Recent reviews by carbohydrated caterpillar

this game is very solid but its really not anything super spectacular. i think its fairly priced at $20 but really doesn't have all that much content. it gets boring and repetitive after a few hours. wish i could leave a "meh" review.

i feel like people who think this is the best thing since sliced bread have never played a tycoon game on roblox before. this is a nearly identical experience lol

The leaderboards in this game are a joke. The devs gave really stupid community members the ability to ban people because those are the only people willing to do that job. One of the moderators (guy named Sirius) banned me without attempting to reach out to me at all because I got #2 in the world on some random level and did a 360 in midair during a part of the level where nothing was going on for a few seconds. All of my leaderboard times got banned because this random kid assumed I was cheating and didn't care when I reached out.

I joined the discord and Sirius aggressively gaslit and told me "yeah you're cheating" without any proof or verification from his end beyond a hunch. Another mod in the official discord verified that I could indeed do the random 360 (was not hard at all) when I streamed it in Discord and he unbanned me. The mods who were trusted to run these leaderboards are immature children who suck at their jobs. According to Sirius there was no way to reinstate my hard earned times and I just had to redo all of them. This community died because of the people trusted to run the leaderboards. Shame the developers abandoned this game years ago and trust these idiotic people to moderate their leaderboards.

I played the first KCD just under 7 years ago when it came out and it's incredible to look back on how this game took that rough foundation from years ago and just cranked everything up to 1000. The voice acting, the writing, the level design, the gameplay, sound design, everything is infinitely expanded and improved upon the first one. It's a passion project with an incredibly vivid and interesting historical setting and this game just oozes quality. If you have played BOTW/TOTK, this is Warhorse's TOTK (but it's an even bigger leap.)

It's valid for this game to simply not be your thing. This game falls within the immersive sim (Deus Ex, VTMB, Prey, etc.) genre which is really unpopular for modern developers to make due to the crazy amount of planning and detail they have to put into every corner of the game's design. There are ENDLESS tiny details that it would take me ages to list them all, search up a youtube video on the topic if you're interested.

This is an immersive sim and not an action game. I would consider this as first fully realized "modern" immersive sim, and it's absolutely spectacular. Every player's playthrough is going to be a little bit different because of how many branching dialogue paths and different ways to accomplish things there are. This game requires the player to be attentive to detail, think out of the box, and be a bit patient.




"It's too hard/tedious"
The early game is meant to be incredibly hard. It's meant to slap you in the face with how actually ridiculously difficult it was to be a low class citizen of medieval Europe in 1403. Everyone spits on you, looks down on you, and doesn't give you the time of day. Without spoiling too much you're nearly back to where you were at the beginning in of the first game in terms of stats and reputation. You have to do menial tasks that are boring, but they're really not too tedious. You carry sacks of flour or coal a few times in the early game but those tasks never take more than a few minutes. The devs did not aim here to make things tedious for tedium's sake alone, you're just expected to do stuff that peasants were forced to. They literally never take more than a few minutes beyond the tutorials for the skill-based minigames like smithing. You're meant to adapt and figure out things.

"The limited saves bother me. I keep dying and having to redo progress."
Planning, routing, and using your head on what you should prioritize doing is key. You can save as often as you like with exit saves so you have that as a safety net if you want to use it. Save potions are less common in shops than the first game, but you can brew larger quantities with better buffs for basically free if you practice the alchemy minigame. You can become a walking tank with mountains of wealth pretty quickly if you cast your dice well.

Gay people? in MY sheltered and pitiful existence? It's more likely than you think
You can choose to make your character have a gay bromance with his bro if you repeatedly pick multiple dialogue options indicating your interest in him. If you don't want that to be a part of your game, don't repeatedly pick those multiple options. The fact that the type of people who tend to whine and cry about everything are whining and crying about one of the most mild and inconsequential portions of this game is... not surprising I suppose. I hope they're able to grow up someday and not let everything offend them.




Functions like exitsave and save reloading exist in the game for a reason. The game has these mechanics in them deliberately and doesn't have a difficulty slider because you can literally make the game as easy or as hard as you want. You can steal a billion items at any point after the prologue, savescum, and get rich. You can abuse exit saves to not have to bother with save potions. You can do everything in one try and be a fking champion gamer (not me.) The tools are there, scratch your head until you figure it out or look stuff up if you are absolutely stuck.

And it's truly okay if it's not for you. Don't force yourself to play a game you don't enjoy.



thank you for coming to my ted talk

this game destroyed my relationship with the girl i played it with bc she got so tilted 0/10 RIP BOZO

its just kinda forest 1 with better graphics, guns, and a bigger map. progression is nearly identical to the first game. although the gameplay loop is solid, it really doesn't add much at all over the first game. story is nearly nonexistant and progression happens through grinding caves full of several monsters and no other way. its essentially a linear dungeon crawler since nothing relevant happens outside of the caves.

i wish that there was more reason to explore the entire maps beyond doing caves that play exactly the same way as the first game + guns

gearbox bad

This is a really cool update. There are a lot of cool new concepts with items that I can't wait to play around with more. The new maps are great, the new music is great.

However, this feels more like a beta release of an update than an actual paid DLC. It's clear Gearbox is going with the "release buggy content and fix it over time" route that's become all too common with many games lately. Unacceptable.

The amount of glaring bugs are pretty shameful for a $15 release - it's almost like this wasn't playtested whatsoever. How could the devs not notice that you can't see item rarities in terminals and adaptive chests? How could they not notice Xbox versions being completely unable to play the game? How could they not notice all the gameplay elements like void bugs spawning incorrectly, all the issues with logbook crashing the game, and all the issues with audio not working properly?

This is absolutely insane that we get a DLC that's barely in a beta state after 10mo of development time. Why not just delay it?



PS: Please do not fix the bug of Loader's grapple being 2-3x faster than before. It's actually so much fun lol.

I got this game in 2022 and check back every once in a while to see if the game's gotten better, it's still pretty mid at best. $50 ($10 DLC for 3 more maps) is kind of insane for how inconsistent the game's mechanics are and the lack of content. It still feels like a beta with prettier graphics.

There's a loose story that ties maps together, but there aren't any sort of unique/scripted interactions to aid in storytelling. You're simply told "you're going here for X reason" and then you'll find props in each map of illegal stuff. The takeaway is "wow yep they were indeed doing illegal stuff here!!" That's You shoot several randomly spawned enemies and that's it, each encounter feels randomly generated and messy. All enemies are unnamed and generic, as is the evidence you pick up

There's also no tangible progression - This is a game that's fun for 10-20 hours and then you've experienced nearly everything the game has to offer.

There's a lot of issues that are seemingly low-hanging fruit to fix or improve but they haven't been touched in 2+ years of development - while things that ultimately don't matter have a lot of time spent on them. The devs' feature prioritization seems weird - for example the hub area was fine before but they completely reworked it into a giant pretty police station, yet all the "variable" zoom optics in the game still only have one level of zoom.

The AI is still the worst part with them sometimes randomly standing and staring at you with guns drawn, not attacking, and other times laserbeaming you through a pixel gap when neither of you should be able to see eachother. This has been everyone's largest complaint literally since the game launched and it still is.

I want to like it but I just don't have any fun with it. A lot of work has gone into the game but I don't think it's really worth the price.

this game is gr8 but I wish you could still build stuff floating in the air with no support lol

this game is $5 and fun and and im really happy to be able to play it after spending $90 on tm2020 over 3 years and not being able to play it lol