The Black Masses is an open world first-person fantasy co-op RPG. The Black Masses features our next generation of crowd rendering technology rebuilt from Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator. Explore a 16 square kilometer island populated by hundreds of thousands of possessed inhabitants.
Mixed
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Выживание среди зомби за 45 рублей? Звучит заманчиво. Игре реально есть чем удивить: тысячи мертвецов, горы лута, масштабная карта. Но моя финальная оценка — 2 из 5. Это очень сырой продукт. Механики и графика застряли где-то в 2007 году. Да, можно весело порубить толпы врагов, но меня абсолютно не зацепило, всё ощущается деревянным. Советую покупать только по огромной скидке, чтобы просто пофаниться пару часов.
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The Black Masses, developed and published by Brilliant Game Studios, is an open-world first-person RPG that sets its sights on delivering scale above all else. It places players on a vast, isolated island overtaken by a mysterious curse that has transformed its population into enormous swarms of undead. What immediately separates the game from others in the genre is its defining technical ambition—the ability to render and simulate thousands of enemies at once. This is not just a visual gimmick but the foundation of the entire experience, shaping how players explore, fight, and survive in a world that feels persistently hostile.
Exploration plays a central role in the game, with a large open island that encourages players to move freely and discover its various locations at their own pace. The inclusion of a parkour-like movement system adds a sense of mobility that is crucial for survival, allowing players to climb structures, traverse rooftops, and use vertical space to avoid being overwhelmed. This freedom of movement creates moments where escaping danger feels just as important as confronting it, giving the game a dynamic rhythm that alternates between cautious exploration and frantic evasion. However, while the scale of the world is impressive, its design can feel somewhat sparse, with areas that lack the density or variety needed to make exploration consistently rewarding.
Combat is presented through a first-person perspective and focuses primarily on melee engagements, supported by a basic progression system that allows players to improve their abilities over time. As players invest in skills such as strength or stamina, they gradually become more capable of handling larger groups of enemies. Early encounters can feel tense and dangerous, as even small groups of enemies pose a significant threat. Over time, however, the combat system reveals its limitations. The mechanics are relatively straightforward, and while they function well enough, they do not offer a great deal of variety. This can lead to repetition, especially when facing similar types of enemies across extended play sessions.
The game’s most striking feature remains its large-scale enemy encounters. Facing hundreds of enemies at once creates a sense of chaos and urgency that few games manage to replicate. Watching waves of undead flood an area, forcing players to think quickly about positioning and escape routes, can be genuinely exhilarating. These moments highlight the game’s potential, showcasing what makes it unique within the genre. At the same time, they also expose some of its technical challenges. Performance can fluctuate during these large encounters, with occasional stuttering or instability that can interrupt the flow of gameplay and diminish the impact of these otherwise impressive scenes.
In terms of presentation, The Black Masses delivers a mixed experience. The sheer number of enemies and the scale of the environment are notable achievements, but the visual detail of the world itself can feel inconsistent. Some areas appear underdeveloped, with repetitive assets and limited environmental storytelling. The narrative, while present, is relatively minimal and does not play a major role in driving the experience forward. Instead, the focus remains on gameplay and exploration, which may leave players looking for a deeper or more engaging story somewhat unsatisfied.
Another factor that shapes the experience is the game’s overall level of polish. While it has evolved over time, it still retains elements that feel unfinished or lacking refinement. Certain systems, such as crafting or world interaction, are either basic or underutilized, contributing to a sense that the game’s broader potential has not been fully realized. These shortcomings do not entirely detract from the experience, but they do highlight the gap between the game’s ambitious concept and its execution.
Ultimately, The Black Masses stands out as a bold and experimental project that prioritizes scale and spectacle over depth. It offers moments of genuine excitement, particularly when players are navigating massive hordes and using the environment to their advantage. However, its repetitive combat, uneven world design, and technical limitations prevent it from fully capitalizing on its strengths. It is a game that succeeds in demonstrating an intriguing idea, even if it does not completely deliver on everything that idea promises.
