GTFO

This is the hardest game I've played. It is suffering concentrated into a multiplayer game, but it's so addicting. If you love a challenge, have 3 mates who are willing to suffer, and don't mind a little unobtrusive bug every now and then. This is the game for you.

See you down in the mines of Garganta

Amazing game with so many levels. Its greatest weakness is requiring 4 friends, such a high expectation. :(

This is a perfect game. But without a real team, there is nothing to do.
You need at least three people to pass comfortably and don`t even think of taking a bot as the fourth, it`s better to leave an empty slot. Bots are a difficulty modifier =)
You`ll also need time to coordinate the team, divide the roles, and understand how to act in different situations.
And remember - work together or die together.

Solo is hard af and there's not much more to personally leveling up or unlocking or upgrading weapons if that's what you're into. Besides that, there's cool rare cosmetics you can get and it's fun to be forced to take it slow in a game. Plus, it's fun to genuinely have to work as a team and not just have one player carry. Would definitely recommend, still sweating in my chair.

I do not understand how this game is not more known. I will say very difficult game, not easy at all. That is an aspect that I enjoy, but make sure to gather a group of your friends and give it a try!

This game is not for your casual FPS player.
You will be punished for every single mistake, made knowingly or not.
You must prepare to die in ways that Dark Souls would deem too cruel for its players.
There is a reason that the first set of missions have a completion rate of 3.3%
I plan on beating them all, or getting as close as I can until my friends call it quits.
Should I complete it (and remember to) I will update my review as a genuine "should you play this?"

I recommend this game not because its for everyone, but it is genuinely the most fun I have had being forcibly locked in for hours on end for single missions at a time, with my friends.
Prepare yourself. Work Together, Or Die Together.

Some of the most tortuous, friendship destroying gameplay ever. Couldn't recommend more.

This is, in my opinion, the best tactical coop shooter. But don't get fooled by the word shooter. It is mainly a stealth melee game. You need to communicate with your team mates, manage + plan your resources, gaining intel about the objects in the map via terminals and plan carefully your mission.
This game looks on the steam page like a Killing Floor clone, but it isn't.
It's gameplay is closer to Ready or Not, but with some alien monsters instead of criminals as enemies.

The scariest red light, green light, you will ever play, Honestly had some of the best experiences in gaming playing this. Get a good group and buckle up though, because this game is HARD.

The game is hard like people say. Lets get that out of the way first.

Its a game that as you go deeper, will punish you for mistakes, and not thinking. This isn't a mindless hoard shooter. Its recommended to have a friend or more. Not to played solo as the bots while useful, lack a vital ability to carry certain times. You also DON'T have to play each rundown (Campaigns) in order, with A's being the easiest, and E the hardest. You can always change to a different mission and go on from there.

With friends, its been a great experience. A challenging game that tests patience and how well you handle a stressful situation, while managing resoruces.

Absolutely amazing, I will say that is you want to play solo... goodluck on that man. It is impossible to do a lot without 1 other person at the very least. If you have an okay but new squad make sure you go to Rundown 7 which is the most beginner friendly as it introduces things simpler and is a bit easier than other ones, if you make the mistake of going for rundown 1 and going up than it will probably quickly tire you out from the difficulty like I almost did.

Some advice, your tool is your best friend. if you have a turret then make sure you know where to place it, biotracker than always give comms, etcetera. That and something I wish I knew before, you can type in something like "LIST AMMO PACK" in a monitor and query the ones that pop up to find a pack of what you need.

As much as I want to recommend this game, I can't due to difficulty. I understand crushing difficulty is the point of this, but in 16 hours, I think the 2 groups I play with have managed to finish only 2 or 3 dives between the 2 of them. The game is beautiful, the setting is amazing, and it's one of only a very small handful of horror titles that actually manages to put me on edge and get the blood pumping. Unfortunately, there is zero chance I'll ever finish or experience even a small portion of the maps in this. Punishing difficulty is good to an extent, but when there is no hope, it removes any positive experience from playing. All it takes is a single member of the party to make a single bad choice with equipment or a minor ammunition management mistake to wipe an hour-long run. There is absolutely no forgiveness and no way to recover from mistakes. I'm not looking for an "easy" mode on this, but unless you are an extreme hardcore player, this is likely to wear incredibly thin quite quickly.

99.93% of runs have never made it past the finale episode in rundown 2. to be more specific; of the 850,000+ groups who have attempted this game only around 500 of them have made it so far. I am not one of them.

