I had the game on my radar for quite a while and after I finalyl dived in, I was very hooked for over two weeks. Artstyle and soundscape are all very nice, the gameplay seemed tight and tactical, setting and premise alike are without doubt interesting, and occasional death or two didn't bother me much, it's a roguelike after all. Even the features early into development cycle such as dynamic overworld map show good potential. But as I got over learning the game, and played more and more I noticed that... the game has very little point to it. And n, that's not about there being little to no story (atm). I started noticing that I win or die mostly by RNG, rather than calling shots. I mostly win by favourable spawn of elevators to progress through the level or spawn of chips or some crucial items, or die from single shot, accidentially walking into poison puddle, from getting set on fire etc. some of these happenings cannot be allievated at all, you're dead before you notice. But sending out geared up commandos, investing high tier armor, weaponry and ton of supplies improved survival rate marginally, but was huge risk, after all I "worked" hard to get all this stuff and it can still all go poof in a moment. And the point of the game is to extract maximum value upon completion of a quest, so bringing lotsa stuff with you limits your available space even more and affects some stats like dodge chance or callory consumption. And as I said it all does very little to tilt scales in your favour and let you survive runs reliably. And for the msot part I was doing naked runs sending out new clone after new clone armed in minimum gear and... I was mostly succeeding just as much with 0 real risk. And if investing your hard-earned, bartered for and crafted trinkets into your runs is generally not worthwhile... Then what's the point of accumulating them? Or sending out skilled charters that mostly die just as fast as noob ones? It's a refund for me. Maybe some other time.
