I love it when developers have gold and decide to grind it down until it resembles copper. I'm so sick of this trend to ruin your game after its released for money.

Well, this was a massive disappointment. I finally bought this game after hearing it got controller support and attempted to play it on my steamdeck.

Getting a game started was annoying but do able when using the standard steam controls, but it’s such an arduous process to do anything that it’s better to just use a community profile..only to find that as soon as I get in the game, I’m unable to do anything because opening up the menu freezes the game. The mouse refuses to work and my only option becomes to close the game. Reinstalling didn’t help.

The same thing happens if you talk to someone. Or if you open up the pipboy. The mouse just stops working.

My assumption is that the controller integration was a low effort solution and thus poorly implemented. There’s no support for simultaneous input which means something is happening with the switch over and bugging out the mouse, causing the game to rapidly switch between the two. When using a community profile it’s still reading the steamdeck as a controller and overriding the input from the custom profile.

i have more hours clocked than shown here. much more.

it is a fun little hybrid of a top down tactic-shooter, stalker and escape from tarkov.
Totally worth the money asked. Difficulty and mechanics are customizeable for every skill level.

the only negative thing that comes to my mind is that the dev didn´t add that much content in recent time because he tried to implement multiplayer which was a dead end.

This game was big fun in it's earlier stages, however the latest update has SO many bugs it's almost unplayable.

EDIT: Be warned , a bug just caused me to lose more than half of my hard earned money! Doesnt seem to be a fix apart from reverting to a manual backup and losing a lot of hard earned progress. Bare that in mind if you're going to play.

I enjoy Zero Sievert. Its far from perfect though, patience is needed.

The recent and longer running controversies essentially went over my head, so I can only review as per my experience.

Imo the game is great fun and decent value for money (Though if memory serves , I paid around £12 on sale a few years ago). Its challenging, addicting, very rewarding of progression and has a deeply satisfying gameplay loop. Visual style is attractive, random map generation keeps things fresh for longer , good sound design and tangible atmosphere.

While it has come under fire (no pun intended) during recent updates, I personally don't have a problem with the gunplay or weapon range/damage scaling metrics. Guns feel weighty, sound good, recoil 'realistically' given the perspective; accuracy feels convincing and damage both given and received feels fair most of the time.

The game is hard, particularly as a new player it can feel punishing for the first few hours. 360 degrees of dense woodland, dredged in fog of war means its easy to not spot a threat until its too late, you're lucky if you get 1.5-2.5 seconds to react sometimes!
That being said, 6 or 7 hours in; some half decent armour and knowledge of map features, what loot is valuable, which enemies aren't worth messing with etc. you'll really start to make progress and see how much more engaging it can get, with a little caution and some more firepower.

The game isnt perfect. UI can be clunky in most areas, quests can be vague and some gameplay elements get very little explanation or feel a little rough/not fully fleshed out (had to ask a kindly user in forums how the hell the faction relations system works, game tells you almost nothing)
More recently I've found that an early major quest is very poorly marked and repetitive. Without spoilers I'll say you have to find a poorly marked objective (Idk if I just cant find it, or if its bugged, as I've searched the room its apparently meant to be in and havent found it) and each time you leave the massive complex building unsuccessful and head home , every one of the 7 billion fast moving enemies inside respawn, meaning you have to clear it repeatedly , for me about a dozen times so far. Needs about 350 rounds of ammo and a dozen healing items each attempt..... NOT FUN.

Also while none of these have effected me; I've heard that gamebreaking bugs affect the steamdeck version, and apparently playing on controller is a bit messy and imprecise. (stick with mouse and keyboard!)

Much like a lot of very small indie titles these days, if your willing to learn for yourself and/or happy to trawl the wiki and discussion forums for a bit, a very satisfying and fun experience lays underneath.... just needs a bit of patience. There is also a host of flexible difficulty sliders covering most parts of the experience. I dont fully understand how they work, but it appears you can tweak the experience fairly extensively to be easier or harder overall OR in specific areas.

Contrary to some recent uproar, the game is clearly not dead. Roadmap for 2024 is out and seemingly on track so far, and while it doesn't seem like a huge amount of new content is being added, the upcoming polish and QoL combined with what's already here should be enough for at least 40 hours of solid entertainment.

Definitely recommended to fans of more hardcore roguelikes or survival games.

It's pretty good. There is still lots of potential for improvement.

Very fun game

While walking and checking my surrounding on the road an enemy just teleport in a few feet behind me on that same road and killed me. Great game design!!... other wise game is fun but still full of BS moments like these.

very good game worth teh 20 bucks has very good potential. Combat is good progression is good