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Pretty fun game. It's sort of like 3D Rimworld without the storyteller aspect, so it's part colony survival sim too. From what I understand there have been massive improvements to the game that have improved it from the initial launch state.
Graphics are decent and the music is sort of chill if a little repetitive. So, why the thumbs down?
The same reason that most games that I rate with Denuvo gets a thumbs down. Denuvo anti-tamper malware is forced to live on your system to play this game.
I've stated in other reviews reasons that I do not like Denuvo, and also why it is unacceptable for devs to include this malware on their system. It makes no sense for a title like this nonetheless. Why? Cost analysis. That malware is actual reaaaallly expensive as it's written with a contract with the the dev, whereas there are other non-intrusive drm solutions including an optional drm solution available directly from Steam for devs to take advantage of.
That said, my concern isn't about devs wasting their money on that malware, as always, the reason that this is included in the review is the malware itself.
People white knighting Denuvo act as if it's a benefit to them as consumers just because, as far as they're aware, it has no negative side effects for them. I hate to inform those individuals, but, just because you want to sacrifice your own rights specifically to defend businesses who really would not care if your computer died due to something like this as long as they don't get sued and have to pay out for damages, they do not need you to white knight for them, and you might as well go all the way and start defending predatory iap in paid offline games while you're at it, as that also is another malicious practice which is all too common.
Those individuals aside, once more, I'll list why Denuvo is bad for you, the end user of the game that you bought. Will this vary from the other times i've mentioned this malware? Potentially, in my Midnight Suns review, I added a bit on the end acting like you can't mod a game with Denuvo included specifically to take a jab at the voice acting of the Huntress... despite that being a joke only, that is not a valid reason the Denuvo is a concern as you can absolutely mod your game with it on your system. However, that off-kilter "joke" aside, Denuvo still is a predatory piece of code which is forced onto your pc with malicious intent.
1. It's a rootkit malware that's activated when windows starts up before OS loads which has unnecessary kernel access. In other words: it's loaded in as if it's a priority higher than your OS, that's right below BIOS and hardware like keyboards, and has these privileges without any visibility as to what it's doing on your computer at any time. Don't expect that to ever be the case for that company to tell you exactly what is going on, to them you are the criminal they're marketing you as to their respective game devs. What this means is that this malware gets unrestricted and unmonitored/uncontrollable kernel level access; which means that the malware gets a level of control over your system that is as deep as that of OS and deeper than you, the owner of the computer. is able to load at bootup and, not only do you not have the ability to stop it from running at bootup without being able to control or stop any portion of it, nor prevent it from "phoning home with data" to the comapny's servers.
Having no control or visibility where a "software" is installed/what it's doing/being able to stop it from doing things is not only a security vulnerability, it is an outright threat to your system. malware - software designed with malicious intent to be installed on a host machine to do something that the end user does not want. Malware typically gains access to vulnerable critical systems like kernel access, and is intentionally obfuscated in where it's installed.
2. Spyware - software that is hidden and installed in a system to harvest specific data without the users consent or control. Unless you take very specific steps to stop it, windows can be considered spyware; however, you actually can prevent windows from harvesting your data, that's actually doable, and I highly encourage everyone to do just that. It's telling when an app does not abide by that. Is there and EULA for you for Denuvo being installed on your machine? No. It might be addressed in an EULA via the games publisher, but, that EULA's intent is totally different. There is not onus for either party to be truthful to you as you are marketed as the threat, and this malware is installed on your computer specifically with that inent. Spyware is loosely defined as a piece of software that's installed with the specific goal of harvesting data from your machine for reasons that are not made known to you, or for reasons which may actually violate several countries privacy standards otherwise. I do hope that Denuvo is forced to be evaluated for potential GDPR violations as a result, as, it does not care if the machine it's installed on is a kids computer, that's not its concern. Its concern is to read your system data, and send some of that data to servers within the respective companies servers on an ongoing basis. It's not like an activation where it's a one time ordeal and then, that's it. It's ongoing. If your computer doesn't check in when that malware demands it to, no matter how much you paid for the game, you are no longer able to access that game. What data is ha? Once more, who knows?. Dev can tell you whatever they like. However, that dev is under no legal obligation to be transparent about that with you because you are not the one who they are conducting business with regarding this malware. Further more, as you, who are reading this review, and are potentially on the cusp of wanting to buy this game. you, like me are considered a thief by the dev because you decided to commit the sin of LEGITIMATELY BUYING THIS GAME.
That said, while you are contemplating the legitimate purchase of this game from Steam, a legitimate storefront which has massive benefits for devs to sell their games through their platform as it helps to directly lower the risk of piracy, the dev decided to sign a contract with a hostile company which will never consider you their customer and will always consider you the "threat" despite that being uncalled for.
What this malware does is ensures, that the dev who made this game, is "protected" from the "dirty lying thieving customer threat" that is you and I."Their actions indicate that the consider everyone in the world who has an account who legitimately buys games as thieves." You are not to be trusted as a citizen, but as a criminal which has not actually committed a crime yet that they are aware of, but must have committed several crimes anyway since the DRM solution that they have opted into is expensive and requires your computer to always run that the game is valid on an indefinite ongoing basis as if your computer was on permanent probation and house arrest.
As much as I would like to recommend this game, and as much as I want to say "go for this and all good games that are plagued with Denuvo." The issue with this is that, ethically, I cannot suggest this or any other game that has Denuvo on it... which includes quite a few sega titles since they seemed to have signed a deal with the company that provides Denuvo... I cannot recommend this game because, although it takes about 5 seconds browsing any discussion forum on Steam to see that good people are the minority, at the same time, just because most people are rotten meatbags who vomit pustules of anti-intelligence and selfish hate, does not mean that everyone should be treated as a fragging thief. I've known many many d**chebags in my day.... and sure, they were deplorable, but, even in those cases there were far less thieves, and even more focused, even if they stole physical goods, the most of them didn't pirate games .