Recent reviews by Wet 4 Wesker

This game presents an absolute wholesome story about life and friendship, somwhat real-life based, somewhat LSD-based.
This small puzzle-adventure had an insane atmosphere for a game with pixel graphics, and it's playable in a few hours.

Please enjoy this game, it deserves so much <3

I really enjoyed playing this game. It gives us outstanding graphics and a wonderful dystopic atmosphere.

The story itself I think is rather confusing at first, I got a grip of it after a while. There are a lot of collectibles to gather, paperworks, all the stuff to read and to watch for some background information. However I have to admit I didn't read it all, because it would have doubled my playtime I guess.

The fighting system was a fun thing, also the variants of the weapon and the other abilities gives us flexibility. The fights were kinda easy at first, I only started to have little problems after completing the main story aswell as the DLC because enemy masses kinda messed with my overview of the battle itself with them teleporting enemies.

It took me some time to get my orientation set up because those maps of all those sectors are hella confusing and huge. The good thing is that you can unlock checkpoints for fast travel, otherwise you literally would have to run through those labyrinths.

A little disappointing were the "boss fights". There was no dramatic music, and not really a twist in any fight. It's just a hit or miss I guess.

The achievements were not a big deal, however for some of them I had to look up were to find certain files or those neko-figurines, but most of the other stuff you will end up doing alongside playing the main missions and side missions.

For me, Control was a wonderful discovery and I really enjoyed playing it without sweating, just vibing.

I had an amazing experience with this game. Me and a friend duo'd it and it was as challenging as we expected it to be.
The visuals are amazing, the archetype-skillsets are pretty cool and every single one of them is useful - there is no way one says "This or that archetype is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and useless".
I loved the riddles that were to be found, it took us quite some time to figure them out, honestly sometimes we had to google just to realize we were pretty much stupid. Yet to achieve the "Carnage in C Minor" achievement was horrible. We did indeed google it because it would only have been trial and error for us.

The endboss took us several hours and we didn't even play on the highest difficulty at that time. It was unique it its level-design. Definitely hard to beat alone, I'm glad we did it duo.

Sadly The Awakened King DLC is required to get it to 100% achievement-wise, unless you have a friend that plays with you who hosts the lobby and has the DLC. I'm not too sure if the DLC is required to craft the Ritualist-Archetype, but you only get the item from the DLC-content. But since you cannot use any dropped items from the DLC-content if you don't have it, I assume it works the same with the Archetype-material.

The game is offering you the opportunity to re-roll levels in the adventure-mode, yet you have to pray to the RNG-God when it comes to the DLC, because some achievements took us a lot of time, because we didn't get the biomes we needed, so we ended up playing longer than we should have because we just weren't lucky (or we weren't praying enough lol).

After a classic 9h session on this game (yes we need a life), the game crashed 1 - 2 times due to frozen screens. I play with a RTX 4070TI and a general good setup, and it took roughly 90% of my GPU.
Performance-wise it was fluent and amazing, I rarely had less than 200 FPS.

I can recommend the game in every aspect!

EDIT:

I've played the Forgotten Kingdom DLC together with a friend, and I have to say it's not worth the price sadly. The new "story" wasn't so very good, and the new-old biome didn't catch me aswell. The new bosses were fairly a dissappointment to me. I only bought the DLC to be back at 100% achievementwise.

Grounded is a pretty nice game to play, with lots of possiblities, but also contains some glitches.
Starting the game, we got rekt by almost every evil creature. Without knowing attack patterns in the first hours, it was a complete desaster and ended up being very hard to be confident in the fighting system. After finally getting to know the game, starting to actually play the story and do the labs and stuff, it was hard because even though the blocking etc helped, enemy masses just were crazy. Later, with proper equipment ofc, we ended up being slightly overpowered? Like wolfspiders, infected ones and all the bosses were peanuts, regardless of the difficulty (medium). It started very hard, but ended up being no challenge. The only challenge we had was simply not killing each other while fighting.
The story was interesting and ended up like expected. But the grind for the achievement of the 100% report card was literally pain. Going through everything, we ended up playing 25h or so just to get to the 100% (which we would never have reached if we didn't look up what was missing). I gladly deinstalled the game directly after getting the final achievement lol.

The glitches whatsoever became apparent in the building system. I loved the way of placing the blueprint before actually building something, so you could proper do the planning, but when you put in the materials, the object itself moved from the blueprint spot to another one, which could be solved by just placing other walls/objects first, but it was still really annoying.
When something was destroyed or loot was dropped, sometimes it's very hard to pick it up, because it is bugged either inside the ground or just being at a different position.

Anyways, Grounded is a wonderful survival game to play with friends, and I highly recomment to give it a chance!

Jeez, what an honest review xD

EDIT:

The new update with the new bosses was fun to play, but also a hard challenge. The Wasp Queen was way easier to beat than the infected Broodmother, however not easy after all. The broodmother was absolutely hard to kill, we looked up strats and had much heal and buffs but we managed to kill her after roughly 15 attempts. But it was a nice challenge after all and a great addition to the game :)

EDIT v2: Fully Yoked

I was so happy to deinstall this game after the last update, and now here we are again.
In our playthrough, we only remixed one time, but the difference was huge. We weren't able to kill the Infused Infectted Broodmother because once phase 3 started, she killed us like in 5 seconds. However, we are glad that we have finished this game once again. Just those updates show how much potential this game has, and should be at least tried by every survival game enjoyer.

I've been playing Dead by Daylight since the All-Kill Chapter dropped, and since then I've been through pain and suffering.
3k hours in, still going, and still love-hating the game. Can't really add something here.