So far this game is in the lower-mid range of survival roguelikes.
It has a convincing atmosphere that isn't well represented, so it has that going for it.
It runs and looks passable - also good.
There are, however, quite a few things holding it back from being in the upper-echelon of similar games.
First of all, there just isn't that much unique about it. You have a smallish number of classes, and get up to three of them per run. They're appropriately unique in their own regards, but they honestly have less customization options than analogous mechanics in other games. Take Deeprock Galactic Survivor for example. Here you have less classes (only five), but a HUGE amount of weapons with their own tree of unique upgrades, etc. That just doesn't exist here. Almost every upgrade you find are bog standard - faster attack rate, more damage, etc.
The classes are also fairly boring, with skills that operate like less interesting versions of what you'd find in other games.
The main thing, however, is that the games take a LOOOONNGGG time. Every map I've been on so far is TWENTY minutes long. That is a very long time for a single roguelike run.
The maps and monsters, too, are just kind of mid. The small arena-like maps you're dropped into have very little character to them - flat, no foliage or buildings to navigate through. Pickups just appear magically from the sky, as do survivors to rescue.
Monsters aren't bad looking (in fact, I like the overall graphical [i]style[/i]), but the variation in them is pretty lacking. In other words, you're stuck for twenty minutes at a time (unless you die, of course), looking at the same enemies on a boring map.
The action itself is pretty good, with one main complaint - Unlike something like DRG: Survivor, where your run is based around up to five weapons that you find via upgrades, here you have a small three-man team moving around the map. That's a great idea, except it makes it very difficult to tell when you are and aren't going to get hit by enemies or projectiles. The damage is fairly punishing, so these unhelpful hitboxes can spell real (and sometimes immediate) trouble for a run. There is a red circle that makes your teams position on the ground, but it really feels like zombies and projectiles alike will actually hit your characters' models, even if they didn't actually collide with the red circle.
All in all, I think they could poor some more time and design into this and bring it up to one of the better survival roguelikes out there, but we'll see what the developer does with it.
I give it a tepid thumbs up for the time being.
