Recent reviews by Lightningtow

I'd give it ~3.5/5 stars
It's a fun game, plays like Subnautica (except it's not underwater). You can feel the early access tho, in several places the gameplay stagnates for an hour or so until the new building unlocks. It desperately needs a few balancing tweaks, but overall pretty solid.

UNPLAYABLE IF YOU'R USING A CONTROLLER

That's a bit of an exaggeration but not much. There's a solid half-second delay between my dualshock 4 controller wired into my computer and my view turning ingame. I have controller sensitivity maxed out. What should be an easy shot turns into me getting killed because of the input delay. (And no, I'm not some tryhard sweat blaming bad skills on input delay lol. I respect game devs enough to not leave a bad review just for that) This doesn't happen with any other game. It's a shame cause I was really looking forward to this, but shooters using kbm isn't really that fun for me. Since it was only $5 I'll hang onto the game rather than getting a refund, hopefully steam controller settings has some way to negate the worst of the input lag

It looks overwhelming and confusing at first but it's actually pretty easy to get the hang of. The ingame tutorial is comprehensive and very easy to follow. It's a ton of fun, if you like the 'technically involved, tech management' sort of game. If you just want to shoot things in a spaceship and nothing else, you might wanna consider a different game

Really proves that gameplay is more important than graphics. For example:

The first thing I did in the game was walk into some random house. The owner objected and shot me, so I decapitated him with a shovel. I ran down the street and pissed in someone's face until they threw up, and got an achievement for that called R. Kelly's Protege.

11/10 game. If you're on the fence, just buy the thing already

Word of advice: don't look at the achievements ahead of time, it's less fun. Just do random crazy ♥♥♥♥ and laugh out loud when you get an achievement for it

Button masher with no real gameplay. Even ignoring all the pay-to-win stuff, the gameplay loop itself is just mind-numbingly boring. You walk forwards, upgrade stuff, then walk forwards more. It's just not fun.

still gives early access vibes but it's a BLAST. Soooo fun i love it so much, you should absolutely get it

also go listen to noisestorm on spotify his music is super great too

take a low-poly first person shooter and impregnate it with Minecraft, and you'll probably get something along the lines of Deep Rock Galactic. Fantastic game made so much better by devs who really actually care about and listen to the community. No pay to win, no microtransactions. The only DLC is purely cosmetic and is really just a way for people to support the devs who keep pushing free updates and adding new content, years after release. Such a blast. ROCK AND STONE!!

Easily my favorite building game ever. It's sooo satisfying. Each item has its own 3d texture when on conveyor belts! Gives me all of the serotonins. Anyone who loves playing with the Minecraft mods buildcraft, thermal expansion, ic2, etc will love this game.

One of the best co-op games of all time. Each game you can 'commend' or 'report' players for playing well or not, and groups you with other players with good/bad standing. In other words, it's very rare you get some idiot ruining your game. Players are usually very friendly and it's not toxic at all.

I wanted a game where I could dismember and decapitate enemies to my heart's content. I got exactly what I wished for, and I regret it. After drilling into people's eyes, tossing them into wood chippers, impaling them on meat hooks etc, I'm sick of myself and I'm going to be uninstalling. It brought out a level of sadism in me that disturbed me greatly.

That being said, it's not the dev's fault I couldn't handle it. It's still early access and not much of a full "game" at this point, more of a sandbox serial killer simulator/wave survival shooter, but I'm sure it's going to be fleshed out in the future. If you're looking for awful ways to kill AI enemies, you've come to the right place.

Just be careful because I do actually worry about the psychological effects of gleefully torturing people in VR. It's a wildly different experience between using joysticks and a screen to do it, versus actually grabbing people with your hands and physically holding them under the drill bit.

EDIT:
I never said that the game is gonna make me kill people irl, or that you're a bad person for playing the game, or any of a dozen different things people accused me of saying. I meant exactly what I said above. No more, no less. Disabling comments