Worst game I've ever played

[Bandoony]

I realize this will make people butthurt bc they spend a lot of time playing it, but I don't mean this as a personal attack. I just mean the quality of the game is atrocious, and I can't fathom how it got any good reviews. It has bad graphics and repetitive gameplay.

The entire game is well.. the same thing over and over. You go into a map where you click on rooms to travel to them, then you choose 3 options and get a buff or nerf or nothing. Then in the last room you fight skeletons. Then you get stronger. You do this over and over again and nothing changes. Just killing robot skeletons infinitely for no apparent reason.

I really love warhammer but man.. I wish people would be objective in their reviews. It seems like people who are into warhammer just give every warhammer game 5/5 because its warhammer. Imagine you'd NEVER played warhammer and you tried this game for the first time. You would instantly think its the single most boring thing you've ever done in your life.

[SpectraPH]

Have you tried it on Perma-Death? That'll change your perspective.

Maybe It'll even turn you from a this-game-is-no-fun to a this-game-is-too-hard crybaby.

[Green Knight]

It's EXTREMELY repetitive. So bad that it overshadows any positive traits the game might have. Solid 1 star.

[Echoes of Oblivion]

Most games are technically the same thing over and over again. There is some variety in the game but it is a bit lacking. Some of the balance is questionable as well but this wasn't aiming to be something huge. Probably best bought on sale since it does seem more like a <20$ game instead of 30$. This game is far from the most boring of games, there's still a lot of great things about this game. They way you phrase it you'd rather just be mad that people like something you don't since they're fans of the series. If this truly the worst game you've ever played than you've been lucky with the games you have played or your standards are wack.

[Daedalus Cain]

Every game has a gameplay loop - a series of primary interactions that the majority of the gameplay is built from. Either you like doing that loop (and thus won't mind that it repeats with minor variations), or you don't (and thus the minor variations don't matter to you since you aren't having fun to begin with). Nobody can tell you how to have fun, either you enjoy a game or you don't. If you don't, then don't play it. Mario spends a dozen games jumping over pits, eating mushrooms, and stomping on turtles, and that's a hugely popular franchise, but not everyone likes Mario games either. Doesn't mean they're immediately deserving of one-star reviews for being awful and repetitive. You don't like the game, fine, move on. Lots of other games out there with different gameplay loops.

[Roop]

Buy it for £1.86.

[NullaPax]

I enjoy it but then again I like grindy games.
Just out of interest - what games do you like - ones like this but more varied?
I would be interested to know about those

[Pinkspring]

Originally posted by Da BIGGEST Smashyest Choppa' Boi:

I realize this will make people butthurt bc they spend a lot of time playing it, but I don't mean this as a personal attack. I just mean the quality of the game is atrocious, and I can't fathom how it got any good reviews. It has bad graphics and repetitive gameplay.

The entire game is well.. the same thing over and over. You go into a map where you click on rooms to travel to them, then you choose 3 options and get a buff or nerf or nothing. Then in the last room you fight skeletons. Then you get stronger. You do this over and over again and nothing changes. Just killing robot skeletons infinitely for no apparent reason.

I really love warhammer but man.. I wish people would be objective in their reviews. It seems like people who are into warhammer just give every warhammer game 5/5 because its warhammer. Imagine you'd NEVER played warhammer and you tried this game for the first time. You would instantly think its the single most boring thing you've ever done in your life.

I agree, but the gameplay loop is VERY fun and satisfying, and so is the customization of your team members.

I also have to balance the fact that this game is not priced as a AAA title, and for a smaller title it IS a lot of fun.

[MoreEvilSquid]

I do wish they had actually done something to properly join the "strategic" room-based map sections with the "tactical" combat sections.

So often the two seem completely disconnected.

And man they REALLY need to do something about those insane mission goals. Why the hell would I need to "escape in 5 turns", but then when I get there "kill everything". Whoever thought this was a good idea should be executed for crimes against the Imperium.

That and it would have really improved things vastly if the tactical battles had goals actually aligned to the mission's supposed goals. If I'm supposed to be escorting a unit, why is there not a single mission about actually protecting that unit? If we're here to open a door for artifacts, why is that not worked into the combat?

Instead the only interactive things are magic boxes with "cognition" points, and other magic boxes which give blackstone plus can set back the awakening metre - and also provide cognition until they're destroyed because apparently tech priests learn something new from every scan even if it's the exact same thing they've scanned earlier that very round.

The rest of the game is great, despite the repetitiveness - but it's very obvious there were multiple design/code/writer teams working here, and they really should have talked to each other a bit more during development.


Also, personal nitpick: we don't get enough extra spots for troops, while we do quickly end up with 6 tech priests. Personally I like to play with only 2-3 TPs and then lots of troops, makes it more interesting, and enables one to actually use the troops more.

[Iratebirb]

Bait used to be believable

[ReZisT Lust]

As someone who's not in the 4k fandom and has a Morvenn Figure that's still in the box, its obvious your just bad at baiting since you say fight skeletons for no apparent reason. You're literally at a tomb. Instead of being a dork just ask for points so you can satisfy what little joy you can instead of trying to dump on something ppl like for apparently no reason.

[Darkman]

Is this some kind of a joke? If you percept games like this, you can easily describe any game as trash:
CoD - you just shoot same enemies over and over again with no obvious reason, just because you are told to do so..
Elden Ring - You just run around and stab weird monsters to collect power points that you spend to become stronger.
CS (the most played game of all times BTW) - you spawn on a few same maps with 10 other players, buy 1 of 15 most common guns and shoot eachoher for 5-10 minutes then repeat again with no obvious reason. And you don't get level ups...

[MrIronJustice]

I enjoyed it thoroughly, but it definitely became a slog at the end.

Once you reach a certain point, upgrades become both too expensive and add little value. It's exciting to level that priest up and collect certain powerful skills, or get a good slot in all four equipment slots. But over time the good choices dry up.

I completed all missions on hard mode, my final awakening % when I entered the Overlord mission was 79%. In all of those 48 or so missions, the last 20-30 felt very much the same. Same loadout essentially, same skills, same enemies. The occasional wrinkle here and there, but you get my point. I was so bored by the end that I was playing sloppy and just rushing through the last few missions recklessly.

This game has a good thing going, but it is way too long for its own good. There's no reason why I need to play 30 missions just to unlock Kastelan Robot. If they could densely pack this content into half the missions, giving you upgrades 2x as fast, it'd be a lot more fun.

I was thinking of playing it again so I could try some different loadouts but the idea of slogging through all of those hours and hours again just seemed oppressive.

[DeLastOne]

Originally posted by Darkman:

Is this some kind of a joke? If you percept games like this, you can easily describe any game as trash:
CoD - you just shoot same enemies over and over again with no obvious reason, just because you are told to do so..
Elden Ring - You just run around and stab weird monsters to collect power points that you spend to become stronger.
CS (the most played game of all times BTW) - you spawn on a few same maps with 10 other players, buy 1 of 15 most common guns and shoot eachoher for 5-10 minutes then repeat again with no obvious reason. And you don't get level ups...

Yes and no. In CoD or CS, each game session is different. While you are running through the same map designs, every match plays out uniquely due to the unpredictability of other players. You never know where the wind will blow.

In this game, it's the opposite. Every single mission is inherently repetitive and must be approached as designed. By essence, it's a single-player game with no procedural mechanics. So, for players expecting some level of randomness, that expectation will be entirely wiped out.

X-COM2, for example, allowed players to manage their own campaigns, unfolding mission entirely differently, on a rogue-like style introducing variability and player-driven decisions. Not even starting with Long War... Mechanicus entirely fall flat here.