Sipho

after playing the main campaign for a few hrs its a textbook buyers remorse... did try most of the classes/species CRAMPED MAPS: even if you could ever afford to "get big" its a bad idea cause you will spend LOTS of extra time trying to find an accommodating path SCARCE RESOURCES: if you loose more than a few parts you more often then not, may as well just quit and restart, cause you arent going to be able to recover from the loss 5/6 times ALMOST NO ACTUAL COMBAT -mobs will always flee when weakened... or even worse... just zip by, ignoring you.. often faster than you even if you managed to afford several mobility attachments. -meaning you are going to spend almost all of your game time chasing down fast small mobs that will easily zip through tight spaces you can no longer dream of squeezing past due to the previously mentioned cramped play area -many of the enemies i "caught" either died on my first attack or i only got cause they jammed themselves into a corner of the cramped environment (anything else will just cheese you or pin you so you cant turn around and fire... instant loss of run when that happened) MOBILITY IS A NIGHTMARE (controller experience) -the one positive i can say, is all skills including boost can be easily rebinded and even overlapped so you can fire multiple part types at once (everything gets a separate button by default based on order attached) -going forward... aint happening... if you arent constantly aiming with the right stick you will often just... swivel in a random direction, often backwards.... -and realigning yourself or just trying to turn is really slow or wont even register the attempt for a second or two best way i could describe my experience in a sentence is "rick and morty's hyper realistic street fighter" cause i spent... so much wasted time even trying to find or chase something to fight in anything that wasnt a boss area

Being that [i]Sipho[/i] can be beaten within two hours, it would be an understatement to say that said product is overvaluing itself when its content is shallow, predictable, and functions more like a sandbox than a real game. Could you imagine if [i]SPORE™[/i] never made content after the [url=https://spore.fandom.com/wiki/Cell_Stage]cell stage[/url]? If so, then you have already visualized everything this so-called video game has to offer; avoid all cell-based video games as their developers have clearly enjoyed SPORE™ yet failed in adding anything new to the evolution simulator genre.

Great game with great replay value. Oddly enough my Twin daughters caught me playing this when they were four and absolutely love it, calling it "Cell game". They're almost 6 now and most of this play time so far is them wanting me to play it with them for 10-20 minutes at a time.

heavily underrated game similar to that of thrive, spore cell stage, and primordialis - however, its far more refined and has beautiful visuals. the gameplay is fun and very replayable, combat is rewarding yet surprisingly difficult. once you have the basic gameplay down, you can try going for achievements. the most difficult one requires you to beat the game without any combat zooids, and is a great challenge for completionists. heavily recommend to anyone interested in "build an organism" type games who like in-depth combat systems. the game could probably be classified as a roguelike, due to the randomly generated levels(except for boss rooms) and your run being deleted upon death. honestly, im surprised its such a niche game. the physics are a little jank (your zooids can be pushed around, sometimes to the extreme) but you get used to it after a while, and there aren't any common game breaking bugs aside from occasionally getting stuck somewhere due to levels being randomly generated. updates are few and far between, but the game shouldn't get abandoned anytime soon. also, the music's pretty great, if a little repetitive.

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Sipho has about 2 hours of content. I finished the game, beat all the bosses, and unlocked every species on my second attempt. The game quickly lost its purpose for me: I managed to create an overpowered build on my second try, and after that I was just replaying the same loop to unlock everything. I can only recommend buying the game at a 50% discount or higher.

I’m not sure how this is at all Steam Deck verified. It controls very clunky on the deck, and for the price I was expecting a lot more visual polish/UI feedback. Truly a programmers UI. There’s something fun here but it wasn’t for me.

Last update was in 2024. You can beat the game in two hours. I dunno seems kinda overpriced. Speaks for itself. It's a shame, really.

The game is awesome, but it spawns the creatures you make, so when i'm trying to play a run without being op, i get obliterated (at the final boss especially) It needs a do not spawn all creatures button, but other than that, great game.