Blindfire

While not without flaw, this game is very cool. It is essentially laser tag in a video game. There are multiple small nuances that I don't exactly care for, but as a casual fun-with-friends game, it's amazing. It doesn't scratch the same itch I had for Spetre Divide (rest in peace), but I'd pick it up and have fun with it anyway. Let's go over what I like about the game first: 1. It's fast-paced and mindgamy. The best way to win is to outsmart and outmanuver your opponents. Despite being a game where you're in the dark 80% of the time, there is an anti-camping feature that makes you visable to everyone on the map, making you an easy target, so you have to constantly move if you want to stay hidden. This makes it feel authentic enough so that you don't have anyone just staright-up cheesing you like you'd find in actual laser tag. 2. The lighting is great. You're never safe at any point at all. Dead players can activate traps that light up an area to reveal you, which I would find to be a problem in actual matches with full players, but this game doesn't have that, so it's not an issue for now. If enough time passes in a typical match, the arena starts to light up, not necessarily revealing you, but making your silhouette stand out. The entire game, you have to constantly manage your position while trying to discern the positions of all your oppoents, which can be quite daunting but very rewarding if you can manage. Now let's talk about some things I don't really like: 1. The guns. There are 3 types of guns: pistols, shotguns, and rifles. The pistols are great, the shotguns are okay, but the rifles SUCK. We're talking about a game where you're in the dark and everyone is moving around and changing positions. Of course like 100% of the combat is going to be close range, which makes the rifles feel so pointless compared to the pistols. Theres the standard rifle thats basically a Garand with 3 bullets, single-fire. Then theres a 3 round burst rifle, which is okay, but feels very clucky, then there's a charge rifle, which is very difficult to use. The shotguns in turn are fine. There's a standard pump shotgun, there's a explosive slug shotgun that basically is a oneshot once the charge detonates, and there's a twin-firing shotgun that feels like the DB in Rust. The only shotgun worth using is the slug and it's complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The pistols though, THOSE are fantasic. There's a single-fire, a charge burst, and a full-auto, and I like the single fire the most. If I had to chose only one weapon to use, it will be the single fire pistol any day. 2. Hitreg. Yes, this game has a massive problem with hitreg (or that sometimes, bullets don't do damage). Using one of the rifles against bots, if I hit a bot in the head with a rifle, it doesn't die. I played with a friend, and I found that many of my shots that hit her head didn't kill them. I would get a hit marker, but they'd take no damage. There are other things to point out with the game, but I think that the game is fun despite its glaring issues. I will close out my review with this: W game devs that decided to own up to their faliure and keep the game around and for free for anyone to play at anytime they want. Double Eleven gets major props for that. I loved their games like RDR, FO76, and even MC Dungeons. Will this game ever get popular? Most definitely not. Is it fun to play with a few of your friends? Absolutely.