Recent reviews by Sir Shotgun

Hot Garbage.
The worst expansion.
Remove the timelines rewards and just add them w/o completing timelines, a lot of timelines missions are hot garbage.
some are fun but being forced to play them to enable the open world content, makes me want to say unkind things.

From a Egosoft enjoyer i can accept most of the jank but dear lord this was a flop pure and simple.
0/10

Campaing mode broken due to dlc

good fun not as much replayability as terraria, but its a good game for the money

Its hard to play with a fun setup, so its not a fun game to play.

impossible to disable the "multiplayer" aspect of the game, that often you into doing some builds that are better but not as fun.

seemingly this apparently casual game is not for casuals but for those who want to spend hours optimizing their builds

like in the video of the game says build something cool with legos, yeah but it will get curbstomped.

sure i can build something that will kill anything but eeh i feel forced to do it when it comes to choices thanks to the enemy agents.

Its okay.

Free to play, acceptable monetization, whats not to like.
Played since closed beta on and off.
Played when it was subscription.

The content and story telling is good,

PVP as i have found is lack luster the times i have tried

Looks good on the surface but it has, a lot of unsatisfying gameplay elements, not being improved currently.

As such i would not recomend anyone buying it or anything from this developer, they are clearly not good enough to create engaging gameplay. Only a neat surface and good ideas, that never came to fruition.

Well, the dev is back and patching stuff and so i can't complain anymore.

I thought i was going to be abandoned like usually when a hiatus is announceds but creds to the dev for returning.

So my negative review is now a positive one, since the game might still be released and many of the issues i had have been ironed out or otherwise mitigated.

Its till early acess so, spend your money wisely think of it as a gamble... dont bet the money unless you are willing to loose it.

Game works good, perhaps it needs a bit more content but as far as im concerned its good enough in its current state( some bugs need fixing)

But hey currently it has less bugs than many old completed cd games as far as i have noticed so, that where releases and where never patched.

Below are my old gripes, these days with game changes i feel like the game is balanced and fun to play.

So yeah sure go for it!

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I Don't recomend this game to anyone as it is currently unplayable.

The game doesent follow its own rules consistently enough to make this a good experience in any way shape or fashion,
Monsters are said to avoid walls if there is a open path to your base, well this is an outright and blatant lie they attack walls randomly for seemingly no reason even though a straight path is avaliable. (excluding gates just curtain walls or regular stone walls)

Those nice screenshots of mazes? You can't do that it doesent work, a monster will randomly start destroying walls and the alert that buildings are getting attacked doesent exist. The alert that buildings are being destroyed is so unnoticable that it might as well be removed.

The ingame script triggering events is seemingly 100% random and sometimes trigger instantly giving you 2-3 earthquakes in a row leaving you no chance to recouperate(Zero time or near zero time between the event starts) i mean i like hard games like really hard and so hard its unfair that is all cool but with this game better say your prayers to RNGesus.

And that is how this game manages to get the boring part of unfair, i mean its not fun if you randomly just get screwed by with no chance to do anything i might as well play Yatzhee then aye?
Because if rng screws you getting back is just waiting till the next game in worst case, not investing hours to maybe not get screwed?

At later stages the game runs ♥♥♥♥ even though you have a good computer because the silly particle effects are everywhere and merely looking at them tanks your computer i mean there are so many monsters being spawned its silly, i dont mind but the sparkle effects are everywhere. (That one is up to the dev to optimize or add options to put a cap on the sparkly effects)

For the sandbox part yes its a sandbox, i dont get why people complain about that maybe its not their cookie eh??

I have played this game since before it was called rise to ruin(Retro Pixel Castles), checking it on and off since then and to be fair it was a better and more immersive game back then, sure it was clunkier but for me more playable still.

As far as im concerned it has potential i mean it was good and fun at some point, maybe it can become that again?
I dont know i really dont.

I mean it has potential it somehow gives me the vibes i get when i play the original dwarf fortress, but falls flat in the end.

But as far as my experience with Early Access Games the odds ratio is 75/25 being that 75% chance not being any good 25% chance dev fixes it, so like i allways think there is a 75% chance you are wasting your money on something that wont be good enough to play ever.

So unless you want to sponsor the DEV and hope that he/she makes something good with it dont buy it, wait for the release.

What ever you do dont buy it, mechanically its as satisfying as rubbing your face with a cheese grater.
A cheese grater can be had for less money than this game just saying.