Recent reviews by CorgiCam

This game is absolutely not worth the price tag.
The puzzles are ridiculous, the combat is horrible, and the story sucks
The entire game tries to carry itself with the HR Geiger inspiration.
Save your money.

In a world of lackluster mascot horror games this one is a breath of fresh air!
Absolutely fantastic intro to a new series that I hope to see flourish! You can really see the passion, love, and effort that the devs poured into this.

10/10
Most fun I have had with a game in a while! <3

Simply amazing.
Everything you love about the original Hades and more.
And it just KEEPS. ON. GIVING.

Cannot wait for what is in store for 1.0 and beyond.

Fun experience with a group of friends. But an absolute joke of a story.

As a survival-craft game:
This game is very in depth and you can get a lot of time and enjoyment out of base-building, surviving, and just generally collecting/exploring. Lots of fun to be had with the environment and items like the Sled - for example.

As a story-based game:
The story is WILD and not in a good way. Somehow the 1.0 update made the story make LESS sense. Endings were hilariously bad compared to the original Forest, and I have never felt more disconnected to characters/NPCs in any game I have ever played. Not sure who made the call at Endnight to ship these endings, but oh well.
Was worth a good laugh. 10/10 comedy. But I will never take another story from Endnight serious ever again.

Game hard-crashes in the "Sister Location - Puppet Master" level. Cannot progress the game, and the remaining levels are locked behind beating Puppet master.
Seems to be a typical Unreal Engine/Intel CPU issue.

Super disappointing.

Brilliant gameplay, expansion, building, and research mechanics.
Had a lot of fun with the game until I reached the Below the Dust sections and realised they are straight copy + pastes of one another.
Just like Starfield, it killed the game for me.
I look forward to checking out more from this game when it is updated further.

Please add unique areas to explore.

Updated review:

After they have finally patched the game and my i9/4090 rig can finally launch the game, it is quite solid.
If you enjoy the Souls games, you will enjoy this.
The combat can feel a bit slow and tedious at times, and the parry system is more punishing than rewarding due to the damage taken regardless, but overall not bad.
I would still recommend to grab this on sale.

But, while you wait, Lies of P will not disappoint you.

An excellent sequel to an already solid concept. Improves on the first game in every regard. I look forward to more story content and DLC.

The best game I have ever raged at.
Phenomenal.
A must-play for any Souls fans out there.

As the self-proclaimed "Biggest Dead Space Fan", I was more than excited and hopeful for this game to be a new spiritual successor to my favourite franchise. I was not impressed.

SPOILERS FOLLOW:

PC launch stuttering issues aside, the game is visually gorgeous. Unfortunately, that does nothing to buffer the lack-luster story and absolutely atrocious gameplay loop of close quarters combat. The game feeds you underwhelming weapons throughout that do next to nothing, leaving you to rely mainly on your stun baton for melee combat. This would be bearable, if the game also did not throw 3+ enemies at you simultaneously which will quickly overwhelm and kill you should you miss a dodge. Speaking of enemies, there is like, 3 types of enemies in the game and then the Two Head mini boss.
♥♥♥♥ THIS DUDE.
You do not meet one of these until super late into the game, and then the devs decide to throw 5 at you within the last 2 hours of the game. Better yet, on anything higher than the lowest difficulty, these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ will one-shot you should you miss a dodge, AND they decide to throw standard enemies at you during the encounters as well, making it next to impossible to kill these on anything but Easy mode.
As if the combat wasn't annoying enough, swapping weapons is damn near impossible too. Each weapon is a subset of either your "standard" or "heavy" weapon frame. There is no hotswap for these, and trying to swap to one while dodging enemies is a challenge all its own as it needs to go through a whole animation which is interrupted every time you dodge, are hit, etc. And forget about it if the weapon you are swapping to needs to be reloaded. That's a whole other animation.
Moreover, the game lacks charm. Weapons don't change appearance when being upgraded, there is no armour to get, or any collectables even to find so very limited replay value outside of achievement hunting which I seriously can't justify due to how annoying this game is to play.
To summarise, I really, REALLY wanted to like this game. it was the game that i was waiting nearly 10 years for. But ultimately, all this game turned out to be was a chore to play. I would say wait for some updates to adjust some things or wait for a good sale, but even at that point the entire gameplay loop of the game is fundamentally flawed, which is disappointing coming from the devs that set the bar for survival horror with Dead Space all those years ago.

My recommendation? Save some money and go buy Dead Space 1, 2, and 3.