All in-game mechanics are set up for maximum time wasting (checkpoints, but no progress saving, resource management). The game loop starts to get boring after 2-5 hours, and the only thing that can keep you in this game is friends. There are a lot of situations in the game where you can make a mistake, and these mistakes are very difficult to recover from, most often it is either a restart from a checkpoint or a mission restart.

An average game for a couple of evenings.

Purchased this game at before release. This is a very tough game. Never managed to go through the first start to the door. Had to uninstall it as it is wasting my time to look for clues and never ending enemies attacking non-stop.

Great game but sadly not too single player friendly and my friends dont want to play.

Dead Space if it was actually good Co-op and leans heavy on stealth mechanics and team coordination and communication. 10/10

What is it: It is a 4-player co-op shooter that sees the player go on missions with 3 other humans or bots. The story has you as a prisoner sent by a shadowy corporation to investigate a facility that had some bad stuff go down. Only you and you band of convicts are suitable to determine what happened down there.

How it plays: Since it is a FPS, you get to shoot things. There is a decent assortment of of handguns, shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles etc. All sound very meaty and have a very good sci fi aesthetic.
You also have a bunch of melee weapons that have different pros and cons to using them. Ammo, health and other items are scarce, so resource management is vastly important.
Stealth is also a component, but it realistically just serves to slow down the gameplay and make a slow game slower.
Gameplay: So you are given a bunch of missions (Rundowns) to complete with different objectives. However, most of them is, go find mcguffin, bring mcguffin to place, job done. It got very old very, very fast.
The maps are also very, very large and a standard mission can take close to an hour if not more. The setting doesn’t change. You are always in an underground facility with lots of corridors, tunnels and hallways. Its easy to get confused with your direction as so much of the environment looks the same and becomes maze like very quickly.
You have to find doors keys. All. The. Godamn. Time. So you approach a big door and find that it requires a key. Well then you must go find a terminal in the area to type in a command to FIND THE KEY. Once you have determined which room has said key, you have to go through every item box till you find the key, then go back to the door to progress.
The other door type is the security scanner door. Which means your team must stand in a pulsating ring of light until a counter reaches 100%. The light ring then moves and you have to do that over and over again until the door is open. While this is happening, an alarm is sounding, and all the enemies are spawning to come kill you. After doing this for the 10th time, it becomes a huge chore.
The other door type is a ‘blood door’ which just has agro enemies on the other side and will attack as soon as the door opens.

So a mission structure is go find thing, oh look a locked door, got to find the key, spend minutes finding key, unlock door, continue looking for thing. Oh its another locked door, rinse and repeat.

Is this game actually fun? Well lets go over the facts. Limited resources. Lots of enemies that will attack very aggressively. Game has very poor visibility due to horrible light sources. Huge, huge maps that don’t need to be that size. Your character has very limited run speed and when you are hit by an enemy, you shake around for a second or 2 and cannot shoot accurately in that time.
So the ‘hard’ elements seem to be very artificial and are done to make the game less enjoyable by simply making things hard to do.
I cannot recommend this game. The gameplay is tedious, the rewards for successful missions is poor and doesn’t help the gameplay experience. It is a game of busy work and time-wasting activities in the guise of ‘immersion’. Wait for a significant sale.

Game is made with care. Quite a challange in some levels. Def worth the try if you have group of 4. It is possible solo or with bots, but it is very challenging if u decide to.

Please fix the bugs. I have been having a lot of issues with this game recently. The problems range from server issues to not being able to see my teammates. The game just froze at a crucial part of a rundown we were so close to finishing. These issues happen in every single game that i play. I really had fun with the game when it used to work. This situation is just so disappointing.

One of the best game's I've ever played, I've been cripply addict to this game for the past week staying up until late hours of the night. I cant recommend this game anymore and it has a super cool community that helped me learn the game!

A great co-op game for a dedicated group of friends. Is a hardcore shooter though so would be worth watching a runthrough to see if it is a good fit for you before you buy.

This game is pretty good but you need friends to even have a chance of beating the first stage me and my friend spent 3 hours to just do 2 fucking checkpoint and we didn't even get to the second one cause we ate shit 10/10 recommend FRIENDS

As someone who loves a difficult game, doesn't mind dying hundreds of times perfecting a strategy, and has a group of friends to play with who like the same type of game?

This game is actually garbage. I love the concept, but too many features push it from "challenging" to "frustrating". To add a little context for those who haven't played yet, the game is all about resource management. The general game loop is sneak/stealth kill enemies slowwwly working your way to rooms where you bunker down to defend while doing some objective or other. Even the slightest screw up means wasting ammo or health, which will result in a slow painful death to attrition over the multi-hour long stages. The checkpoints are a good hour apart, and don't truly "save" so if you have to stop playing, you lose hours of progress.

