What can I say about Epsilon? I'm not one for words and don't think I've left a review on a Steam Store Page so far but I want to show my support for this title.
I know some of you will have come here maybe to bash on the game since Takedown has Mostly Negative reviews but anyone who kept track the Dev Team got stuck in a bad situation with support from the Publisher dropping out soon after the game launched, The team still managed to put out updates to fix issues with the game despite the lack of money but it wasn't quite enough to save the game and with the publisher owning the title they had to stop working on it.
Enough about Takedown, just wanted to bring it up to talk about Serellan themselves, they are very active within the community taking feedback to heart and replying daily to users, I'm sure the team didn't want to leave Takedown but had no other choice, now with them being indie they don't have to worry about all that red tape that comes with a Publisher.
Sure, Epsilon has its problems but the moment you boot up the game you can already see how many things have been fixed with each build and within the same day the game had come out feedback was already being put into the game ready for the next build, you can't ask for more then that from a team of 5 devs.
Some of you have come looking at this title for the next SWAT/Rainbow Six game and while the game does have those elements with the Planning Map, Commanding Squads and such you have to remember its been 10 years since we had those games, nostalgia is a b***h and its easy to be more forgiving of say AI from then, then it is now.
Epsilon has to work on being unique while at the same time trying to cater to what the fans want, sure some are not big on the near future Sci-Fi stuff but you need to think about it, we have so many games that are already trying to cover the now, we don't need the market over saturated like with World War 2 games at one point in time.
I feel like I've already spent my fair share of time with the 1 mission, 7 weapons, 2 gamemodes and I can safely say this is already a solid foundation for the future of what Hardcore Tactical Gamers want and you should be keeping an eye on it! you can choose to jump on the Early Access bandwagon and give the team feedback and help shape the game while getting it at a low price before the bigger features hit like co-op/pvp and it starts costing more or you can wait and see how it goes.
Don't forget, Steam has a refund program, jump in now give the game a shot see if you see the same potential others are and keep playing with each new update, not happy? take the refund and with any luck come back in the future when it has had more time to grow.
... Feel like I didn't really talk about the games features itself but you can find others reviews for that and hit up the Videos section on the Community Hub if you want to see some gameplay.
TL;DR: I can recommend this game to anyone who wants to see the Hardcore Tactical Genre make a come back, sure it has its issues but you will get some fun out of it and remember its in PRE-ALPHA, just the fact Serellan is still around after the failure of Takedown? I enjoyed it... anyway, they deserve the chance to make the game they want and hopefully the game you want.
Mainly wrote this to give my Thumbs Down...
