This game is very fun. For some strange reason it didn't keep the attention of the larger gaming community. Maybe its to fast paced for some people? if you like rocket league and league of legends then you should love this game. the community is less toxic then most.

The hype was only cool when Charlie was playing this game lol.

So let's just start by saying Omega Strikers is one of my all-time favourite online games and it really deserved better from the devs. I have no idea wtf happened internally within Odyssey Interactive but they made this amazing passion project and after only 8 months of it being out they just dropped it out of the blue

And it wasn't even a flop it was a massive hit. It released to a stunning 20k peak concurrent players on Steam and after release it evened out around 2k to 4k concurrent players which is still a great player count and to put that in perspective is the same popularity (on Steam) as Guild Wars 2 and SWTOR currently have at the time of this review (bearing in mind those games do have external non-Steam clients too). It also puts it on par with the current player count of Windrose currently. It also puts it at a higher player count than Marathon currently has

And we really can't say what would have happened if devs stuck with it but before the dreaded and shocking November announcement the player count was even trending back upwards

But out of the blue Odyssey Interactive announced in November 2023 that they were ceasing content development of the game and would shift to a new project while leaving only a skeleton development team behind to maintain and keep Omega Strikers online and do bug fixes and such

And sure enough next month the player count dropped from the upward trending 3k concurrent all the way down to 1.5k concurrent and it only continued to drop quickly from there

And I really just do not understand why, they had a great game with great gameplay with amazing music. Some of the best PvP game music out there and all they needed to do was just stick with it. The player count was on an upward trend and there was clearly an interest in the game and all they had to do was work out the issues especially the connectivity issues that plagued the game at launch in some regions (probably due to the servers they were hosting it on in those regions) and get the game in a place where players can come online every day and have a good experience

Once you have that word of mouth would have continued to spread the game's success but in order to have received that word of mouth they really needed to just focus on sorting the game's issues and then focus on new content and giving the game more exposure

This game will always be a fond memory and I still have the soundtrack in my playlist