The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu

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In this state, no cannot recommend, which is really unfortunate because it's so close, infuriatingly close to being one of the best of this kind of extract and loot style games. Really unique aesthetic, great art, cool idea but its just filled to the brim with confusing BS in it's current state. The game does a really REALLY poor job of explaining to you the actual gameplay loop, it's not really a looter extraction game it's about running and moving until you get to the end of the stage to get the logbooks or primary objective and then extract with it and whatever else you can snatch on the way, nothing else matters early game, the objective is what you want and the loot is a trap early on because what you want is levels, tokens and progress. Think of it more like Deep Rock Galactic, you want to get to the end as fast as possible and then run all the way back to level spawn before time runs out, the loot is secondary to that primary objective, progress and speed is your focus. The sanity system is cool and is the highlight of the game but it's just so gd confusing in how it works, we basically had to trial and error ourselves into realising what the game wanted us to do. The Torch is basically non-negotiable you have to have somebody in your party with one and stay together. It [b]is[/b] a cool system, the sanity is cool when you figure out what it wants to punish you for doing and what it wants to reward you for doing but until you figure it out all you are doing is just confusingly running around trying to figure out why you are losing your mind because the game doesn't really communicate to you why you are losing sanity and why you are getting it back, or that it's even happening. The random events are the Crème de la crème of confusing BS, the game will sometimes just throw utter crap at you, like for example teleport everybody in the party to random parts of the map and force you all to desperately run back to the cart even if you are mid extraction, and you have been doing well the whole time (staying silent and staying sane) which accounts to basically just a forced partywipe with no way to actually deal with it and its not actually clear if you could even do anything to avoid that or if its scripted or totally random. It is absolutely infuriating to just lose 20 minutes of work because the game director rolled a dice and decided to basically kill you all without any real way to prepare or counter for it. The cart-driver is the absolute worst, to bring up Deep Rock Galactic again, he is no Molle-E, theres no easy way to summon him and it seems completely random how fast he moves, he can basically zoom like a fighter jet ahead of you without you seeing, or you will be standing around with full arms spamming the horn waiting for him to crawl like a gd baby toward you, wasting your already short time because he is barely moving. This is no Deep Rock Galactic. The guns in their current state might as well not even be in the game, the gamble for how useful their side effect of summoning enemies for sound already makes them a weapon you only want to rely on in last resort situations but given that the map can just be rainy and completely make the guns useless is even worse. As it stands they are effectively useless for anything but a fallback weapon but the rain effect being so confusing and unpredictable already takes them from being almost useless to totally useless and theres not really anything you can do about that. Overall, i want to like it, I really want to like it because what is there that works is cool and its so close to being one of the coolest new ideas in this kind of game, but its just buried in between confusing systems that don't do a good enough job explaining what you are supposed to be doing, and really annoying gameplay that feels like it wasn't tested. To be fair it seems like the devs are actively working to address the issues but they gotta put some work in to fix this, give it a couple major patches before you dive in. I'll be back to check on it eventually to see how it's changed.

I really love the one sanity mechanic where I receive "network connectivity issues". Really freaks out the people I'm playing with.

Look I really like this game, and I think it has great potential. But, in its current state I cannot recommend people buying the game full price. There just isn't enough content in the game to make it exciting in the mid-late game stage. I'd only recommend it when it's on sale, and you have disposable income, cause in its current state it isn't worth full price, and should probably be listed as a early access. Don't get me wrong its a great game, and I'm going to continue playing it even if it's stale, but definitely needs more work into the xp system, the contracts, the weapons and just general progression. Some of the reviews complain about the fact that some enemies you can't fight/kill, but that is a part of the game that they say whenever you load into any mission. It's just a shame that the only weapons you have available are those in the contracts, and they are far weaker than most of the damage that the enemies do, its also difficult to play with less than 4 players in some areas there are a lot of enemies that spawn, and you just can't handle them on your own and survive the whole mission. I feel as though your sanity drains too quickly when you split away to grab something shiny you see 10 meters away from the wagon. I'm hoping I'm able to change this review into a strong recommendation in the future once there is more content available and more mechanics get implimented, improved or fixed. Some things I'd like to see added or improved: - Improve progression system - Add more weapon types and different system for taking weapons to missions, even if its at the cost (in game) to the player, currently it doesn't make sense to me why these characters wouldn't have their own weapons that they would have to take care of, currently its only cosmetic weapons - Make the characters more unique by adding slight differences to their speed, dexterity, weight, reach, strength, etc. cause currently its also currently only cosmetic - Similarily with the inventory system, I think it would be nice that as you progress you get backpacks, etc, and even do something like different sized items take different inventory space, similar to most extraction looter games, which have different sizing per item in inventory, like 2x4 etc, and it means you have to better strategise your space. - Also why can't you split stacks of bandages, or have multiple uses of items. I think some items like rations, or sniffing salts could have a durability bar or similar where you can use it multiple times, maybe let players keep certain items for their next mission. - Add/improve the game to suit different number of players, have it scale down/up depending on players, stuff like sanity, enemy count, supplies, etc. - Add a variety of items/consumables to help players - Make pathing a little less clunky, currently there is a lot of areas that feel like I would easily be able to access/back track on, but it does not let me pass because the ledge is past ankle height. - Improve friendly npc/wagon pathing, it feels like it constantly lags behind and take a while to catch up especially at the start of the match, it feels like i'm waiting a few minutes for the cart to catch up before I can continue

Exceeded my expectations, great with friends and a relief from all the friend slop games

I left the ship as an Spanish conquistador. Came back as an insane asylum patient.

Overall its a neat concept but it feels like some clunky early beta build of a game, it needs better pacing as the missions are far too short, you get no time to do anything and the enemies are pretty odd to fight. Also insanity sets in WAY too quickly. Some of the mechanics are also just awful, like randomly blacking out and being teleported away, a guy spawning right under you and hitting you before you can do anything and the melee combat is just sad, when you attack something you cant block in time to block their follow up attack so really block is mostly useless

Actually so bad I hate this ♥♥♥♥ game do not buy PLEASE it is a major waste of money and room on your computer