Superbugs: Awaken

best coop game ever and it is way harder than expected (if you dont use any skill / not coop enough with your partner)

I expected the game to be different for some reason... The levels are very short, you can complete the first 4 in less than 2 minutes, later ones you will fail because time runs out. The level design is boring, your quest repetitive and boring. Describing these viruses a pain because some will keep fleeing and they can spot you across the map for some reason. The player who is supposed to guide you cannot see where you are and has to go blind, which might work in the beginning but once he has to construct the vaccine he loses every bit of orientation he had. There are no real landmarks either for easy re-orientation because the more special rooms are there at least twice. The shapes you describe are there multiple times because no matter what you say, there will be 2-3 options that fit. Very annoying.

Comment from a friend that summed up our experience: "Pretty fun game for only a dollar!" To expound on that, personally, I think this game is great for the price we got it for off Fanatical, $1. It had some seriously unique mechanics that were super fun to experience, and had a decent enough gameplay loop to keep us entertained for about an hour. Beyond that hour, the flaws of the game present themselves a bit more. These flaws are all, individually, nothing short of just tedious obstacles to enjoying a good game. Collectively, over the course of time, these become enough of a hinderance to lose interest in the game. If you can get the game for a dollar or two, and have the money to spare, it's a great game to try out with a friend for an afternoon, but only that. Not something I'd spend more than a few hours in or show off to others as a game I was particularly impressed by.

No guest license, no split screen, no steam remote play, can't play with my brother without buying the game twice.

fun challenging and unique asymmetric coop game good time woohoo. lots of bugs and needs more polish. final boss seemed bugged - too many bugs and crashing.

Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes type gameplay. One person runs around like in an FPS, and can describe the environment and enemies, while trying to not get killed by them. The other person tries to direct the FPSer, and figure out the right vaccine to kill the enemy. There are several varieties of enemies and stage type/shape. Apparently there are stages with multiple FLOORS (height) but we stopped playing before entering those. Hope to get back to it soon! It's HARD. Fun though. You'd better have good voice comms.

Playing as scientist/dad has been made too hard, because you cant see where the other player on the map. Unable to invert y-axis makes it impossible to play for me. Becomes repetitive Very quickly!