"Avowed Hates Men"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFZvRxIffA
To no one's surprise, the game is nothing but insufferable girl bosses, thinly veiled anti-whiteness, and men who are either evil, corrupt, incompetent, cowardly, or just literally homosexual. It's a repeat of Outer Worlds, which shouldn't come as a shock to anyone because the devs are still the exact same leftist feminist dipshits who treat their game dev jobs as merely another opportunity for rank activism.
Outside of the culture war content, everything else is also terrible. The UI is garbage. The game is full of bugs and jank. The combat looks soft and boring. The game's structure is at least 15 years outdated. The story is beyond cliche. Nothing about this woke turd looks good.
An interesting phenomenon is the "console exclusive" bump we always see from such games. There are people out there praising this game for no other reason than Playstation gamers can't play it (right now). Same shit happened with Starfield, not to mention every Sony exclusive ever. These games always have lower scores and player reviews on PC because PC gamers are not ego-invested the same way that console fanboys have always been.
Curious enough I downloaded an evaluation copy.
-Game runs awful. Really, really bad. I can turn the graphics down to all minimum so it looks like blurry sludge and I still can't reliably get even 30fps. I have an older rig but it runs KCD2, Helldivers 2, Dying Light 2, Elden Ring, and Dragon's Dogma 2 perfectly smooth at 2k.
-Infodump barf dialogue non stop
-Level design and area aesthetics are terrible. Anyone who says the game looks good is a moron. At no point was I even a little bit tricked into thinking I was in a real location. Even Outer Worlds was better at this. Satisfactory looks better and feels more like a believable world.
-Despite all the dialogue the starting quest is super weak. You land on the island and get told you need to find some ambassador. Aren't I the ambassador? I'm the "Envoy"? Give these idiots a thesaurus. It's the same thing. "Hey ambassador, you need to find the ambassador". Wat.
-Combat should be rad. It's has a nice feel do it, weapon attacks feel solid, spells are cool, guns go KAPOW. But it has two fatal flaws: No challenge and shitty rewards.
-Challenge is all based on your weapon stats. I see why most people are gravitated towards the magic because that's the only way to have meaningful choices in fights. If you pick weapons, then your strategy is to upgrade your weapons as much as possible and then faceroll the enemies. All weapons are generic and the same, they just act as vehicles for the damage upgrades. It's like Dark Souls, but every weapon has the same moveset. Lame.
-Rewards are awful. At level 4 you need 1000xp to level, and enemies give 2 xp apiece. Wowzers. You walk up to a chest and some spiders appear. You kill them all but two more waves spawn. You fight and fight and fight and finally they're all dead. You open the chest and it contains 2 pelts and a piece of iron. That's it.
The crafting system is just an alternate xp/currency. Collecting enough materials gives you the damage bump you need to fight the next tier of enemies. Rinse and repeat. It feels like a combat system developed by a focus group of indian autists, which it almost certainly was.
tl;dr, shit game, play literally anything else.