Recent reviews by Rift

Played once got got slapped by Olli 10/10

Can't get any further without the game crashing. Which is honestly for the best.

Very fun

Very fun. Even though it's free to play was happy to spend some money on it.

Very fleshed out and decent amount of updates.

Doesn't allow cross platform play with the microsoft store.

Otherwise it's a great game.

Game crashes every few minutes/autosave. Seems to be a common issue.

Edit: This can be solved by going to the file "StubbsTheZombieSub.exe", right click, compatibility & set it to "run this program in compatibility mode for windows 7" [Yes, even on windows 10]

Game still crashes occasionally but is at least playable.

Unplayable.

Animation/gameplay must me linked to framerate or something because it's insanely fast. Starting a game just leads to a "game over" screen. That is all lives lost in the blink of an eye.. Opening the game just flickers between the menu and leaderboard at lightning speed.

An old game showing it's age isn't unexpected; but this isn't old it's dead.

10 minutes long. Game play is move sideways and hold down fire. Story is basic. And apparently not the game I got in some bundle years ago.

Visuals are the best part of the whole game. So if you have seen the screenshots, you don't need to play the game.

Has something to do with an ARG but I've no interest in going down that rabbit hole.

This used to be a positive review, however I no longer recommend this game.

The nail in the coffin was use of AI generated images for the posters in the new. Which has no place in a paid product. This soured the mood.

However, the game lost it charm a long time ago. It's great that the game is still being updated 5 years later but the focus of those updates has been in the wrong place. I mostly just play because my friends want to and it's fun to play with them despite the games faults. Although even they agree that the game ran it's course.

The lobby area went from a place that was fun to mess around in on it's own, to a dull warehouse.

Buying and adding items for missions become needlessly complex with a terrible UI.

The levelling system is needlessly grindy. Even if this had been there from the start it would have been annoying but it's doubly so that it came in so late to the game life, grinding to regain items we used to play with had never been fun.

The new maps are fine. It's fantastic that they are still being added although they don't really improve the game play.

The horror of the ghosts was always going to fade. But in five years the only real improvement was when they added more of them, but even then they don't feel different from each other. If anything they seem like maybe they are more basic than they originally were, it's rare to notice one of their traits effect the game play. It's rare to see ghosts do much more that throw objects at all these days.

I do appreciate that the developer is still updating the game, there were times it was probably a few bug fixes away from being a completed product. But it's not that game any more. And use of AI slop is a sign that it's only going to move further in the wrong direction.

It's just kind of tedious.

Played on nightmare mode an there is no challenge. Most enemies are dead before they get a chance to do anything and it doesn't take long to get the overpowered weapons. Ammo is essentially infinite and areas are wide open, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. It's the same three levels on repeat and they get shorter each time. Repeating the exact same actions.

Story is kind of lacking. It's very much the bare minimum. There are a few moment were the enemy taunts you, which are actually decent. But all the other characters are shallow, stilted and barely even move. There was at least one line that made me laugh. It has few nods to the old game but I'd have liked to have had something more than background stuff. The ending was not worth it.

I appreciate they tried to go for a different style but I'm not exactly sure they pulled of the style/styles they were going for.

Overall this feels like the concept for a game that got rushed out, rather than a finished product.

Although it does have a damn good soundtrack.