Quasimorph

Cool concept but I feel that there's not enough to the gameplay loop to suck me in. If you've seen some clips of it and done the tutorial and some of the first missions, you've seen most of the basic gameplay. The rest feels like a grind to get higher numbers.

This is a difficult game, but you can make it easy. And even if you don't, the difficulty drains quickly once you learn it, but there are still going to be a lot of curveballs and deaths that feel completely unfair, especially on the story missions. The story missions is where the game shines though. They're INSANELY difficult. But they have a pattern, a clear objective, and each time you retry you gain more and more knowledge. In regular missions you can learn a general pattern of the mission type, remember the station layout, know which enemies are going to come after you. This also applies to story missions, but you can actually retry them (you can also retry regular missions but only on easy difficulty). This basically turns those missions into action packed, tactical puzzles to solve, which is this game's absolute strongest point. You can have plenty of builds, and they all FEEL good. If you see that some approach sucks - you didn't build/play it right. Everything feels OP when approached correctly. This feeling of power all across the board is rarely seen in games. Melee sucks? It can one-shot the strongest enemies in the game. Pistols are trash? Give them to a merc who knows how to handle them better and use a class that buffs them even further, and you will prevail. You like the gun but it doesn't do what you want? Change the ammo type, upgrade the gun to have better accuracy or reload speed, whatever you need. You can upgrade the good old RPG to have 60+ rockets loaded at the same time. The customization and character depth is off the charts. As for the story, it's fatalistic, sometimes too overloaded and the narrative can be quite pretentious, but so is the source material. What matters is that it's unique and fun to explore.

This game is f*cking awesome. It's a very unique hardcore experience. FYI the new normal mode is the old easy mode and the new hard mode is the old normal mode. I recommend hard mode for first time the new "normal mode" is just a ridiculously different and casual experience. If you are like me and wanted pain and adversity play on hard.

Скучнейшая игра, где неплохо работает стрельба, но при этом всё остальное — это мрак. Подходить каждый раз к двери, переходить в скрытный режим, открывать её, переходить в режим бега и заходить в проход. После 4 этажей повторений хочется умереть. Инвентарь корабля и его прокачка — просто мусор. Отсутствие пресетов снаряжения. Наличие предметов на уровне никак не изменяется от сложности, а имеет значение только уровень фракции».

За 5 часов игры так и не понял почему это продается как полноценная игра. Однообразный геймплей, неясная прогрессия, унылая музыка на рипите, когда приобретал думал будет веселый рогалик с прогрессией, но честно говоря совершенно не понял основную идею. Из врагов валиться куча какого то бесполезного лута, миллион вариантов аптечек бинтов и каких то-стимулянтов, в целом сложилось очень негативное впечатление.

Лучшее, что выходило за последние пару лет

I'm on a pretty crappy laptop and the game runs as smooth as butter. Loving it like a Stockholm Syndrome patient loves being beaten by their captor.