The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu

Game has potential but there are too many things that need fixing, the combat needs a lot of tweaking. I would not recommend this game atm. This game isn't worth the price tag tbh, After you unlock everything or hit max rank there is nothing else to do, just the same maps and missions repeat etc. When you do enough runs/missions with your friends you'll soon discover everything within the game that needs fixing.

Game tends to get fatal error and crash randomly with even the highest pc specs, and sometimes all players in the same lobby all crash at once if that happens, lots of time wasted, figured it's an 'unpolished issue', despite I didn't name other gameplay design flaws, this reason alone is enough for me to give it a bad review.

!!!ONLY PLAYED SOLO THUS FAR!!! Same as most other people feel, this so far has been a rough experience. The idea of this game is actually so great and I do believe it can get there but in it's current state, the game plays a weird pace and makes it hard to be invested. I'd say give it a few QOL updates and it may be a better time to invest. Combat feels a tad off, prologue is garbage in teaching you much of how to play, and having done no research, learning on the fly how there is a very deep psychological side of this game was a rough start to the game. First 2 missions were a fly with no combat really, third was an insane jump that I wasn't fully sure of what I was doing. I hope to change this review as more time goes on and better reflect their game play.

10/10 you can pet the dog

It's scary

Игра заслуживает смешанных отзывов, особенно за такую цену, но ставлю положительный отзыв заочно в надежде на ее развитие. Играть исключительно в коопе, для соло в игре слишком плохая боевка. В сражении каждый аспект создан специально для того, чтобы ты горел. Кривые анимации, не интуитивные хитбоксы, случайное поведение противников и мувмент как будто на рыбьем жире. Нет блока, толчок бесполезен, персонаж бьет медленнее чем враг, двигается слишком неуклюже для уворотов из за чего победить даже обычного зомби лоб в лоб это дело случая, он может дважды ударить воздух, а может отожрать тебе половину хп. По наполнению игра неплохая для беты, много карт, и врагов. Надежда на то, что появится прогрессия. Не думаю что игре нужна персонализация каждого игрового персонажа с личными перками или прокачкой, но общий прогресс аккаунта необходим. Частично он есть, вот эта тема с ЕЩЕ ОДИН НОЖ, и увеличенным хилом при поднятии, но она довольно скудная на данный момент. Так же пока не хватает типов миссий, по сути пока есть только две "собери лут" и "уничтожь портал" с первой все понятно, а вторую еще полировать и полировать, но это неплохое начало. Техническая составляющая тоже не очень, особенно отличились лестницы, с которой ты можешь как будто соскользнуть пока поднимаешься из за чего тебе приходится пониматься снова, или если два человека делают это одновременно, то один застревает в текстуре камня. Это буквально случилось сегодня с моим другом, поэтому пока это не исправят, соблюдайте очередь. Производительность неоднозначная, с моими характеристиками все работает на ультрах, но максимум в 60 фпс, если пошаманить и выключить все размытия, тряску, и "не обязательные" визуальные эффекты, то 100 фпс выдаст спокойно. Вердикт. Пусть я наиграл уже 11 часов и продолжу играть дальше. Но тому кто игру еще не купил, я бы не рекомендовал это делать сейчас. Она неплохая, поэтому добавьте в вишлист и следите за развитием событий

not good

Game needs more time cooking but I actually really like it and find some of the reviews to be unfair in the "Why" the game is bad. There's a lot of complaints about insanity vs exploration. This isn't a persistent world game it's a loot race, similar to lethal company or one of those instanced drop and and loot what you can style games. Basically you accept a "mission" which will give you a goal for your next run. You then select a location to drop which will load in different "Modifiers" and offer different levels. You're not intended to explore everything you're intended to complete the main goal of your quest, then possibly play more risk for reward by overstaying for extra loot. The game promotes this by scaling up rewards based off how much extra loot you get back with (Up to 2x the requested value) Anyway just wanted to clarify the gameplay loop isn't about exploring everything(Or even fighting monsters), the timer/insanity is supposed to rush players and create tension and it does so very well. You also see the most interesting stuff when your overstaying so I dunno why everyone wouldn't be doing this anyway. I see no problems with the loop/mechanics themselves. It can be confusing why your going insane but I find it to always be related to the world around me and there's often audio queues for nearby effigies and similar problematic structures. By simply standing too close to these things they seem to drive you insane, and that's not a run ender it just means your going to be dealing with problems if you don't get away. I don't feel like there needs to be a bar or explanation on these things or an insanity meter to clarify. If it's getting dark/foggy and you hear weird noises you know exactly what's going on. You also start seeing a higher frequency of enemies. Combat is clunky but it seems very team focused. One person wants to dance around and pull aggro so others can get in and back stab. You really don't want to pick fights that aren't needed. I don't find this bad either I get the impression the game isn't trying to encourage combat with all its systems in play. Even melee weapons will break over time. Graphically it looks nice but I get framerate drops sometimes and the design of Enemies/Effigies/Events are all good, very lovecraftian which is probably what you came for. I like everything about the game so far but it did crash 2 times in under 2 hours of gameplay so that sucks. It feels fairly early access for a full release. I understand the mixed reviews and I wouldn't want to scam a friend by recommending this in case the bad feedback leads to it being dropped. But there is a game here that could work. I personally like a lot of things about this title and I would like to see it get a chance to reach a working state.