Rating: 6/10
blAcck Messes are îi un joc vechi, da foarte solid. Nu te impresionează din prima cu grafica, dar te prinde prin ce îți permite să faci. Îi un sandbox adevărat. Nu ai poveste impusă. Tu îți faci drumul. Începi slab. Fără bani. Fără oameni. Doar cu o sabie ieftină și un cal obosit. De acolo, totul depinde de deciziile tale. Poți să faci negoț între orașe. Poți să vânezi bandiți. Poți să intri mercenar pentru un lord. Fiecare variantă are riscuri clare și recompense pe măsură. Sistemul de luptă îi punctul forte. Nu apeși un buton și gata. Direcția loviturii contează. Timpul contează. Dacă dai prost, ești pedepsit. Dacă știi să te poziționezi, bați și cu echipament slab. Cavaleria lovește tare, dar îi vulnerabilă dacă intră prost. Infanteria ține linia. Arcașii schimbă cursul bătăliei dacă îs puși bine. Totul se simte logic. Armata ta nu îi doar un număr. Soldații au moral. Dacă pierzi prea mult, fug. Dacă câștigi des, luptă mai bine. Trebuie să-i plătești. Trebuie să-i hrănești. Dacă nu, te lasă. Asta te forțează să gândești strategic, nu doar să cauți bătălii. Pe hartă, lumea nu stă pe loc. Regatele se atacă între ele constant. Orașele cad. Cetățile se pierd și se recâștigă. Lordii au personalități. Unii îs loiali. Alții te trădează la prima ocazie. Relațiile contează mult. Dacă te porți prost, rămâi singur. Politica jocului îi surprinzător de adâncă. Ca vasal, trebuie să răspunzi la chemări. Ca rege, împarți feude, menții loialitatea, decizi pace sau război. Deciziile proaste duc la rebeliuni. Deciziile bune îți țin regatul în picioare. Dezvoltarea personajului îi clară și practică. Abilitățile au efect real. Leadership reduce costurile. Surgery îți salvează oameni. Trade îți aduce profit. Nu există puncte irosite dacă joci inteligent. Grafica îi simplă, dar nu strică experiența. Interfața îi funcțională. Sunetul și muzica fac atmosferă fără să deranjeze. Jocul rulează bine și pe calculatoare slabe. Modurile comunității fac jocul aproape infinit. Adaugă hărți noi, sisteme politice mai complexe, epoci istorice diferite. Unele schimbă jocul complet. Comunitatea ține Warband viu de ani de zile. Warband nu te respectă dacă nu-l respecți. Te pedepsește pentru grabă și prostie. Te răsplătește pentru planificare și răbdare. Dacă vrei un joc unde contează ce faci, nu ce script urmezi, atunci Warband îi o alegere foarte bună.
I membah all the way back eight years ago when this game was first announced, and being kinda hype for it. I had forgotten about it by the time the game went into early access in 2020 and am just now checking it out in 2026.
To say I'm disappointed is a massive understatement. There is literally nothing to do but run around collecting the same ten items from the same six buildings reused all over the map. The quests and story are a joke.
Pros:
At time of review it's only .79 cents.
Cons:
They're charging money for this
Les avis sont durs je trouve.
J'atteins les 2h30 de gameplay, j'ai fini la première zone en prenant mon temps. Il en reste de toute evidence au minimum 30x la taille déjà explorée. Les gens qui se plaignent de spammer l'attaque ont joués 20 minutes, contre des lvl 2... Puis ils s'attendaient à quoi vis à vis du trailer ? des combats 1v1 haletants ?
L'histoire démarre bien, le lore est cohérent. Il y a des quêtes annexes et des surprises.
L'arbre de compétence est très prometteur. les décapitations à tout va procurent du fun.
TOUS les bâtiments étaient visitables, et remplis, avec des décos plus que correcte.
Le seul Bémol que j'aurais à lui donner pour l'instant est le nombre colossal d'objets lootables qui n'ont pas l'air forcement utiles (regen +20hp/300 alors qu'on a une regen passive).
je vais y jouer au minimum 3-4h de plus ; et à ce prix là c'est donné pour 6H. S'il me plait je risque de le speedrun.
me and my friends enjoy it.
The bones of a fun game are there but that's it they're bones with no actual substance. It wants to do too many things at once and succeeds at none of them. It's got a massive open world but nothing worth exploring, a combat system that manages to be less engaging than vanilla skyrim, a threadbare parkour system that feels tacked on and underutilized because of just how piss easy the game is and honestly I could go on but it'd feel like beating a dead horse. There is fun to be had with the game but it's clearly an unfinished mess that the developers abandoned either due to incompetence or a lack of interest in the project. To summarize it I'd say it could be worth the dollar they'd charge you on sale but honestly even then I wouldn't go jumping in to get it this game is nothing special and doesn't really scratch any itch that other games that this game tries to mimic would already do.
Very laggy and abandoned. Honestly, not even worth the 79 cents on sale.
Broken abandonware.
combat is just spam clicking, no objective no goal just wander around spam click enemies
The Black Masses may have left early access, but it is still a very unfinished game.
I would only recommend it to someone who would be interested in the alpha version of an indie game that mixes The Edler Scrolls with Dying Light.
There is fun to be had, but it is very unoptimized, buggy, rough, unclear, and missing a lot of features and content.
