REFUGE

A hazy, empty, open world with almost nothing to do. There is a boss to fight about every five minutes or so with nothing but interminable walking in between. Combat is a slog with bullet sponge bosses and no complexity. The only thing I like here is that the enemies get dismembered but even that gets old after you do it three or four times. Avoid. https://youtu.be/5bnugleV7_0

This game is literally a scam. There's nothing to do, everything hits so hard, it's so boring and everything dies in one hit... There is no combo attacks or anything, rolling auto-puts your weapon away Utter Garbage. Sorry Devs but this is Pre-Alpha.

[h1] <-- Review written for [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752/] 3 Point Play [/url] --> [/h1] Let's talk a bit about this one. For starters, for those of you that know my reviews, this will be the usual for you, but for the general public, these tend to be a little long, so I decided to add a "TLDR" in the beginning, starting from this one. So, TLDR: Game has missing features, I do not recommend at its actual state. For the rest of us, respectable people who like to read long af reviews, here we go. So, REFUGE is a 3D Roguelike game which might as well be the central plaza on any chinese city, since there are just so many red flags there. Starting from the beginning, there was a massive one in which the game would take like 5 minutes to start. Now, this is kind of a heavy game, but even then, I play other, heavier ones and they load really quick. Found out the graphics' settings were set to Epic, and had to change all of them to my preferred Medium configurations which I use for any and every game regardless of whatever it might run or not on my PC. I was pretty amazed at the amount of graphical configurations available there, you can make the game look real…

The first half of my Indie livestream today was dedicated to this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUpRavQofiQ This is a great foundation for what could be a really cool adventure game, but it' needs a TON of work and a lot of attention to detail to be worth anywhere near the asking price now of $15 USD. NOT RECOMMENDED until the price drops significantly or the developer adds significant content and story or reasons to play to what is here now. Right now, this is nothing more than a mindless "beat up cool enemy assets in a huge empty world" with no purpose for playing. As it is at launch, it scored a dismal 27% score, hurt mainly by being way over-priced for what little content is here. ..You can't just fill an empty world of store purchased assets to fight over and over and over and ask $15 for it. - Well you "can" do that, but don't expect much success on a game platform like steam which is loaded with tons of great indie games that offer much more for this price.

REFUGE is an Unreal based third person brawler with procgen used instead of content. Gameplay consists of some janky brawling waves of enemies and wandering around samey, repetitive environments to fight samey, repetitive bosses, if you can be bothered. You can also spend money you pick up on turrets, because turrets have families to feed and they need that money so they can go shopping. I think that's what the developer was thinking anyway, you know, turrets need money etc. They won't work unless they get paid, too, you know. Maybe they're part of a union. Anyway. Don't let good looks decieve you, while this looks okay, it's just a veneer. Everything looks asset flipped from the Unreal marketplace or somewhere. The gameplay itself is really unpolished and janky... when you attack, you stop moving while your attack animation plays out, and this takes a while... this is really annoying after the first time you notice it. Lack of polish, lack of imagination and lack of fun drive this into the ground. The game features no proper level design or game/story flow/plot, as they opted to try to use samey repetitive procgen algorithms as a substitute for adding such content to t…