The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu

Really fun game to play with friends. Quite complete, really enjoyable, lots of new unique gameplay mechanics. Can be a bit clunky sometimes, but with the illusions, stress, darkness and friendly fire, it adds up to create some really good and tense moments. The push towards cooperative gameplay and the time limits and multiple objective make for a really tense and fun game without any down time during a run. This will put your friendships at risk or make them stronger. The level design is really good, really immersive and super pretty. PS: The last unlocked zone is simply stunning.

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

Game feels not rewarding at all, it feels like you're just a courier going through hell because the employer tells you to, and you're not allowed to prepare with your own supplies. Few Problems - Expeditions is fun for a few times, then, its just becomes repetitives. - Bringing so many things and risking everything from expeditions is not rewarding at all. You only get tokens with barely any use. - Tokens that you get from risking your life, doesnt mean ♥♥♥♥. You can only buy meager supplies like torch, medallions, maps, and bandages. - Why aren't we allowed to keep equipment that we loot? Instead, the game gave you supplies based on what mission you take. Sure you can upgrade it with tokens, but then at the end of the expeditions you lost it anyway, so what for? - There's no sense of progression other than Levels, and Map. Even Levels doesnt give you anything, it just show everyone, Hey i played a lot of this game. I wish there are more of this game, it feels like we're paying for the graphical fidelity and not gameplay, with the price its in right now i do not recommend.

Games Great BUT... 1> shop loot should carry over so you can compound unique consumables. 2> upgraded weapons should stick till death or some other mechanic. ' 3> if not upgrade carry over all loot on body carries over that is consumables and weapons. The loot becomes useless and more so opportunistic vs. using the anvil to continually repair one item creating unique carry over and a feeling of scaling.

Lots of replayability & it even works on Steam Deck!

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Задумка интересная, реализация посредственная. Из-за неторопливости геймплея играть просто скучно. Возможно, дальше при прохождении становится повеселее, но первая пара забегов меня вогнали в сон. Графика приятная. Анимации топорные, особенно боевка. На данный момент не рекомендую. Рефанд. Послежу еще за проектом, но особых надежд не питаю.