Recent reviews by Freyja

It's outrageously difficult at the start, so you have to plan quite thoroughly with your team-mates.
It runs like ass, especially on my rusty old clunker.
The feel of the game is substantially less tight than Orcs 3, though a lot of that comes down to the framerate being smooth as gravel.
The characters are less cheesy than the previous Orcs games, for better and worse.
The barricade restrictions are very harsh, but you get just barely enough to scrape by each level, and any extra barricades you get allows you to pull some seriously disgusting maneuvers.
I quite like it.

If you liked the first one, the second one is like that but less frustrating. If you found the first Xenonauts to be too frustrating, but otherwise enjoyable, you'll probably like this one.

Currently needs a bit more variation, the UFOs often show up with only a single enemy type across the entire map, which is unfortunate, but otherwise, in my mind, it's a complete experience at this point.

Absolutely wonderful game with a great sense of humour, the survival elements feel like an appropriate tether rather than a constant annoyance, and the interconnectedness of the world is really cool and convenient both! The pace at which new technologies, areas and shortcuts get unlocked are very well tuned.

I like 'girls' as much as I like girls so this game is great.

I love this game to death, the atmosphere, soundtrack, audio and art design, the naval combat mechanics and the lovely adventures.

However the extremely buggy hand to hand combat means that any of the forced PvP encounters will inevitably end with one or more hostile players silently boarding your vessel, and killing everyone on it with one shot. The skill gap between players who know how to abuse the hand to hand system, and those who don't, is utterly vast, and only dozens of hours of training in this, by far least interesting part of the game, will prevent you from being constantly ganked while trying to have fun with the game's hundreds of hours of enjoyable content.

In its current state I can't recommend this game to anyone who wants to play a pirate adventure game, as the predatory players have been consistently forcing all other types of player out of the game. When I played the game at launch, we would have a player versus player encounter maybe once every ten hours, the rest of the time we would either sail by other crews harmlessly, or exchange treasure and music over fun talk of our adventures. These days I can maybe finish a two hour session 20 percent of the time without being sunk somewhere along the way, usually just after leaving port initially.

I hope the developers disincentivise random hostility before all the players are gone.

Haha whoops well this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.

The shooting is surprisingly unresponsive and weightless, the actual combat is a grind. Average out of 10