An accessible and entertaining auto-battler with charming character design. A very enjoyable time sink.

I want to preface this with... I love Beasts of Bermuda. I have played over a thousand hours across multiple alts.

There is not really another game like BoB out there right now. The infinite growth and ability to spec out your dino a new way every time you die really helps mitigate frustration when it happens, and makes it really feel like an accomplishment when you spend a month on the same creature and hit 2.0. The mechanics are deep, with a lot of area for exploration and complexity born from nesting. There's no end game to BoB besides that which you create for yourself in nesting and getting the perfect dinosaur to high growth.

Unfortunately, the good can not excuse this laggy, buggy mess of a game that should be ashamed to call itself playable. Every new patch introduces game breaking bugs that reduce the game into a chore. That 2.0 dino you spent MONTHS on? It's dead because it drowned on land. Lag is so prevalent in this game that you will die to others that are nowhere near you... A lot. You will glitch through the map and die. It's a mess. It looks ugly. It runs like a truck with no wheels. Your computer will beg for mercy every time it starts.

Worst of all, are the devs. These people looked across the servers, saw that the highest population servers were ones with a high meat spawn rates, and decided that people should not be allowed to play the game the way they want to. In the pachy patch, IE the famine patch, devs took away server owner's abilities to decide what the spawn rate of gores should be on their own server. Deciding that people are "playing the game wrong" they completely removed that option to limit control that server owners had to make their server unique and perfect for their player base.

Sniffing across the map, you'll be lucky to find any meat these days. Best you will find are the small ribs from a respawning player, or the carcass of another poor sap who starved. You are expected to hunt, which is all well and good when you don't take into account the spread of players. On most servers, the max number of people playing at a time is 60. These are players spread across land, water, and air.

Say, you spawn as a rex, ready to take on the world. What is there for you to hunt? 10 people are playing water dinos, chances are you won't see them unless they've come to drown you into the depths and eat you. 10 are playing ptera, which will fly away and give no food if you do manage to snap one up. Another 5 are on velo, too small and too quick to be worth hunting. Of the people left, 25 of them are herbies, all grouped together at the same lake and protected by massive apatos. The ten left are all carnivores bigger and hungrier than you, that kill you before you even show a scent, the telltale sign that you are a freshspawn.

No one is playing anything but herbivore because of these conditions. Not the other herbivores either, just apato. The other herbivores can't even hit 1.2 without being nonstop hunted by starving carnivores. When they do manage to hit 1.2 they can't last long. It's miserable.

But hey, it's what Pred wanted his game to be.

--EDIT--

A new patch was released. This one limits growth after 1.2, making it so that dinos grow extremely slow now. You know the one draw of the game? Growing your dino big so you put points in?

Well, bad news. You don't get to.

Unless you're in whatever group of people are most plentiful on the server so you can get an OP nested egg and have the biggest numbers, you're screwed. You can't grow and rule on any dino if you try hard enough anymore. It's just rexes killing everything in sight because they're starving.

Have fun.