Survival Machine

While there are some aspects of this game I enjoyed, overall, for the price, I would have to say this is a hard pass. I won't bother mentioning the story, enough reviews have already done that. It's very bad, like child writing levels bad. The voice acting is on par. Overall it took me 21hr to 100% the game. Initially I saw reviews in the 60hr+ range and thought, "wow this game must have a ton of content". That is not the case. There's 3 "zones" (really just 2 since the last one is just for a "boss" fight), and each zone feels like it was made by a totally different dev team. Realistically you could beat this game in around 12hr, the rest of my game time was spent getting some particularly annoying achievements. There's zero cohesion between the 2 main zones, other than your ship. Storage unlocks randomly and too late in my opinion, it was a pain to manage inventory and storage for the first few hours, than it becomes completely irrelevant when you stamp down 20 chests. There's significantly more unlocks in the second zone compared to the first and other than getting some extra inventory slots, you're disincentivized for decorating, since your stuff can be broken during horde…

Love the survival aspects and the upgradability of both characters and their gear, as well as the machine itself. There are some aspects of the zombie raids and their notifications that are still a bit glitchy. Food seems like it's something that might be needed more later in the game, which unfortunately takes up too much inventory space early on. Craft barrels for additional storage as soon as possible. It helps to have additional machine storage, especially if you're playing multiplayer. Don't feel too rushed to move the machine forward. Take your time and find blueprints and other unlockables. I haven't tried going back yet, so I'm not sure how that mechanic works, but it has a "travel" option on the world map, so I hope it works. Overall, very addictive, like most survival games tend to be for me.

This game is probably passing for young children but insults the intelligence of the players pretty bad.

This is a puzzle/platforming game more than anything else and survival is an afterthought at best and calling the base building clunky is generous. The zombies were more of a nuisance and irritant while trying to solve puzzles, than any actual hindrance. I don't have the strongest PC, but performance steadily drops through gameplay, especially when the machine is driving, making it almost unplayable after a while, dipping below 20fps when the machine is turned on. Achievements have consistently had issues in Co-Op as the joiner. Despite my irritation and issues with the game, i decided to finish it because i finally wanted to see this much talked about Bastion and beat the boss. The boss fight was made trivial with nukes and to my absolute and utter disappointment, i got met with a cutscene of entering a gate, rather than getting to see Bastion. Aside from its wall i guess. What a let down, especially after not being allowed to actually off the boss properly.

good survival combat is simple does take precise movement enough for it to be fun with whole family

really fun game