4 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 51.1 hrs on record (22.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 3 Mar, 2023 @ 3:38pm

Early Access Review
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I am really disappointed in what this game has to offer at this point in time, especially for its current price.

I won't even get started on all the bugs, that make this game a pain to play, because that would simply take up too much time. Also – bugs are alright in early access I guess.

At first we were really excited once we had a few caves down and could start to explore the story. That is when it all became tedious. We went through what felt like random patches of a „What if there are other dimensions and people mutate lmaoooo“-plot written in like 30 minutes at lunch. We got so much ammunition, getting hyped for a bossfight only to end up with an unrewarding piece of patchy multiple-dimension-story. There is definitely potential there! I still like the „below the earth“-approach. But it just wasn’t executed the way it could have been. Of course, the narrative is not necessarily the main focus of the game, compared to the survival aspect of it all. Nevertheless it felt incredibly anticlimactic, going through difficult caves full of endlessly respawning mutants, getting everything we needed to proceed in the story and then walking an empty, repetitive lava path that’s twice the length of the equator without even getting real bossfights.
I’m sure this feels different to Singleplayers but for the Multiplayer it’s outright garbage.

The ending was so sudden and raised so many questions, but not the good ones that keep you thrilled. I think the best way to describe the feeling is: incomplete. Considering the amount of time people have been waiting for this, it is kinda sad. :7 Hopefully there will be some additions in the future! I can imagine this getting a lot better and more rewarding.

I really enjoyed the look of bunkers though! Creepy backroom-like atmosphere, nice and funny weapons. That makes it even more unfortunate how unspectacular these locations were in total.

The island itself feels so incredibly empty sometimes and not for the fact, that it is remote and almost everybody is dead. Especially the „northern“ beaches are sloppy and uninteresting parts of the map.

All in all our personal expectations weren’t met and I get that this is very subjective. I’m glad that I could play it with my friends, because in retrospective there would not have been any reason for me to play this solo.
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