The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu

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.

It definetly needs some work but I enjoy it quite a bit so far. As long as they continue to release regular updates I think it will turn into a real banger

get stabbed by some dude 10 times without being able to dodge or parry his attack, 10/10

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

Absolutely love this game and the devs communicate with the community quite a bit as well! honestly in my top 10 rn

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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