Iron Blight

8/10 I must say im the target audience for this game, checks all the boxes of what i like in a shooter survival horror! the jankiness adds to the experience from the gun play to the ai. now if u want a more personal review; okay so, there's a lot of jank in this game. but its the kind that makes u amazed. somewhat id say, i saw a few gameplays before deciding i definitely wanted to play this. once i got to play it is when the uh cracks started showing. the questionable ai pathfinding that sometimes just GIVES up infront of you or those zombies getting stuck behing a car when u enter the village right after the tree falls. or the many inf ammo bugs(which i dont mind, gotta get that hardcore achievement somehow) i kinda felt let down as i was expecting something that could rival my experience with a few of the resident evil titles i've played. but looking past all that the gameplay certainly makes up for it, the game purposely awards you for your curiosity, check the rooms where the zombies just broke out of? shotgun ammo or... more ammo! or how certain guns are practically hidden from you(ill get that mp5 swear) every second i spent looking at every corner was fun, for me at least. another thing to note is the "great" gunplay, genuinely love how the semi/auto guns can jam, whether its on a harmless moment or JUST when you're about to magdump a zombie that came right into your face, it really makes you wonder what guns you want to use. since the first shotgun you get although it only holds 2 rounds doesn't need to be pumped. instead of its humble superior that you find later on the story that has way more ammo capacity but needs to be pumped after each shot.. which im guilty of getting hit because im spamming m1 and it doesnt work lol... its really fascinating because even if at face value it looks like a better option technically the first shotgun is more reliable and if u know the timing it can be reloaded in less than 2 seconds... enough glaze tho the assault rifle u get at like the end is just a better rifle because of that one mod that u get after like 20 mins i think so not every gun has the same treatment. still there's a lot to play around with the guns and its jank though u probably will end up only using the shotgun until the very very last part because is that goated. although if you really look into it the whole game is just a fetch quest but it uses that really well to explore all the places around and backtrack to open things with tools you once didn't have so it rewards that as well. the story is.. um acceptable i suppose, drives the plot forward so you have an idea what's happening. im pretty sure u can uh piece more stuff together if u read the notes but I'll be for real i was just here for the gun play and survival horror elements. if i could give whoever read this a tip is that maybe just maybe you want to play on hard difficulty on your first playthrough, seriously the game trivialized itself when i had 18 magnum bullets. they just kept handing it to me and i thought "oh maybe there will be a boss fight" but genuinely the rifle seems to have the same stopping power as the magnum on most enemies except the headless zombie and those two fat zombies at the aparment section. only real use sob, an angel lost its wings when i had to drop so much of that ammo in favor of the assault rifle ammo. how do you make the assault rifle so much better than the magnum? its beyond me, it only serves the purpose to kill TWO enemies since they seem to tank at least 6-8 magnum bullets.... or how they give u a perhaps exagerated ammount of ammo sometimes. i've heard some people got softlocked because they had no ammo but genuinely, unless ur on hardcore this should NOT be happening. to wrap it up, if you liked resident evil and wanted to try something similar give it a try.. although i woulnd't say this game cost 14 euros for the content that there is right now and the jank and bugs, im hopeful the devs will fix and add more stuff to make it truly worth it.