Игрок 5097·Рекомендует·47 ч в игре

This review is based on 100% completion and 46.8 hours of gameplay. Recommendation: Would I recommend the game? I would. This isn't a bad little game, especially for a souls-like. It is on the easier side, and while it's not an amazing game with deep, well-crafted mechanics, it was fun for the time I spent with it. That said, it is not without its faults, and I do think there are a decent number of issues that, if addressed, could have made this game something really special. Firstly, the visuals are really great. I love the way this game looks. The handcrafted environments and enemy designs give it a great aesthetic, although I would have liked a bit more enemy variety. It gives me strong Dead Space vibes in terms of the setting, but with a much lighter tone. While the areas are fairly small, the connecting corridors, unlockable shortcuts and train system all help give the game a nice flow. The sound design and audio throughout the game were good for what they were. The voice acting was also done well with the material the actors had to work with. I just think the writing itself needed to be more compelling. On that note, the narrative is a big issue for me. It is basically non-existent, and while I understand they were going for a more typical souls-like experience where the story isn't handed to you and you discover things as you go, I just don't think it was done well. The start is strong. It's interesting, and you genuinely want to learn more. But from that very first cutscene where you choose your starting gear, it feels like the game suddenly jumps ahead without giving you enough backstory, setting or context. This continues throughout the experience, with NPCs not really telling you much, and the audio logs and environmental storytelling also not giving you enough to really piece things together. I understand what they were trying to achieve, but I don't think they found the right balance between what to tell you, when to tell you, and how to tell it. Which sucks, because this is a really interesting IP that I would genuinely like to learn more about. For me, a masterclass example of this would be the first Dead Space. You go onto the Ishimura on a mission without really knowing what to expect, then discover what has happened as you progress. You slowly piece everything together, and it's done in a compelling way. That's something I just didn't get here. Instead, this game leaves you feeling more lost than intrigued. The gameplay is also very hit and miss. I played the entire game on controller, and for the most part, that was fine. The biggest issue, which I hope they ironed out in the subsequent game, is the lock-on camera. This makes combat extremely annoying and much more frustrating than it needs to be. You can't block properly unless you're locked on to the enemy that is hitting you, selecting which limb to target sometimes doesn't work well, and swapping between enemies is also very annoying. All of this makes fighting multiple enemies a massive pain, to the point where you'll often want to fight them one at a time for most of the game. This makes the game go very slowly, especially since whenever you "rest" or use the crafting/med station, every normal enemy respawns. Bosses and mini-bosses are the exceptions. So, the biggest issue I had with the game was definitely the camera during combat. The combat mechanics themselves were OK. I liked the different phases of the bosses, but they were all very similar and didn't have much variety in their movesets between phases, which made them very easy. Personally, I thought the normal enemies throughout the game were harder than most of the bosses. If the bosses had more diverse movesets that they switched between, making the fights a little less predictable, I think they would have been much more enjoyable. But for what they are, I thought they were fine. Switching between limbs and targeting armoured or unarmoured parts was cool in concept, just a little finicky in practice. I did like the idea of cutting off limbs to get blueprints for new gear, although I think it would have been cooler if you salvaged the equipment directly from the enemy rather than needing to craft it afterwards. Something more like actually taking the gear from them. When it comes to the DLC, I thought The Good, the Bad and the Augmented was pretty mediocre. It is essentially just completing missions with modifiers applied, and I personally found it uninteresting. However, A Walk in the Park was a completely different story and one I very much enjoyed. It gives you more backstory about how you ended up there and what was going on, while the DLC's setting and gameplay were just really fun. The only issue I had with it was that I tackled it towards the end of the game. By that point, it was very easy, and story-wise it didn't really make much sense for where I was in the main game. Again, the pacing felt a bit off. But besides its placement in the overall experience, I really enjoyed it. Overall, it's not a bad game, just not a great or particularly memorable one. If you're looking for a souls-like on the easier side to try out, this isn't a bad pick-up. I think the base price is fine for what you get, although you'll probably want the two DLCs mentioned above. Because of that, I would consider getting everything as a bundle. As this is an older game and it goes on a decent discount, I'd recommend waiting until then to pick it up. Achievements: Something to note is that achievements in this game can take a moment to actually pop. For me, it was anywhere between a few seconds and around a minute after they should have unlocked, but other than that, they all unlocked when they were meant to. DLC is required for 100%, and there are a number of missable achievements alongside collectable, miscellaneous and story-related achievements. A minimum of two playthroughs will be required. As this is a souls-like game, the difficulty of the achievements will depend somewhat on your skill level. Personally, though, I found them all fairly easy to complete. The only guides I would definitely recommend using are for the collectables, just so you don't miss any. There are some great video guides on YouTube by 360GameTV for both the base gameand A Walk in the ParkDLC. None of the base game collectables are missable, as you are able to travel back to previous sections before the final fight. There are also some other handy Steam guides by Lozwansfor the base game and John Vaunfor The Good, the Bad and the Augmented DLC if you would like a little more help. I think the only achievements you really need to worry about missing are in the A Walk in the Park DLC, so make sure to check those before starting it. Overall, the achievements aren't that difficult once you get used to the game. You can get the majority of them in a single run, and while you could technically do everything in one playthrough by using some handy save file manipulation at certain points, you can also just do another run in NG+, which doesn't take that long. Personally, I completed everything except for three achievements, including the glasses, the other ending and the achievement for unlocking all achievements, during my first run. I then just tidied up the rest in NG+. For more in-depth yet straight-to-the-point reviews, feel free to check out my curator page here.