Even on the lowest settings at 720p, the framerate can often drop to 30, it almost never goes above 55, and it keeps crashing.
The Game is abadoned, unfinished and dead dead dead!!!
abandonware.
The game was never brought up to the standard it was initially sold as before they took a several year hiatus and returned for 1.0.
The current price reflects the quality and content.
เป็นเกมส์ที่อยากเล่นมานตามสตีมเมอร์ที่ชอบ แต้ปัญหาที่แก้ไม่หายของเกมส์เมือเจอฝูงซอมบี้มากกว่า100 ทำให้เกมส์ค้างและหลุด เมื่อคุณเข้าเกมส์ใหม่จะเจอปัญหาเเกมสืไม่ตอบสนองเลยทันที คุณจงจำไว้อย่างนึงว่าถ้าคุณชื้อเกมส์นี้แล้วคุณจะเจแปีญหาเล่านี้ของเกมส์ นั้นคือคุณเสียเงินชื้อเกมส์ไปฟรีๆ
Я НЕ СОВЕТУЮ эту игру большинству. Отвратительно недоделанный продукт с кучей багов и нелогичных моментов. Это крайне нишевый продукт, НО вам он понравится если вы:
-Цените атмосферу старых поделок на юнити, больше похожих на техно-демку Васьки с третьего подъезда
-Любите RPG игры
-Любите "зачищать всю карту" - исследовать большие миры забираясь в каждый их уголок, лутая всё на своём пути, в надежде найти что-то интересное оставленное разработчиками, или просто закрыть всю карту для личного удовлетворения
-Любите бесконечных размеров окна прокачки с мин-максом статов персонажа и возможностью превращения его в божество игрового мира - бессмертного, и убивающего всё с одного удара
-Вам нравится закликивать мышкой бесконечные толпы врагов и смотреть как они рассыпаются на части
i'm enjoying it and i would say its worth buying to see what it turns into (this post was made 3:47 AM CST 12/24/2025)
Кто-нибудь объясните пожалуйста в комментах, что это за шляпа, и откуда она у меня в библиотеке... Я это точно не покупал.
Но справедливости ради, всё, о чем заявлено на скриншотах и геймплее - в игре действительно присутствует. Оно реально так выглядит. И даже больше - и физика хорошая, и саундтрек, и карта большая. Кого-то, правда, может отпугнуть графика 2010 года, но просто осознавайте, что за вами без преувеличения бегают ТЫСЯЧИ зомби, что стоит отдать должное - впечатляет. И даже трупы не исчезают. Условная Days Gone и рядом не стоит, такой орды вообще ни в одной аналогичной игре нет. Да и сеттинг тоже уникальный - зомби в средневековье. Но вот что со всем этим делать, где и как достать всякие автоматизированные ловушки-турели вроде гигантского блендера из геймплея, что позволят уничтожать противников уже в промышленных масштабах - непонятно. А веслом их дубасить по одному как-то уж быстро надоедает... Но я особо не разбирался, потому как и сказал, вообще не понимаю что это и откуда оно у меня.
Przyjemna gierka ale brakuje jej jeszcze trochę miłości :D
plays for 20min gets down the road, alttabs for about 10sec tabs back in game kicks me back to the main menu reload my saved game resets me back to the begginging all items gone lvl reset, yeah no this game is a lost cause, plus i knows its a unity game but damn is its one of those painfully obvious ones.
So I don't hate this game, but it sucks. It doesn't work, the game stutters even though it looks terrible, the textures are unfinished. The AI doesn't work, and the higher level enemies (All three of the enemies in the entire game) break on account of them just being made to go faster causing them to fly around off of slight inclines.
It's literally unable to be finished on account of a major bug on the main quest. You'll find yourself regularly falling through structures, and being trapped, or moving through a major quest location with completely broken navigation. The Parkour system literally never works properly apart from the literal one location at the very begging of the game. Plenty of buildings in the main quest are just duplicated with the door to nowhere that's clearly visible from the exterior being just locked.
10/10 for 10€
Abandoned trash. It says full release so they dont have to pay refunds.
Great game
J'ai acheté ce jeu avec beaucoup de promesses, c'est une bêta, les bugs et autres ça doit être normal, malheureusement au bout d'un moment le jeu doit avoir des améliorations avec les mises à jour, or aucune amélioration n'a été effectuée. Le jeu est buggé, les zombies ont l'air de robots et le pire dans tout ça, le jeu mal codé donc injouable graphiquement. Max 30 fps peut importe l'ordinateur, je pense que les developeur on abandonner les jeu (1ans sans mise a jour), il devrais me rembourser pour avoir cru en eux, mais prefere partir avec l'argent et ne pas finir ce jeu, dommage il avait un concepte interresant et sortait de l'ordinaire !!
