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I bought this game after watching some streams and seeing something fairly similar to Vampire Survivors. I was mistaken. This is not a "reverse bullet hell", this is a grueling, very grindy, twin-stick rogue-like, which makes you suffer for a long time before grudgingly giving you just enough tools to start climbing the next mountain and suffer more. While this game is definitely really long in terms of time needed to do anything, and it has a lot of tasks to do (such as "earn a million of gold", "walk 100 kilometers", "kill a hundred thousand enemies", "inflict 750000 damage in one run with this ability, then five more similar ones", "debuff a hundred thousand enemies"), it's not... well, fun, I guess. You have to grind in the same two first areas for hours just to get enough gold to buy first upgrades and stop dying in the first few minutes (check the achievements - there is one for surviving six minutes, and not everyone has it), and it gets boring quite rapidly.

I'm sure this game has a loyal following, and I'll probably keep grinding very slowly, but it's absolutely not a Vampire Survivors clone, and it's unpleasantly grindy - you have to work a lot doing the same things to make every single small step forward.

No big issues in the execution - it's reasonably playable, not a lot of bugs, reasonable graphics and sound.

Update after about 5 months and 54 hours played, with 255 achievements of 310: sadly, no, it's not a skill issue. I've already finished most skill-based achievements completed by top 10% players, and it's still a sad and boring grind fest to be dragged on for the next 60 hours. Reasonably well made, and even somewhat enjoyable if not played too often, but still not recommended to people without masochistic tendencies.

After loving Spintires and, later, Mudrunner, I was really happy that the author of those games found a good publisher and finally got the rewards he deserves. By the way, if you've never heard about the previous games - try them also, as they are slightly better overall than this one (they did not have to take console players into account, so were a bit better tuned for a PC gamer).

Negatives:
Compared to the good old originals this one lost the ability to be fully enjoyed with keyboard+mouse (the analog gas pedal controlled by the mouse has been removed), seriously damaged the network games rewards (only the host progresses the campaign, not the guests), and replaced a sensible version of the hardcore mode with a fairly boring economics-oriented one. All three are fairly painful, but survivable.

Positives:
It's still the same great physics simulator of heavy trucks trying to find their way in the mud and snow. Get a gamepad (for the analog controls) and enjoy the same type of gameplay: get stuck in the mud, fall from a cliff and drop your load, underestimate a river and drown - and then have fun rescuing your truck and its load.
This game offers a lot more of everything than the previous ones. The locations (especially the paid DLC ones) are incredibly done: the designers did a fantastic job. Every map has its own kind of unique atmosphere and its own set of physical problems to overcome: different kinds of ice, mud, rocks, obstacles - everything is very cohesive and plausible. Every DLC plays like a new game - and that's a huge feat. Thanks!

As the sales are over 5 million copies already, I don't think it's worth it to do a long review - most people who follow this genre have probably bought it already. Still, highly recommended, well done, looking forward for the next games in the series!

One of the very few well-made physical sandboxes (with some crafting and shooting sprinkled on top). I'd say one of the very best. Very nice cooperative mode for a group of friends that doesn't require everyone to be available at the same time.

Just one minor downside - the developers are a small company, so they are a bit slow with the updates. Don't expect a full release for quite a while - maybe years. Still, there is more than enough in the game right now for a few hundred hours' worth of entertainment.

Some of the things that can be done in the game: 3d printers, logic-gates-controlled robots, cars (including complex suspensions and control schemes), huge sprawling bases with sensors and moving parts, complex physics-based wood- and stone-cutting machines, fully automatic food farms, flying machines... In this game you really shouldn't do anything by hand, build a machine instead to do it for you.

Don't expect the survival mode to be difficult (the bots are easy to deter or destroy), do not expect the game to provide you with a lot of pre-set tasks and goals (the development is still in progress), but if you enjoy setting your own goals and/or have a friend who likes it - the fun will be endless.

When I was buying this game long before release, it looked like a fresh attempt to do something new in the Action-RPG genre. Unfortunately, the released version is a budget copy of Diablo 3, with all its problems. The gameplay is extremely simplistic and repetitive, every location is a narrow linear path, skills are very limited, and passive skill tree, while big, is almost irrelevant - what you select there has very small effect on your game. I would not list any "temporary" problems (bugs, server problems, balance problems) - they can and probably will be fixed at some point. Sadly, the "budget copy of D3" will be the definition of this game forever. I spent tens of hours playing this and hoping something improves closer to endgame, but found nothing redeeming.