Игрок 2227·Рекомендует·61 ч в игре

Very underrated, I find this way more interesting than Elden Ring. Incredible labyrinthian level design, unique limb-targeting combat, surprisingly deep RPG systems, and some of the best industrial horror vibes I've seen. The game has tons of weird ideas that actually feel like someone had a vision instead of just copying Dark Souls. The combat can be janky as hell and the difficulty occasionally turns into straight-up ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but once you understand the systems, it clicks beautifully. 8/10 — industrial horror nightmare where a middle-aged man gets turned into a walking forklift accident

Игрок 5156·Рекомендует·46 ч в игре

Such an underrated game, incredible story. Good enough if you want to kill some time.

Игрок 1750·Не рекомендует·37 ч в игре

На Steam Deck игра идёт с высокими настройками 60 фпс спокойно, какие-то пролаги не помню чтоб были, можно конечно поставить на ультра графику но там будет 40-60 фпс, а картинка особо лучше не станет. Спасибо Lenovo за раздачу. Об игре Рассказывать про сюжет не буду, я по финалу игры так ничего и не поняла, какой-то всплеск (surge) случился из за чего люди и роботы с ума посходили, а там ещё и монстры какие-то... в общем сюжет прошёл мимо меня и даже видеообзор не очень то просветил. Расскажу лучше про саму игру, и начну пожалуй с хорошего. Визуально игра выглядит хорошо, а иногда даже отлично. Атмосфера "мёртвого космоса" и "industrial hell" передана вполне, хотя тут облажать было сложно думаю. На протяжении игры вы передвигаетесь по разным комплексам и их трубчатым тоннелям - конечно навигация по карте от этого ужасная, особенно в конце игры, но это дополняет погружение, так как вы будете в роли главного героя который первый день на работе и тоже не вдупляет куда ему топать. Не смотря на поджанр Souls-like, эта игра отклоняется от классического аспекта прокачки и боёвки. В бою вам нужно целится на одну из пяти конечностей врага или в тело, отрывая его куски для подальшего использования себе. То есть оторвал в бою у врага голову с шлемом, пошёл и себе поставил такой, с оружием и другими вещами так же, что довольно интересно. А на чекпойнтах в виде медицинской станции персонаж улучшает только один показатель энергии ядра, чтобы ставить более мощные аксессуары (импланты) которые тратят эту энергию, это конечно было мне не привычно но местами удобно что можно поменять там имплант на хп или на выносливость, жаль только ужасное ограничение что некоторые импланты можно ставить только на чекпойнтах... Также плохой частью является то что из за отсутствия классической прокачки, в этой игре есть пассивное улучшение оружия определённых классов за которые вы играете (шест, одноручное, двуручное и т.