Survival Machine

This is a puzzle/platforming game more than anything else and survival is an afterthought at best and calling the base building clunky is generous. The zombies were more of a nuisance and irritant while trying to solve puzzles, than any actual hindrance. I don't have the strongest PC, but performance steadily drops through gameplay, especially when the machine is driving, making it almost unplayable after a while, dipping below 20fps when the machine is turned on. Achievements have consistently had issues in Co-Op as the joiner. Despite my irritation and issues with the game, i decided to finish it because i finally wanted to see this much talked about Bastion and beat the boss. The boss fight was made trivial with nukes and to my absolute and utter disappointment, i got met with a cutscene of entering a gate, rather than getting to see Bastion. Aside from its wall i guess. What a let down, especially after not being allowed to actually off the boss properly.

good survival combat is simple does take precise movement enough for it to be fun with whole family

really fun game

While there are some aspects of this game I enjoyed, overall, for the price, I would have to say this is a hard pass. I won't bother mentioning the story, enough reviews have already done that. It's very bad, like child writing levels bad. The voice acting is on par. Overall it took me 21hr to 100% the game. Initially I saw reviews in the 60hr+ range and thought, "wow this game must have a ton of content". That is not the case. There's 3 "zones" (really just 2 since the last one is just for a "boss" fight), and each zone feels like it was made by a totally different dev team. Realistically you could beat this game in around 12hr, the rest of my game time was spent getting some particularly annoying achievements. There's zero cohesion between the 2 main zones, other than your ship. Storage unlocks randomly and too late in my opinion, it was a pain to manage inventory and storage for the first few hours, than it becomes completely irrelevant when you stamp down 20 chests. There's significantly more unlocks in the second zone compared to the first and other than getting some extra inventory slots, you're disincentivized for decorating, since your stuff can be broken during hordes. The BFG makes zero sense in the context of the game, makes the zombiestein fights irrelevant by 2 shotting him, and somehow can't kill regular zombies in one hit. For some reason zombies have "levels" next to their name, which as far as I can tell just serve to tell you that the zombies now have more health. I found crafting to be almost completely meaningless due to looting insane amounts of high tier crafting resources and components from zombies and loot chests. By the time the end of the game came around and the city wanted me to make 8 nukes, I had 96 in storage and never crafted a single one. After the 5th or so horde night, horde's just became annoying. I was in zero danger of "losing" (you don't actually lose, it just skips to the next day) at any point, even on the hardest difficulty. I had to intentionally make a new game to get the achievement for losing the game, because it was literally impossible to "lose" after some basic infrastructure, like a wall, was built around the core components. The combat feels nice until midway when the mobs become sponges. POI's repeat too much, even knowing that you're traveling in a loop. 3 different versions of a barn that you will see 50 times before you're done, and most POI's can be cheesed with the glider, or the very late game double jump ability.