Recent reviews by CouchPowerS

This game would deserve a neutral rating. The last update was in 2016. I’m writing this review in 2026.
It’s a functional game that built its existence on combining retro gameplay from the CRT monitor era at 800×600 resolution with the modern era, where, at the expense of gameplay, you create an environment filled with every possible and impossible effect so that even the top graphics hardware of the time can barely handle it.

The result is a functional (everything works, it never crashed once) but uninteresting game, where you don’t have a strategic view; even the maximum zoom-out doesn’t show your entire base, and the zoom-in is so close that if it weren’t a top-down view, you’d be looking straight into the units’ anal cavities.

Three uninteresting to outright repulsive factions, a cluttered, overwhelming environment — a jungle. I gave this game many chances, and always ended up at the same point.

Who plays on a 14" monitor today? Not me. Today, 27" and larger monitors are common, with QHD resolution and higher. If you have a standard desk, you’re looking at the monitor from a distance of 60 to 80 cm.

Instead of implementing a strategic zoom so you could view the entire map — something that has been standard for many years — you’re staring at something like the face of a cat that came to rub against your nose. You try playing in windowed mode, but you’re still constantly zooming, and it just doesn’t work.

I tried a laptop. A 15.6" screen. Here’s the other extreme. You have an Intel Core 5 Ultra processor with integrated Arc graphics versus a 10-year-old game. You have to turn off almost all effects to get above 30 FPS. You have a base, nothing is happening, just jungle — yet the GPU runs at 2200 MHz and nearly 100%. And it all looks blurry.

I tried the campaign several times. Why force yourself to play a game that its own creators abandoned after a year, that almost nobody plays in 2026, with ugly environments and factions, when there are both old and new RTS games — many of them free — that are alive, clear, undemanding, and fun?

Why spend time on the dead Grey Goo, which preserves gameplay built for the 800×600 past, when there are things like cncnet.org with C&C and Red Alert (or the original bundle of all C&C, Command & Conquer The Ultimate Collection)? When there’s Supreme Commander? When there’s Zero-K, Beyond All Reason, and many other truly high-quality RTS games that weren’t made just as technological demos to show how many graphical effects can be used at the expense of gameplay?

Grey Goo could have been a good game. But that strategic zoom that Supreme Commander has had for 20 years — Grey Goo instead used 30-year-old limitations and layered ultra-demanding, unnecessary graphical effects on top, giving the impression that 90% of the time was spent only on making the environment more complex and more demanding. The result is a boring, blurry-looking, unremarkable, dead RTS game with a dull story, created in the same era as Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — a game whose developers still support it, and which, if nothing else, was used as a benchmark in its time.

So I don’t end on a negative note:
The most satisfying feeling Grey Goo can give you — and it truly is an almost uplifting feeling — is confirming the uninstall and watching even the last remnants of this “gem” disappear from your system.
That feeling of cleansing is priceless.

The gamepad works, but in a strange way. It’s impossible to perform combos, you have to use the keyboard to confirm actions, and in the settings menu you have to switch options using the mouse. They released the game and then lost interest in it.

I got stuck on the first challenge, where you have to collect 2,000 helmets, but I always ended up below 1,000. I repeated it more than 20 times. The first level is extremely boring, but I told myself I’d push through.

For those who grew up with this game, it might feel fine. But it’s clear that it’s an old game, and even if you like Asterix & Obelix and genuinely want to play it, the oddly functioning gamepad makes it impossible.

I don’t have any nostalgic attachment to this game since I only played it in 2026, and there’s no chance they’ll improve gamepad support. I don’t recommend wasting your time on it.
From what I’ve played, it’s quite a repetitive and empty game, and what’s strange is that if you clear an area and later return to it, it’s full again. I don’t know if it affects the game’s progression, but it’s odd.
I can’t really imagine how this could have been a popular game at some point. Maybe for kids around 8–10 years old, but not nowadays. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t even have the fun factor of old console games that are now somewhat popular on emulators or mini console replicas.

I am disappointed.
Simply no.

That’s all.

I was happy when i got this game. The first half hour. Then came the trivial task of turning the left lever. The game reacts in a strange way. It is not possible to continue. Game over ☹️
https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/app/640590/discussions/0/4594180031251383443/

Thanks for the free 🙌 weekend.
The MP system is really very great 👍, everything goes smoothly 👍, without problems 👍.
Already after 4 hours I got the feeling 😔 that this game will not offer 💔 any more. Just grinding. 😶 Exhausting!
It's not the qualities of the 🎮 game, but the genre, 🙏 twin stick shooter.

I wanted this game because it has a high rating. My first Lara Croft game.
I finished 100% single player, all items. 30 hours without stress.

Immortal uninteresting Lara (Sam looks better), kinder management (20-year-olds know everything older than 25 will die stupid), megalomaniacal wooden buildings, incredibly naive a hard-to-believe story.
Without humor, without drama. No moment worth remembering.
It's a game that you successfully complete. If you have a lot of free time. But you don't want to play it again. Which is still better than other x games.

If I didn't receive it as a gift, out of respect for that person, I guess I wouldn't finish it.

😎 A great game when you need to ventilate anger when you can not go out.
Bad game, because there is always someone better than you and in addition to anger you will also get despair. 👍
😎 Ideal is to play with a group of equally weak friends.
Satisfied with the game, it works very well on weaker computers. 👍

The game needs a powerful HW. I do not reject better optimization, I take this as a fact.
Maybe not always, but when I want to play, long waiting for battle and nothing.
Without multiplayer is unusable. The game is dying very quickly. Lack of players.
With regret I have to let the negative rating.
Nevertheless, it's a free game, try it. 👍

A game where the first 10 victories you get fast, per day.
A game where the first 30 victories you get fast on the second day.
A game where the first 50 wins you get in a week.
And then you like, if out of 10 games a day, you have at least one victory.
That's exactly where the game stops being entertained.

Appendix
Quick reaction to my review. Totally stupid, off topic but ok.
Second look 9 thumbs down. When I write this, 16.
Reviews, Display as Recent.
Positive reviews without thumbs, no interest or no more than 1-2 thumbs.
Negatives reviews 8-21 thumbs down and reaction to them from the same people.
This is ridiculous and sick. If this is fan base, then the game has a huge problem.
Or is it just a few people with many accounts? Most likely. 😎