Recent reviews by NoClutch

It is good for a few minutes, fun to pick up a game every now and then.. but I don't think I'd recommend to buy it. The monetisation is pretty aggressive, and you can experience literally all of the content the base game has in less than half an hour, leaving you to, at that point, buy a dlc map of which there are many, and more expensive than you'd expect for something that doesn't have a lot of impact on gameplay.

All this to say that the game gets old VERY fast. For the amount of content available, it's really only worth it at a deep discount. If the game added some kind of randomization for each match, like alternate rule-set or modifiers, I'd say it would be closer to its value since lack of variety is its biggest issue.


EDIT: It does look like they cut the prices of maps since I last looked.

Unfinished and borderline unplayable. This 'game' is filled with unfinished, impossible to access content and ads for an endlessly growing list of new games which don't even come out before they add another advertisement to the screen.


There is no tutorial. There is a how-to guide, but it's very out of date, probably by about 6 months and has dead links in it. Just before I wrote this review, a new patch came out that made drop rates for the only thing you can actually do, Farming, incredibly low. You now have a 10% or 2.5% percent chance of getting a drop that you can do something with, which has a 25% chance of actually dropping something, After winning those odds 3 times, you can then go on an expedition, which is an hour-ish wait which does not guarantee an item drop. After succeeding that dice roll several times, you can then craft a farm item, which is another wait,

Then you need to craft 3 total farm items, each of which is already pretty hard to get, but wait! You need water to use them, which you can only get by using a Farm Dome, which is a several day grindfest just to get, then several real world hours of waiting to make into water, which you can only do after getting an epic penguin kid, which you will have needed to use in an expedition to get the farm dome. Hopefully, you have already spent an hour or two getting wood with an uncommon penguin kid, so that you can then spend 10 minutes crafting a fire, to purify the water, so that you can actually work on the farm..




But wait! There's another grind! Once all that is taken care of, you need an adult to work on the farm, which requires a penguin mom, who can take weeks to drop, and a learning book, which is also a somewhat rare drop, oh and you'll need to sacrifice more children so you can get fish, which then lets you wait 30 minutes to 'learn' a penguin adult for your farm.




and now, FINALLY, you can work on a farm. Wait, what's that? I need two water? ♥♥♥♥. Well I guess I'll do it next week.

And this is without mentioning the huge amount of items that cannot be dropped, The Lamiya, Blood Tax, Faust Doping, Incubator, and Doping systems that are not explained in game, in the manual, or on the store page, and also seem to be impossible to use without paying money in someway, despite the fact it is the overwhelming majority of the content. I regret buying the auto-click dlc, it wasn't worth it.


Oh and when you finally do start a farm, it's a big wait and basically never drops anything useful, making all of the grinding completely pointless.

I thought I had already reviewed this game but I guess I haven't. This game is pretty fun, it's kind of a slay the spire like, but a real-time autobattler. I enjoy it a lot for its roguelike elements, but the progression and meta progression needs more tuning. There's a decent amount of relics, but they're so easy to get in the early game that it feels like there's barely any.

Overall it's a great game and I've already seen the dev fix several minor bugs I found.

I was really enjoying this game, but cannot recommend because there is a soft lock bug at the end of Glory's Storyline that will make it impossible to complete the rest of the game. Searching the issue on the steam forums reveals that it has been a reported bug for many, many years without being patched.


The only way to avoid this bug is to know it exists and work around it by saving before it happens. I did not do that, so my save is now unplayable.

seems like it could be fun but with the lack of guidance or tutorials, and levels seeming like they're designed to be tedious, not challenging, I'm having a hard time recommending this game.

I really like this game. It's basically a RTS for impulsive, goblin brain players which does describe me. Essentially the core loop is balancing long-term progression with necessary aggression to cull other enemies so they don't grow faster than you do. So you collect resources, build an army, and bully with it as long as you can to buy time to collect more resources, the most satisfying part being that literally every unit in the game levels from being used, meaning that even the cheapest units can become huge juggernauts that hold your army together


A very fun, intuitive game that pretty much anyone could play and enjoy.

