this game rules, genuinely one of my favorite fighters out there, its simply peak

This is one of the few games where I wish I could rate as neutral (or informative, like you can do with curator reviews). This is my first TGM game and coming from someone who pretty much mainly played more traditional-style Tetris games (especially Tetris Effect!) It has a very strong first impression, the base game is great and I love how snappy the menus are with being able to quickly swap between different modes and playstyles ("Standard" and "TGM"), and as a relatively bad Tetris player who hasn't ever really gotten into the nitty-gritty of things (hell, even basic T-Spins scare me lol) this is a great game to get if you're wanting a solid Tetris experience without having to run a whole UE4 game (even though I do love Tetris Effect).

The technical issues lined out in other reviews are very much real, though. Not being alble to rebind keyboard controls is pretty egregious even if it just seems to be a weird technical bug considering you can rebind controller just fine, and fullscreen going away the moment you alt+tab sucks bad too (along with the lack of borderless windowed), It's pretty clear that there's some major Japanesium jank going on which is unfortunate. Even as a beginner I do agree that the controls are a bit slippery, and it makes it a little harder to play even at the speeds I play at, which is nowhere near a grand master (or even master level for that matter) but honestly if you were looking for a review of the exact mechanical aspects of the game I unfortunately cannot help with that.

Overall it seems like this game is a very solid release, its an easy way to play both the major styles of tetris and as a casual player its pretty fun! Maybe not worth the $35 USD currently, especially with the technical issues, but once those are ironed out, I'd certainly say to get it at least on sale.

absolutely terrible performance on a card above the minimum specs, with DLSS set to ultra performance it almost entirely looks like AI slop, any fine detail is lost entirely and even still you don't get much more of a framerate boost compared to performance. a lof of the models look..... fine but most of the changed sounds are just worse. overall you just shouldn't bother downloading this, save the 40 gigs of hard drive space for a better video game

I played this a ton a few years ago when it was on the quest app labs, and even in that much of an early state it was still absolutely incredible, almost certainly helped by the fact that when I played it I had a huge play space to really let the room design breathe. I honestly forgot about it for a bit since I had fallen out of being interested in VR, and then moved, until I finally remembered it again on Christmas and, when I saw it had a Steam release, I bought it instantly. It's still a phenomenal game, and feels shockingly similar to how it felt when I played it however long ago, for better or for worse. For the record, I haven't beaten the game yet, not even close, but even with a much, much, much smaller play space (only enough for 2x3 tiles) it still feels so awesome to play and just.. move around in. It's easily one of my favorite VR games out there, and I absolutely recommend getting it just for the mechanics alone.

The content for this DLC is mostly really great! the art is amazing and the new skins and levels are super cool (though some levels are..... way bigger than they should be), and a few of the new items are actually pretty fun and are genuinely good additions! Unfortunately, the rest of it is either just mediocre or bad, not even mentioning the level of brokenness that the update that came with this DLC brought. Many of the items are just completely forgettable, and the new survivors are kinda cool and have decent mechanics, but I'd rather just play the characters in the vanilla game and the previous DLC, or even just modded ones. I don't think this is worth the asking price of $15 for what it offers, even once the bugs get fixed.

Gearbox sucks, man.

I'd love to have given this game a positive review, I wish I made one before the most recent dlc, Seekers of the Storm, came out. But unfortunately I didn't, and unfortunately Gearbox Software has completely ruined this game.

Risk of Rain 2, before the most recent patch came out, was one of the greatest roguelites ever made by a developer who clearly knew what they were doing and Survivors of the Void is an amazing DLC that added some pretty meaningful changes that fundamentally improved the game.... And I'd honestly prefer to downpatch to the most recent version of the game before SotS than play the game in its current state.

Currently, nearly everything about the game on a mechanical level is broken. Game logic is tied to FPS, meaning that if you have a good PC and and don't lock your framerate to 60 (which, for people with higher refresh rate monitors is obviously a bad option) then more and harder enemies will spawn, abilities and items act differently (either proccing at different speeds, or activating sooner or later than they should), you deal and have more damage dealt to you, and probably much more that I don't even know about.

That, mixed in with all the other gamebreaking (and if you're on console, save deleting) bugs means that I just cannot recommend you get this game unless if you plan on patching to a previous version, but even then I would recommend against financially supporting a complete and utter failure like this. Even without getting the newest DLC, the game is broken. Do not buy it.