Edit:
As I'm editing this review to add more information, I'll leave the original review at the bottom.

Before that though, a couple of people have tried to correct me by saying that Sissy does not have an unintended poison attack, and that it's just a perk. Incorrect. Regardless of whether you equip the poison cloud perk, her primary attacks when landed on a Victim apply a mini poison effect that can stack. In some cases, if hit enough times, they can get so slowed down they'll appear to be running in place. This has been confirmed to be unintended by community moderators on their Muerto Times post on Reddit, as well as even prior to it, though I don't remember where.

Their most recent patch (September 12th) has made incredible progress at not fixing the issues the game has to offer currently. It has also made but one change that should've been done since the game's launch at trying to balance the game between the teams. This change is having the car battery on at the beginning of the match. Other than that, no meaningful change. Let me elaborate why.

They've limited bone scraps to 3 uses per pile, which in reality does almost nothing but limit trolling by the Victims. Since Victims can and will escape within 5 minutes without even needing a bone knife in the first place, this change only limits the players that like messing with the Family by stabbing them or the grandpa, or getting into close encounters. Essentially, it does almost nothing in terms of changing/balancing the gameplay. It does have some positive effects on gameplay, scenarios like stabbing the Family when someone else is in a close encounter, or stabbing Bubba when he's breaking an object, but then again, with the amount of bone piles around the map in combination with the limited uses a bone scrap has having just 3 per pile is more than enough. Overall, it makes sense once you consider that in an interview they've claimed to want their game to be as realistic to the event as possible. However, this does nothing to touch on repeated door-slamming, which from experience is much worse than just one stab to the back.

I should mention they've fixed some collision issue but I don't think I've ever experienced it so I don't have an opinion on it, but that's basically it. Other notable fixes they've made were fixing an achievement, fixing an XP farm method by the Cook, made some further anti-cheat improvements (good), and they've disabled re-spec in-lobby, which is a bit weird since they have a 3-minute wait timer in-lobby. Well, it was 3, they then changed it to 5 minutes without even mentioning it in their patch, but now they've reduced it back to 3. So.. Why? Why have a 3-minute wait timer if you can no longer re-spec your character in the lobby? Don't they play their own game before making changes?

About the game itself.
If you don't consider all of the above and imagine a game where these issues are fixed, it could be a fun game. It was fun for me for the first 50 hours or so, when it worked. However I was playing with a friend. The problem lies in the times when it didn't. Credential errors that were luckily fixed, frequent server crashes that crashed 6 times in my last 5 hours. These are crashes that freeze the entire server, not just you, and force you to leave the match. They happened even before their patches, and keep happening. Bugged characters (Sissy's poison, Hitchhiker's traps, Sonny's ability not showing what it should, grandpa's waking up cutscene causes Leatherface to stall if they are revving when it happens), bugged maps, bugged animations, etc etc.

Their lobby and character selection system is atrocious. You get to select one character, unless they're taken, then you level up this character until in one game they're taken. Because of the perk system and how perk points are awarded, you can't take these perks from your leveled character and invest them in your current one unless you leave the lobby, which defeats the purpose. This means if you want to play with a character with good perks you need to have at least 4 fully leveled Victims, or 3 fully leveled Family, so that you have at least something you enjoy playing as available, if all but one are taken, or keep leaving lobbies.

The current maps and their difficulties for both teams are really far apart. I will not go into elaboration, but Family House is by far the easiest to play with Family, since it has very close basement exists with none leading to the outside (except for one but the Victims would have to go through the house anyway). The other two, Slaughter House and Gas Station, are hard on the Family. Victims have a major play-area with their basement exits being far apart, and having at least 4 exits to oversee (5 on Gas Station), the Family often struggles to counteract the Victims with how many crawl spaces, gaps and wells there are around the map, with combination of Bone Scraps and Victim abilities to boot, the game is almost exclusively Victim sided. I've played both teams.

To finalize, I'd like to correct myself. The game has a great idea, but it has an incompetent person in charge.
I'd suggest avoiding this game currently and wait for a better opportunity. The times when nobody knew anything are over, and the issues with the game are much more apparent now. Until it's fixed, I do not recommend this game.

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Original review:

Great game idea with incompetent developers.

One of the Family members, Sissy, has an unintended attack effect that applies poison to the Victims upon landing a hit. It has been an issue ever since launch. Something that should've been fixed within days is not fixed over two weeks later, with the first ever patch note not even addressing it. Problem is the developers acknowledeged it, yet it's still there.

Next, they've temporarily disabled crossplay for PC players in order to battle cheaters. This means that anyone playing on PC will face cheaters much more often, since the issue has been getting worse by the day. I don't think I've been in a lobby full of PC players before. If anything, I've seen more console players in my lobbies. Not only does it mean PC player lobbies will have a much higher chance of a cheater being present in their game, it also means friends that relied on crossplay to play together will not be able to do so now. So if you played because of the company of your friends, tough luck, as they've essentially blocked the access to the game you've paid for.

Additionally, some very smart person decided to allow lobby starting with 6 players over the intended 7. I won't be surprised if the moment such a match starts people will leave the match, or leave the lobby if it's not full right away. In my opinion this will only enhance lobby hopping since no punishment is present anyway, and besides, it's a braindead idea regardless.

As a last note, the customer paid full price for this game. It does not matter at all the size of the team or the compexity of the game. As a developer of any kind you are expected to deliver a fully functioning product. (This is not an Early Access). Releasing a product with issues is already bad manners, but not fixing these issues when you clearly have the ability to do so is even worse. Won't even talk about these patch note changes. Ridiculous.

A shame.

