Rocks are generally small chunks of minerals and the like, meanwhile stones are larger chunks that are part of a greater whole.

I'd say, if there were more games like this one, the industry would be more promising.

It's the perfect example of a game that is trying to sell itself with a great gameplay/great loop and it's really fulfilling the job of a co-op game. You probably heard about it through their overwhelmingly positive rating, memes or positive community in general and this is for good reasons.

The detail that blew my mind at first is how much they worked on the replayability, let's talk about it for a sec:

Missions get generated procedurally every 30 mins, from a pool of 10 different biomes with some of them having their own enemies. At each start of missions a pool of enemies is also generated, changing on how waves will behave by adding diversity in spawns, how common enemy should spawn, how much bulkier ones spawn or if they spawn at all, making missions with the same objective on the same biome not feeling the same.
And i'm not mentioning secondary objectives or mutators, this is a brief summary of how caves are generated and i think everything in it is brilliant.
They nailed it, I never got that feeling of deja-vu before 250-300 hours into the game which is an outstanding performance and very overkill for any casual co-op enjoyers.

But I also want the game to do better. I did my thing in this game but... by mentioning casual players, I think it is really hard to play casually on this game or start playing it at all. This is why the community is great in the end, we have only ppl that love it, played it for years and will keep on helping ppl to get into it.

Now let's talk about the bad part of the game, I'm here to criticize it in the end.
There isn't a lot of negative reviews but there is a lot of valid complaint in them, I'll mention a few:
The netcode, Overclocks (they are fancy perks for weapons), the Overclocks grind, sloppy terrain, best-in-slot options (the poor balancing), unlockables behind events...

While there is a lot of loves putted into it, DRG gives me that unfinished feeling on a lot of part and the overclock grind is actually really bad to make ppl get into it, in my opinion this is where most of the fun is, trying brainstorming builds and goofy ♥♥♥♥. Playing overclockless takes out a lot of the game, it took me like 400 hours to get all the overclocks and Persistent plasma, that i really wanted is the very last one that i got?
Netcode has to be the second worst thing, the game becomes unpredictable and adds a ton of input lag, when you are lacking hosts to begin with.

Well, should you buy this game?
Great community, you'll definitely find ppl to play with.
Almost everything is unlockable by playing. Though, OCs are long to grind but still a ton of fun to get.
Literally the most replayable gameplay loop in a horde-shooter period.
I'd say 30$ is a bit expensive if you are not planning on playing all that much, 10$ when it's on sale is a no brainer to play out 20 hours, you'll have fun.

This review is a bit long already so I didn't mention modding when this is mostly what kept me in the game for 600 more hours. The community is way too harsh on modded difficulty designers when everyone, however they play the game, are very passionate about it, make love. sincerely

ROCK AND STONE