It's reasonably fun but really lacking in content. I've played some of the original ridge racer games and this is nothing like them, it's more of a need for speed game with more destruction and an eclectic soundtrack.

Some levels of the game are literally old levels but with a color changing filter on it, which makes it really hard to see. The races are not designed such that you can win them on your first go, as there's constant switchbacks and blind spots. In a need for speed game they would all have directional indicators.. in this one sometimes you get that.

In 4 hours I've played all levels that can be unlocked without grinding, This is a theoretical value of $2.50 an hour, which is pretty decent, but there's poor flow across the whole game. There's awful, awful drift levels, which are designed to be painfully difficult until you unlock good drifting cars, but the best ones are gated by the final levels, which you cannot reach without getting a perfect score on the drift levels... see where I'm going with this? I hate the drift levels. The best car to use for it is one that can barely drive in a straight line, and I don't like drifting without purpose, and that's all of the drift levels, which are timer based, not driving based.


There's also seemingly random challenge levels, which feel a lot like Halo Reach's Forge Warthog races. This is not a good thing for a mainline racing game. There's a lot of full pipe areas where you're expected to drive onto walls and stay there, but the cars don't stick, and also bounce very unreliably, so odds are if you go onto a full pipe it could end your run right there. Additionally, these challenge levels have a ridiculous amount of turns and low roofs, such that if you actually do the levels as fast as you can, you are limited by the slow ceilings that will end your run if you're going too fast. In a racing game.


This game also celebrates my least favorite racing trope, which is 'cinematic events' where you complete an action dozens of times in a race, and every single time it happens your car gets temporarily controlled by an AI, which can hinder and help your race pretty much randomly.


All this to say that I would recommend the game on a discount, if only because it feels like a need for speed game, but without rubberbanding AI, the biggest positive of this game.

Surprisingly good simulation of D&D mechanics, but pretty much everything else is lacking. Anything narrative related is non-existent, and written as if by a non-native speaker, and there's also just a huge amount of trivial encounters that are not skippable, meaning going through any monster-territory is very tedious. Additionally, character creation is non-intuitive and I accidentally selected a different main character.

You also have to manage rations, spell components, and every other annoying dnd mechanic you're used to ignoring. I will say the game is EXTREMELY customizable including house rules that take away a lot of the annoyance. I don't think it's worth the asking price yet, but once it's developed a little further and proofread, it'll be pretty good.

Pretty fun concept, but I'm sad to say it deserves the mixed rating. The controls flying the plane are quite bad and confusing, and in all modes the camera can slowly creep forward until you can't see where you're looking / aiming.

In the survivor mode, which was pretty fun, at a certain point I could no longer see where I was shooting through my character, even in first person mode, and eventually I lost the ability to switch weapons, and since weapons have limited ammo, eventually this softlocked the game, forcing me to lose.


I can kind of accept these issues, that seem avoidable if you're careful, but then you get to the DLC, which is transparently pay to win (Santa gets a boost to almost literally every stat), and the unlockables, which I've already almost completed in a single 20 minute session.


If they fixed the game breaking bugs, I could see myself recommending it, and even tricking friends into playing with me (if that's possible)

Great game, I have no notes. I encountered only one bug in several hours of gameplay which is practically unheard of in an early access game. Not only that, but the tutorial for this game is one of the best I've ever seen, especially for an early access game. The tutorial is built seamlessly into the narrative and designed to be easily ignored in subsequent replays, and is written clearly enough to be understood on the first read.

If you're looking for an industrial survival rescue / exploration game with the thematic design of the Alien movies, this is it! I mostly just bought this game because I read that you can control multiple characters in real-time in a horror game, which is near unheard of. Worth my interest.


Overall a quality title I'd happily pay for as is, and updates are reasonably reliable.