Saw it had mixed reviews and knew exactly what i was getting into. Buggy rpg experince where you shart on thousands of zombies. Hell yes
An unfinished game with many bugs. Everything is explained very poorly in the game. I only figured out how to repair weapons after about 10 hours. 90% of the items are unnecessary.
Die Idee hinter diesem Spiel ist nice!...
Allerdings treten bei mir Mikro Ruckler auf und an und an "stottert" das Bild.
Mal abgesehen von den "schlieren und flimmern".
Schade eigentlich das die Performance nicht so toll ist.
Btw ich habe einen guten PC!
An sich finde ich es echt gut :( nur so wie es jetzt ist, ist es für mich nichts.
Had a dev pop in while streaming this a long time ago. Wish the game was still being worked on
Overall Fun coop zombie masses/boss slaying game, but closer to the middle gets a bit boring due to constant desync bugs in coop, major storyline bugs (both in single and coop modes!) - some quests can just bug out and stay incomplete, NPCs sometimes can run the opposite way (I mean...I don't blame them, lol), sometimes NPCs wouldn't do scripted actions (the traitor on my first try bugged out in his house and was screaming at me, but not attacking).
I LOVE parcour though! So fun finding alternative sneaky routes over obvious ways (always tried to climb over the rocks instead of going through obvious path to danger, lol
I'd give it 3+/5 and being generous. If/when the bugs are fixed - it will be 5/5 :)
Well.. First Of All: This Game Is Beautiful. Second, I Think The World Is Well Crafted But There Is A Lack Of Humans Tho.. But There Will Maybe Be A Second Game So.. Yeah Its Pretty Cool.. Also The World Seems A Bit Too Dead Which Has A Scary Vibe Too It. (Which I Like) The Combat Is Frickin Awesome.. I Love The Powers. The Game Would Also Be A 10/10 If I Had A Better PC And Not Such A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Framerate. So 8/10.
I got this game in beta and it was like nintendo 64 graphics. I just came back to it 5 years later and its still not a full game. TRASH DEVELOPERS, good game IDEA. Poor follow through, I even gave it 5 years to wait to play it.
Great game, but definitely requires some refinement.
Broken. Multiplayer didnt work at all. Game was buggy and broken.
Unfinished, abandoned, bad.
Really sad, could have been so much more.
Has potential, but feels unfinished in every aspect throughout.
The skilltree needs a serious re-work.
The "loot" needs a serious re-work (MORE ITEMS, LOTS MORE).
The AI seems to break if you tab out of the game cause the enemies will start to jump up and down, stomping you into the ground and with that you will fall through the world, almost requiring a restart of the game.
There. are. so. many. bugs.
Best weapon in the game is the steel greatsword cause of its reach. even the "best" weapon is not as good cause its shorter and you need reach to cleave through multiple enemies more effectively.
All abilities have too long cooldown, even the best ability (360 cleave, any of them) has a 5 second cooldown and you cant use it while melee spamming, so you have to stop melee spamming wait half a sec and then use the ability, it just feels janky as hell.
If you open up the inventory you can sort by Armor, but there is no armor in the entire game.
You can also sort by crafting, but there is no crafting in this game.
It feels so damn unfinished its like an Alpha 2.0, where they have all the basic functions and assets of the game so that they can start making the actual game, but here we are with the Alpha.
I didnt get a new weapon for about 40 levels, the loot gets so damn boring quickly.
Not to mention, after looking through crates, boxes, chests, shelves and so on, you start to feel like that's all you do, pick 1 flask up you get 1 flask, pick 1 bullet up, you get 1 bullet. This needs adressing as well.
If you got more loot either through just leveling up or putting points into a skill in the skilltree, this could be fixed easily, but that goes back to "the loot needs a serious re-work" which i said earlier.
It is however fun to mow down hordes of thousands of zombies.
And my total enjoyment score is 49%
If all the issues with the game were fixed i would easily put it above 90, but these issues and downright gamebreaking bugs will never make me play the game again.
You need a beefy CPU for the game to work properly, so major optimizations are needed from the dev, im willing to bet that the 99.3% (in writing moment) of the people that just simply started the game and then turned it off, had problems with performance even on the lowest settings, because only 53% of the people picked up the first weapon you get in the game (a paddle) used it to kill 1 zombie.
HUGE PATCH OF EPIC PROPORTIONS is needed to fix the game.