д), и когда вы просто играете с этим оружием то оно улучшается. Казалось бы всё здорово, но эта механика полностью отбрасывает желание использовать разные классы и фокусироваться только на одном, иначе зачем вам равномерно слабые 5 классов оружия если можно играть на одном и прокачать его очень сильно. Музыки особо запоминающейся нету, в основном играют эмбиенты страшные, на боссах не очень заметна музыка. Сами боссы сделаны в основном ниже среднего, по большей части только большие боссы что-то из себя представляют, а боссы размером с игрока скучны. Не смотря на то что боёвка довольно интересная, баланс вот с начала же игры портит просто всё. Вот вы начали игру и уже с оружием ходите, пытаетесь делать какие-то комбо-атаки чтобы наносить много урона, делаете усиленные атаки, а потом рядовой противник в полёте сносит вам голову с одного-двух ударов и вы думаеет "почему я сношу за удар 15-20% хп врагу, а он мне 70-80% с одного удара" после чего вы решаете сделать такой же удар в рывке и понимаете что всю оставшуюся игру это будет единственный удар в вашем мувсете расчитанный на нанесение урона. Дальше в игре ещё открывается дрон который использует энергию чтобы делать разные действия по вашей команде, так вот что лучше будет нанести по 14 урона двумя выстрелами из дрона, или зарядить врагу в голову с рывка нанеся 100+ урона... думаю выбор очевиден. Дальше после середины игры (а именно после босса "цербер") будет ещё веселее ситуация, что почти все противники которые дальше вам будут встречаться, будут вас ваншотать (без кучи имплантов на хп, у меня один только стоял). Враг за врагом и ваншот за ваншотом, вы можете даже не ожидать что рядом враг, а он выскочит на вас из-за стены и один ударом отправит на тот свет, а даже если не отправит то застанит вас и продолжит своё комбо от которого вы уже не успеете подняться с пола. Конечно я понимаю финальная локация все дела, но там у нас ещё бессмертная масса, и враги сбивающие с одного удара блок, в общем последняя часть игры вынесла мне мозг, а там ещё и босс у которого пришлось полностью мувсет заучивать ведь один удар мог уже стоить 70% хп моего. Это я умалчиваю про то что локация эта была полным лабиринтом говна. Боюсь больше не смогу ничего дельного описать, так как уже мозг отуманен ненавистью из за финала игры. Из приятных моментов могу добавить исследование локаций и то как иногда хорошо игра награждает приятными наградами. У игры так же есть два DLC 1. Walk in the park оно вполне приемлемое, конечно опять же миллиард врагов ещё и супер сильных к концу, но мне понравилась локация и атмосфера, босс тоже неплох. Само дополнение - дополняет сюжет, немного расскрывает прошлое ГГ. Брать определённо советую если уже берёте игру. 2. Какое-то ужасное длс в стиле вестерн, без какого-либо смысла кроме как дать тем кто не наигрался дополнительных испытаний без какой-то сюжетной важности. К сожалению без этого длс на 100% достижений не пройти, но если вам всё равно на них то брать не советую, уж очень на любителя. Итог Интересный проект, конечно не полный мусор, есть хорошие идеи такие как: разделение врага на сегменты при битве, отрубание этих сегментов, прокачка с имплантами. Но зная какая битва с балансом этой игры меня ждёт, я бы её даже за бесплатно не хотела играть (кстати хоть игру и раздали леново, но длс мне стоили как сама игра). Боссов хороших мало, к концу игры локации душные и запутанные.

