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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.0 hrs on record (0.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 4 Apr, 2022 @ 1:57pm
Updated: 10 Apr, 2022 @ 3:31am

This has to be one of, if not THE MOST BROKEN game I've ever played. I've been trying to get in a round with my friend for 30 minutes and I've entered matches where someone would spawn 100 horses and destroy your PC, matches where I would spawn in the middle of the night and in none of those did my friend get to join, DESPITE BEING IN A PARTY.

Not only that, I encountered several performance issues, which ranged from innocent short stutters to the game freezing for 10 seconds. Also, for some godforsaken reason, my GPU has been always been pegged at 100% usage throughout the whole gameplay (I have an RTX 3070 Ti and a Ryzen 5000 combo BTW so it's not because of poor hardware), which for the uninspired art style and graphical fidelity similar to KARLSON, is about 80% more than I would think is sane, especially how well TABG ran on my and my sister's computer (She's on integrated graphics). Even after the "GPU usage fixes", my problems still remain.

Nearly every aspect of the gameplay feels like an afterthought. It's like the devs came up with an idea of a drifting horse and nailed it just right, and then hastly made everything else to validate that idea as a game. Hell, their official alternate link for this Steam page is http://drifting.horse/ ! As I previously mentioned, the horse riding and drifting is nearly perfect. It's speedy and responsive, and the drifting is nearly on-par with Mario Kart 8. However, the player movement is sloppy, the map with its constantly twisting roads gets very annoying after a while, the shooting feels cheap and not heavy enough, even with other weapons, and when I saw how long it took to open a chest in the shooting range, which is in other games 2-3 seconds, my jaw literally dropped. I feel like this game could've worked better as some kart racer than a Battle Royale.

While I did get this game while it was free and can't complain about that, for all people actually purchasing it for its $6 price tag, I would rather get a refund and/or wait a few months until this game gets untangled to a playable state, and with how Landfall is currently supporting the game, that will probably take a long while.

This game feels incredibly rushed and I am beyond disappointed with this release, espeacially because it's a genuinely creative take on Battle Royale and gameplay-wise seems like it could be a very fun game. It would not have nearly as many problems as it has currently if they didn't project to release this on April Fools and focused on playability first.
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