VOID/BREAKER

The best game ın tje world. I can barely bring myself to play it because I don't want it to end. thank you for creating this amazing game

Void/Breaker wastes no time showing you how cool it is.

Zero fun builds in this game, tried so many different ones and not a single one is "op". Gunplay is pretty bad, and the mechanics in this game work only when they want to.

Adrenalin in the form of a game.

One guy with a box of scraps made a game in UE5 that looks great, feels great, and runs great.

[b]VOID/BREAKER[/b], is a great environmental destruction based roguelike shooter. The game is aesthetically gorgeous and the world building is absolutely amazing. The lore is ever expanding and the newest Act brings new light to your situation which really keeps you excited to see how it all plays out. The destruction is chaotic and super satisfying but above all else, the game is very optimised which is absolutely essential when your whole screen is just full of debris, health bars, explosions, and projectiles. The gunplay is quite satisfying but does not exactly feel like a traditional FPS experience. The bullets in this game suffer from heavy gravity and rather slow projectile speed at base. The gun-modding is unique and offers a decent amount of strategy but not so much that it turns off other players that don't want to optimise the grid. The game is not without issues however, the biggest of all is clarity. Enemies blend into the environments, both you and them are often buried in debris, and with the amount of damage you take even at medium difficulties, you cannot afford to take too much time to understand what is on your screen. The difficulty of this game is not for the faint of heart either, with the first boss likely wiping you out over and over if this genre is not one you dedicate your time into. The game is still buggy and incomplete but the foundations are nearly perfect so there isn't much to complain about. This game is clearly made by a developer that understands what makes or breaks a good FPS. [b]PROS[/b]: - Absolutely stunning visuals - Intriguing lore especially for an FPS - Extremely fun destruction - Great voice acting - Decent build paths [b]CONS[/b]: - Way too difficult for casual players - Battlefield clarity is very poor - Music is seriously repetitive - Frustrating enemies and hostile projectiles [i]The corrupted modules are so funny and make you mess with the game in ways you wouldn't expect. Super unique and enjoyable honestly.[/i]

Originally I wanted to refund the game but I still decided to give it another try and I at least finished the content (excluding the very high difficulty) which you can comfortably do in around 4-5 hours. I still didn't change my mind from not recommending it, and here is a slightly more detailed review: [b] The amount of good things I listed stayed the same[/b]: - good graphics - good destructible environments that are well integrated into gameplay, unique in the genre - movement is good, except for one thing: I think you lose velocity way too fast on the ground when not sliding, that feels off to me - almost every enemy shoots bullet hell projectiles, which is fine (can be a little bit overstimulating, for example vs the third boss) - inventory management is neat for the genre [b] The bad stuff[/b]: - music across all zones doesn't really have likeable power or melody (I do like the music genre a lot, so it is a shame) - each area fight drags for a long time. The enemies are quite tanky and the huge arenas just make you run circles and occassionally use the grappling hook. The fights are not really difficult, since the enemies are not really able to deal with your movement. Your own tiredness will get you more likely killed [b] The biggest problem, the variety[/b]: - the variety of playstyles is minimal. The guns are the classic guns you expect in any shooter: Pistol, DMR, Shotgun, SMG, Assault Rifle. Their effective range is practically identical (except for the shotgun probably, the only gun I didn't try), so you are effectively using a similar gun anyway. There is one playstyle that is unique though, which evolves around your standard melee attack. - there should be more variety to guns instead of just "look at the enemy and hold left click on him". Few very quick examples of my head: rocket launcher which you can guide with a laser, junk gun where the effect of the next shots are determined by the items you picked up in the arena, different melee weapons with their own properties apart from the standard melee). I wouldn't say that this game requires another classic gun like a sniper rifle, which is the new gun it will get in the next update. - the abilities you can pick up (like grenade spam for a short time or laying mines) are okay but they act more as a support for your gun and you can't really build a playstyle around them here - barely any interesting buffs - sure, the stuff above are not exactly unique problems for a bunch of games in the genre but it doesn't have a way of "hiding" the problems. For example it doesn't have the soundtrack and bombastic soundscape of OTXO, or variety of classes with changeable abilities of Risk of Rain. In that case it requires the game to have very satisfying basics, which IMO it unfortunately doesn't. - It isn't exactly in early access type of problem, it is more of a design problem in this case. I will check the game's progress once in a while just to see if anything meaningful changes the way the game is going, but so far it doesn't feel it will. I will be happy if I get proven wrong :) glgl