Great game. Had it on windows XP and it works great. Got it on steam now for my new PC, but it refuses to work on windows 8.1 pro. Honestly, I'm having a hard time recommending this game on Steam, since the problem seems to be the Reality Pump DRM system, which locks up the game BEFORE i have a chance to enter the game's serial. If this single problem can be solved, either by Valve or by Reality Pump, so their DRM actually WORKS instead of locking up the game, then i'll be more than happy to revise this recommendation.

Please, do not be mistaken, the game is great, just this problem is stopping me from enjoying the game on my new PC.

Looking exclusively at what the game is presenting itself as (a mix of fps/rpg/mmo), I'd say it's worth a try.

Some people that participated in the beta seem to be offended at what the game has become from what they started with. I found it to be pretty entertaining (for an MMO, that is, not being a huge fan of the genre).

You have to deal with the repetitive quests, cheesy interactions and general MMO limitations, including the gargantuan amount of microtransactions, but most stuff can be acquired in game. Their tech tree is somewhat weird for my taste, requiring you to disassemble (what they call Salvage) a HUGE amount of stuff to be able to do some research that will allow you to build (with salvaged, refined components and crysta, which is the harvestable game currency) some pretty neat stuff.

That being said, the amount of stuff you have to salvage to do some good research (for the green/blue/purple items) is incompatible with the necessary amount of loot you get and the speed with which you level. This im my opinion needs rebalancing.

The combat is quite fun and the variation of group activities is entertaining (some depending on location), at least until they start to overlap (nobody needs a Melding Tornado coupled with a Hisser swarm and a Bandit/Rebel attack at the same time).
The fact that the Thumping activity (mining) becomes a social gathering and that all involved get some of the profit is good. People that are passing by generally stop to lend a hand in fending off the mobs that gather there, be it for some of the mining or just for a chance to shoot mobs and gather drops.

7/10.

Very interesting game with some fun possibilities. A must-get.

Extremamente interessante. Tentar construções muito elaboradas em modo survival se transforma em uma experiência inesquecível.