Recent reviews by Trudin

Add a co-op offline PvE mode separate from the current PvP mode and you might have something to differentiate but without it, this game will eventually join the extraction genre graveyard with the likes of The Cycle, Marauders, Dungeonborne and many more.

Everything about this game is tailored to make your life miserable and push you towards RMT sites when you inevitably hit the wall. These devs forgot the concept of fun. Don’t waste yout time.

GOTY 2024

Yup.

The potential is there but at the moment it's riddled with too many annoyances, performance issues and mind boggling game design decisions that hinder the entire experience and get in the way of fun. A few examples:

- The fast travel system makes absolutely no sense. You can only teleport from the latest "bonfire" you hit to the city and back. Want to go somewhere else? Tough luck, you're going on foot. And the character moves like a turtle even when sprinting.

- Dodging, sprinting and climbing are all assigned to the same button and you can't rebind them. That combined with the extreme verticality of the maps and the clunky movement makes for a bad combination and way, way, way too many accidental fall damage deaths. Trust me, you'll be cursing gravity very often.

- Performance is abysmal. On my 13700k/4090/64GB DDR5 rig it goes from 60-120 fps like it's a dubstep visualizer. Yeah, it's all over the place. It would be a perfect game for the Steam Deck however it is just unplayable on it with constant dips well over 20 fps. Also, it crashes. A lot.

- No native 32:9 support. Like, really? It's 2024, come on.

- It has the "unholy trinity of unfunness": a weight system + durability + gathering tools that break all the time. Not sure who thought this would be a good idea. It's not.

Right now the game suffers heavily from identity crisis. It wants to be too many things and ends up being none of them. It's not a soulslike, it's not an ARPG, it's not a crafting survival game.

On the plus side, visuals are on point, although it's kinda hard to enjoy them due to the horrendous performance and terrible optimization. Voice acting is also top notch.

Hard to recommend right now. Wait it out, see how it develops. Like I said, the potential is there.

Outstanding atmosphere, great devs, little bit buggy at times, too many one shots. Overall easy recommend.

It has fundamental flaws that turn the entire experience into a grindy mess, full of busywork and terrible, absolutely abhorrent UI. Overall it's just not fun and I'm not sure any amount of patching will be able to turn it around.

10/10. It's really, really good.

Super overrated. Great atmosphere and world building but the combat is flat and the "difficulty" is nothing but a bunch of cheap mechanics, enemies and platforming obstacles. Not worth the hassle.

Clever, innovative, challenging. Worth it.