SAND: Raiders of Sophie

TLDR; Anti-cheat was useless, riddled with cheaters, NOW with the update, they are kicking fair players when the game glitches (for suspicious activity). Suddenly, the cheaters AND the devs are taking your loot. Save yourself. Wait till it's done. At first the hackers were remotely taking your loot (even out of a crate you were actively holding). HOWEVER: They updated their anticheat, and now TWICE I have been kicked from the game for 'suspicious activity' when I am just jumping to the extraction tower ladder and the game glitches out when I grab it and kicks me. TWICE. Both times I had tons of loot, and my ship is expensive. Come on guys. I'll change my review once they work this out, but right now they are literally employing a scorched earth strategy. *Everyone loses*: fair players and cheaters alike. No response from devs when I submitted a request for review, and the second time the system said 'It looks like you've already submitted a similar request.' when submitting for the second time. Pass on this game till they fix it.

This Game has potential Lots of it, Just like sea of thieves did, unfortunately the Devs who have alot of gusto made something incredible that got too big too fast. They are incapable of making a balanced game when it comes to crew spawns, Trampler Tech rankings and loot. I like Stomrdive and that seems like tha polished well planned half of the game, whereas voyage, the more fun slow paced calm gamemode seems like an afterthought, tramplers spawning practically on top of one another. Loot always missing because of teleporting cheaters or the aforementioned spawn that no-one thought about. I love the look, loot, gameplay and vibe of the game however the devs are reacting too slowly and the playerbase has the same overly toxic matchmaking and community issues as many other extraction shooters. All and all, I think this game is a pass, its fun but the frustration you'll experience between player combat and ship balancing ON TOP of constant bugs and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ playerbase isn't worth the money and time. There's a great game under this slop, and I've played enough to get to the gold, I can just tell you it is NOT worth it. IF some sort of "peaceful seas" mode comes I might come back and play. However at this point its falling in to the same hole SoT did but this team doesn't have the manpower like Rare did to fix and and make major adjustments fast enough.

EXTRACTION CAMPERS are ruining it for me! There is no risk for a camper to sniper me on the ladder and steal my hours of work.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, cool concept and stuff. But you guys should just sell this pos of a game to a company who will actually fix all the hacking / bugs and duping, rather than doing piss all. [Don't Buy]

Riddled with cheaters. Matchmaking full of teaming in solos. Incompetent devs who instead of fixing an exploit, removed a core game mechanic entirely for weeks, only to reinstate it without fixing the exploit. I've tried to give this game a real chance, it's not gotten any better since launch. Spend 95% of playtime dealing with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ only to have 5% of your time where this game does something other games don't.

Not recommended at all, check in again in 3 months or something. Extremely easy ways to cheat, team up with your buddies in solo queue and central features disabled for weeks. Will revisit this review, but the game sucks as it is now.

Great game! people complain over bugs etc, it's still early access. Love playing the game, wins and losses! The young needs to learn patience..

Months after release the game is still broken and kicks you from matches. Don't waste your money.