Mercenary Skirmish

Hours played at review time, across 20 reviews with recorded playtime.

I've started this game twice and without beating around the bush, the controls can be re-mapped but that's besides the point, this is the type of game that needs as much polish and quality of life pieces integrated as possible, like generic controllers having support. This is not the type of game that needs 'partial controller support' For example - the 'a' button on an xbox360 controller works and that made me happy, but due to the fact that this game is seemingly a moba+brawler type of indie game...it's just too hard to both take in what you're supposed to do while at the same time watching the trigger and other trigger and analog stick inward and other analog stick inward all performing the attack, quite literally look at a game that has a similar structure to this setup, maybe even the well known game 'smite' as it seems at least very close for starters and test it yourself. It's way too hard to play even with mouse and keyboard given that items take time to pick up? Which is really unnecessary. The majority of people will be playing this game with bots which means a focus on the controller support (Things like 'x' opens chests and the chests and doors don't use a bar, they just instant open - back opens the inventory, pause opens the game menu, the escape key opens the settings or something tailored to make sense) I'm still very excited as I love these kinds of games and this game in particular looks pretty dam fun vs the waves of enemies - I love survival team based pve games; Sure the game needs some work but it looks like this game needs some testing by someone who's ever played another video game with a controller before or keyboard and really just fine-tune it to feel like you don't have to look up 3 youtube videos (which I did) in order to understand what an item is and how to get one, or pressing mostly all the same buttons mapped to the same thing on the controller....it's just overly confusing. My suggestion right now, play any game of this same 'genre' or at least ask people if you don't have a vision or idea and set up generic gamepad support in a way that matches what people naturally would look for; Things like being able to play the game with a controller where it's not so frustrating to perform simple tasks, even if you have to modify how the game mechanics work alongside making things like slowing down the cursor with an adjustable setting in the options-not that this is needed, but that these tweaks are what separate a game with a great idea to games that no one will ever touch despite having in depth character growth. I like your idea here but the controls setup and how you interact with things needs to be streamlined, maybe it's simply too early but even in the case that you do need to watch a bar pass to open a gate or a chest, combined with the difficult controls, most people will be turned away like I was fully ready to experience this creative idea.