Dead abandoned broken promise game. BOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Покупал игру по скидке за два доллара и за эти деньги она хорошая. Я ждал от нее меньшего чем в ней оказалось. Большой открытый мир, приятная музыка, бой приятный, не смотря на простоту Наличие полноценного паркура вообще удивило. Почти безостановочная мясорубка тысяч зомби, игра от разработчиков UEBS все таки. Мне как любителю рубить зомби понравилось, но и расстроило одновременно.
Игра не доделана от слова совсем. Мир огромный но пустой, НПС по пальцам пересчитать, квестов тоже, есть заявленные механики в статистике персонажа, которых нет в игре. Сюжет явно раскрыт не до конца. Ну и баги, конечно же, на месте.
Как зомби слэшер, с элементами рпг, игру можно рассматривать, и в этом плане она не плоха, но как РПГ нет - она слишком пустая.
For $10 I will recommend this, and that is the asking price. Short bit of drama behind this game, they created it and had a lot of ambitions with it, but it did not sell well and another game in their catalog was 100% a cash cow (epic battle simulator if I remember right) and this game got neglected understandably so.. then... they returned out of nowhere to say that they have some free developers now, and that they felt this game never got the attention it deserved and thus they improved it. This game is not great to be honest, there's a lot thats set up and hardly fleshed out and full of bugs, but however for $10 you're going to have a lot of fun leveling up, cutting down large swarms of enemies, and fight a nasty plague. This game is a strong C+ on the game rating scale, meaning that you know there are flaws but still you're going to have some fun and for the price its sold at it is definitely worth the cash.
Tried this out a long time ago. Last time I touched it, it had enormous performance issues. Very disappointed to come back and look after all this time to see yet another Early Access cop out. Just released and abandoned.
There should be some kind of legal or financial penalty for this kind of behavior.
Love this game. It's masterful, but not optimized for multiplayer. High hopes for more updates! Check out any other medieval apocalypse games. They haven't been released yet and won't be for a while. The devs of The Black Masses have poured heart and soul into this game. It's not perfect and never will be, but cmon, it's 10 bucks. Enjoy the
concept, especially in single player offline.
Not Yet...Getting there, but not yet.
The game is a interesting mix of systems. At its core I am reminded of Elder Scrolls 3, with a bit of Assassins Creed to some degree, but in a world of zombies, which gives me a vibe similar to Red Dead's zombie expansion. Overall, this game is enjoyable, and while it might be a bit simple the different mechanics allow for it to feel complex.
TLDR version. 8/10. Game is fun, and worth the price
I got this game just to try it out back when it was first being developed, thought ok room for improvement and im sure its going to be improved, come full release i gave it another go and was disappointed, i regret buying this.
The combat is bad, the animations are bad, this is literally a poo child of elder scrolls and dying light. There isnt any graphics optimisation and it ran my graphics card hot on just high setting. The loot system is really poor, 95% of the game has things that look lootable that arent, i defeated a possessed knight with it swinging its great sword at me and was very disappointed when it was clear to me enemies do not drop any loot, like at all.
Очень забавная, поиграть в компании особенно здорово:)
Steam has rules about refunds on abandoned games, so they claimed it was complete. It's not a finished game.
This is a really entertaining game, to me its like medieval dying light lol. They have fixed pretty much all the issues that were complained about in other reviews and they finished with all of the content so no better time to jump in.
Game was abandoned sadly. Massive bugs, progression is clunky, honestly spend your money elsewhere as there wont be any updates ever.
自分は好きだし何十時間もやってレベルも100以上になった、が、他人にオススメするとなると割と躊躇する作品
広いオープンワールドのあちこちにゾンビがいてさらには特定の場所に数千体ほど群れになって集まっている中世的な世紀末世界(少ないNPCはあちこちにセーフゾーンを築いている)
プレイヤーはそれに対抗する為に町を探索しアイテムを整え、レベルを上げスキルを取得したりして立ち向かうオープンワールドアクションと言えば面白そうと思うがものすごく大味、と言うか色々整っていない
建物の種類、アイテムの種類は多くないしストーリー、クエストはあるものの盛り上がる展開では全くないし
UIは数時間で作ったのかと言うほどチープだし戦闘もゾンビのAIが良くないので簡単に安置が出来たりスタックするので正直言ってわりと単調な部類に入る
ただプレイしている間は蟻の巣を潰していくようにブラっと町へ行き、うろつくゾンビを殲滅して家々のチェストを開き何百個目にもなったトマトやポテトを回収する事に夢中になってしまう
一応評価点として挙げられる点
・パルクールはかなり無理が効き壁や家の屋上などに登ることは容易
・キャラが滅茶苦茶育つと序盤の大群相手等なら安置を使わずとも掃討する事が出来中々に爽快
the black .........asses AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH wakanda fo eva
багающий, лагающий кусок дерьма
Abandonware
no
Got the game on sale for like 2 USD, it's obviously not good but I'm always down for a game that's slop but hits some decent notes here and there. This game didn't do anything for me. I played for 30 minutes and was LV4, the game wants you to grind out to LV5 before you start getting actual skills from the skill tree. The first really cool skill I'd seen people talk about was the Earth Stomp which would take hours to get at the rate it was going, and I was running forward to pull all the mobs I could and try AoE farming. The Basic skills you can get at LV1 aren't good, the Flame Strike ability you'd have to spam multiple times to kill even a single enemy. Ranged is way stronger but you need Ammo and a Weapon to use said Ammo. Enemy AI sucks and it's hard to pull and entire town cus 5-10 zombies will just chill in buildings for no particular reason. There's also a billion things to loot but it's just so annoying walking around clicking E on fifty things in every building, when 99% of it doesn't matter.
