Really fun gameplay loop, tense encounters, cool robots. Amazing sound design, cool world design. Having a great time with it, and for only $40 for the base edition? Come on!

Still playing this 2 weeks later (updating for the Game Awards).

Nice for when you don't want to hone your skills and just want to drive a flying car around a city and listen to some good dialogue and check out a cool "cyberpunk" world.

Definitely the best game I've played this year. That last loop was a real thrill ride. I can't remember the last time I said "this game is so cool" *every* time I picked it up to play.

Despite all the bugs (Early Access, so, expected), this was so much fun, I only wish it didn't have to end!

This is revolutionary. You don't need my review, you know this in your bones. Do whatever you can to play this game. Man oh man.

This game really hits that spot in my downtime from D&D for capturing that spirit of Baldur's Gate/etc but being somewhat different. The difficulty does seem to ramp up a lot very suddenly part way through the game, but it's not unsurmountable.

I knew I would like this game, having been a huge fan of Dishonored, but for some reason I put off playing it for a long time. What a fool I was. From the first several minutes it revealed itself to be something special. A lot of brilliant innovations, some of the best space moments I've experienced in a game, a sort of Bioshock-but-better-gameplay quality.

When I started seeing this game pop up on my steam friends' feed I thought "that's a weird title, is that even a game?" and I continued to ignore it, until one day I was at a buddy's house and he asked if I'd played it. He showed me what it was: A game in the style of Battle Royale, the movie (of course, at this point everyone knows this, but at the time I was - perhaps blissfully - unaware). I immediately thought "This is what I've been waiting for!" and opened the steam app and remote purchased it, started it downloading before I went home.

Fast forward to today, I've put a fair amount of hours in. Nothing like the crazy pros, but enough to have a pretty good feel for it. It's definitely a love/hate relationship.

The love is when your heart is racing, you're in the top ten, you've got a real shot at winning this match. The moment you find an 8x scope or a weapon drop that gets you going. When you and your teammates do something crazy and it actually works. There are so many great stories. It may be the ultimate anecdote factory.

The hate (hate is too strong a word maybe, annoyance) is when you die to lag, the servers are down in your one hour of a chance to play this week, You drop and your parachute goes wonky and you end up stuck in a grain silo with literally no way out (ever heard of invisible barriers, bluehole?), you spend 20 minutes scrambling for the inside of the circle only to die because the RNG dropped it on the complete opposite side of the map from you and spawned no vehicles. And so on...

But for all it's jank and messiness, I've had some of the most fun, and most tense moments I've ever had in gaming while playing this game, so I have to give it credit and a thumbs up for that.

It's tough keeping your feet dry when you're kicking in a skull.