Recent reviews by ph0tater

Well worth the wait.

It's nice having another S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game after such a long time. The atmosphere is absolutely phenomenal. If you have good headphones, you feel as though you are really immersed into the environment. You can hear everything.

Guns look and sound really good. Environments look amazing. Runs really well on my system. All settings for me are on Epic. Ryzen 5800x-RTX 4080. 130+ fps. Even during combat. I pretty happy with performance.

Sure there are bugs, only main bug I experienced was a point where my aim was basically pulled to a certain spot, and no matter how much I moved i could not look anywhere else. there is some mouse movement issues/lag but it doesn't break the game for me.

I've enjoyed the game so far. For what it is, it's a very impressive game, that took along time to develop, and also be affected by an unjust and illegitimate war that not only Ukraine and its developers had no choice in. I cannot imagine dealing with that and developing this much awaited game.

I like it so far. Few problems here and there. Menus are a little crazy to navigate. You have to go many menus deep to place this or that. It's a little confusing.

I don't get the guest spawns. You'll open a park with no rides, and there's a thousand guests huddled at your entrance.

Coming from me, who loved and plays the heck out of RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2, this is so off for me. In those games you would slowly build up your park with rides and the guests would slowly generate based off the amount of rides in parks. Especially once you build your parks first ride, everyone tries to cram into it.

I had a bunch of achievements finish off in the tutorial and first campaign scenario because of this. I don't care a lot about achievements, but lol why have achievements on the tutorial of all things.

I love pools. They're really cool. Maybe someday we can get some more pool customization items, like new benches, awnings, etc. Also some other slides and stuff could be cool as well.

Performance is alright. Could be better.

Yikes. Game was alright for a bit, Just got out of early access(although it performs like it still is in early access) now with this recent transition to Unreal 5 and the Home Invasion, game performance has just went straight off a cliff.

Performance was bad, but it's extremely disappointing how bad it has got after this most recent update. We got much longer loading screens, and still have stutters, which can be a matter of life and death in this game. Poorly un-optimized.

The DLC brings three new maps and weapons, the maps being not playable in commander mode because of story reasons. So play in practice or in multiplayer. Which I think that sucks for people who play Commander mode.

I don't even need to talk about the ai, they are still the same, John Wick-ing you and your team, full auto aimbot headshots from a nearby room through the walls because they see you through a tiny crack in the geometry. Swat 3 and 4 never really had this problem. And those games could be challenging.

Game's just not worth it now. This game is still in early access, and with this dlc coming out, and not a lot of issues and problems being fixed, kinda makes me wonder if VOID is just milking money out of this unfinished product because they know people are fed up with how the game performs.

Very lore friendly.

I'm all seriousness, its a very fun game. I especially love the wrestling levels.

Highly recommend this game.

I don't normally play horror games, but this one, I don't know why i continue to play this even though i'm super scared walking into the house, campground or new lighthouse, not knowing whats haunting the location.

I've seen all the guides, watched various youtubers play this game, and still even with all of the valuable knowledge on ghosts, speeds, their signs and this and that, Even then, this game still scares me and really keeps me on edge.

This game is a must to play with friends. It's a million times more fun and less scary with friends.

Do buy this game.

I love this game. It scratches an itch that games like Rimworld cannot fulfill. City-State building. You can build an amazing little village, and then you can build a Metropolis of many thousands of individuals and creatures, with varying different religions, and take over the world if you want with your armies.

Now granted i'm still learning the game, it can be very tough and brutal sometimes. You make one mistake and your civilization is on deaths door. But you do have to keep in mind, "Rome was not built in a day.". It will take some time to get to that level of greatness.

Definitively worth the price of admission for this game. I can easily see myself sinking many more hours into this game in the foreseeable future.

ALL HAIL THE CUBE.


in all seriousness, this dlc is really good. I was kinda worried about the main theme of this dlc when it was announced. However, the more dev updates I saw my thoughts on this dlc totally changed. It brings so many new possibilities to Rimworld, both in a gameplay sense, and modding sense as well. Excited to see what the next dlc might hold.

I'm doing my part. Show those bugs some DEMOCRACY.

I love this game. It's just so silly and great. I don't think I have ever played a game that made me laugh so much like this game before. This game is a must to play.

Edit, as of 2025, games dead. Series is dead. Colossal Order and Paradox have split form this game after nearly two years or relative inactivity and problems. Sure Iceflake studios is taking the reins, but not a lot of hope for this title at all.



Not worth it at launch. There is a lot I love with this game, but the games performance is abhorrent, Apparently, Colossal aimed for the game to run at around 30 fps. Apparently there was no reason to aim for anything higher than that. So disappointed.

People that play these games not only want the simulation and sandbox to play well, but also run well. The game is still pretty playable, but there will be a point where you will be running the game at a slideshow.

Who knows, maybe Colossal Order will shoehorn in DLSS and think that they fixed fps issues. Time will see.