Quasimorph

Quasimoprh is one of my all time favorite games. The hard-core atmosphere, gritty tiles, metal music, are all way above par for a turn-based game. I think of this game as a rogue-like wrapped in a rogue-lite, wrapped in a sandbox wrapped in a grand strategy game, and it has the added bonus of challenging story-line quests, tons of lore-building, stupendous replayability, and too many things to recommend it than I can possibly think of in one sitting. To me, this is a 10/10 game, a perfect masterpiece, and will surely create and define a genre of its own such that years from now people will describe lower order quasi-clones as being "Quasimorphlikes."

I'm not sure I've ever played a game that just throws as much information in your face that's just straight up wrong as this one. It's a fun idea but until the game gets some serious clarity work I'm not sure I could ever recommend it. Why show things like a molotov explosion radius and then have it explode 4 tiles to the right? Why show that the shot will do half the enemies hp and it does not even 1/10th instead? Why show 95% accuracy and then miss 7 shots in a row? And don't get me started on things like how I can breeze through the first 3 floors of a mission and then the 4th floor is just a non stop gangbang seemingly full of enemies it forgot to load in the previous floors. Even better. I'm still playing the game because I'm trying to enjoy it but it's still just one thing after another. Such as how im staring at this door waiting for the enemy to break it down, it's partially broken and i can see people through it. All good, I'm gonna sprint and run to the other side. WRONG. Because at some point despite the door sprite not updating, the door has actually been completely busted down. So instead of the enemy using an action to finish breaking it, they used it to shoot me and the guy behind them threw a grenade. It's a constant stream of this kind of friction that I think even after patches will forever make me not recommend the game.

UI and UX are lacking. The game communicates badly to the player what it needs to say.

Completly unbalanced i was going to wait until the 1.0 release but i have experienced way too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ recently to really care about that this game is the actual worst aspects of both rougelikes and extraction shooters, meta progression is entirely tied to RNG and no i do not mean the item pool i mean wether or not your goons are going to survive a single fire fight after you reach the 14 hour mark on your (normal dificulty) save file as the dificulty curve turns into a impasable wall of which i garente you that you will waste entire irl days trying to find the corect mission type in order to progress the story in the first place, where the only choices you get is how you want your ♥♥♥♥ to get kicked in repeatedly trying to do the mission; for example the mission tree that the game wants you to go down hedges you against an entire armada of goons 60% of wich are equiped with grenade/rocket launchers that they use to spam you to death with and for your troubles? you get a gun that does damage over time on a wound and a overpowered impact grenade, nither of these will help you in any way because 90% of the time they kill you even if you get a stun on them and the latter will kill you because some ♥♥♥♥ thought it was a good idea to put these in the equipment pool of the faction that is already based around ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over the player specificaly using 90% poison weponry that even if you do get a hold of the toxic sprayers wont do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to them because they all wear hazmat suits and or resist poision anyway then get this, the dev thought the sprayers (specifying the flame thrower and the toxic sprayer) were too weak so they decided to buff them even though flame throwers are the second most overpowered thing in this game, Because creating damaging tiles that prevent's the ai from walking on them while also dealing enugh damage to kill you in 2 turns (or stun locking you with pain if you dont die imediatly) with the only counter being certan consumable items (that the enemy's dont use) wasent enugh aparently i cannot understate how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ overpowered fire damage is in this game where radiation poisioning some how produces less cheap deaths also by default missions will disapear if you fail them, creating the entirely arbetrary fustration for if example you were trying to do a specific mission type for a specific faction as part of the main story

This game is great. One of a kind experience right here and that's a good thing as well as a bad thing. This game is not only very different, but hard. Which, I'd imagine, is exactly what the devs are going for. This game takes a dark souls approach to things so to speak. What I mean by that is it doesn't hold your hand. You WILL die. Over and over again... My advice to you dear reader? Embrace it. Expect it, but don't stress over it. Even if it happens a lot and you have to restart a couple times. If you can make it past the learning curve there's genuinely an amazing game here that's worth sinking your teeth into. The graphics look great, theres a ton of depth, and I could see someone literally sinking thousands of hours into this game. The soundtrack is a BANGER! 9/10 loses Points with me only because of the steep learning curve combined with the lackluster, text heavy, tutorials that leave you lost and confused when you're left to your own devices at the beginning for the first time. If you made it this far thanks for reading 😁