The final straw where me and my friends put it down was after an hour of brutal slog, we got to the stage finale for the first time. This involved running through an entirely new section of the facility with a swarm behind us, sleepers in front, and a timer. A completely new scenario to the rest of the level thus far.

Of course, we died, we started contemplating a strategy to deal with it, but then realized the last checkpoint was over an hour back. We knew it would probably take us at least a few attempts to figure out a strat, which is bad enough, but on top of that eventually we'd run out of game time. Which means the next night we played we'd have to start from the beginning, get 1 or 2 attempts at the finale, rinse and repeat. Never touched the game again.

It's so good, though I have to warn anyone thinking about getting this game! If you are serious about buying it, then get at least two friends to buy it too because this game is made to test friendships and alone it isn't a real experience. I believe reviews that attack this game for being too hard are unreasonable, you are not meant to play it alone and neither finish a mission first try and you usually have to try 2-5 times until you develop the perfect strategy which then takes some time trying to execute it flawlessly. Due to this, the game is clearly not for everybody but for it's intended audience it's a really great experience!

Only recommended if you have friends (even a single friend makes this game infinitely more enjoyable). Bots are brain damaged and prefer to shoot you over enemies.

tried sneaking around the the clap of my ass cheeks keeps waking the zombies

Always encountering bug from the multiplayer lobby. Everytime I join the game, some players weren't visible on my screen it's like they're not on the lobby but they are in the lobby. But when we tried to start the game, it feels like the player is completely nonexistent. The rest the game is good.

Convinced by friends to buy game on sale. Knew bare minimum going in. Spent half an hour dying in the first 2 rooms before making "progress". Assured game was fun but personally it's unapproachable.

I'm GTFO before the refund timer is up.

i really badly wanted to enjoy this game, but literally none of it felt rewarding or fun

its cool, stealth ain't that bad. the hardest part is ammo conservation. its pretty fun.

An authentic thinking experience requiring use of mind and dexterity. Graphics are good and there's NO lag regarding controller function.

Seriously raises the bar!!!

It was fun to play especially with friends, my only concern is the game is too dark but everything is great and fun

Okay, I've given this enough chances, and I'll probably play more since some of my friends enjoy the game but I'm not recommending it.

What a damn shame, you make a game with a good engine, amazing atmosphere, great premise, rock hard objectives - then you mess up the bit which could have provided some of the most fun. The combat.

You've these wonderfully malformed enemies in the game, even invisible ones are cool, but the combat, fighting them is a exercise in frustration, and it's for a multitude of reasons.

- The weapons feel crap, they feel under powered and useless.

- The limitations on ammo are just a little too harsh, not even STARTING with full ammo is just a gash design decision.

- Headshots on enemies will remove the head, and characters even state, "go for headshots" but then the enemy can operate without a head... forever... like it's not a few hits before it dies, it's literally not dead.

- Those bloody things that shoot weird fast homing bullets have some of the most inconsistent hit registration on their missiles that I've ever seen, sometimes hitting you behind cover.

- The game will sometimes just toss crap at you after 40 minutes of doing a mission as if it wants to see you suffer.

Now, if all of the above is intention game design, well done, you've designed a game that isn't fun for me, sorry, I'm out - you've missed the mark, you had all the right ingredients, but it's come out wrong.

Almost there....

If this game was still just as hard, but had good, enjoyable combat, it would be an utter gem. As it stands, a very key core element for me is so frustrating, that I don't wish to play it. A great looking game, full of unique ideas, ruined by poor design all in the name of appearing hardcore.

You need a coordinated group of four in order to properly enjoy this game, which I sadly do not have.

Only buy when you have friends to play with, random strangers is just, worse than 50/50, you either got people whos easy to trigger, easy to freak out, no management, or outright trolling and wasting your time
And even if you have friends, consider this as well, this is not what i imagine a horror shooter would be, you will be slowly going thru level, did i say slowly? yeah, and on top of that is the management, so until you are fighting waves of enemies cuz you are opening a big door or something, you will just play a reallllllyyyyy boring stealth game
And the last negative point imo is the monster is just lets say alright in look, below average when they attaking you, as you have the normal crawling mofo that shoot fireflies, the 2legs walking that shoot fireflies, the no arms walkers that shooter fireflies with its tongue....thats it, i cant say i feels satisfyign shooting these thing nor feels any *horror* when they start attacking me
In conclusion: the game is average 7/10, worse if you are solo or no friends, better with friends cuz you can quickly go thru stages without falling as sleep in the middle of the game
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR SOLO, RECOMMENDED FOR GROUP so i will give it a thumb up, but personally? i dropped it a long time ago

