Shattered Horizon

This game was actually cool in 2009 but it the multiplayer died way too fast. Abandoned and forgotten gaming gem. If you are reading this in 2025 there's nothing of value here. I jut spotted this game on backlog. Btw 500th review.

I was going through my library of Steam games, continuing my eternal quest to clear my backlog to a degree I feel sufficient, and stumbled upon Shattered Horizon. It's a shame Shattered Horizon simply vanished though I understand why it did. For a game made by a company that just does graphics benchmarks, they somehow hit on a pretty interesting multiplayer experience. In essence it's just another 6DOF game, but the setting came packed with some really interesting gameplay: your spacesuit had to be online to simulate audio in the vacuum of space, but you could make a tactical choice to disable your spacesuit in order to hide yourself from your opponent's radar. The gameplay loop was sustained by release week/month hype, but outside of the community that I was a part of at the time of playing, 6DOF was too much for people to really handle AND you needed to have Windows Vista in order to play it at all. They tried releasing a weapon pack and bots to breathe some life and extend the depth of the game, but it was unfortunately all for naught. More of a nostalgic review than anything else. I don't think I'd want Shattered Horizon to re-release in 2023 with all the crap that plagues online gaming in the 2020s, but I do miss the initial experience.