just buy The Ascent and play that instead. early access or not, i dont see a way for this game to change enough to be fun without them changing everything about except the genre and art style.

honestly, it has the makings of a perfect game but it fails. something is off.. its just not satisfying or fun really. run ahead a little, flip a switch, get trappded in a tight space you cant leave but enemies cn run right in the door thats blocked for you, so you just repeatedly empty the clip rolling and reloading in an automatically redundant way until the annoyingly long wave(s) end. rinse and repeat. thats it. every button you press, every step of the way thats the jist of it and the plot does not grab you at all so it feels pointless.

Grenades are nearly unusable bc you have to swap weapons to use them and ita nearly impossible to be effective unless thrown at a stationary group that hasn't aggro'd onto yet. Dont even bother during a wave. plus therez really no variance in the encounters, no point in secondary weapons, no different ways to play. no handful of abilities to use when you need them or to keep it fresh just one boring one to start with and it feels like they hold out too long and are stingy with upgrades etc. same thing over and over with no depth to the gameplay loop. didnt play long bc i lost interest immediately and had no desire to play again after dying bc i didnt even enjoy being alive. plus, im a top down isometric roguelite superfan. looks great but dang, for me to not LOVE a game like this is crazy. Play a demo first, and I never follow that rule. they were trying, but this recipe somehow doesnt work for me.

I didn't even know that I had this game, and I bought it over 2 years ago! What!!? SO I had to check it out.
I only played a little, it seemed fun, polished, I will play more. Sadly the coop options will be non-existant for this because well 24 hour player peek at time of writing is 14 people...

Not sure if it's 20$ worth of fun, but if you catch it on sale hit me up for some coop.