Recent reviews by A Random Canadian

(Despite the review claiming the product was recieved for free, I was allowed to keep it after the free early access because I paid money for cosmetics. My continued access was due to a purchase made within the game and was not "free". Many other "product for free" reviews are likely the same.)

The gamemodes page is full of AI slop and the developers have explicitly said "We know that we have to deal with people using AI in obvious, low quality ways."

Not "we have to deal with people using AI". "Using AI in obvious, low quality ways." It could be poor wording, but it sounds like they're fine with AI as long as it's better hidden and they intend to allow it on their platform. Unless they plan and attempt to crack down on *all* AI generated content on their platform and not just "obvious, low quality" AI, their AI disclaimer should include that they intend to allow it as part of the normal third-party gameplay content you can access through this game.

Edit:
S&Box has doubled down on their pro-AI stance and intent to allow AI generated content in their game: "I feel that outright banning the use of AI is a bad thing..." "... so we're not anti-AI either". If you want a game with user generated content, look elsewhere. This is a game with AI generated, user-prompted content.

This game has become my absolute favourite shooter ever made. If you like FPS games then it's worth buying. The movement is fun, you get to feel like an unstoppable badass, and the time slow and cloak mechanics feel great to use and master. It's also insanely smooth while still looking really good, I don't think I've run into a single frame drop and missions never take more than a literal second to load.

Honestly I would have dropped like, $5 on what the demo already gives us, so as long as the development doesn't go inexplicably and horribly wrong somehow I'm going to be buying the game as soon as it gets far enough for an Early Access launch. Try the demo, it's free, and it's beyond addicting with custom music imports to the point where I've accidentally ended up playing other games to music beats like it's this game.

This time it's my fault, I should have known better as a WA founder than to expect anything but a repeat of WA. They took 6 months in early access where they released "one major content update and four hotfixes" and decided that the game is ready to leave EA already. When the tutorial still tells you to "Use the Energy Saw to harvest trees for gatering a lot of wood.", still has tutorial popups cut off the text partway through, and can't even decide if they wanted to use "Data Disk" or "Datadisk" then that's not a game ready to release into a "finished" state. That's dumping a second early access update with a bunch of community created islands and calling it done so Steam doesn't mark it as EA abandonware.

The country select screen was laggy so I got my orbs and quit. If a game can't get a stable 20 FPS when only a drop down GUI and nothing else is on the screen then that's enough of a red flag.

This game is amazingly fun with friends, absolutely worth the money. While everyone is gathering materials I'm the furniture gremlin carrying an entire Ikea back from the offices and stealing paintings off the walls. And I guess there's a good survival game somewhere in there too.

The game was decent, but it definitely feels very much like a beta. I wasn't a fan of the janky "have your character put their hand on the doorknob before you can actually open the door" stuff, it just wasn't very reliable and I had to spend way too long trying to angle my body and get it to register it as a valid state to interact. I'm hoping the optimization is fully complete by release, the vines specifically absolutely tanked my framerate into a slideshow and it was quite inconsistent in how it ran between zones, apparently needing me to tab out and back in to fix the framerate in low-impact zones as I found out in the very last 10 minutes of the game. Overall a good beta-level demo and the concept is alright.

If you can push through the character creation pandering to a certain audience this game feels very fun, with a wonderful "simple to learn, plenty to master" style. Definitely worth grabbing for $10, it has a pretty good feel of a classic MMO, as well as fun action gameplay.

In a sea of hastily produced mascot horror garbage for kids this one feels like an actual breath of fresh air. Sure it has some of the usual trappings, but mainly the ones that come with the territory of "mascot horror". For once the mascot designs seemed like actual mascots instead of obvious horror bait. The game actually used tension instead of immediately throwing the monsters in your face, and it had pretty fun writing for the main mascot. Overall it's a passion project and you can feel the passion for the project rather than passion to make a franchise.

Play Voices of the Void instead, at the time of this review it's a better game about this subject with more content, is in active development, and isn't $22 since it's currently free "pay what you want".