Stumble Guys

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Stumble Guys has a great premise, and an incredibly fun and addictive gameplay loop. It balances simplicity and depth to create an amazing pick-up-and-play experience. Unfortunately however, it is plagued by over-monetization and lack of meaningful content updates. Additionally, as an achievement hunter, I started this game thinking it would be an easy 100%, but to my dismay, I discovered one of them is entirely broken, and has been for the past couple months. The devs seem more interested in adding more of what are essentially just loot boxes, disguised as prize wheels, for which you have to pay exorbitant prices for. This is made worse by the fact that some achievements literally require getting cosmetics - something which takes ages without paying. In this sense, it's practically pay-to-win, not to mention that you can literally buy overpowered abilities like speed-boosts and shields via in-app-purchases. Bearing this in mind, I at least expected for this type of game to have cross-play, but no, it doesn't. The devs are supposedly "working on it", but I couldn't find any recent news detailing their progress. I can't understand why it would be so difficult to add, since the game is built in Unity - an engine which basically just works out the box with this sort of thing. Cross-play would really improve the game by bringing players together, helping to combat the increasing number of lobbies populated almost entirely by bots. The game is free, so I suppose it's somewhat off the hook, but considering the amount of microtransactions, it could definitely be better.