Recent reviews by Rithe

It has quite a bit of content and polish for an early access game.

Combat and gunplay feels very similar to Destiny. Difficulty scales up pretty quickly and requires you have a decent build, as well as progression unlocking more aspects of your build you can customize.

The extraction shooter part of the game is more focused on acquiring materials to upgrade items and currency to buy materials or level up. In the early game its more about exploring each area for secrets that yield permanent gear and upgrades. Late game is about getting temporary perks each run to let you tackle special areas or challenges.

Pretty solid overall and its probably not too far off from its full release at this point.

Better than Tarkov

Big improvement upon the previous title, lots of content to keep you busy, encountered relatively few bugs throughout.

Pretty solid game. Doesn't work too well with a controller though

This game has too many bugs that penalize you with no possible way of getting S rank without restarting the entire mission and doing it over again

Hotline Miami meets stealth gameplay. That said, playing stealthy is entirely optional. You can just as easily rampage through a level with an assault rifle and hand grenades. Well worth the price and I also recommend buying and playing the remaster of the first game.

A lot of good fun an builds quite a bit on the original games arena mode

A souls-like action RPG with out loss of any resources on death. Combat is very fluid and there are upgrade paths for skills, weapons, and armor to tailor to a preferred playstyle. Beautiful environments that also reward thorough exploration as there are split paths that can lead to additional rewards. The game is primarily characterized by its boss fights and there are numerous boss encounters at that. Overall quite a bit of fun if you enjoyed NioH, God of War, Sekiro, or Dark Souls types of games.

While the game is largely faithful to its original, it could have done more to improve upon previous games.

It has all the nostalgia related content you associate with stalker but there are some pretty glaring issues with the game that will consistently take you out of it.

Enemy and NPC AI is just stupid. Enemies will shoot and throw grenades at you with pinpoint accuracy regardless of range or weapon. NPCs have significantly less interaction with the world such as not looting bodies. There also seems to be spawning issues as sometimes enemies will just pop up out of nowhere. It's not always noticable but it can be a headache.

There are areas of the map that have unexplained instantkill barriers so if you don't go online and read about them you might just wander into one while exploring near certain areas of the map and die without any warning.

A few bugs cropped up in my game that soft locked progress and forced me to roll back a save several hours in order for the game to work properly.

Boss fights are an absolute slog as you just sprint around their arena trying to battle whatever annoying gimmick they have as they just sponge up bullets like it's nothing.

In the late game all the enemies you encounter, except bandits, will have top notch weapons and armor to offset your own. It really cuts down on the feeling of being more powerful with better gear when even enemies in the beginning area have the best weapons and armor.

Hopefully fixes eventually come out for some of the mentioned issues as I cannot recommend a game that has known softlocks and has had them since day 1 and have gone on without a fix.

A decent open world RPG game that's more grounded in reality than others. Fair warning though, it plays pretty slowly in the beginning and doesn't really give you full freedom until several main story quests in. You start out as a pretty mundane character with no real skills, which makes rising up to be a prominent figure quite a bit more satisfying. Combat is a clunky and can be an absolute slog towards the end of the game. Engagements against multiple enemies and on uneven ground tend to get a bit frustrating as some attack animations will lock you into something that whiffs even though its supposed to be an automatic hit. The AI is about on par with Oblivion so prepare for weird interactions that make no sense.

Overall pretty decent, plays fairly slow, AI is buggy.