Recent reviews by Not a "Real" Cop

Proof that amazing art direction doesn't make a game fun.

A truly one of a kind game, nearly perfect in every way..... but impossible to play. Convincing 3+ friends to run a campaign of this is a lot like trying to put together a D&D game. I.E. It will last 1 session, then you'll never get them all together in one place again.
Of course you could play with bots, but even if they did work well (They really don't), they can never replace a human being. The whole point is being on a submarine with other people.
There's always servers, too, but finding a decent server is like hitting a csgo knife. 99.99% of them are bloated with 2gbs of mods, Mindless grief-fests where the round resets every 3 minutes, an admin's sandbox to spawn 20 endworms while crew members scramble around aimlessly, or all of the above.
I'd complain about the balancing choices where really niche and fun things get nerfed out of orbit because of the loudest voices on a discord, but good luck getting far enough into a game to even notice something like that.

You already know the drill. This game could have came out with live footage of a child being murdered as it's intro and people would still updoot it just for existing by name alone. Even most of the negative reviews are listed as positive.
As for the actual game, it's just a miserable step backwards from HK in virtually every front. Seriously. All of them. The characters, combat, movement, skills, charms, story, secrets. Anything that was considered strong or fun in the first game has been stripped away and replaced with the equivalent of a kick to the balls. You can't walk 10 steps without the game trying to charge you money you haven't even seen drop from an enemy in 40 minutes.
But theres no point in writing a whole essay when it's literally peak just take ur jester award and git gud lil bro.

If you're anything like me, you've only ever seen/heard about the first act of this game—and with good reason.
When you first start the game, it's oozing with personality and mystique. The deck-building, strategy, and resource management surrounding it are well fleshed out with a lot more depth than you ever have to delve.
Just when you think the game is really getting started, though, it pulls the rug out from under you and changes into something entirely different, which is not only a downgrade in every facet I've already listed, but also kicks off the most generic creepy-pasta tier story imaginable. You're taken from the most unique and unnerving card game you'll ever see, to a dull 8-bit adventure you're better off mindlessly spamming cards through to the end.
There's a lot more I could say, but you get the idea. Cop hates everything, yada yada, whatever.

Cop hates everything

Whoever designed the Incinerator "Fight" deserves to be thrown into one themself.

A very expensive roblox game

What an absolute mess of a game. I don't even want to bother echoing arguments that you could fill in like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ madlibs im just going to start spitting out buzzwords and hope you can connect the dots. Dead by daylight toxicity optimize the fun out unbalanced blablah blah.
The game isnt allowed to be fun because survivors don't want to play it for longer than 40 seconds. Not to mention enjoying killer without friends is damn near impossible because everybody either doesn't use their mic or is an absolute freak trying to swallow it or throw slurs at you.
Matches feel like a chore, especially when the lobbies literally take 4x longer than the actual match lasts.
Then theres stuff like the skill tree feeling too restrictive, Needing to spam respecs to get random perks even though it costs nothing other than your time to do, Gas Station. Just Gas Station. Or Grandpa's scream cucking Leatherface revving, or the terrible split of XP between survivors and killers. It's just exhausting. People don't want to have a fun time sneaking through a map avoiding death they want to stand at the exit within 1 minute so that they can sit there T-bagging for 4 more.

A bullet hell with a half baked art direction and a tedious combat style.
Every boss spends the first twenty minutes of their last phase in an invincible "Look how many balls I can put on your screen" phase, which could be removed entirely and save you a few days worth of frustration and waiting around.
The one thing I actually enjoyed about the fights however was the way they treat phases overall. You get 3 lives, they get like five, if you die, you get all your health back and begin the phase from the very start. If you beat a phase though, you get all your health and a life back. (God forbid you loop a boss's last phase though ((see above)))
The story and dialogue was either written during a gas leak or poorly translated, but I'm inclined to believe the latter with all the awkward lines and first-take deliveries.
Oh and between every enemy is a year of walking while your definitely-not-insanity-personified gives you the most vague and awkward lore on your next opponent or history possible. Don't worry though they have an auto-walk button. Not a run button, not a skip button. an auto-walk-three-miles button. It really. really. wants to be artsy and give you 20 different shots of the fantastical marvel of a floating island you happen to be on at the time.
At least theres a rabbit.

The server are just the right amount of dead for your only PVP encounters to be complete surprise ambushes.
On top of countless bugs that have and never will be patched, or just the simple fact that losing and hour worth of looting to some guy who rammed your boat and jumped on with a shotgun/sniper combo while his friend unloads 200 cannon balls that accidentally spawn kill you, all so that you have wait 10 years for it to sink *isnt* fun.