Игрок 1175·Рекомендует·70 ч в игре

I love this game and consider it my favourite non-FROMSOFT soulslike, owning it on 3 platforms now. Its not without its issues though, it has clunky gameplay definitely akin to a less polished Dark Souls 1, a high lethality (especially early game before you get a build going), and can be pretty labyrinthian at times with rough boss design, with a narrative built up around way too many generic Sci-Fi tropes and an anti-corporate rhetoric which I think it pulls off really damn well, but its far from a unique premise (but definitely uniquely presented and interwoven). The Setting & Plot Hook The Surge is set in a low sci-fi, relatively modern setting and leans on industrialism and horror. You play as Warren, a paraplegic man who joins the publicly traded mega-corporation called CREO in order to have an exosuit screwed into his skeleton and brainstem to give him mobility back, so he can join the workforce of Project ReSolve; a Hail Mary attempt by CREO to prevent total ecological collapse on Earth due to unchecked global warming, by launching satellites into orbit to perform some science and fix everything. Mid exosuit instalment things go awry and Warren finds himself stranded in a satellite production factory complex with a bunch of massive, haywire machinery, a workforce that has seemingly had their brains fried and are being dragged around by their bloodthirsty exosuits, and a secretive security force that has locked down the executive ward. Warren must navigate everything from expansive production floors and research centres to claustraphobic pitch-black engineering tunnels and waste plants, coming across various undeclared activities underway within the more hidden areas of the complex on his journey to the Executive Ward to find out what is going on and save a fellow survivor. The Surge is a fantastic sci-fi horror soulslike. The Gameplay The Surge's unique mechanic is that the lock on can target an enemy generally, or you can specifically target the body, head or limbs. By targeting specific areas you increase your chances of gaining additional items when performing a finisher on the enemy, so long as the targeted segment was armoured or holding a weapon. This allows Warren to feed broken exosuit armour parts or power tools into fabricators to learn how to build them for his own rig, and everything from your armour to consumables and passive traits you find are tied to the power source of your exosuit, with the power acting as your level. This makes early game particularly congested as your healing injectable, stamina+/energy+/enemy_healthbar_display/item_proximity_alarm (etc) passives (mods iirc), weapons and armour are all vying for the tiny amount of core power you have, and that contributed to the very rough early game. Also, this power core value is used to short circuit various power grids throughout the industrial complex to open doors or crates etc, which is cool and offers some optional backtracking. Combat is clunky but really solid once you acclimatise. the dodge is a hydraulic leap so is more linear than your might expect, and has tight i-frames so takes some getting used to, whilst blocking drains a lot of stamina initially. Enemy attacks can feel super frustrating because most enemies hit like a truck and some have overtuned tracking (its all or nothing, dodge too early they will pivot as they swing, dodge too late you'll get clipped). he beforementioned location targeting plays a huge part too, since instead of stagger being reliant on overall armour of enemies, its based on the location you hit's armour, as is damage. Specific, Unarmoured > Generic full body > Specific, Armoured From left to right youve got most stagger and damage to least, but the armoured segments are how you gain new blueprints and armour/weapon parts. Not targetting specific locations allows you to avoid the armoured defences provided by specific parts, which is good against fully armoured enemies. The parts you collect are tier-gated and you cannot upscale lowtier items to higher tiers, which means new areas can feel like statchecks from higher difficulty enemies in higher gear quality, until you cut a few bodies up. Also, remember that you're a steel-enveloped dude throwing around industrial tools, its meant to feel cumbersome and weighty, kind of like how Gears of War feels, actually. It can feel a little weird until that clicks. Also, there is a duck and jump mechanic that is never explained. You can duck a high attack into a jumping knee attack, or jump a low attack into an overhead swing, to cause great damage and stagger. Its like the game's version of a parry. Very niche use case though honestly, its more style than substance. As for environments; Instead of a massive interconnected world, you have a series of 'hubs' which tend to circle back on one or two MedBays, with a lot of shortcuts through them. This can feel tedious at times if you get bored of the "Its a massive factory" aesthetic of the early areas, and can make boss runbacks painful if you struggle to memorise which shortcut leads to another shortcut that reaches the fog wall. Also, the bosses are not great in this game. They can feel incredibly BS until you know how to deal with them, and once you know they're a cakewalk. You get an upgraded boss weapon for doing specific things to beat them but annoyingly you need to look up how to do them if you want to guarantee it. This game excels at atmosphere, tension and story (so long as you go looking for it, its not as esoteric as Dark Souls, but audiologs and environmental details do the heavy lifting. The worst thing I remember is that there is a prominent NPC that you will swear the game forgot about unless you climb down a little engineering tunnel into a side room, and pay attention to writing on some of the objects in that room). And its good enough to recommend it on that alone imho. Summary I love this game. It is pretty flawed so I can respect its not for everyone, but its also a pretty adventurously designed game and if you know what you're getting in to and give it benefit of the doubt, its likely to surprise you. None of the DLC is that important honestly and has wacky characters that degrade the seriousness of the main game, but they're self contained and offer some great weapons and mods. If you get the DLC and hate the shift in tone and writing, avoid The Surge 2 because the DLC is a half-as-bad foreshadowing of the tone shift the sequel brings. The dog-ass sequel really shows how polish and risk-aversion ruins more than some ambitious rough edges ever could, and unfortunately means we will likely never see a true sequel to this gritty sci-fi horror gem.

