Combat feels like it lacks any weight, both in terms of how heroes feel as well as turrets. It all just feels super lackluster and unsatisfying. The monsters don't react to taking damage, everything just feels like it slooooowly drains the very boring health bar opposed to actually having intense engagements where you're trading blow for blow, there is zero excitement or visceral feedback to the combat. The strategy layer with turrets is just as lackluster and weightless. It's the worst parts of an arpg and tower defense game equally, opposed to a fun balance of the two. Dungeon Defenders/Orcs Must Die both find a good balance between the hero and defense parts that both feel satisfying, where as something like Riftbreaker's hero gameplay was rather weak, but made up for it by having a good tower defense/gathering segment. There just is no real standout mechanic in this.

A lot of the game seems like it's much more suited to coop, but there isn't a clear matchmaking system to even join random parties, on top of other people reporting progress isn't shared correctly just makes that aspect somewhat void. The AI for singleplayer not really using abilities effectively(or at all), and the game not having a built in system to counteract this(perhaps via slowdown on switching so you can actually micromanage instead of the clunky/slow swap system that's currently it) just makes skill expression even more null on top of combat just being boring in general, there just isn't really anything satisfying or rewarding to do in the game, imo.

If the multiplayer is fixed/seemless I could see this being fun for a few dozen hours(depending on how deep the progression system actually is, can't say 5 hours really revealed much there), but I really don't know how anyone could really find this enjoyable singleplayer.

Combat feels like it lacks any weight, both in terms of how heroes feel as well as turrets. It all just feels super lackluster and unsatisfying. The monsters don't react to taking damage, everything just feels like it slooooowly drains the very boring health bar opposed to actually having intense engagements where you're trading blow for blow, there is zero excitement or visceral feedback to the combat. The strategy layer with turrets is just as lackluster and weightless. It's the worst parts of an arpg and tower defense game equally, opposed to a fun balance of the two. Dungeon Defenders/Orcs Must Die both find a good balance between the hero and defense parts that both feel satisfying, where as something like Riftbreaker's hero gameplay was rather weak, but made up for it by having a good tower defense/gathering segment. There just is no real standout mechanic in this. A lot of the game seems like it's much more suited to coop, but there isn't a clear matchmaking system to even join random parties, on top of other people reporting progress isn't shared correctly just makes that aspect somewhat void. The AI for singleplayer not really using abilities effectively(or at all), and the game not having a built in system to counteract this(perhaps via slowdown on switching so you can actually micromanage instead of the clunky/slow swap system that's currently it) just makes skill expression even more null on top of combat just being boring in general, there just isn't really anything satisfying or rewarding to do in the game, imo. If the multiplayer is fixed/seemless I could see this being fun for a few dozen hours(depending on how deep the progression system actually is, can't say 5 hours really revealed much there), but I really don't know how anyone could really find this enjoyable singleplayer.