Recent reviews by shrewdlogarithm

This one started-out a BIT basic but the developers keep adding stuff in there - tweaking the balance etc. - and it's a LOT of fun!

Looking forward to seeing what's coming next!

Freezes on startup quite often but even when it runs, in-game crashes and graphical glitches are SUPER common (latest AMD drivers) - to the point I lost progress multiple times in less than 2 hours of gameplay!!

When it is working it's very pretty and the world is amazingly detailed BUT the difficulty curve is a mess and accessing menus (for updates and gear etc.) appears to be the No1 way to make the game crash so it's kinda hard to figure out what you're doing wrong...

If this hadn't been a gift I'd have refunded it - just not a fun experience AT ALL

This isn't a bad game - it's polished, runs smooth and there's a lot of stuff to unlock.

It has a few issues I'd like to highlight tho...

1 - every game takes place in the same arena - it has "time of day" and a skin for Jungle/Desert/Tundra but it's the same place/enemies/bosses for the most part

2 - metaprogression is tied to multiple currencies which aren't well-balanced and the challenge system forces farming of the same stuff over and over because - stretch-the-content!!

3 - there's no strategy to enemies/gear combos either - you use what the latest challenge needs or the massively OP option - there's no "this weapon is better against that" or "this armour is needed in this area" - which is kinda weird...


Summary: The game needs more arena/enemy variety - there needs to be a reason to use different gear OTHER than grindy challenges

You might be thinking this sounds a bit mobile game' and you'd be right - it's a simple (and fun sometimes) game wrapped with 20 levels of menus/upgrades which you have to farm to unlock for - erm - no really good reason?

This one appears to be abandoned - I hope the dev is OK and maybe gets back to it but maybe try something else meanwhile

I've actually enjoyed my time with Hivecorp but it's clearly unfinished and there's been little-to-no updates for well over 6 months so I think we have to chalk this one down to 'abandonware' at this point....

As it stands (day after release) this is too bare-bones to be recommendable

I could list the issues but the core problem is easier to explain - it's BORING to play

Steam has well over 100 games like this - it's not like you need to re-invent anything but you need to do more than this

This feels like someone threw together some assets - slapped "Pathfinder" on it and shipped it before going to lunch...

The dungeons are devoid of anything - the loot is uninspiring - the upgrades feel weak/pointless - I literally cannot be bothered to go on...

I previously reviewed this game positively in EA - the game is now released so I reset my save and...

It's still a BRILLIANT game - it's much easier to get into now and offers much more to do

It's absolutely my favourite 'survivors' at this point and I've played a LOT of them.

It's the Diablo game we never asked for and would never have gotten anyway - so glad someone made it!

This is a very polished game with a LOT of content and unlocks which is fun-to-play MOSTLY

It does have a couple of issues tho

It's a bit slow at the start but once you've unlocked some stuff it becomes, if anything, a bit too easy...

There's a fair-old-grind to unlock everything which combined with the falling difficulty can turn into a bit of a grindfest...

I have to recommend it because I've had too-much-fun not-to but I did kinda tire of the grind before the end....

RG is not a bad game but it IS a VERY unbalanced game and it seems to get worse with every patch...

'Difficulty' here is either "impossible" or "trivial" and it changes almost entirely at-random - you can be cruising along with your brain-off for 20 mins and then you get a boss you cannot damage or a wave you cannot defeat - it does not feel like the millions of choices it offers really matter...

Stages/levels/runs can also get REALLY long - WAY too long for a game like this and - again - it's endless "easy easy easy" only to arrive at a "brick wall" - it's not fun - it feels like no-one is bothering to test any of this...

There's lots of content and upgrades and items but it's all just thrown together - the develop is active but they're just "piling on more stuff" - not trying to make that stuff work properly...

Can't really recommend it but you may enjoy it - for a while - until it kicks you in the face a few times and you realise there are better games which don't waste your time so much perhaps...

I'll admit that I found this a BIT rough to start-off - the first character isn't the most fun to play - it absolutely opens-up once you get a few points into the 'tree' and there's just so much stuff to unlock...

BUIT

It's a BIT too-random sometimes - some games will end-up easy, others will be frustrating failures and it all comes down to which drops you get

Tthe game really needs to balance things better OR give us ways of influencing/rerolling more because you'll literally be showered with great items in one run and get NOTHING in the next.

This is probably THE most polished 'survivors' game in terms of looks and progression but that RNG really needs reining-in - that said, it's fun when it works and they'll MAYBE fix it - maybe...