A good coop and “extraction shooter” style horror game. The atmosphere is brilliant, oppressive and dystopian, and the combat is violent and responsive. The game feels rewarding as objectives can be difficult, and it feels good to avoid combat via stealth, saving ammunition and health with swift melee attacks on unaware enemies. I highly recommend this if you have even one friend to play it with. Even 2 friends with 2 bots is a good experience.

Spooky game. Learning stealth mechanics are a must.
This game is fun with friends, but if there are no friends to play with, it tends to be... not exactly as enjoyable. In short, it's difficult to pick this game up without friends, specifically, despite matchmaking, and the community discord.

Fair warning: this game is one of those knowledge games that tend to operate and divide between players depending on their knowledge. In other words, high level versus low level player divide dynamics, without the levels. This does create a duality, however, where some people divide, and some people go towards others specifically to act as a teacher, or guide, with little else going on.

Otherwise, this is a decent and cool game with it's own lore, which you can find in the terminals along the way, by checking the logs. One of the primary problems about this game is the depth of the game world itself (not the map), and the connection between some aspects of the game world in what it tries to convey through to the player(s). One thing is for sure to be wondered, regarding the game world... What even happened here?

Regardless, there is one rule the in game characters follow... Survive.

Again, I only can recommend this for friend groups that like this particular sort of game.

The game is cool and all, however if you don't have friends to play with then there's no point in getting it, It is beyond hard to an unfair point, and unless you mod the heck out of the game you will find not only are the missions impossible to do, your own ai bots will generally end up shooting you.

No ppl to play in the lobby, and it is impossible to pass security scans with bots.

Imagine playing a game of red light green light against 5 simultaneous enemies where anyone in your 4 player team isn't the playing perfectly you set off a horde of spastic enemies and just lose. Call it hard or punishing, but stretch this out to missions for 3 hours you just have a frustrating game that asks you an unfair challenge where 0.1 percent of the player base can even get through the 3rd level. Doesn't help that this game also makes you do an ungodly amount of backtracking the longer and later missions, so you're constantly ping ponging between stressful rooms of 10+ enemies and being completely bored out of your mind finding out where to go. As much as I love challenging games, this game takes it to far to the point of stupidity.

game is great and all untill one of your team mates forgets he has his flashlight on and blindly walks into a room that has not been cleard yet gets the entire team killed 10/10 would do again

The game is very difficult but its so cool, once you get into it its so much fun

Very fun !!!
can be a pain sometimes but thats part of the appeal for this sort of game anyway so i can't fault it for that
I enjoy this quite a lot and the music/ambience slaps when you're not fearing for your life-

This game is incredible. I Highly recommend playing with friends because it will mess with your head if you're alone. It messed with mine.

The most intense infiltration/extraction shooter money can buy. This game requires a high amount of teamwork and communication to not alert the Sleepers who are extremely deadly for a solo found lacking, and separated from the group.
- The monster designs each present a new challenge for your team to get around or through
- There is a lore to the game, and is explored through the game, and reading.
- Due to the difficulty of the game it is quite long, as single dives can last up to 2-3 hours, and death means a restart.
- Great game on a sale.
- It is playable as a solo, but will require a lot of micromanagement of AI teammates to be effective.
8/10

I literally had this game in my inventory, then I had to buy it again because it wasn't in my library. No one that I was sharing games with had this game and I have achievements. How is this possible.

I like the game, but in my opinion it's content is not yet worth my money.
most of the rundowns appear to be capture item, do thing with item, kill these guys, repeat.
the levels layout are also not randomly generated from my knowledge, so it's the same setup every time.
all the common enemies seem the same, and take the same amount of power to kill. I enjoy the special enemies, but for the most part they aren't a threat usually.

there are also some visual bugs when loading in sections, but maybe that's an AMD problem. (not that they are severe, would've kept the game nonetheless)

maybe I'm missing something and that's my fault, but for me I would rather purchase another game

an amazing game with loads of mod potential very hard but in a skillful way would highly recommend i can not preach this game enough.

Love the game, something i wish there was more of is customization of guns, parts, skins etc, maybe unlockable ways to earn said things. would also love more outfit options. othere then that tho i like the game alot.