Recent reviews by Pyro

The AI is dumb. You can build machiculations, murder holes and such... but the AI characters can't and won't lean to reach a proper line of sight or take any kind of cover. There is no point in offering the one big advantage of a castle if your AI can't use it.

But it's ok, your archers can stand butt naked on the wall and fight anyway but... because characters are VERY costly to create (and I guess CPU intensive), the devs have created red crystals wich act as automated towers... put those cristals on your wall to have five time more ranged ♥♥♥♥ fired towards the enemy... it's a bit of a shame that we are to replace archers with "cristals" but it's ok...

If you play seriously, to win, without RP, your contraptions won't look like castles or forts. They will look like glorified 2.5m high property walls with walkways. But it WILL be fun. The AI is simply going to 'dig' trough your walls by hand, but it's ok. You get to experiment fun ways to defend yourself.

Where the game truly shines is for RP enthusiasts. You'll be able to build your castle in creative mode, in peaceful mode or semi-peaceful mode and you'll get to build all kind of crazy castles! Build Penrose stairs (viewed from the good angle)! Build Escher's room (nammed: Reliativity, see the paint!). You have some physicts to repsect, but it is a non issue. You can build HIGH and WIDE!

You must be ok with the idea of losing. Becaues losing you will.
Frustration is key, the music is creepy, everything is dark. Concrete everywhere.

Your wife and kids will die, because defending their lives is expodentially more and more difficult... but you don't need them. When they die, you can fully enclose yourself and make a proper trap....

Beware, you have to be able to bypass your trap without tools, using a secret path or some sort of secret interactions to open the door for you but not the invader. It's easy to die in your own creation.

I once owned ALL the paints in game (paints are a way to show off your penis size)... then some thief came along and stole everything. That's life...

IF YOU ARE NOT IN A GOOD MORE OR IF YOU ARE SENSIBLE TO DARK HORRORS WITH PEOPLE HANGING THEMSELF, AVOID THIS GAME. It can and will mess with your mood a bit. But it's very fun and challenging. It's all against real players.

If you love building mechanical contraptions, you'll love this game.

Don't optimize, just enjoy the tesing your most ridiculous ideas.

It's ok.. 6-7/10?

Play the main quest and be done with it.
It can be hard at times, you might have to "follow a specific pattern" to survive the start of a game, it can somewhat feel like a puzzle game because of it (I've had ENOUGH puzzle games for a MONTH!) but except from that it's a fun drug dealing strategy game where you train your troops to fight and invade the enemy bases.

It can be somewhat tedious, but it' mostly is ok. You'r not supposed to have too many troops anyway...

Public servers: A beautiful ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with traitors, griefers and heroes. It can be incredible stories, it can be frustrating griefing time, it can be FUN griefing time... it can be a lot fo things.

Private whitelist servers: Depends on the server, but if you want a well oiled machine, with a well trained and responding crew, you'll have a blast.

Cool situations: (1) The ship get invaded by hostile monsters... you kill those monsters but discover later that one of your crew members got infected by a parazite in the fight... parazite alien style which make your infected crew infect others by bitting on them and killing them.
(2) You are a traitor, you have to kill one target, being the captain... you trap the captain in the ballasts, steal his suit and proceed to kill him. Finish the missin disguised as the captain... (when your target dies, it becomes a spectator who can read the chat. don't forget to tell him using in game chat (local) that you were a traitor tasked with his assasination, it avoides rages and makes it fun)

Very fun puzzle game.
Most challenges will be in theme with what you're supposed to do.
You can have some light programmation with object moving conditions.
You get to turn the world upside down.

The main quest can be beaten very quickly if you're not a completionist... but if you love lasting challenges, there's a LOT to do even passed the main quest.

it's cool.

Same as the last version of the game:

Perfect to play with friends on the fly. Quick to download, easy to learn averange to master.
You'll get a good time in coop form 2 to 4 players.

In Online multiplayer, people will generally rush trough the level without waiting for you, but you'll still find decent bros who will enjoy the game as a team.

Perfect to play with friends on the fly. Quick to download, easy to learn averange to master.
You'll get a good time in coop form 2 to 4 players.

In Online multiplayer, people will generally rush trough the level without waiting for you, but you'll still find decent bros who will enjoy the game as a team.

If you're a perfectionist, this game will tire and hurt you.

If you're ok with sub-optimal design, for as long as you figured out how it sohuld work, it's ok... Because trying to get the perfect road can take many re-try (co delet or remove features), so you'd better not focus on optimisation.

On my part I have my share of hours waisted and suffering. But in the end, it's a very interesting game. I'd classify it as a puzzle game as it really is a puzzle of ratios and road priorities.

To play in small bite size. :3

Making people pay for changing RGB color on a screen:
You can BUY paints for 0.5$ to 1$. You get only ONE pain item and it is SINGLE USE.

Remember, you have to PAY to play this game. You pay to get all basic features and a GOOD TIME. For the Guns Of Icarus, GOOD TIME means frustrating the player to get more money.

While selling intricate/special cosmetics items 'might' be acceptable, in the current state, it is clearly meant to mess with you, as the ammount of outfits and cosmetics you start with is extremely limited and most of those cosmetics are absolutely lame. At the end of every game, you'll have a full on zoom on the winning team, taking a lot of time for you to linger, to see how more elegent than you they are, so that you might be tempted to buy more and more.

Worse, the Guns Of Icarus team found that it would be a great idea to divide the already small player base by creating a new 'improved' PvE extension. They will harass you so that you buy their new extension pack, Guns Of Icarus ALLIANCE. You will be remembered of the existance of this ALLIANCE extension at every corners. The main menu's FIRST button is bigger, brighter, shiny and flishing, squirting for your love... The world map and the faction menu are there ONLY for those who own the extension, buy you'll be able to see it all and, if you don't understand it yet, pay in game coins to participate to the war... war that you can not take part, because you don't have the ALLIANCE extension... so I just waisted all of my money to support a region, by adding a buff that would allow me to contribute 20% as much for every games I play in this region... except that I can NOT play in it, because I do not own the ALLIANCE extension...

How to confuse, mess with and trap your player into spending more and more money... THANKS GUNS OF ICARUS, I WILL REMEMBER YOU!

GO TO HELL!