Technologically the game is awe-inspiring, and the devs deserve insane credit. Flying from the surface of the neighbouring solar system's sun onto the roof of the Big Ben seamlessly is breathtaking. The sheer spectacle of some of the scenes that transpire are jaw-dropping. A boss lifts up an entire city and flies it into orbit for f*ck's sake. Your powers are infinite and absolute.

BUT

You are not allowed to use them on anything other than sad little weak spots on jittering little enemy crafts, otherwise the game slaps your hand, saying "oh, you thought you are allowed to actually let loose and enjoy yourself here? You thought we programmed the amazing skyscraper destruction physics so you can orchestrate it yourself? Well WHY DON'T YOU RESTART FROM THE LAST CHECKPOINT INSTEAD!"



The game is in such conflict with itself, it is bewildering. Why not cast ME as the alien invader, have me fill up a city-destruction meter as an objective, while stopping the advanced military craft the humans throw at me? The game gives you a massive tasty cake, and tells you you are only allowed to lick the icing.

EDIT: I am aware of mods that let you play as the villain, allowing freeroam destruction, in which case the game becomes more enjoyable. I won't change my rating however, as praise for that is the modder's due, not the base game's.

1. the game gives you super powers perfect for causing chaos and destruction
2. you really want to cause chaos and destruction
3. you totally do cause chaos and destruction
4. the game tells you to stop causing chaos and destruction
5. you don't
6. game over

What. A. Bummer.

I have mixed feelings about this game.
It really has cool gameplay and you can explore an enormous universe but the content itself is quite little and the graphics are blurry and on close range you might think this game was developed 20 years ago.
That wouldn't matter for me but there's another big problem, it hasn't been updated since 20.11.17 despite the devs saying "we'll still be working on improving our game at least for 6 months".
That could mean the patch is going to come soon but there's literally no information out there.
Mod support was added some time after that last update but with game crashing bugs and no patch notes.
They seem to have some deal with sony and therefore they're not allowed to say anything about the game or what they are doing at all.
Nobody really knows what's going on or if they are even working on the game.

IF there's going to be a bigger content update I would definitely recommend this game but until then you might want to consider to wait.

Now why the hell does a game have to depend on mods to be good?

I'd rather buy WInRAR

Not sure whether to recommed this game or not. I'll put it at not for now.

I love what this game is trying to do. It feels like you're playing a Superhero origin story. You have this floating cube god thing that has given you your powers, and shows you how to use them, and your objective is to save the Earth from an invading alien force. The music is pretty great, a mix of electronic and orchestral music that gives what you're doing an epic tone.

I do have a few issues with it, though.

You have this massive universe to explore, an infinite procedurally generated universe where you can fly to basically any planet you can see. However, the gameplay (so far) is only really centred around Earth. There aren't any other inhabited planets that I've seen, so the universe feels empty. Emptier than No Man's Sky 1.0

The procedural generation is pretty neat. Destructable terrain, you can go to a lot of different cities like Dubai and London, and they'll have certain landmarks associated with those cities there, but it's also a bit janky. I don't know if it's my hardware, or a problem with the game itself, but sometimes the game freezes, and almost crashes, while it tries to load in a city or a part of space or whatever. This is an issue, since your character can move so fast, that it needs the procedural generation to catch up with it. Maybe an SSD card can help with this problem, but I'm poor so...gonna have to wait on that.

So, if you're interested in a pretty cool arcadey superhero game, then go ahead and pick this one up, but with a grain of salt. It has a few issues that it needs to fix, and aparently the dev team has been silent for a while, so hopefully they can come back and fix the issues.

This game sucks the fattest ♥♥♥♥ I have ever seen. Get literally anything else for the same price not a winded, long ass stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ piece of ♥♥♥♥ escort mission game like this one. Not Dark Souls, not Bloodborne, not even Elden Ring or Sifu have pissed me off like this game has.

this game is horrible the fact that you have to beat the story mode before you can play free play which was the only reason i bought this and the story mode can take up to 17 hours to beat this game is the WORST THING I HAVE EVER BOUGHT OFF STEAM

was told it was a goku simulator.. i got dangerously misled.

Not a fan of video games that you have to complete the story (which is very hard), to unlock free room, I am getting a refund,

Megaton Rainfall is an arcade first-person shooter that puts you in the shoes of an immortal super-being, with the abilities of flight and various explosive energy blasts. Your purpose is to destroy alien invaders that have come to destroy Earth. The catch here is that while you have powers that can very easily level a city, the entire point is to cause as few human casualties as possible while you're fighting off the aliens. This makes for an interesting challenge when you're forced to use the super-power equivalent of thermo-nuclear bombs to perform precision shots against fast and mobile enemies. Hell, it's entirely possible to get an instant game over by accidentally dropping a death ray on Earth's surface. In short, you're swatting flies with hand-grenades.

The sense of power that the player has, as well as the sense of scale of Earth and space is very well done, especially when it comes to flight. At the mid-way point of the game, you unlock the ability to travel billions of times faster than the speed of light. Flying this fast makes a seemingly huge place like Earth seem like a speck of dust in the Solar System.
The aforementioned planet destroying lasers can make quick work of the alien space ships, potentially even killing them in one shot, provided you land a hit on their weak points, but should you miss, it's easy to accidentally level dozens of skyscrapers in the process, which will quickly net you a trip back to the last checkpoint.

While it's fun, and a lot of creativity went into designing the various alien attack crafts (such as massive drill worms, or machines that camoflague themselves as buildings.), there are a few pretty big issues:

The first issue is the length. On my first playthrough, I beat the game in less than 2 hours, and according to the achievements for the game, that's considered a 'speedrun'. Cut out approximately 15-20 minutes of that, which is composed of unskippable exposition, and you have a hell of a short game, and for a price of 15 dollars, that makes for a terrible value proposition for your everyday layman. There's a score attack mode, as well as a 'hard mode', but from what I've seen, these simply re-use the same 9 missions, maybe with slight variations. There is no free roam mode as far as I'm aware, which is a huge mistake. It's so much fun to play around with your superpowers, or even to just observe the absolutely insane destruction that the aliens can wreak on a city, but you're not allowed to exploit these abilities however you wish. Once a sufficient amount of destruction has been caused, it will cause a game over. Not only this, but so much of Earth remains unused for the missions, and since there's no free roam mode with, say, randomly spawning enemies, you'll end up seeing the same (admittedly pretty cool) set pieces over and over again. Having the ability to remove the casualties meter and just go nuts on cities like Paris with your super powers would be a lot of fun.

Another big gripe is that the game does not currently have any form of VR support, which is baffling to say the least. The Playstation version has PSVR support, so why no Rift or Vive support on PC? Supposedly, the devs have an agreement with Sony which prohibits them from releasing any VR support for PC (as of now, that is). Considering that this could be one of the coolest and most immersive VR experiences, it's a cardinal sin to exclude it from PC.

With some additional content (more missions, free roam, more super powers, more enemy types, more gamemodes, whatever), this could be a gem of a game, but for now its shortcomings make it hard to recommend.

It's good, but it doesn't have enough content as of writing for me to say it's worth your hard earned cash. If I could, I'd give it a 'Maybe' rating. Maybe pick it up on a 50%+ sale, or if you've got money burning a hole in your pocket.

EDIT: For those claiming that the game has a proper free roam mode, the devs themselves stated that it's not in the game at the moment (link to their post down below).

http://steamcommunity.com/games/430210/announcements/detail/3211492895075404041