Optimization-wise the game is trash. Takes a while to load on startup. I had it on potato settings even though I could go higher and the pop-ins were infuriating. I mean you'd think having the lowest graphical settings would mean NO pop-ins but that's not the case. The darkness in the game made it hard to see BUT so did the lighting. The Sun would be so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bright I couldn't see a thing in front of me. I'm walking around outside squinting like what the ♥♥♥♥ is this light setting.
Overall to me it doesn't seem worth anyone's time. An empty map zombie farming simulator with looting.
I bought this game and forgot to refund it... Whoops.
Тот, кто это сделал, однозначно ебанутый.
Overall, I really enjoyed the game. The intense atmosphere with lots of blood and splatter was particularly impressive, creating a dark and gripping mood. The story was somewhat interesting and kept me engaged for the most part.
However, I have to say that the ending was disappointing. Even though the deity was defeated, the black plague still remains across the land. This aspect could have been resolved better. An alternative ending where the curse is actually lifted would have been much more satisfying for me.
Although it’s possible to continue playing after defeating the god, zombies and demons are still everywhere. This makes the player's victory ultimately feel meaningless.
In summary, I had a lot of fun with the game, but the disappointing ending significantly dampens the overall experience.
Yep. They got me.
Abandonware. Don't bother.
Save your money.
Abandonware - which is sad, b/c it could have been great
After having waited on this game for years remaining very hopeful, i tried it again after the "full release" and nothing feels different on the front end. Additionally, all the things that seemed bad that i figured would change for the full release all seem so much worse now. Feels like almost nothing/minimal in the world is actually lootable, can interact with very few things. The actual things you can open like chests and drawers have minimal loot if any at all. Combat feels very sluggish and forced. Zombies feel very dull and lifeless, so to speak. The animation and ai did not feel very immersive. The overall feel of the world just felt a little off, not only is is just very empty and dull feeling, with everything being stagnant and repetitive the environment does not feel alive at all. The UI feels almost like an after thought. This does not feel like a game, it feels like they slapped some assets together with their zombie rendering system and called it a day. I was completely discouraged to want to get into any of the mechanics of the game my second time around with the minimal effort put into the intro to the game. There is no action, there is no adventure, there is no RPG, and even the zombie fights don't feel good. I am sad to say that i can not recommend this game after looking forward to it for so long. This feel abandoned.
TLDR; game looks bad, ui looks bad: loot feels bad, combat feels bad. don't buy.
so i started playing it and i will say i love it the game is exceptionally good . i don't have any issues with it .
Malo y abandonado.
the game is okay but needs a lot of help, this is supposed to be the finished version of the game but yet it just so... unfinished? The world is empty and just repeating structures with nothing really interesting to find. There is not a lot of variety and the story while interesting, is weak. I wanted to like this game more than I did, but it was just super buggy. The AI pathing was pretty bad, the possessed would glitch through floors and buildings and get stuck in a lot of places. The quests are pretty vague, and the climbing/parkour mechanic are basically non existent, so parts of the game where climbing was required was really difficult.
With the game being in its 1.0 full release, it honestly just feels like abandonware. It just feels so unfinished. I feel like the went to big, had the game been less, open worldy, and more linear it could have done better with what they had. but being such a large open world with not a lot in it makes for a mildly entertaining hack n slash.
Which that part I did enjoy, I love me so hack n slash and this game did give me a lot of fun with the hack n slashing.
The game is really just an open world first person mode of UEBS
TLDR;
Overall, for a 1.0 release, the game is mid, would be worth a few bucks on sale but not the full price. It tried really hard to be like Dying Light, but couldn't measure up. 3.5/10
Poor gameplay and poor optimization. This project seems more abandoned than "finished".
