Performance
Performance on the other hand. I have a fairly decent PC, I can run Squad at ultra at a solid 100 fps, so I feel pretty good about my PC. This game runs like shit on my PC. I hate motion blur in games, and this game is no exception. Its a lazy cop out to hide performance issues and is an overall obsolete feature in most games, this game included. I turned off motion blur once I found out it was on, and my performance was absolute shit. My character feels like he's stumbling to the right half the time, or not moving right, the game was capped at 100 fps and it feels like my game was running at 20 fps. I like this game, but playing with this performance really drags the game down for me, it feels stuttery and it really shouldn't with my PC's specs. Overall performance really needs some work, its not the worst performance ever, but it is shit, so I'll give it a 3/10.
Survival Features
I really like the skill system in this game. You can build your skills and learn new ones just by doing actions or talking to other hobos. This helps the progression feel like actual progression. As your dumpster diving skill goes up, you are more likely to find cool stuff, as your Begging skill goes up you get a better chance at begging for money, etc. Its simple, but it works and really adds to the game. There are a bunch of things you have to keep track of in this game, such as Illness, Morale(basically sanity), Temperature, Wetness, Drunkenness, Smelliness, Poisoning, and energy. You need to keep some of these high or low in order to stay alive, otherwise, survival can become difficult or you'll end up dead.
Example of Stats
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/779937678266335304/835395281151066152/unknown.png
These stats, paired with the skill system, paired with perks really turn the game great. It helps make it enjoyable. Overall the Survival system is rather intuitive and realistic. You can put on different styles of clothes that help with staying dry and keeping warm. Overall I give this system a 7/10.
Music
The music is kind of a classical style, its depressing sounding and really adds to the aesthetic. I quite like it as its simplicity and lack of bass-y instruments, its mainly string-based instruments or wind instruments. 8/10.
Combat
Combat is rather disappointing, being entirely through text, you can't knock out guards or fight back against thugs without going through turnbased combat, which is rather boring. I hope they end up adding a full combat system, though I highly doubt it.
Overall I was rather disappointed with the combat, so I give it a 2/10, not the worst, but extremely old school and out of place imo.
Overall
Despite being out of early access, this game is very much a work in progress, I hope the Devs continue working on this game and complete it to being fully playable. This game is overall a great idea, but the performance and combat really drag it down. Overall I score this game a solid 5.5/10, for 24.99USD this game is not all that worth it, especially if it ends up as abandonware. I have hopes though that the Devs continue working on this game(I can dream, though they might not pull through) If they continue working on it, I can see this game succeeding more than it already has. Also this game has multiplayer!! The Multiplayer in this game gets a 7/10, its rather fun to be hobos with your pals and to suffer together. It makes the game a tad bit easier, but not by much. The game isn't really optimized for multiplayer, so there are some glitches, combat is still one on one and there is no PVP(Sad I know, I like robbing my hobo friends as much as the next guy.), its still fun to play with your friends and to starve and die of illnesses together, making the multiplayer much better than the singleplayer.
Loserman | 1619325325000 @Taylor10101 For sure, it definitely is not worth the price. There is a ton to do, but the unpolishedness of the game lowers its price down to a solid 12 USD. I still enjoy the game, but the price point is a major turnoff for me. |
Taylor10101 | 1619282694000 25 dollars? Damn. I would buy some Paint the Town Red (it has almost the same price as I remember) for that price, it would be more worthy. It just literally not deserves to be bought for this amount of money at the current state |