Первые 14 миссий были интересными, пару раз умер от баронов, но на то полностью моя вина. Игра имеет воистину много интересных и глубоких механик. НО: последние 3 миссии на Венере я прихожу на станцию: за буквально 12-15 ходов счётчик квазиморфоза достигает в 750 единиц, на входе во второй этаж сразу спавнится босс, потому что там продолжается та же самая вакханалия, что и в начале миссии у шаттла. Все умирают, счётчик переваливает за 1000, призывается босс. Барон не добегает, но добегают толпы квазиков по 10-15 штук с дичайшим усилением на кучу ХП и здоровья. Естественно, такое не затащить. У меня вопрос к разработчикам - вы там какой гаввах по вене пускаете? Потому что есть ощущение, что гаввах существует и в реальной жизни, и разработчики написали этот софт для его массового сбора. А если серьёзно, то почему в игре есть скейл врагов и даже квазиков по ТУ, но нету скейла баффа квазиморфов от счётчика? Почему игрока должны насиловать мобы с редким типом урона (то есть резист против энтропии на раннем этапе не собрать), которые чуть ли не в 3 раза сильнее тех противников, что ему по плечу и по ТУ на данном этапе игры? Когда я поиграл в самую первую демку, я поймал лютый сблёв с этой механики, мне и думать страшно, что тогда творилось в этом плане в игре на раннем этапе разработки. Скорее всего игра попросту массово вешает одержимость на кого ни попадя и весь этаж начинает ларпить гражданскую войну в Лаосе. Я уже молчу про второй таймер в виде калорий - но тот хотя бы фиксится перками или рангами (что я узнал вообще со стороны). Промолчу второй раз и про то, что милишник в этой игре является пародией на любой другой класс дальнего боя. Очень сильный в начале, но уже через 10-15 миссий с тобой уравнивается любой мало-мальски милишный квазиморф, кроме самых начальных уродцев. Про баронов вообще молчу. Без 500 хп и 100 уклона в мили с ними лучше вообще не драться, при этом мой бичёвый дальник на первой своей миссии смог наобузить его через огнемёт и кайт-расстрел очередями с автомата. В общем, вердикт такой: не покупайте эту игру и не верьте в какой-то интересный или хардкорный опыт. Всё будет неплохо первые несколько миссий, пока вы на марсе и пока все вокруг ходят с кусками говна и по 35-50 хп, но как только вы прочувствуете все прелести еб**ых таймеров на 4-этажном квесте, то, скорее всего, вы от таких прелестей немного прих***те. Проигрывать - весело, но проигрывать только от неудачно павшей карты - паршивый геймдизайн. И даже не думайте кто-нибудь писать мне, что при заходе на уровень я обязан колоть 5 инъекций морфия, обкуриваться и носить налоксон в кармашке, как копы в США. Поменяю обзор, если некоторые механики из категории лудоманской бурмалды обратят в адекватный вид. Всем кискам пис ⚞^. .^⚟

There is a good game under the hood, but I don't think it was ready for 1.0 The setting & what the game is trying to do is great, but the communication to player is not straightforward. Systems need to be introduced one at a time and explained so that I understand how to use each one. This includes crafting, trading, missions (optional vs story), switching mission sides, classes and upgrades, experience, gear, faction tech, how in game time effects power levels, etc. I only played a few hours but I feel like most of that time was spent poking around the (not use friendly) UI, and trying to read and understand the systems. I did a few of the main story missions and then flew to Venus where I encountered a steep difficulty spike resulting in a few failed mission attempts. If I did something wrong or escalated too quickly, the game should telegraph that to me ahead of time.

Nope, all wrong. Concept is cool and intriguing but if you punish newcomers with immediately very difficult enemies and very few hints on how to survive you are just aiming at pleasing that part of the audience that really like to be beaten over and over. Touting "unforgiving combat" in the description of the game doesn't excuse you from forgetting the basic principles of good gameplay and fun. Again, there is nothing wrong with high difficulty but there must be a curve that ease the player into it and offer growing challenges, it doesn't make any sense to start immediately with very difficult challenges just after the tutorial.