Tyr

Hours played at review time, across 882 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

Tyr is fun. Genuinely surprised by that, since multiplayer shooters usually aren't my thing. It's an 8v8 hero/tank shooter with a one-life-per-round structure (but you can leave and claim match rewards after you die), so things move fast. Each tank plays more like the cast of a hero shooter than the typical tank game roster, with voice acting and personalities and all, closer to something like Overwatch or Deadlock in how they're presented. The monetization, or lack thereof, is very good. One tier, no repair costs, no crew training, no subscription, no premium ammo, no premium tanks, and no loot boxes. You just play to earn XP and silver and unlock tanks that way. The grind isn't that bad either. Whether Stoke keeps it this generous as the game matures, no idea. This is just where things stand right now. The balance issue is snipers. The Arbalest and Ark show up in basically every match and shred people from a bush before they even know what's going on. There's a counter-sniper tank, the Kestrel, but nobody actually plays it that way in my games. Matches get decided by snipers alone way too often, I genuinely do not see this game surviving for a long time if the snipers are kept this way. It is not tenable. Communications is pretty thin right now. Right now, as it stands, you have a few pings to communicate with teammates. I get why there's no chat in the standard mode; it would get toxic fast, but it also means you are losing out on the coordination a chat would allow for. And the toxicity finds a way anyway, people just take it to the official Discord and hunt down whoever ticked them off to call them out there. Kind of pathetic, honestly. Clans are their own issue. A lot of extra goodies are gated behind them, which is fine in theory, but I haven't managed to actually join one. The recruitment channel on their Discord doesn't have any clans that have space for me or are a clan I'd I like to join, and the "join any available clan" button ingame just doesn't work for me. Devs are removing the Discord requirement for clans, which helps a bit but doesn't fix the rest of it. Overall though I'm quite excited to see where this game is headed.