Starforged Legacy

Most of the negative reviews I've seen begin with "I really wanted to like this game." Well, I really wanted to like this game. I have an "older system" at this point (g11 i7/3080) and it runs fine at 4k resolution (saw a few others with better systems having trouble, not my experience). So the game looks great and plays well, but that's not my problem. My problem is the game hates you, the player. I've played a LOT of the survival-style roguelight games (as most of my recent purchases can attest to) and I struggled with Starforged. First zone or two it seems reasonable: There are some badguy ships, you shoot them in their ship-faces and collect the loot. Sweet. Nice. Get some upgrades along the way of questionable help (one common upgrade I saw was going to boost my damage from 14.2 to 14.2. I guess it was a hundredth of a percent increase and wasn't even displayed). You start with 1 gun and can get up to 3 and it takes a while. Its mostly an auto-battler but you can take somewhat manual control over firing which seemed intermittently effective to me. You quickly learn that EVERY ship out there is faster than you are. They are able to move and reposition anywhere within the battlefield whenever they want to while you are limited by physics and reality. Eventually as you continue on through the map this means that enemy ships are clustered around you constantly, shooting at will and wearing you down. I was only ever to make any appreciable progress with the battleship in my 2 hours of play of the 3 starting ships but the last boss who had 127000 HPs and shields outlasted me. I'm doing between 40 and maybe 120 damage on a crit every few seconds. Its not enough. On top of that they LOVE their environmental hazards. There are zones that cover 90% of space, there are smaller areas that move through the map and others that appear out of nowhere and give you a bit of time to respond to and move, but they get layered ALL over the place. Your shield is pretty reliable, but I only found it to be effective on the battleship (the others were too low to do anything). Hull damage persists between nodes and is repairs are rare. TLDR: This game hates you. Its sad because its quite a pretty game. I don't need this kind of toxic relationship in my life. Refund requested.

Absolutely enjoyable game! Different ships and classes provides for a new run experience and playstyle. Saw other reviewers having issues with performance, I didn't have any with my 2080. Awesome game!

This has been a delight of a game to try out. Old school trust and rotation controls are a joy to get to try with roguelite loadout system. At the price you could do worse.

FTL meets Survivals but doesn't require 30 min for a run. So far, happy with synergies. I unlocked all ships by now and still got a lot left to unlock.

i love this game. steam deck works great.

Great fun! If you love vampire survivors then I think this is better. Throw in the space sci-fi style graphics, weapons and ship abilities then it makes it even more fun. Tons of ships to play as with loads of different unlockables and styles of play that no run is ever the same. Highly recommended

Early access review: A great new sci fi version of a survivor's game where you get to pilot star ships against endless enemies. It's a lot of fun to unlock the various different ships and upgrades. The biggest downside the game has is that once you get a really good build going it become almost impossible to lose, I was going to go for the top spot on the leaderboards but after playing endless mode for eight hours straight I had about only a quarter of the score that first place had so it kind of killed that aspect of the game for me.

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Good fun, has potential if shown love.