Soulbound: Online

Not sure the hate so far, really only thing ive disliked is the server lag but I mean day 1 thats bound to happen. Very cool concept for a roguelite to make it feel alive beyond the levels. Think with some server stability this game could be great.

With wipes coming, you are paying to be a beta tester for a company that doesn't value your time. Some crafts takes over 100 hours. Experience is 1-2 per mob. It's exp scaling is based on Runescape. Any hard earned effort you put into your character will be gone at launch. Imagine having your runescape account wiped after a year of playing. 2. You are paying to be a bug tester. ( STOP NORMALIZING THIS ) 3. Without wipes, at least your time is respected. But atm it is not. Go do anything else that provides progress and positivity to your day. Do not pay to be someones bug tester for a product you will eventually only have to pay more for in the future.

I have nothing nice to say about this game right now. I'm very upset that they lead us down a path of crafting gear to get good stuff and then they took all the legendary gear I had spent 100's of hours working to get and turned them into garbage. The reasoning behind it was because people said the loot in dungeons didn't feel worth it to grind. Why would you instead of improving that loot ruin others? It's such a dumb choice to make, and unless they undo it I don't see myself even wanting to play when 1.0 comes out.

Not Recommended Going to keep this straightforward for anyone on the fence. The big one: your progress will be wiped. Whatever time, effort, or unlocks you put in during this phase, don't get attached to it, because it isn't sticking around. For a game that leans on collecting and progression, that's a hard thing to swallow, and it wasn't made anywhere near clear enough up front. On top of that, the developers have a track record that doesn't inspire much confidence. Between the past history and a pattern of questionable decisions, it's tough to trust the direction this is heading, and there's little reason to believe the concerns players are raising now will be handled well later. And then there's the performance. The lag makes the moment-to-moment experience frustrating in a way that no amount of "it's still in development" really excuses when it affects how the game actually plays. I wanted to give this a fair shot, but between the wipe, the lack of faith in the people steering the project, and the technical state it's in, I can't recommend it as things stand. Maybe worth revisiting down the line, but not now.

If you like these style of games, try this. Its pretty cool and inexpensive. The community is great and will offer advice and help you in dungeons anytime you ask. Cool story, lots of mechanics.

To start with, I really wanted to love this game. Been looking for a fun pixel art MMO (in the literal sense of the term) to play for a while, and it seemed like this had potential. I played through both Demos (Bullet Fest and Next Fest) and and had concerns about the game after playing both. The performance of the game was abysmal and "log out and log back in" became such a standard "fix" for issues that the default response to players asking for help was just met with "relog". The Demos really felt like an Alpha/Proof of Concept that they were able to port the previous browser game over to a native game, but without actually spending the time to polish the game first and work out the bugs. I was concerned that these issues would be reflected in Early Access. As it turned out, Early Access released with the same set of bugs as the Demos, if not more. Time and time again the team will post that they have fixed a particular bug only for the community to point out shortly afterward that the bug still exists. The bugs can be incredibly frustrating: not being able to log in until you restart the game, not being able to use the storage system until you log out and log back in, not being able to enter your apartment, abilities flat out not working, equipment not displaying its stats correctly, the list goes on. The performance of the game is abysmal; traveling between towns and the overworld map involves passing over a shimmering "line". However, it's so rare for the first pass over the line to actually work that you become accustomed to using a strange spiraling motion to travel between zones, passing over the line back and forth as many times as you can in increasingly distant passes until it finally "takes" and transports you. Dungeons can run incredibly slow at higher difficulties; I've experienced multiple seconds per frame as the game struggles to keep in sync with the server and play the animations. Clicking on an NPC typically has a delay before their UI pops up. Nearly 3 weeks after the start of Early Access, after multiple patches and hotfixes that claim to fix bugs but ultimately fail to do so, I really can't say that I recommend this game. Yes, it's "Early Access", but It's also a frustrating non-performant bug fest that seems to be run by a team that doesn't truly understand their codebase or that even plays their own game. Maybe a couple of months down the line it'll be worth it, but for now, it's a "No" from me.

An incredible game; I’ve been waiting for something like this for years. It’s a combination of *Survivors*, *RuneScape*, and *Risk of Rain*—all in an MMO that you can play in co-op. I’m really excited to see what the developers do with it next. Highly recommended for veteran gamers who remember the good old games from back in the day.

Poo