Recent reviews by Rhubik

Just after 9 hours of playing (not including server slam time) I can tell this game is all around amazing. It's a landmark in the genre of extraction shooters.

The most amazing things happen in solo runs. Yes there are toxic people that shoot on sight, but most of my matches I talk first and shoot later and its super effective. Teamed up with 6 people earlier in a match. We watched our backs, even fought a leaper together. Everyone got stacked with loot and we went to extract with a big group. It works because you increase your chances of survival by grouping up, so far that it even outweighs the greedy option of shooting other players on sight and looting them for their scraps. But the game still keeps its tension cause you never know who to trust. Its genius game design tbh.

Playing as a trio, expect a lot more pvp fights though. And even that is mad fun!

Love the game feel and lore bits that I experienced. I would totally recommend the game if you like rogue-likes and robots, but as a german player with a german keyboard layout you can't really play when it comes to "hacking" in the game.

The game is missing a system that maps the keys correctly. Sadly even the file that gets delivered with the game that supposedly fixes the issue is not helping. (There are incomplete files for other keyboard layouts in the game-files)

I really hope there will be an update at some point that addresses this issue.

Absolute banger of a game!

It's easy to learn but hard to master. You can have a nice ride and enjoy the lovely mountains or you can challenge yourself and try to reach high on the leaderboards on each slope. There is so much depth to the controls, that if you want to master them, it will be a joy to play for a long time.

It even has 2 multiplayer modes that are fun, either with friends or in matchmaking.

Don't buy it, its a FREE DEMO PROJECT for the Godot game engine that you can download.

Just search for TPS Demo from GDquest.

This game is a must have for anyone that loves rpgs, science-fantasy stories and experimentation. The amount of freedom this game gives is almost endless. It is one of the games that, if you invest time into it, it will pay back your investment many times.

There are people that wish for "such a game" to have "better" graphics, being 3D even... I can only say:

This game only can be so complex and interesting because of the lack of complex visuals and animations. It is just not feasable to create all the effects, animations and models that would cover the crazy stuff that is possible in this game.
It taps into something way more powerful than plain computer graphics, it makes your fantasy go wild, and after you play for a bit and stick with it, you don't care for the "look" anymore (which btw are still great), the pixelart is just the medium to convey the story, like letters and words in a book, they invoke the images in your head, if you allow it . That is way more than any "3D scene" can give you.

The music and the sounddesign is so great at immersing you into the game, oozing atmosphere, that it helps immensly to kickstart your imagination.

No way to turn off crossplay. Infested with cheaters, bad matchmaking.

This an Artwork. Absolute must play in my opinion. Its mysterious, its strange and intriguing.

Clever puzzles, often very tactile and physics driven, are challenging you while you are driven to continue because you want to discover what is going on.

"the combat is so clunky" says everyone who doesn't fn know to drop his backpack.

Anyways...

if you like old school rpgs and atmospheric games with lots of stuff to discover this is great. Learning the mechanics and how to use/combine them to help you, might use some of your brainpower, but at least it feels way more rewarding than any triple A "open world" game where you run down checklists neatly displayed on your HUD for you to follow.

Will add more to the review when I got further, but it is already a big phat recommend for me. Stay away when you think exploring a world while controlling a character that feels rooted in it by inconveniences to overcome, is a waste of time and you need your questmarkers to "complete" a game in the most time-efficient way possible.



One last thing... A game that is not made to appeal to a broad audience might get judged harshly by said broad audience but can nevertheless be a fantastic game for the actual audience it is made for.

It's a fantastic game. I enjoyed every hour so far.

Skills YOU need to bring:
- reading
- understanding of game mechanics
- attention span longer than a tiktokers goldfish

If you like the Warhammer 40k universe or you ever wanted to get your toes wet with it, this game is in my opinion the best choice so far. It has deep character creation, that is not as slow paced as some other games, since you level up alot more often and therefor really can specialize and tweak your character. (And no fear about bad choices, you can adjust it later).

Not everything is voice acted but the bits that are, are top notch and really enjoyable. I got the chills from the emotion conveyed by the voice actress at one point...
The characters are diverse and written well, as far as I can tell for now. I have not yet been super far, but the amount of systems the game offers is amazing. The graphics are stylized and crispy clean, yet still very fitting for the wh40k universe with lots of details. Sound and Soundtracks are well done and a joy to listen to. The UI is extremly well made, very stylish and userfriendly at the same time.

I know it's a lot of praise, but unlike others I have no problems with bugs or anything negative so far. I will update the review if I find things that bother me, but so far I can wholly recommend this game, its actually a fair price, too.

A masterpiece of a game.