Recent reviews by Robot Joe

busted performance and none existent a-life. In its current state it's just far cry with a stalker skin.


Edit: I understand that they acknowledged that a-life is broken and that they are working on fixing it but I'm still skeptical about how deep it's going to be. Is it going to simulate activity across other regions, are generated stalkers going to be persistent characters in the world? Or does a-life 2.0 just mean a bigger spawn bubble around the player.

Is it going to fix the basic behaviors of mutants? Like are they going to act like animals or is their behavior going to resume just being 100% aggressive towards the player. Fleshes use to not be an aggressive monster, they were a prey animal that rather run away but now they're just as suicidaly aggressive as any other mutant.

Like it's crazy that a trio of games from nearly a decade and a half ago had more interesting and emergent elements than the sequel that released in 2024.

I will gladly eat my words and change my review if my pessimism ends up being disproven in future patches.

Space age really is a prime example of what an expansion pack should be. Like everything it adds feels so meaningful to the base game. All the new buildings and tools are cool, the planets are really cool and bring on their own logistical challenges to overcome, interplanetary transport is cool. ITS JUST REALLY COOL, very recommended and very worth its price.

sad the dev turned out to be a grifting turd. Could have said that gay marriage or whatever wasn't in his vision for the sequel and left it at that but instead played the victim acting like he got mobbed and reviewed bomb by the woke horde. Just a pathetic and cheap ploy to push more eyeballs onto his game

It really put me off on playing this game and I regret my purchase and obviously I am not going to buy the sequel.

also lol "Cancel culture survivor." in the twitter bio, what a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ baby.


Pick up Cogmind or Caves of Qud, or DWARF FORTRESS instead is my recommendation

a solidly OK arena horde shooter.

FUN.

The sniping is fun and going back and forth between victims' and the killer's perspective is cool I just wish it didn't end up being so confusing and end so abruptly.

I'll still give it a thumbs up, it's neat.

so far so good in delivering what underworld ascendant could not lol


If you liked arx fatalis or exploring dungeons in an elder scrolls game and immersive sims in general you'll probably enjoy this.

they changed the water mechanic.

I don't want to say the game is dated but it really does feel like something ported and polished up from the 360.

It's fun, it's like a brawly gears of war with the cover taken away. Recommend to get it if you have friends to co-op with or have interest in the pvp. I don't think it's a very good solo experience though unless you want to play on the easier difficulties, it's frustrating how unhelpful your bot teammates are

I tried really hard to like this game but it's just so boring. Having no pressure on the player be it a threat and/or finite resources to think about just leads to a really boring factory game i think. It just feels like I'm going through a check list and there's no motivator to make an actually efficient factory other than the aesthetic of it.