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So the other day i was playing with my friend and i ran into one of the devs in the game. We were having a hard time finding two other people to play with so we got some time to discuss the game with the dev. I was asked to write a review and this is my first review on steam but i decided to write it since i am a fan of this game

With the dev we discussed if maybe the game would be better if it were free to play. If they ran it like a moba or like other F2P. It does make me sad that their game seems to be dying since the combat is so satisfying and i absolutely love the art style and the game mechanics.

I guess for the purpose of the review i will say that i do suggest this game and personally i have enjoyed my time playing it but my main purpose for writing the review was to pose what i thought to the devs in hopes they might read it and do with that information what they will. So i myself asked the question why is the game having such a hard time? and what would fix it? My theory for the absoluetly biggest problem is the main menu. The core game. The combat, the mechanics and just the overall finish in game seems very well done and is very satisfying but the main menu really really feels broken. The reason i think this is such a problem is because the main menu is the first thing that a player in presented with playing a game. I noticed that the mouse does not work all the time with selection in the main menu and sometimes the keyboard is needed even though the mouse should be able to select. I felt that the menu was very limited and was hard to navigate particularly the first and second times you load up the game. Also something that really really took away from the experience is the way in which the matchmaking tool is implemented. the fact that you select quickmatch and then it puts you in an uncancelable que is really bad. there should maybe be a selection of game mode prefered and then a launch botton to put you in que. I have had many times when first figuring out the menu with my friend where i had to force cancle the game because i was locked in que before we had been in a party. I also noticed that some options the game was telling me about seemed to not exist in the menu such as unranked mode. I thought maybe that unranked had been removed to make the player pool one pool since there were not enough players for consistant matchmaking.

I could complain about my specific grievences with the menu system but i dont think that would help too much. I really think it needs to be redesigned perhaps from the ground up. To be frank the menu is the worst and it is the worst part of this game by a large margin. The core game is awesome like i said before, but the menu is such a key feature in a game. So hopefully i made my point. Do i think that a different business strategy would work better? maybe, its hard to say and i am no experienced game developer but i can say that the menu was a HUGE red flag and an albatross bringing this game down

Once again i hope this was appropriate and to all players out there i highly recommend this game. It has very statisfying and tactical PvP combat and I love the western setting, but devs please please revisit the menu design and implication