Recent reviews by Schmoopy

TL;DR: If youre expecting valheim, dont buy this. if you've first played palworld, dont buy this.

games that force you to build bases and follow linear progressions in open world designs arent good, you have to play this game for hours before you even see anything cool like in the trailers.

MASSIVELY overrated. valheim is such a bad comparison. this games art style isnt nearly as expressive or colorful. The game is much more similar to palworld gameplay wise. ESPECIALLY the first 4 hours of building and crafting. you place a fire shrine that is essentially a palbox that sets up a base radius. The base mechanics also have, guess what, NPC's that craft things for you.. sounds kinda like pal world, dont it? thats because it basically is. the first shift of this game is so similar to pal worlds early game that if you've played palworld first playing this is just a drag.

combat is just spamming click until guards break, barely using any urgency or strategy.

entire world is covered in shrouded misty areas that only serve to lower your FPS and make the game look bland.

Cant scale or climb things, dont know if you need an item for it or not but very strange not to have that ability off rip.

currently cant find items in buildings, like backpacks n sht. you just tear down furniture like fortnite and build sht. 6/10 ( average) for full price, and 8/10 on sale

head models are FUUUUUUUUGLY, other than that it looks promising

SUPER LIMITED COLONY SIM GAME

there is no RTS Mode, you stay in minecraft FPS with little to no input after you set up your first 20 beds.

super boring and pointless, with no significant progression from the first few mins

Comparisons to other games do those games no justice, this game IS NOT LIKE THIEF OR OTHER STEALTH FPS GAMES

just got to the trader and realized theres no content left. Considering its been out well over a year you'd think there would be more meat on these bones but they are bare.

The game currently boasts about 4-6 hours of gameplay give or take (if u play on easy diffuclty, no back tracking) which is honestly EXTREMELY lacking for the 20$ price tag.

theres currently 4 enemy types, huntsman, huntsman armored, krampus, and rat guys.

theres a pistol, flare, shotgun, flash and a cane sword for weapons.


Expect gameplay similar to half life 1 but moving at 25% the speed with a resident evil 4 inventory system and ledge climbing. No iron sights, no stealth kill animations, just walk up and poke butts with the cane (crowbar lol)

atmospherically this game has a cool feel, though a lot of the enemies dont really fit the backdrop thematically. the huntsmen (the main enemies) have these glaring colored cones coming out of their eyes signalling to you whether or not they're agro or not. which is fine but definitely made the game less immersive.

stealth mechanics arent really a necessary thing, because most of the time the way the enemies are grouped up you'll end up going 'loud' any way and whipping out a gun at some point, thus COMPLETELY making stealth as a mechanic useless.

the game tries to make levels have different ways to move about but it falls flat cause again enemy placement forces you to play a certain way.

the worst part for me about this game, is walking around the deserted areas after the fact. enemies and items dont respawn when you use the grammaphone to save, so when you do end up back tracking its a long boring walk for a few bullets.

The most recent "MAJOR" update this game got is a fast travel system. thats it. a way to bounce around an ultimately empty world for no reason other than to say hey we did something with this game.

I cannot for the life of me recommend this game, and i feel incredibly catfished by the "overwhelmingly positive" reviews.

THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS GAME TO BE OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE ABOUT. it is merely OKAY in its current state.

all these people talking about how good the game is, it feels dishonest. This is just a good short lil game. is it an amazing early access masterpiece with everything youve ever wanted in it ? no its not, its just a game with a gothic theme and a couple levels right now.

reminiscent of days when i had wild tangent launcher and played games like fate. its a bit rough but its still fun and worth a dollar for sure.

Landfall fumbled the bag on this game but I recommend this game because This is landfalls best game.

to their dev team this game is their "april fools" joke so they junked it.. like they do with many of their games, hell, if you wanna be a game company, you need to think about making games for real with the intent for longevity..

Landfall, being tone deaf, they also dont even understand why its good, or why people liked this as much as they did. This is the only game they've ever made in which; it was an original IP, with original ideas when it came to the concepts of drifting vehicles, fps arena shooting, battle royal player bottle necking, backdrop and theme.

And the best part of all, it is optimized performance wise (unlike LITERALLY EVERY ONE OF THEIR OTHER GAMES) with beautiful netcode (unlike their other multiplayer titles). Knightfall is the only landfall title to accomplish what its supposed to do without being plagued by bad netcode, bad optimization, poor performance, bugs, and irritating gameplay design choices.


This is their magnum opus, and thats saying a lot for how many games they've "tried" to make in the past. This is the game they finally got right thru and thru, and they threw it in the trash... if only they had expanded upon further for a few months it could've been a masterpiece and actually earning them money. But its another wasted investment like the rest of their games.

The fact they abandoned battlerite for this game tells you everything you need to know about the devs.

The best MOBA type game of all time, too bad the devs are too focused on trying to make battle royals and V rising ( a much worse game the devs make thats heavily based on the gameplay structure of battlerite) to even work on this anymore.

for me this is a solid 9/10. I do wish the speed in which you level up was increased, and maybe a way to choose what weapon you use for the first few floors.

Cave crawlers is a FPS rogue LITE with meta progression, perma death, RPG mechanics, looting, class specing, and currently boasting a pretty hefty skill tree for all vocations.

I love the fact this game shipped with Online Co-op from the get go, as if this was released as a single player title, even in early access, i probably would've never played it.

Solo wise this game offers a very challenging experience. Coop wise its a blast with friends.

Like i said really varied skill tree wise, but i wish weapons and armor/trinkets had affixes and or randomized attributes. As finding the same dagger that does 2 damage, with 2.0 swing speed gets old.

otherwise in its current state (early access) and its current price (free) its a master piece.