Wildgate

I sadly say I can't recommend the game. It was fun in the playtesting then just the way that the game is approached just doesn't work. Characters and ships that are game changing are locked behind a list of passes. Boarding with how it's done currently makes any ship combat pointless. If you played sea of thieves think about the boarding meta there just ten times worse as it's pretty hard to miss boarding a ship here. Then if you are unlucky to die to the boarders you will be spawn camped to death while your ship explodes. Then the loot shooter/extraction game play is hollow at best. Many of the weapons are not that useful on the characters and on the ships. I just wanted to see more from the game. I refunded it as I just can't have faith that it will get better.

In this game you pilot a slow and barely maneuverable ship through small sections of an LGBQQ candyland version of space. You can walk through the ship and take control of its turrets and open its hatches. Opening the doors causes no depressurization at all, you don't get sucked into space or killed by impact of objects flying through the hatch openings. This is an important detail because it immediately tells you not to take it too seriously. The objective is to fly the space ship to a bunch of asteroids and space bases and kill some monsters that look like cartoonish hemorrhoids on legs. It's disgusting. They leave behind trails of puss and they throw puss monsters at you. There is nothing scary about them as the visual style of this game is closer to Ratchet & Clank than to any horror game. When you kill them you get upgrades for your ship but it's very limited. You can upgrade turrets, some plugins like shield buffs, that's it. When you have enough upgrades you can attack the other ships in the sector. This could have been fun, but it's ruined by the simplicity of this game's underlying mechanics. You can fly to the other ship and board it through the top hatch, and then you can kill the gunners, but they immediately respawn. It's one of the dumbest things. They just spawn back at the same spot within seconds. After killing and looting some useless items that are the same every game, you're supposed to exit through a warpgate within 30 minutes after the game began. For a $30 game, you can get a few hours out of it before you realize it has absolutely no depth or strategy. It's just too simplistic for that. There are no intricacies to anything at all. Judging by the goofy science cliche's like biodome vertical lettuce farms in space, dorky sounding British robots talking about "the joy of discovery" etc I guess it's meant for 11 year old girls.

game was gas. and everybody complained it wasn't free to play originally. but look at arc raiders, it wasn't free either

It's a visually appealing and well put together game that was worth what I paid for it. I like the ships and I like the mechanics and gunplay. I only have played PVE and it's very fun to play with my partner. The enemies can get a little samey, but if I was playing PVPVE I'd probably have a more exciting and difficult time. I wouldn't want to do that without a full party because this game is so much more fun with other people.

Boring. No incentive to win.

What this game desperately needs: -An adventure-mode similar to Sea-of-Thieves -Get rid of all weapon/ship etc. restrictions, they need to ALL be available from the get-go immediately -Significantly more skins, as skins etc. should be the main drive to progress -It MUST go F2P -The Character-specific abilities are a no-go because they force you to use characters you don't actually want -Make all current Character-specific abilities (e.g. Ventures no-need for O²) simple selectable abilities Do all of this; Re-invest heavily into marketing; Then Re-release the game; Or go broke.

This really should be a great game. But it's just... not. The ship controls are awkward and laggy. Flying feels like piloting a brick through molasses. Want to turn slightly? Just give it a minute. Wait. Oops, you've overshot. Now wait again while you overcorrect. Every single movement is... just... so... intolerably... slow. Nothing feels responsive, nothing feels deliberate, and nothing feels satisfying. The missions, at least as many as I could tolerate before quitting out of boredom, are all effectively the same: fly very, very slowly over to a thing, pick up an item, then drop it back to your ship. Occasionally something will vaguely shoot in your general direction in a fairly meaningless way. At no point did anything offer a sense of challenge. There's no tension, no escalation, and no payoff. Completing a mission doesn't feel rewarding, it just feels like permission to stop doing the previous tedious thing. Perhaps that is the real challenge: being forced to reflect on your own life choices and consider the futility of existence during the long, contemplative pause while your ship grudgingly turns five degrees. Perhaps life itself is an endless drudgery of meaningless triviality, a bland smear of nothingness in a vast and uncaring universe, and this game's true genius is holding up a mirror to that reality. Maybe the intended gameplay loop is to discover the value of meditation, just to have something more interesting to do. Maybe the game would be more interesting with other players. Unfortunately, there were none to be found in this deserted hellscape of missed potential. And then there's the voice acting. Never before in my life have I encountered a ship computer so irritating that I genuinely wanted to destroy my own ship just to make it stop talking. Every minor action somehow triggers yet another badly written, badly delivered quip, each one more grating than the last. It's relentless, and it actively makes the experience worse. I wouldn't normally dedicate this much space to reviewing a games voice-acting. But it was so persistently, painfully annoying that it deserves special mention as by far the worst part of an otherwise frustratingly mediocre game. How do you take such an awesome concept and ♥♥♥♥ it up this badly?