Posted on: May 9, 2025

DerNachtschreck

Games: 167 Reviews: 5

Could be really good, but...

...the devs lost the plot so many times. They started so strong with Mutant Year Zero and came to this game. The best of Miasma Chronicles is the world. It looks really exciting to go around there, but I wish what I wished for MYZ: Make these worlds fully explorable RPGs, like Wasteland or old school Fallout. There is no wishing for replaying it, when its done. I never bothered in respecing the chars or try out many Miasma Powers, because there was not so much to try out, if the game follows just a straight line. I could summon a healer (OP power) and chain lightning groups. It was all so damn useful from start to finish. I encountered so many interesting locations, but sidequests are mostly easy and quickly done. The quirkyness of MYZ was not here and the humor didnt always work. On a technical point of view it has so many issues, too. I can save and load all time, but no Quick Safe and Quick Load option. Why? Feels like devs on the one hand want to keep it in, but on the other make the players life harder. And if you have a combat system to try around a % number and you dont want reloads until a shot lands, develop a different system or make it a fully playable RPG. And you need that, because the enemies have extreme range and accuracy. Cover or not, they ht hard and I counted. The whole playthrough enemy missed 5 times. FIVE! Of course I need to reload constantly to get the best result. What kind of system is that? On top its so buggy and very often things didnt work. "Tackle" was just move, but no tackle. EMP grenades dont shock robots. Jades Warcry didnt boost aggro. The list is endless. It didnt happen every fight, but the whole game. Graphical bugs, too. 4 crashes. How can such a game be in this state? Or you start an ambush, realise one character is in a bad spot, you quit the ambush and all others get teleported to you, after you plotted it all so carefully. Infuriating. Compare price to Clair Obscur. Could tell so much more...

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Posted on: December 26, 2023

dRlEhR

Verified owner

Games: 327 Reviews: 4

not bad

the only way to play this game is Alpha Editor, otherwise you would be sniping down most of your enemies before the battle starts by save scumming critical shots also i have to mention that the game is so heavily inspired by Horizon Zero Dawn it's feels like a tribute to it but i did enjoy the unique mechanics of the game, great tactical experience and really nice graphics i would only recommend it at a sale price

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Posted on: April 20, 2024

Trappski

Verified owner

Games: 499 Reviews: 8

Decent but lacking

Definitely a weaker game overall compared to Mutant. Progression is extremely linear even if you backtrack there is rarely a reason to do so. A cleared area is cleared unless there is a side-quest there. The side quests are so-so and the rewards are somewhat lacking. You do get a good chunk of experience from them though. The characters comes with 4 sets of skills/passives that are preset so your build choices are limited. You can freely place and remove spent points however so trying various things out is great. The Stealth gameplay was a good feature. Stealth is extremely powerful making it possible to have really small or no real encounters on a map. Stealthy weapons on the other hand are extremely limited. I found 1 besides the one that one of the party members comes equipped with. Weapons are customizable with scope and magazine modifiers adding stuff like extra range, crit-chance and even buffing damage. Also freely swapable whenever. The story is fairly predictable overall. It has a decent premise and takes some twists and turns but generally pretty bland. Get it on a deep sale if you like a little sci-fi tactical gaming.

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Posted on: December 14, 2023

Honestjohn

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Games: 339 Reviews: 4

Ok Xcom-like combat, lots of bugs and ho

- Combat: The combat was done pretty well. Quite fun and challenging, especially early on- Only having 2-3 heroes was an interesting feature that made it so you'd often have to take risks in order to win. - Balancing and bugs: If you activated a story item from the wrong side, enemies would spawn on top of your chars, kill them in their first turn and cause game to freeze (probably because char was scripted to say something) The game also had similar issues with getting stuck on your hero's turn if he was downed by damage at the start of his turn. I generally like "Iron man" mode in games but, due to bugs, It would have been literally impossible for me with this one. The worst bug I ran into (and the reason I'm giving this 2 instead of 3 stars) was in the arena, where you have to play 5 encounters without being able to save. After every round the game had like a 30% chance to simply freeze up and not take controller input anymore, meaning I would have to load up a save and redo all 5 rounds of combat (rounds taking about 5-20 minutes each). I probably spent about 5 hours just hoping the game wouldn't freeze on round 4, again. Needless to say I nearly quit the game then and there. - Plot and writing: The writing generally is on a VERY YA-novel-level. Flat, clichéd charaters in a generic dystopian world. All of them trying to be the darkest, broodiest and edgies of them all. Well, except for Diggs. - Diggs An amalgam of every bad 90s era action movie trope of the sassy black sidekick. You know, the one who says "Shiiiiet" a lot. In an allstar cast of unlikable assholes, somehow DIggs took the cake and easily wins most annoying (and maybe, kinda, probably racist) playable character. I'm sure the developers didn't intend the character to be this way though. The tone of the rest of the game is actually pretty good about racist stereotypes. But somehow the writers who were going for lovable extroverted sidekick-vibes ended up with the abomination called Diggs.

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Posted on: July 2, 2023

monsieurfop

Verified owner

Games: 81 Reviews: 3

A very good game!

Haven't had so much fun and been so deep into the story since witcher 3 I think. I remember the YEAR ZERO, and it was ok, but MIASMA... Oh boy, it's two levels over the last title of Bearded Ladies. First and foremost - the environments! Oh my god, it's a visual orgy! I loved what they did to the world, the colours, the movement of miasma. I was taking a break very often from the story to be able to view the world and camera mechanism made it easy. The writing is awesome, I stopped at every NPC conversation to listen in on their opinions/jokes/problems. Voice acting is great. What I had a problem with was: 1. Balance of the difficulty leverl. Normal is a breeze and extreme is, well... too extreme. I know one has to sue stealth but the beginning was an ordeal to go through with only one silent weapon and no money ;). 2. MAX level cap at 25. I like to develop my characters to be OP. Here I was not able to enjoy Elvis's powers for more than one final fight. 3. Bugs like the team joining up after canceling an ambush, weapons reloading for free when I switch them, crashes. 4. Saving game. What I mean by it is that you have 50 slots and deleting some of them is a chore. Stick to like 5 or 6 and overwrite them. 5. Skills can be switched willy nilly to fit a fight. I would prefer less time preparing for a fight and have a constant skillset for my party. It was obligatory to win and tedious. 6. Not enough of side quests. They run out half way through. Overall I had a blast playing this game throughout my weekend and 80%/4 is a perfect score. Bearded ladies, don't stop! I will buy your next game.

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