The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu

If you ignore the performance and day 1 dlc, its a great game.

PLAY THE DEMO. With friends using proximity chat. That will give you a far better idea of whether you'll like it than any review. It's weird and does NOT fit into a box. You buy this game for the stories you share and tell with your friends. You go into a mission, something goes terribly terribly wrong. Maybe the game tricks you, maybe your friend is eaten by trees, maybe you have a life and death sprint through a zombie-infested forest while bleeding out, only to extract with a sliver of health. And as the countdown is happening...the trees are coming for you. THE TREES ARE MOVING AND THEY WANT TO EAT YOU. Don't trust them. Also, don't trust the equipment they give you...sometimes its a trap. Also that rifle you picked up might actually be a stick that looks like a rifle. Also that's not your friend, that's a worm creature. Why didn't you notice the switch? This isn't an action game with extraction elements, this a story-generating engine that you will talk about for a while. This is based on extensive gameplay of the demo and the main release, but not the mid-late game. I'll amend this review if anything changes.

С момента демки будь-то ничего не изменилось. Пока не стоит брать. Инвентарь, я его всё долбил. Оптимизация страдает местами. Стимула играть не уловил, прокачиваться будь-то только для нового скина ножа? ЧЗХ?! Идея очень даже интересная, механики прикольные. Однако всё как-то жидко. 10 каток откатал, уже скукотень и нехер делать. Посмотрим на продукт позже.

The game is fun, but there are couple of issues. Solo play is possible, but still difficult and worse than normal multiplayer (how surprising). The bot AI is good at shooting and usually saves you in a pinch, but struggles to keep up with you. The Cart that follows you is also really janky. The big issue with the game is that it does a terrible job communicating how certain mechanics work. For example, there's this tree bug monster that targets you if you're alone, and reduces your health to a single point while covering you in boomer bile. However, the only thing in the game that communicates that it targets people who are alone is in a small book you can miss, which results in people flooding the discussion forms complaining about the tree bug monster. Once you understand how it works, it's a cool risk to consider while exploring, but it's frustrating when you keep getting ambushed by the monster without knowing why. The game is full of stuff like this which is annoying. Other than that, the gameplay is awesome and the game looks great. I really like the Monkey Puzzle trees every where, they look cool as hell. It's hard to say that the game is worth $30, but I would pick it up if there's a sale. I hope that the game will improve in the future and ACE keeps making weird games. Also add Kax-Teh as a hidden boss or something idk.

bad

Game has potential but there are too many things that need fixing, the combat needs a lot of tweaking. I would not recommend this game atm. This game isn't worth the price tag tbh, After you unlock everything or hit max rank there is nothing else to do, just the same maps and missions repeat etc. When you do enough runs/missions with your friends you'll soon discover everything within the game that needs fixing.

For now everything seems to be fine. Really fun with with friends or solo. Will update the review later.