Recent reviews by Hari

This game is both very good and very bad. There were so very many welcome improvements from the second game. And having seen how the first and second games improved over time, I'm sure this will get there eventually. With Immortal Empires, or maybe even before it, this game will be one of my all-time favorites, I'm sure. But currently, it's a buggy, poorly-optimized, poorly-designed mess. I would definitely recommend buying this game at some point but I would definitely not currently recommend buying it for its full price in its current state.

An incredibly faithful recreation of the board game, I was actually amazed at how well this plays. For group play, if your group can get together, obviously nothing really beats sitting around a table. But if you can't all get together these days or if you want to try to play solo, this is how to play. As a mostly-solo player, this is the most pleasant/fluid playing Gloomhaven has ever been for me. I would probably give this something like an 8.5/10 right now, just knocking off 1.5 because there are a ton of bugs at the moment, although the team is working hard and I imagine most of them will be fixed soon enough.

-Gripeaway

I've only been able to play this game for half a day and I'm already blown away by how big of a step-up it was from the first game. The first game really gave me mixed impressions and this game has fixed almost all of the problems (not battle maps, but fortunately modders fixed that for the first game and I expect more or less the same to happen here) and added a ton more awesome. I only hope they apply a lot of the upgraded mechanics to the campaign they make that includes both continents.

What I wish Hearthstone had become.

The game is alright. The positive is that there are a lot of people playing, which is important for a multiplayer FPS (Natural Selection 2 could use some of these people). Unfortunately, most of these people play bad game modes (or, from an objective standpoint, don't play a variety of modes). I say bad game modes though because the designers are pretty bad at balancing (both levels and teams) and this gets accentuated when you're playing certain maps in certain modes.

The shooting is pretty good and overall it's fun to play with some friends, but I would imagine that you can probably find a better multiplayer game. Like NS2.