Recent reviews by MadMinstrel

This is the best drawing and painting application, bar none.

This game worked perfectly fine before, but now it's rendered unplayable by the bloody launcher.

Not only does it not run, it also freezes Steam, and you have to restart your system.

If I turn down the resolution, It's just barely passable on my very expensive 3080Ti. Did they mean to show that you really need a 4090? Because all they showed is that they're kinda bad at this whole graphics thing.

The game stutters like crazy and crashes often even though I'm running it on a rather good machine - 5900X, 3080Ti, 32GB RAM. In conjunction with the lack of a manual save system, the crashing makes the game unplayable.

This is despite letting it lie for nearly a year to allow them to fix all the bugs.
The developer is clearly unreliable and irresponsible. Do not buy this.

This game is way too hard to be enjoyable for me. Some masochists will like it I suppose, but for the rest of us this is not fun.

On the one hand, the graphics and music hit all the right spots for 80s nostalgia. No complaint there.

On the other hand, the gameplay just sucks. The gamepad-unfriendly UI, the absolutely terrible camera options, the jello-inspired driving physics, the lack of any goal or difficulty curve or excitement of any kind, the monotony - it all makes for a very uninspired experience.

This is more akin to a scene demo than an actual game you would buy. Which I guess the authors were kinda going for, but they took it too far - or not far enough, depending on how you look at it.

I know it says 'simulator' in the title, but they forgot to put a playable game into this product. It's just basically office work, but more boring. Even the 'building' aspect just consists of clicking highlighted parts as they appear. You can't unscrew the wrong screw if you wanted to, you can't plug a cable into the wrong socket, you don't have to do any cable management, you will never have a clearance issue. There's literally no way to fail.

Yes, I've only played for half an hour, but it was a totally wasted half an hour and I want it back.

This is a good game now.

This is not a game per se because there's nothing to achieve. But it is a rather cool prototype. I didn't find it as nauseating as some of the others because you're in a cabin and the motion and acceleration are visually pretty slow.

So how's the actual shooting?
- Terrible. The bullets don't usually go where you point your gun. The game's guns have a random factor, yes, but your groupings should at least average out to where you point your gun, and they don't. Most guns are missing iron sights. You need both rear and front sights for iron sights to work, devs! The optional reticle is completely useless because it has a huge offset. You can't hold two-handed weapons in two hands. Scopes are a joke and completely non-functional.

What about just walking?
- Also terrible. Your choices are insta-barf mode, or a 'comfort' mode that doesn't allow you to go where you want to go because the raycasting fails half the time due to things like pebbles in your path, which gets you killed more often than any enemy.

That sounds really bad for a game based around walking and shooting!
- Yes.