Quest Rooms

My group just finished "Chained Together in the Backrooms," a game that is so stupid and broken that it was actually fun. Quest Rooms, however, is just bad. Not fun-bad; simply bad-bad. The obstacles never seem to work right. Sometimes they kill you instantly, sometimes they hurt you, and sometimes you walk right though them. To make it even worse, they don't seem to sync correctly for all remote players, so anyone who is not the host can't even see correctly where the obstacles are. What this means is that the only thing you can really do is run blindly and hope you make it. The obstacle design is also just terrible. Swinging axes that are so close together that it's impossible to stop between them without being hit. Floors that look safe and suddenly fall away to kill you. Long, [i]long[/i] mazes of the same obstacle over and over. Spikes that damage you even when you're nowhere near running over them. These are all not frustrating in a fun way, they're just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying. These wouldn't be so bad if you respawned just before the obstacle. However, when you die, you restart at a checkpoint that's [i]wayyy[/i] too far back. You're given 30 lives; once those run out, you have to [b]start over from the complete beginning of the level[/b](!?!) It's not even like Bloody Trapland or similar trap-based games, where the level is extremely difficult to get through but once one person completes it, it's completed for everyone. [i]Everyone[/i] needs to complete the entire course in order to progress. What this means is that when someone completes the area, they have to wait - potentially a very long time - for everyone else to catch up. In the forums, someone asked if it's possible to play with 5 or more players. The developer responded that, yes, it's possible to play with any number of players. This was a lie. The max player count is 4. I wish I had known this before I bought the game for 5 people. It seems that every single decision made by the developers was designed to make the game as unfun as possible. I have no idea how [i]any[/i] of this could have made it past play-testing (my guess is that it didn't...). I spent $50 on four copies of this game, and I'm furious. It wouldn't have been worth it at $5. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, IT'S COMPLETE GARBAGE.