Intruder is quite the interesting case of a game.

The game feels realized in concept but unfinished at the same time. A solid foundation of a game-play loop, but an unsteady infrastructure. This ebb and flow feeling deeply permeates the Intruder experience, and usually results in two camps of people: Those who put up with the "jank" and continue to play the game because they enjoy it enough, and those who play it for a month at most and then stop. As you can tell by my hours, i'm in the prior.

This state of play leaves many desperate for content updates, sweeping changes, etc. But the game in reality is in more a "beta 2.0" type state at the moment, and not the finished live-service type game people want it to be. Between a solo developer and few contract workers, the development time is quite the slow march, even for an indie game.

Befitting indie games of this nature, the game is effectively kept alive by a small but passionate (sometimes too passionate) community. As such the many woes that can occur in those kind of social spheres stick out, and the game's circle has its fair share of drama, harassment, and online toxicity. The community overall follows the trend of Intruder's "middle ground" tendencies.

I do enjoy the game. I've made great acquaintances and friends. I've participated in the games community comp league, and founded my own. Despite all these many positive experiences, I can't help but feel the game walks a hard line of mediocrity of which I would've not been here today to update my review if at any point I didn't enjoy the game as much as I do. I try to have faith in the development/future of the game, but I can't pretend it is the easiest thing to do. In an ironic fate, every time I come back to update my review, I both have a greater perspective then I did the last time but an increasingly notion of skepticism.

I continue to play to this day. For now. Even I may give up in the long run.

So give it a try. Join the Discord(s). Intrude. I hope you like it enough to stick around despite its substantial amount of faults.
(the tutorial is pretty bad, by the way. :3)