Soulbound: Online

This review is ignoring the bugs, NFT drama(mostly) and launch day struggles. This game has three (3) main systems going for it's gameplay loop. The roguelite/bullet heaven part. The gearing/meta progression part, and the Life skills/skilling part, so let's go one by one. The core gameplay, the dungeons and bullet heaven is weak. If you played any, and I mean any vsuv clone, you've had a better experience than this. The skills themselves are okay, inoffensive, nothing special. But the upgrades and "perks" are just boring. Every dungeon feels exactly like the last, there are no upgrades who change more than slightly the way you use your skills or play, the perks feel nonexistent, and the rare moments you do find one of the very rare perks, they are just higher numbers for your skills. The enemies have some unique movement patterns, and bosses have the standard red floor mechanics, but if you're playing with anything besides 20 ping (and you will), enemies will hit you even though they missed you on your screen. And if the server lags (and it will), you insta die and lose a run. The questing is also quite weak. The lore is there, I guess. It exists for the purpose of saying it exists. None of the quests are interesting, always being some kind of fetch or kill quests. And you will be forced to do them, since some skills are locked behind completing them. And the life skills are also extremely boring. Most of them are just click and click again somewhere different 1.5 seconds after, repeat about 50 seconds and wait for stamina regen(which takes maybe 2 minutes of waiting in a tavern, or by eating food). Some have a little minigame, which after doing them for the 100th time just gets annoying. But the biggest problem with the game is that everything feels incomplete. If you want any information your best bet is asking in the discord and hoping one of the NFT era sweats answers for you. The Wiki was offline for all of day 1, but it wouldn't have been up to date anyway. Finding information inside the own game is very limited to say the least and annoying, and even some information inside the game itself is not up to date. Skills will appear to be based on one attribute in one place and another somewhere else. Quests will fail to complete and you have no choice but to open a support ticket and get it completed that way. That being said, the support team itself is a huge positive, I had two broken quests and they both got solved within 60 seconds of talking to a member of support, but that's not a great excuse for a broken game. Is it a horrible game? No it isn't, it's enjoyable, as every bullet heaven ends up being, but it only feels that way for the first 30 minutes. After that, you're doing busy work for your life skills, and seeing the same runs again and again in the dungeons, or doing quests that are just more of the other two. The selling point of roguelites, every run being different than the last, simply doesn't exist here. It lacks variety for that to be possible, and the very systems of the game work against that. Upgrading skills isn't cheap, and at some point you don't want to be using unupgraded skills, add to that gear usually having stats that work better for a class of skills rather than others, so what you end up with is a game where you've seen all it has to show in one or two hours of gameplay. You can keep pushing for better gear or higher numbers, but your experience will be the exact same. The game has potential, but it's unfinished, and it shows. Usually I wouldn't give a negative review(or a review at all) to an early access product for being unfinished, but they already got their starter cash with the NFT rug pull, and while the fact it's scammy is debatable, it's undeniable they tried their best to hide and dissociate from the old project. Before release day, the only way you could even find that out was by interacting with a dropdown in a server in their discord and receiving a private message about it(It is now pinned to the English general chat). They took steps to make sure people didn't instantly find out their past, and regardless of why, that should add scrutiny.

game isn't bad for the dumb reasons ppl put below. Lag okay I get it but without that the game plays fine. Crypto stuff? Yeah, I do not care at all this game is less than dinner. What makes it bad is you have to wait real life hours for upgrades and that's super annoying. In order for that to work you have to make a really good game that people want to play in. This is fine but it's not so good that i want to wait 22 hours to craft some ingots or 3 hours to upgrade a bench. I'm good. I already played Pax Dei.

Game is okayish but it feels like a web game, it has this clunky feeling when you do anything... The lag is terrible, the servers are terrible, the quests are bugged to the point that its unplayable. There are a lot of other things that could get improved but idk if they can fix them all, i just can not recommend the game right now, id give it a 3/10 right now and i don't see it getting any better anytime soon... Also if you say ANYTHING bad about this game on discord or in game chat there are a few people that start attacking you and they act like a cult, its pretty weird there is something suspicious going on behind the scenes.

*** MAYBE IF 1.0 IS GOOD BUT CURRENTLY NO *** I love the game, its systems and idea is amazing. However, making people pay into a game that will be wiped and takes hours and days to grind out is not in the games best interest. I would highly recommend making this game free to play and pushing cosmetics out for funding in the future and compensate anyone that has already paid for the game with cosmetics or something similar. The game will die before 1.0 at this rate, and it sucks because it is such a great game. Also, focus more on making the game playable and less on balancing.

Had a friend personally ask the developers whether or not there would be a progression wipe and he was told there wouldn't be and that the FAQ was outdated, and now after spending 26 hours they decided to go back on what they said saying there will 100% be a wipe which has killed all motivation to continue playing. The game is also ridiculously buggy, I probably spent 20% of my playtime just sitting there waiting for a support ticket to be answered because I was in a state where I was unable to do anything. Upgrade and crafting/smelting times are stupidly long (upgrading stations was taking 16 hours and smelting enough ingots for everything I needed was taking several real life days at my stage in the game and it will only get worse), it feels like the developers just put them there to slow down how fast you can progress because there really doesn't seem to be enough content in the game currently. The housing section is actually quite cool, you get your own apartment to place your crafting stations down. The only problem is that if you want to craft or smelt multiple things, you need to make multiple stations, which wouldn't normally be an issue but every station takes up power, meaning you can only have a few active at a time. You don't get nearly enough power for the things you want to be making to progress, so it feels like yet another way to artificially slow down progression which shouldn't exist like this in a paid game. The game also uses a stamina system which requires you to afk every few minutes if you want to actively grind materials outside of dungeons, which I can understand for a free to play game but not for something like this. You can get around this by cooking food but again, doing that also takes stamina and once you've gotten to a good point in the game where you can make enough food this is basically never an issue, so I don't understand why it has to be in the game in the first place. The dungeon gameplay is genuinely fun as someone who likes vampire survivors and similar games, however lag and crashing is also an issue that doesn't seem to have gotten any better during my playtime and can ruin your dungeon runs entirely. I wouldn't recommend picking this game up until 1.0, and even then I would be cautious and wait for reviews from other players to make sure all of the above problems have been fixed.

queue conveniently hangs around the 2 hour mark to prevent refunds nice try

一抹の不安が過ぎりレビューを確認してみた所 とてもやべー状態の開発だと判明 よく調べてから購入を検討されたし

At first I was skeptical of all the negative reviews, and decided to do my own digging into this game, since I was stuck in queue for over an hour. What I found was... not great. There are other negative reviews that articulate this game's history far better than I ever could. On top of the troubled past of this game and its development, the game also ran like hot garbage. Server issues, graphical bugs.. I spent more time in queue than I could in the actual game proper. Hard pass. You would be better off burning your own money for warmth than picking this one up.