Игрок 4290·Не рекомендует·14 ч в игре

An exhausting labyrinthian game that does not respect your time. Level designs are incredibly recursive and annoying, combat is repetitive and clunky. Most of your gear and upgrades are worthless. The story is interesting, but also a disjointed mess that takes too much effort to piece together. And your reward is only vague answers leading up to a disappointing boss fight. It's not worth the slog that this game becomes.

Игрок 8901·Не рекомендует·5 ч в игре

I tried very hard to get into this game. I loved the surge 2 and i love unique takes on the soulslike genre, mainly ones that take place in anything other than medieval times. This game just sucks the life out of you with little to no reward. Enemies are tedious to fight, the neat lock-on and dismember system is clunky, attacks across the board are slow and cumbersome, damage taken is extreme, the zones are extremely difficult to navigate, and finally, its just not fun. I played some hard to like soulslikes. Lords of the fallen (both of them). Last hero of nostalgaia, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Dolmen. The surge is just plain bad. Go play Surge 2 and ignore this game, its ALOT better.

Игрок 2931·Не рекомендует·1 ч в игре

🔧 The Surge The Surge, fikir olarak ilginç ve kendine has mekanikleri olan bir Souls-like olsa da, oynarken insanı oyundan soğutan ciddi problemleri var. En büyük sorunlardan biri, oyunun temel mekaniklerini ve hareket sistemini yeterince açıklamaması. Hangi hareketin nasıl yapılacağı, bazı düşman saldırılarından nasıl kaçınılacağı veya bazı özel mekaniklerin nasıl çalıştığı konusunda oyun çoğu zaman sizi kendi halinize bırakıyor; bazı şeyleri öğrenmek için resmen internetten araştırma yapmak zorunda kalıyorsunuz. Bu eleştiri, farklı incelemelerde de özellikle kötü açıklanan mekanikler, kafa karıştırıcı yönlendirme ve hantal kontroller üzerinden dile getirilmiş. Bunun üzerine buglar, garip hitbox'lar, kamera ve lock-on problemleri, tepki vermeyen tuşlar ve zaman zaman yaşanan animasyon sorunları eklenince ortaya oldukça yorucu bir deneyim çıkıyor. Steam'deki güncel kullanıcı yorumlarında da karakterin yanlış yöne dodge yapması, çevrede takılı kalma, bazı tuşların algılanmaması ve açıklanmayan mekanikler gibi benzer problemler raporlanıyor. Fikir olarak potansiyeli olan ama temel oynanış sorunları yüzünden bu potansiyeli bir türlü gösteremeyen bir oyun. Benim için bu problemler o kadar fazla ki 1 puanın üzerine çıkamıyor. ⭐ Genel Puan: 1/10 🤖 "Welcome to CREO." ⚙️