VOIN

В игре шикарнейший визуал и очень затягивающий геймплей. Самое то, чтоб выпустить пар после тяжелого дня. Автору за зимние локации надо награды вагонами отгружать. Особенно взрывает мозг то, что все сделано практически одним человеком.

a lot of fun. good amount of exploration. playing in linux. runs ok needs optimization. Some weird artifacting at times

A very impressive solo developer game, Voin is a hack and slash soulslike (not a roguelike in any way) where you explore ancient sites above the ground and underneath the ground and fight your way through different enemies using literal dozens of different unique weapons and items. The combat is spectacular, the sound design is great, the environment is compelling and you can create tons of different builds with insane synergies as well as upgrade them and the amount of attacks, powers, effects, etc. there are is a little overwhelming. This is the first time I've played and enjoyed a soulslike (Dark Souls III was the only other time and it was a frustrating disaster) and in my opinion this is how it should be done: fully modular difficulty. Don't like the lacking amount of enemies? Throw the number up. Don't like how bullet-spongy the enemies are? Take the toughness down a notch. Don't like how graceful the parry and dodge windows are? Tighten their stringency. You can put the game's difficulty to your heart's content rather than be forced to conform to one singular difficulty which may be too hard for some and too easy for others. One caveat though is that the toughness settings of enemies is tied with special enemies appearing more frequently, i.e. you cannot currently make more special enemies appear [i]without[/i] also upping their overall toughness. This leads into the next problem: some items are desperately in need of a nerf. One example is an item that gives you a whopping [b]three[/b] temporary hearts every time you get hurt with less than six seconds cooldown, meaning you can literally stand still and just keep attacking and you'll never die because all enemy attacks count as a single hit rather than have different values. All of that from just one item effect. This is just absurd and completely throws any semblance of challenge out of the window, while mixed with some very tough enemies can turn it into a brainless button mashing simulator. This is only one example but there are definitely more. For now you can opt to just avoid items like these to preserve the challenge but I wish that this would be addressed in the future. A slight nuisance is that it's a bit confusing where you're supposed to go. A lot of players including myself fell into the trap of completing an arena event that is intended to be done once you're at the end game, but it is smack in the middle of where you're supposed to go for your first quest. It turns out I was supposed to take a route which was rather hidden compared to the arena that immediately draws your attention. All and all though, for the price that's being asked and the fact that it's being worked on, this is very much an enjoyable game. I'm currently twelve hours in and I think I'm nearing the midway point of how much there is to do in the world currently. I'm very much looking forward to future updates.

Absolutely insanely fun game. I'm only at the first map, but i've already found out how to become literally immortal against anything. (Spoilers, emerald heart plus increased invincibility duration after being hit) Will add more as i play more, but this game? Play it. I never say that lightly, i'm a picky bugger.

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电脑里面有一款更新后需要重新开档的游戏

1h in edit: a dude alone made that game? awesome !!!!! edit 20H in : this game deserve a goty just for the work Nikita put into this

VOIN has very strong bones. The feeling of core combat is great. The itemisation is varied and interesting. The audio-visual side of things is on-point. But I can't bring myself to play anymore after just a few hours. The problems are the level design, enemy design and combat balance. The maps are open and empty, with very little in terms of interesting level design or engaging traversal puzzles. They feel a bit unfinished. Secondly, enemies are very one-note (litery, most of them have only one attack) so fighting them becomes very repetetive. And considering that most of them have no intresting skills, fighting becomes and endless cycle of mindlessly dodging and attacking. Also, the evenmy variety is absolutelly abysmall. Now that I look back on the trailers, they truthfully show you fighting hordes of identical started enemy in 90% of the shots. Wish I saw it as a red flag before I passed the refund window. Third strike against Voin is how quickly its combat devolves into mindlessly grinding hundreds of identical enemy groups into a fine paste. Just like the endgame of most ARPGS, but with no elements that make it actually bearable (like skill progression, story, quests, varied loot drops, puzzles etc etc). Maybe the problem is me. I came in expecting something souls-like adjecent, or at least more like Darktide, and got Diablo. It might be fun for people who enjoy hack-and-slashers (although a very limited item pool that's very front-loaded and leaves very few suprises after the first two hours will probably be a big turn-off), but it isn't for me. I wonder just how many positive reviews are from people with just a couple of hours under their belt, because I started out really liking the game, and fell out of love the longer I played it.

Best game ever