I really like the premise, how the game feels to play, aesthetic, and what's generally happening with the game, but the only challenging puzzle seems to just be this slide organ slide puzzle. I gotta be real, I hate slide puzzles so much. Seems like that's the only actually difficult puzzle in this too. If you don't mind slide puzzles though, you'll love this game.

At the moment, the game needs some work. Not because it plays poorly or anything, but simply because there's not much here. What IS here though is pretty fun. If some actual challenge can be injected into the game, a few more towers, and some QoL additions can be added (making the menus and such easier to click on) then I think it'll be a pretty fun game.

This game has got some sauce, but it's kind of held back a bit by pretty much just the jamming system. Honestly just ruins the whole flow of the game for me. Having to do constant QTEs is a real pace killer and causes deaths way too often. Feels like it doesn't really work well with the heat system despite being caused by it. I feel like the heat mechanic alone should work fine without the jamming feature. It could even be expanded a bit, like it could make your guns do more dmg at higher heat levels, or cause some guns to fire slower, etc. I do like the variety in enemies and such. Not a big fan of how they characterize Baghdad though tbh; changing the name to some fictional place would fix that immediately though. With some work I think this game will definitely be a good bit of fun.

The devs do playtests for this game currently, so if you're looking to play you'll have to hop in their discord. I missed the last one, so I can't change my review yet lol, but the devs seem chill and like good guys, so we'll see where it goes.

Game is fun, but has some core issues I think that hold it back. - Game is grindy af (lots of standing around doing nothing). - Game difficulty is basically just a stat check on your turrets. - Waves are slow af to progress - Actual progression is slow af - Inbetween wave time doesn't actually matter because there's an entire other mode dedicated to grinding the forest, and you have literally nothing else to do between waves - Can't just immediately start a wave, there's a 1 minute timer between every wave where you just wait around forever - Skill tree is pretty free and lacks specialization, so you just get as much as you can in whatever trees you want (may be a positive to some). - Waves are basically just enemy spam, which would be ok if some enemies were more interesting to fight. There's some cool ones in there, but they take forever to show up. If the gameplay is tightened up a bit more, I could see this being a super cool game to play with friends periodically, but right now it's basically just grind until you obliterate everything with ease. The strategy and such that is there is undermined by a lot of the design desicions in the game. Hopefully future updates tighten things up instead of bloating it further (please no microtransactions, it feels like the game is somehow heading that direction).

This mode would be considerably better if they focused on the more mission by mission setup rather than any of the free form RP type stuff tbh. Like, little vs matches where the crimnals have to accomplish a certain mission/task while the cops try to stop them sounds so fun, but currently it's just "police roll around and murder hobo for fun." It's not bad, but it lacks the structure that this mode could so easily have. If you're old, think like those old GTA IV cops and robber's lobbies.

It's a video game.

It's definitely coming together, but the difficulty, stability (bugs), gameplay, and content do need some work. The zombies are more like aliens, glitch out as they run around, and generally just freak out on a lot of gemometry. Gunplay isn't super bad, but some guns just feel horrid to use (shotguns, svd). It takes way too long to be able to shoot again after swapping weapons or melee-ing. You're so OP after a few rounds that there's basically 0 difficulty after a bit. Second you pack-a-punch a gun you're basically invincible. Power ups will spawn outside after killing zombies leaving you just standing there like an idiot staring at them, unable to get them. I want to stress though, the bones ARE there! There is potential here. I would recommend to the devs that they just polish it up then add more content. It'll be a staple of S&Box if they do so.

TBH, it needs some more time in the oven. You feel very floaty, there's no proximity chat (it's global), grabbing guns and such feels a bit janky, just overall needs a little more time in the oven. I could see it getting better though with time.

Unfortunately, seems busted atm. Seems cool otherwise though.

Fun little game. Little rough around the edges, but it's fun to type at things.