This game is super disappointing. The trailer and screenshots showcase beautiful environments and a minimal HUD, when in reality, what you get is a flat lighting scheme and a cluttered HUD, which together just draw more and more attention to the copy-pasted assets spread throughout the map. All of this combined with the goofy AI just makes for a boring experience. I really hope the developer continues to build on and improve this game, because I think that it could be a truly unique and enjoyable experience, but in its current state, it's just not worth the price.

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Edit: I have continued to play the game as updates release, and while the developer has definitely made improvements since I bought it, his commitment to content updates and franchising over quality control shows that the game still has far to go before it's earned the price tag it currently sports.

This FPS has ZERO redeeming qualities outside of its cheap price tag (There are plenty of better FPS games out there for the same price or cheaper)

Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhi3mGzt2wI

- Landscapes are so barren and flat outside of the small villages you are meant to "Liberate"
- AI are either braindead or terminators and they seemingly forget your existence when you step behind any cover
- Guns are eh. Recoil is alright but the sound design is just poor
- Their "Passive Multiplayer" is...non existent.
- Polygon Arts are known developers for making sub-tier quality games and releasing them out of Early Access even though they aren't close to finished.

TLDR: it's not ready yet, and may never be.

The concept is killer. Drop the player into a realistic WWII map with Nazis to kill and randomized objectives to complete. Unfortunately, as it stands now, the actual game delivers on little of this promise. Gunplay is floaty, enemies constantly deal tiny amounts of damage, enemy sight lines are unpredictable, exploration is slow (most buildings and towns lack any identifying features), much of the combat is firing at enemies randomly dropped into open fields, enemies move while shooting with robotic precision, and you lack any meaningful stealth options.

XP is only awarded after finishing a mission, which can take you 10-15 minutes wandering around sparse maps being constantly pestered by enemies that never really feel like a threat. Sometimes, you get to the exfil point, only to be killed by a mob of Nazis in a hail of gunfire that is somehow both comical and strangely boring, causing the last 10-20 minutes of your life to be completely wasted.

I also would call into question the label of "Roguelite" here. The objectives are randomly assigned, along with your starting position, and enemy placement, but United Assault appears to have exactly 1 map that is unchanged for each run. There is no progression through floors or new arenas. While roguelite is a flexible term, I would not be confident calling this a roguelite.

There's potential in the concept, and the execution is better than many on Steam, but currently (Nov 3, 2021) this feels much more like a prototype to workshop mechanics than it does a public release worth asking money for. Given this developer's track record, and the similarity to their previous titles, I don't know if the concept's potential will ever be delivered on here.

Update (2/17/2023) :
After several updates, and over a year, practically nothing I mention above has meaningfully changed. The guns don't sound good, the enemy AI would be bad for a linear 2000's budget FPS, and is awful in 2023 open level. Maybe I'm just bad, but I was not able to execute a mission successfully in over 3 hours of play, only a handful of deaths actually felt deserved. Virtually all the gameplay is still just couching in fields and firing a handgun at enemies on the horizon.

There's now a "campaign" map, which just serves objectives in a linear order instead of all at once, though it seems to still be in the same single map. The frame-rate is more reliable than before.

Overall while I was willing to cut some slack before, over a year later it's clear that this developer isn't making any meaningful changes. The developer appears to have developed 2 sequels/spinoff/standalone-DLC's and have more on the way. All looking like reskins of practically the same gameplay loop.

The concept sounds good but the execution is atrocious. The A.I. is quite possibly the worst I have ever seen they don't respond to sound only direct line of sight and if you get an object between you and them they become unaware of your existence, as soon as you get a rifle you can just kill all of them from a distance while they just stand there.

The map is large enough to make the lack of an in game map annoying, and the game gives you no direction towards your objectives leaving you to wander about massacring the hapless A.I. and blowing up conspicuously unmanned tanks and heavy weapons.

the graphics are decent enough but the animations are very stiff and unnatural and the destroyed state of objects looks like a light coating of rust applied to an otherwise unscathed model.

Even at the low price point it just isn't worth it.

Terrible. Feels like a game thrown together in FPS Creator. Boring, simplistic, and no fun at all.

Nice looking game and good concept re: sandbox WW2 FPS, but the AI is intolerably stupid.

A refund for me.

No AI at all, you can shoot an ennemy from distance and it will not react. You fight near a guard and he doesn't move until you face him.

Good lord, half of these reviews must be fake. This game has basically Playstation 1 graphics, and the AI is awful. Super janky, gameplay is crap, graphics are crap, AI is crap... there is seriously nothing redeeming about this game. Who the F makes a game like this?

The audacity to release a paid dlc to a game so poorly optimized as this is beyond me. horrible AI, bad gun mechanics, needlessly drawn out progression. this title, is really not worth your time.

This game have one of the worst AI to ever exist. They don't react to gunfire and just wanders around aimlessly