The Riftbreaker

I like it, I won't put much more time into it beyond 10 hours, but I got it for 8$ so can't complain. Game play loop is not very good. The resource management is too strict and it wants you to go from "planet to planet" and do the same loop. Every planet is the same with one "annoying" twist latched on to it to sap resources. You can see that there are cool weapons, neat upgrades but the investment to get there is not exciting. They tried to do an RTS / Combat style game but they neglected both sides. You either play Survival and don't really get to experience the tech tree, or you play campaign where you get the tech tree but the loop is so boring compared to survival that you end up in a slog trying to get through the brain dead campaign / loop. Is it worth 8-10$? Sure, but unless they fix the recipe and add different modes it feels like a pretty flat game even with friends. We felt this after hour 6 and kept it up a bit more to see where things would go and it just never got better.

This is one of my best surprises, seriously. This game is a gem if you like shoot'em up + tower defense. I tried it completely unplanned and waiting for nothing special, it was a free demo Steam suggested me. I bought it the day after :D Just look at the devs diaries, it's plenty of passion. We got MANY free updates, it makes me sad they announced recently the game is now complete (I'll follow their next project for sure, unless it's a genre I dislike). It's been a while I didn't play and didn't took time to write something about it but reading last news makes me want to praise the game for those who still didn't gave a shot. [h2]GOOD[/h2] [list] [*]Graphics are good with little nice details like moving flora [*]Performance is good, I didn't have troubles with an old machine (8+yo) [*]Difficulty can be adjusted, from total newbie (like me ! I'm not used to play these games and it's fine) to people who need more challenge, there are different modes too [*]You have many weapons to use for many styles ! Don't think you'll stick with the same from the beginning to the end, some enemies will make you adapt [*]Skill tree is big and useful, the impact is huge, take time to really judge the possibilities, it's not your tower defense mobile game at all [*]Maps are various with their own flora/fauna/ressources and climatic challenges, refreshing your experience. Kudos to the search mode you'll unlock later to have random generated ones with criterias you adjust to your needs [*]Your base has a lot of custom possibilities [*]The story is enjoyable, with a main character who is not too bland. Not always very logical though. [/list] [h2]BAD[/h2] [list] [*]Full game's potential is long to get, maybe 10 hours ? It can feel repetitive at first [*]The main character is very chatty with her AI exosuit, it can be annoying. [*]UI is oldschool and sometimes you have to scroll a lot, which is awful with a controller (yes you can play with a controller, the game is not too fast paced) [/list]

Played the demo some time back, wasn't super into it. Got the game as part of a humble bundle, decided to give it another try. Still not into it. It can't decide whether it wants to be a swarm survival game or a factory game, and the towers are all useless. I have several dozen defending my perimeter and they get steamrolled every time enemies attack, then I have to kite them around while shooting them in the face with a shotgun, take out a boss and waves of spitters, yadda yadda. Huge repair loop every time since all my repair drone towers are of course, all destroyed as well. I would pre-emptively go fight the waves to spare my base but they always attack from multiple directions. They also like to target my extant resource mines which I just can't spare more than a few turrets to protect (not that the several dozen are doing any good at the main base). I can take out waves of enemies plus a boss using a spear and a basic shotgun I picked up, but a perimeter of tier two gunner turrets backed by morters just vaporizes the second anything looks at them funny. Looping through the entire area to repair everything is just.. sigh. Honestly it just makes me nostalgic for factorio. It was far less combat focused and yet the combat and progression felt more meaningful. Building a bunch of towers actually made a difference. The character motivations and interactions sound stiff, tropey. I can't find a reason to be emotionally invested in the plot. Why are waves of everything even attacking the base. The intro sequence pretty much sums it up. Shiny mecha, future tech, lots of tropisms, scary alien waiting in ambush in an actual bush, not really any meaning or logic to it, motivations are lacking. It's not really a factory game either since, well, it can't be with everything attacking your base all the time. Resource management is a hybrid between an RTS and a factory-lite. I don't think it's terrible, but it's not a terribly interesting game either, once you get past the flashy veneer.

I tried to enjoy this game or even just enjoy it. On paper this is factorio meets helldivers 1 which is everything that is good in life. However the game feels devoid of a soul, instead of progression it felt like I was completing someone's else chore list, the Mecha is constantly telling me what to and my character kept on repeating the same things over and over, for a game so full of dialogues, not a single line was ever relevant to what i played. Also, as far as i notices, there is not true automation, my drills, powerplants and other machines kept on going out of resources, so it felt like i had to be running around baby-sitting my machines while completing whatever menial chore the game decided was needed of me next.

Покупал эту игру для игры с друзьями, но играть в неё кроме как соло - нереально. 3 часа потратил на разние варианты серверов - внутриигровой, на отдельном сервере linux с эмуляцией, на отдельном сервере windows, локально запускал сервер отдельно от игры, везде одно и то же — жуткие пропуски, ощущется каждая милисикунда пинга, даже локально. Как итоге — для игры в одиночку наверное норм, для игры с друзьями в кооперативе однозначно не стоит к покупке. Пытался вернуть, но тк проведено в попытках настроить было более 2-х часов, стим автоматически возврат не сделал, а разрабобтчик отказал в возврате, хотя ситуацию я описал разработчику. За это по сути игра и получает отрицательный отзыв.

This game is amazing. The developers are totally commited to the game and continue to optimize and add to it. Tower Defense, Base Buiding, Hero Development. It all works.

Honestly the Devs dedication to continue improving the game with free updates long after launch is worthy of a positive review all on its own, especially in todays big budget ai game slop economy. However, the game itself is super fun as well. It has it's issues, which I am sure you can read about in other reviews, but the Devs seem dedicated to improving things and the in game mod support means you can adjust the game to your liking right from the get go anyways. All in all very fun unique game.

I only played the campaign with friends and it starts good, but quickly becomes tedious and boring. too many times where we just got to a new area and the enemies are already doing a base rushes so we had no time to actually build one. many cases where we just don't have time between rush to actually do anything or rebuild the damage from the last one. Riggs and the player character just don't shut up as events happen way too often, riggs and her both have to warn the player one after the other about the event then like 10 seconds later the event starts and they both have to describe it afterwards both have to tell the player it's ending and then 2 minutes later the next event's warning goes off, for example a dust storm is moving in they both warn the player(where only one doing so was enough) then when it starts they both have to describe what it does, and then both tell you it's dying down and maybe 2 minutes later a solar flare is going to come by and they start up again. It got so bad that when me and a friend were talking we had to constantly stop as they kept interrupting us. The objectives that lead up to gaining new mining spots aren't any bit fun. The end fight was awful and had horrendous slow down and I have a good pc.