Aye, this ♥♥♥♥ runs at 4000 fps and attempts to cook my ♥♥♥♥ on launch. Prolly should configure that ♥♥♥♥, cuz I'm not doing it for you. That jank slapped up in bundles im not unpacking just to find config that should be on front page. Thanks for the free game though, seems really cool and would love to play it, really hope you guys figure that out. Oh, and warning if you're in comments looking for bits, main menu with max out gpu as ♥♥♥♥ and your tower will grow wings in attempt to take off in flight.
это какая то шляпа шляпная, хз сколько ей лет но малина нарисованая на текстуре листочка без детализации это сильно.... на ультрах мыло мыльное руки висящие отдельно как обрубки когда карабкаешся по стене))))) куча пустых непонятно нахера тогда открывающихся ящиков... кароче логика тупо отсутствует в игре... скамина
No development for a very long time and when they do work on it again they do nothing and somehow justify calling it "finished." Save your money, spend it somewhere else.
This game needs a few more rounds in development. And some playtesting. The last fight is fairly difficult even with cheats.
Half assed 1.0 release that is extremely disapointing. almost no work or updates for a long time, then out of nowhere 1.0? its definitely them abandoning the game. not even half the promised content is here, and what is here is incredibly bugging and rough around the edges. absolutely NOT 1.0. dont waste your time, its not getting any better than this, and the devs have left an incredibly bitter taste in the communities mouth. honestly wish i hadn't bought the game years ago
GREAT GAME
I almost did not buy this game because of all the negative reviews but i'm happy i did. Good job to the people who made this very fun game
I wanted to play this game after its finally 1.0(1.01 actually but close enough) I don't know how this happened but optimization got sooooooo bad since I last played this game couple of years ago. I can't recomend for anyone to buy it even on a sale since most people with decent PCs wouldn't even be able to play it unless they are ok with stuff literally appearing in front of their faces(no joke thats the only way I can play this) so don't buy it
For 2 bucks on sale, recommended.
Lot's of problems, but the only one I care about is:
In a game about chopping zombies up with swords, chopping up zombies with swords has gotta be satisfying, which it is not. I figured once I found a sword it would start to come together, but it didn't.
This needs the melee combat of something like Mordhau or Dying Light 2. When there's much better options for a big part of what this game is going for it makes it hard to fight through the badness of this one to get to what they want you to do.
But I tell you what. If the melee/bladed combat got a revamp where the gore, dismemberment, blood, and sound effects (for the weapons themselves and the combat) this could really be something. All in all, the combat just needs better feedback. If this was 10 years ago it would be fine, but it's not.
It's tough because this game is like *this* close to being something of a dream game, but it's not quite there because of the combat and performance. And that's literally it, I won't complain about anything else.
What they need is funding and maybe some people with years of experience in Unity to shape it up properly, and I hope that happens. But if they're giving it away for 2 bucks, I unfortunately doubt that. But I'm hoping anyway.
SCAM GAME - DO NOT BUY
it's just too laggy and buggy, the concept is great though
It's been actual years and it still has awkward instructions on the loading screen as how to not crash the game, very cute.
We have gotten up to UE5 but this game feels like it was made in UE1.
If you have to put a disclaimer in your loading screen saying "Please be patient, do not click at 90% as it crashes it by windows" its not an OS issue, its a game development issue. They had something good cooking but failed at the final execution. Game is buggy and sloppy. Cannot believe its in 1.0 Full Release, probably just to say they "finished" a game. Glad I bought this for $2.15 which tbh is a bit overpriced. Lol
Tried to play with a mate after almost two years. Online didnt work and loading was atrocious.
Its just sad, coop doesnt worked for us. Couldnt join. Everything looks unfinished. For free it would mae sense.
Rushed to 1.0, runs like ♥♥♥♥, bad progression but overall decent skill system, bad map geometry in a lot of areas and each town is basically a copy paste of the same few buildings in a different city layout.
Maybe I'm just not invested but the story seems bland, and there's nothing to really do with NPC's aside from a few lines of text basically saying "go here for one of a few reasons" over and over.
Only redeeming quality is the sheer volume of enemies that can be involved in a single fight, but this is also a drawback, at least early on.
Who knows, maybe they'll update and optimize it, it might be fun to return to from time to time and just hack ♥♥♥♥ apart until it gets dull. I don't necessarily think it's bad but them just slapping "1.0" on what was clearly an unfinished product was disappointing.
All after going on hiatus for more than a year.
For what it is, it's not that bad.
It's a small dev team, it's a passion project. It's fun, despite some obvious flaws.