[b]Edit:[/b] As I'm editing this review to add more information, I'll leave the original review at the bottom. Before that though, a couple of people have tried to correct me by saying that Sissy does not have an unintended poison attack, and that it's just a perk. Incorrect. Regardless of whether you equip the poison cloud perk, her primary attacks when landed on a Victim apply a mini poison effect that can stack. In some cases, if hit enough times, they can get so slowed down they'll appear to be running in place. This has been confirmed to be unintended by community moderators on their Muerto Times post on Reddit, as well as even prior to it, though I don't remember where. Their most recent patch (September 12th) has made incredible progress at [b]not[/b] fixing the issues the game has to offer currently. It has also made but one change that should've been done since the game's launch at trying to balance the game between the teams. This change is having the car battery on at the beginning of the match. Other than that, no meaningful change. Let me elaborate why. They've limited bone scraps to 3 uses per pile, which in reality does almost nothing but limit trolling by the Victims. Since Victims can and will escape within 5 minutes without even needing a bone knife in the first place, this change only limits the players that like messing with the Family by stabbing them or the grandpa, or getting into close encounters. Essentially, it does almost nothing in terms of changing/balancing the gameplay. It does have some positive effects on gameplay, scenarios like stabbing the Family when someone else is in a close encounter, or stabbing Bubba when he's breaking an object, but then again, with the amount of bone piles around the map in combination with the limited uses a bone scrap has having just 3 per pile is more than enough. Overall, it makes sense once you consider that in an interview they've claimed to want their game to be as realistic to the event as possible. However, this does nothing to touch on repeated door-slamming, which from experience is much worse than just one stab to the back. I should mention they've fixed some collision issue but I don't think I've ever experienced it so I don't have an opinion on it, but that's basically it. Other notable fixes they've made were fixing an achievement, fixing an XP farm method by the Cook, made some further anti-cheat improvements (good), and they've disabled re-spec in-lobby, which is a bit weird since they have a 3-minute wait timer in-lobby. Well, it was 3, they then changed it to 5 minutes without even mentioning it in their patch, but now they've reduced it back to 3. So.. Why? Why have a 3-minute wait timer if you can no longer re-spec your character in the lobby? Don't they play their own game before making changes? About the game itself. If you don't consider all of the above and imagine a game where these issues are fixed, it could be a fun game. It was fun for me for the first 50 hours or so, when it worked. However I was playing with a friend. The problem lies in the times when it didn't. Credential errors that were luckily fixed, frequent server crashes that crashed 6 times in my last 5 hours. These are crashes that freeze the entire server, not just you, and force you to leave the match. They happened even before their patches, and keep happening. Bugged characters (Sissy's poison, Hitchhiker's traps, Sonny's ability not showing what it should, grandpa's waking up cutscene causes Leatherface to stall if they are revving when it happens), bugged maps, bugged animations, etc etc. Their lobby and character selection system is atrocious. You get to select one character, unless they're taken, then you level up this character until in one game they're taken. Because of the perk system and how perk points are awarded, you can't take these perks from your leveled character and invest them in your current one unless you leave the lobby, which defeats the purpose. This means if you want to play with a character with good perks you need to have at least 4 fully leveled Victims, or 3 fully leveled Family, so that you have at least something you enjoy playing as available, if all but one are taken, or keep leaving lobbies. The current maps and their difficulties for both teams are really far apart. I will not go into elaboration, but Family House is by far the easiest to play with Family, since it has very close basement exists with none leading to the outside (except for one but the Victims would have to go through the house anyway). The other two, Slaughter House and Gas Station, are hard on the Family. Victims have a major play-area with their basement exits being far apart, and having at least 4 exits to oversee (5 on Gas Station), the Family often struggles to counteract the Victims with how many crawl spaces, gaps and wells there are around the map, with combination of Bone Scraps and Victim abilities to boot, the game is almost exclusively Victim sided. I've played both teams. To finalize, I'd like to correct myself. The game has a great idea, but it has an incompetent person in charge. I'd suggest avoiding this game currently and wait for a better opportunity. The times when nobody knew anything are over, and the issues with the game are much more apparent now. Until it's fixed, I do not recommend this game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [u]Original review:[/u] Great game idea with incompetent developers. One of the Family members, Sissy, has an unintended attack effect that applies poison to the Victims upon landing a hit. It has been an issue ever since launch. Something that should've been fixed within days is not fixed over two weeks later, with the first ever patch note not even addressing it. Problem is the developers acknowledeged it, yet it's still there. Next, they've temporarily disabled crossplay for PC players in order to battle cheaters. This means that anyone playing on PC will face cheaters much more often, since the issue has been getting worse by the day. I don't think I've been in a lobby full of PC players before. If anything, I've seen more console players in my lobbies. Not only does it mean PC player lobbies will have a much higher chance of a cheater being present in their game, it also means friends that relied on crossplay to play together will not be able to do so now. So if you played because of the company of your friends, tough luck, as they've essentially blocked the access to the game you've paid for. Additionally, some very smart person decided to allow lobby starting with 6 players over the intended 7. I won't be surprised if the moment such a match starts people will leave the match, or leave the lobby if it's not full right away. In my opinion this will only enhance lobby hopping since no punishment is present anyway, and besides, it's a braindead idea regardless. As a last note, the customer paid full price for this game. It does not matter at all the size of the team or the compexity of the game. As a developer of any kind you are expected to deliver a fully functioning product. (This is not an Early Access). Releasing a product with issues is already bad manners, but not fixing these issues when you clearly have the ability to do so is even worse. Won't even talk about these patch note changes. Ridiculous. A shame.