dead.

I really wish that I could write a good review about this game, but alas, the community, lack of competency within the developer team, and plain toxicity present within this game has scared me away to rarely touching it as of July, 2026. I originally bought this game sometime in December of 2025, and found myself enjoying it initially. Primarily focusing on playing Scum or Prole, I met many interesting people, and even formed a gang in the mining locale so that we could pool together our credits equally and buy gear. I liked the combat, lack of major rule bodies, and way of life present across all of the factions. The economy also interested me greatly, as I found myself consistently owning businesses that made me rich on many servers before their rot events. However, this was the time that the initial enjoyment fell off, as the sheer monotony of gathering resources, then AMs (the life currency of the game), then dying, was only enjoyable for so long. I get that the whole point of the game is to be dystopian where your "life doesn't matter", but the sheer amount of times that I have been TKed and unfairly caught in the misfire of situations is almost baffling and has made the game unenjoyable for me as of recent. This brings me into my second qualm with this game: the lack of moderation and disgusting community. Understandably, when you promote a game that has "minimal moderation" and a "lack of rules", you're going to attract a very bad audience. The sheer toxicity of this game has made me feel ill at times, as the actions and words of many across a plethora of servers have given me a very bad taste in my mouth, whether it be the use of slurs by many people, or the consistent stealing and killings that plague all the servers, the game has been destroyed by its lack of consequences and moderation. You can still have moderation in games of these sorts, but at a minimum; this game seems to have just tossed moderation directly out of the window. As a whole, I unfortunately do not recommend this game to anyone who isn't ready for consistent griefing, toxicity, and incompetent ruling bodies.