I'm going to list the flaws, and it's going to seem super negative...but I've put hours into this game. I've had fun. I would recommend getting if A - you don't mind the flaws I list and B - you see it at a reasonable sale.
- Entering attics requires player to crouch.
- Combat and enemies are not varied enough.
- Quests should be re-thought. I Would suggest approaching these from a Skyrim approach. IE randomizing certain elements, right now it feels very static in a stale way.
- Duplicate items do nothing, as far as I can tell. They should either return some usability to a weapon or they should be able to be broken down into scrap which can then be used for repairs or maybe building barricades or other type items.
- Tutorial could be shorter. This, for me, is a big one. I like to restart games a lot to see if I may have missed something early on. It's weird, I know, but it bugs me when it takes a while to get into the game, because of this. The tutorial doesn't really help a whole lot, so I would really shorten it down as much as possible.
[Edit 1/4/25]: One of my biggest complaints, right now, is that the zombies respawn in the same locations. I would love to see some changes here. Either different spawn points, numbers, etc. or persistent death, as it would be nice to run past a pile of dead zombies now and then without worrying about how to tackle them in the next load.
Aside from those items, I think the game is quite entertaining. Killing hoards of zombies is always fun and the devs have delivered on several fun game concepts and I think this could be improved enough to become a good game. So, that being said, keep up the good work, devs. Don't let the negatives I listed bum you out too much, it's a work in progress.
SCAM! Asset flip, antivirus detect "The black masses.exe" as threat, poor performance
For what it is, its fine. Kinda has its own charm. Not a masterpiece but if you like smashing zombies get it from sale.
first off dont listen to the bad reviews.this is a very fun rpg with huge hordes of zombie like infected peeps.the map is open world and very large. use the environment to help you,aka windmill and armys. no Armour to wear but weapon selection is pretty good,swords,muskets,axe's or a broom.i have no issues with the game running smooth,even with my slow internet speeds and older pc .the $22 price tag is very fair .give this game a chance ( if you like sky rim style games you will like this)
I've read some of the negative reviews, and jumped in it for a bit to see if they're really accurate.
First: Optimization. I was able to turn the quality up more than I had it at before, and it runs well.
Second: features. I've never paid attention to what they promised. It's a medieval + simple guns zombie horde game. If the game's difficulty curve expects you to have extra protections or buffs, then I would call it incomplete, but I've not seen it.
Third: Abandonware? They're putting out regular updates.
Let the salty people be salty. Let people enjoy things.
I think this game is enjoyable.
My biggest issue is that it's listed as single player but has multiplayer features.
gdyby nie rabat 90% nigdy bym tego gówna nie kupił
gra jest we wczesnej alfie 1.0 ma tylko wyglądać
This game sucks, it's unreal how badly developed this is. Some people shouldn't make games.
It really sucks that this game isn't optimized because if it didn't freeze to load assets every five steps I can imagine myself putting a lot of hours into this. The only reason I'm not refunding it is because I bought it on sale and want to wait to see if it ever actually becomes a playable game.
Massively buggy, largely unfinished, could be a lot better.
But it's cheap, has hours of gameplay in it, and is just basic fun.
Keep your expectations low, and you will have a good time.
cool concept but poorly executed. combat feels slow and stiff, textures models and animations look like they were purchased from a marketplace as none of them are in the same style.
I reinstalled for the full release to find the game hasn't actually been changed or polished at all since early access several years ago. I can't recommend this currently. Which sucks, because first person mass mob slaying is a fun concept.
Pues esta muy bien. matar y matar... para que mas?
Ein wenig wie Skyrim wenn das von 1996 währe.
everything about it is bad. just dont buy it
Unfortunately the optimization got so bad that I can't even run the game on potato mode and get a smooth experience. When I played the game in 2020 it was fun, but even though my PC got better the game now runs worse. It's confusing. If the devs fix the optimization I'll 100% come back, because this game and concept is such a fun time! but since I can't even play it now, there not much else for me to say :(
I really wish the Devs had stuck with this. The potential of this game was insane and they just never followed through with it.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. ABANDONWARE AND RUSHED 1.0 RELEASE CASHGRAB BECAUSE THE DEVS COULDN'T BE BOTHERED. THERE ARE LESS FEATURES THAN EARLY ACCESS OF SONS OF THE FOREST.
Jeu fini à la pi....
Just don't
Fun little game. Definitely get on sale though. Very unpolished in dozens of little ways. But if you just want to have some fun hacking and slashing through a ton of zombies and exploring a rather large world, it's more than upto the task. Just go in expecting an unpolished indie game with plenty of flaws.
The second half is definitely worse than the first half in that respect, but they quadrupled the playing area. Given the low budget and few devs i can live with that at a cheap enough price.
