Quasimorph

A Total awsome game , for Moraly Flexible Comrades

Quasimorph is an excellent game. For context, I have only played on unfair difficulty. I just took my fourth run to "victory" after 7.5 days of playtime and 20 deaths. This game is challenging, but every death was my fault. As far as pros, the presentation is very well done. You play as augmented clones who shred through hordes of enemies and cannibalize them, all while heavy metal plays in the background. There is a large amount of build-crafting and loadout customization. You can tailor classes to your liking, and each clone has a unique talent. Augments and implants allow you to build part-robot, part-spider amalgams with shoulder-mounted missile launchers. Each time I thought I had discovered everything, there would be a new mechanic or enemy type to encounter. There is SO much to find in this game. The endgame is OK. The helldives seem to be mostly for limit testing builds. I think the real fun of this game is going to be doing challenge runs. As for cons, I could see how the gameplay could feel repetitive. Once the charm of discovering new things is gone, most missions play out the same. Spawn in, start a fight, kill everyone on the floor as they trickle in to investigate the noise, then spend 30-45 minutes sorting through the loot. While that is the safest way to play, there is more depth if you are willing to risk leaving your comfort zone, and some mission types require you to play more aggressively. There have been a few bugs I've encountered, but nothing run-ruining. There is a massive lack of quality of life. Your inventory is a couple organized tabs with massive amounts of loot in them, and the only way to search through them is a scroll bar. The UI is clunky and uninformative, the pact reforging system is explained terribly, etc. Even so, I found it worth persevering through. Even if you are content with a single run, I think you can get a solid 150-ish hours out of this game. To me, that's money well spent.

Sadly, the controller support even on Steam Deck isn't great. There are easy ways to fix it that the community told the devs but they don't seem to care at all. Steam Deck verification on this title is kind of a joke.

This game should NOT be verified for Steam Deck. The most basic control, being able to mouse over a tile on the map to move or select a target to attack, is not included in the default control scheme. I tried a custom layout which brought the mouse back, but then swapped all control icons to KBM instead of controller. Most of these keys were not mapped onto the custom layout, so I basically did not have access to half the buttons I needed. Aside from that, as others have said, this game doesn't feel finished. I like sandbox games, but sandbox is different from zero structure. Little to nothing is explained, and you're dropped in the middle of a completely open map/quest system that gives you way too much freedom and information. One of the core aspects of each mission is that it's two-sided, one faction vs another, and for each mission you choose which side to help. This impacts your reputation score with both factions positively or negatively, depending on which side you choose. It's an interesting concept, but I had no idea why the hell I should choose one faction over another - nothing about these factions is explained, and if you care enough to find out, all you can do is read multiple paragraphs of text in an info box. In the world of writing, we call this the good ol' "infodump," and it's a pretty awful way to convey your lore and worldbuilding. Gameplay during missions was okay and interesting at times, but... the game as a whole is just too hollow. There's no spine, no core motive creating any meaningful sense of progress outside of missions. Feels like the developers spent all this time building a massive galaxy with complex factions, and then just... did nothing with it. They're just, *there*. And there's nothing compelling you in any particular direction, other than the starting mission where your ship gets attacked, and ONE faction gets labeled a clear enemy. You get your revenge immediately, and then what? Nothing. This game could be awesome, but it isn't at the moment. It really looks like a futuristic version of Stone Shard, which got me excited, but it just completely lacks any sense of MEANINGFUL structure or progress.

This game's just effin great dude

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