HASTE: Broken Worlds Steam Charts & Stats

Haste's core gameplay loop is really, really fun. You can really tell that the creators of Clustertruck have refined this type of "speed flow" game into something that's really addicting and satisfying to play. I really enjoy that base, both as something complex and challenging, and also something I can turn my brain off and just enjoy go fast speed mmm brrr. If you see footage of the gameplay and get a burning itch to get in there try it out yourself... I'd recommend you buy this game, especially for its relatively low pricepoint. You won't be disappointed in that regard. Where Haste becomes harder to recommend is in everything else surrounding this gameplay. The mechanics and pieces around it often feel like decorations in comparison. The "rougelike" elements seem thrown in, the items you get don't really change that much about your run, the characters are quirky but that's about it, and the story feels pretty paper-thin. All of it barely matters. Almost 5 hours in, I can see few major variations in the playstyles offered. The worlds you get to speed around start to repeat with fairly minor changes. The dialogue cut-ins start to feel grating. Overall, I can't seem to find reasons to keep playing other than "being fast is fun". And again... it IS. But if a game like this wants to take itself to the next level, the rest of it needs to be just as tight and gripping as its core gameplay.

This is a lot of fun. It has a sense of speed that very few games give. It's challenging, maybe a bit too much. The difficulty feels like it can spike hard in places. I'm not a huge fan of the boss fights, tbh. The story is more of a framework than anything solid, but it does what it needs to. Overall, enjoyable and worth the price of admission.

The story is a prank. The gameplay is like if Subway Surfers inhaled enough energy drinks to kill an elephant, and then decided to put on its best Risk of Rain 2 cosplay. The soundtrack is INSANE. IN-SANE. I am completely at a loss for words on how to gas it up. If you know you know. -1 point for balancing issues so bad they threw their hands up and added multiple difficulty sliders, -1 point for story awfulness. Please for god's sake nerf the big roots (they are unplayable on sprint mode). It's also pretty buggy on occasion. Everything just feels a little unfinished, but the vision is there. 8/10 but I love it dearly despite its flaws.

This game feels so close to being a must play but it really is not. Dodging obstacles at 100+ speed feels amazing. Landing perfectly on an object that feels like it should be out of bounds is stellar. but ultimately this being a rogue-like does nothing to help the game and often parts of this game can feel unfair or RNG rather than skilful. Currently this game is a 6/10 at best.

Going fast is fun. Feels like a mix between Sonic and the SSX franchise. If either of those are enjoyable to you, you may find similar enjoyment in this game. Hope there will be DLC or a sequel. Artwork is fantastic. The Wraith is my best bud.

This is the first game I've felt compelled to write a review about. Written at the time of release 1.3.a. TLDR; Solid foundation to be something great, but falls flat on its face in every aspect other than core gameplay loop and sound design. 5 hours to completion. No replayability. Overpriced. This is much closer to an arcade game than a roguelite. Would not recommend. What Haste does right, it does REALLY right. Fast paced gameplay and necessity for split-second decisions make for the best kind of intense experience. You can truly feel the speed you're moving at, and the actual level gameplay is intriguing and immersive. Moving around a level at speed feels great, and that should be commended. Sound design should be commended also; the sound and music is expertly used to give the player a sense of urgency or "flow state"- but that's basically where the praise ends. The level generation becomes repetitive after Shard 3 (30% through the game). No new designs, no new obstacles, nothing. Just the same levels, over and over, for 70% of the game. And it's not perfect, either- often, one mistake in a split-second decision costs you your entire shard. Even the boss fights repeat. There are 3 unique bosses plus a final fight: the Jumper, the Convoy, and the Snake, repeated through all 9 shards. The jumper is by far the most fun of these three, challenging you to race to him across the map while avoiding unique attacks and obstacles. Even then, he has no "phases" and will be doing the same thing basically the entire fight. The convoy and snake are nothing short of annoying. No real challenge at all, just run around the map and hit them. They shoot lazers but it doesn't add anything unique to the gameplay. The final boss fight is probably the most boring in the entire game. Run around a map where the floor occasionally changes and jump on a few (non-moving) things. Boom. Game finished. (I'm rolling my eyes.) Worldbuilding and storytelling are completely nonsensicle. Dialogue appears at seemingly random times mentioning things that the player has never even heard of. It's an extremely confusing experience- most of the time I had no idea what was going on. When I did have an idea of what was going on, it was contradicted by a later dialogue. Characters would speak to the player even though we are literally on different planes of existence. "How and why are you talking to me?" is a question that was never explained. The story itself is not bad, but was presented in a way that was completely unenjoyable. Furthermore, it almost completely mirrors the story of Celeste. (Which I like, but still, originality is key!) To claim this game is a "roguelite" could be argued as predatory marketing. In an age where players are gifted with games like Isaac, Slay the Spire, and Noita, this couldn't be considered anything more than a demo. The item pool is filled to the brim with boring items (of which there really aren't many, 50-something) where there is no unique synergy. There IS synergy, just not unique or thoughtful synergy. The extent of "replayability" is to keep running the same levels over and over with nearly no new unlockables; "replayability" doesn't mean "the player can replay the game." Replayability is about keeping the same core gameplay loop unique and interesting throughout replays, which is where Haste really fell off the edge for me. There's really nothing to do but run in this game. The claims of "you can get unique items!" and "but, we have procedural level generation!" are true, but misleading. Each run is """different""" but feels the same because the items and level gen make almost no difference in your run at all. In the "hub world" you'll get quest markers sometimes, but often it's an NPC that has a single dialogue line to say to you. That's it. No items. No unlockables. Nothing new. Just one line of meaningless dialogue that doesn't change my understanding of the story, gameplay, or metagame at all. With all of that being said, I really cannot understate how great the core gameplay mechanics feel. The running, jumping, and momentum are unlike anything else I've ever played. Everything else is SEVERELY undercooked, to the degree that I believe this game shouldn't even be for sale yet. I'd refund it right now if I could. I just hope the modding community (or devs! no hate <3) can actually provide us with a sensical world, story, level generation, and REAL roguelite mechanics. Overall 3.5/10.

The main mechanic of Haste is a blast: The running, the pacing and the sense of speed and control is something very hard to achieve and it feels incredible when you get the hang of it. The rest of the game is...ok? It really seems that the progression, the story and the items are just barebones and put there to justify the running. Also, I'm still unsure that the randomization fits the gameplay well enough: On one side, each stage is different, but you also lose that curated feeling for them that is present in other similar games that makes you push for a perfect score. Still deserves a thumbs up because the core is fun and the rest can be improved with time.

Unique and fun. But regular difficultly is WAY too hard to be the regular difficultly. Final boss is basically impossible unless you play the whole shard perfectly. This also applies to the normal fragments, S-ranks are easy early game but quickly become impossible in some situations later on. You can pretty much only get perfect landings on some levels and you'll only get a C. Luckily the game lets you set your own difficulty and it doesn't restrict achievements or anything. Although I personally wouldn't lower difficulty just to get the achievements. Heads up for any new players as well, if you stand next to a shard without running you can press space and you'll be able to set the seed. This is [i]very[/i] useful as you can search for an easy seed then practice it. I don't think this info is ever told to you in-game but it makes some shards WAY easier (I found it particularly useful for shard 9). So all in all, great game since it's unique and really satisfying. [b]16th[/b] on my ranking. Would be higher if normal difficultly was easier. Posting this review right after beating it so you can see my playtime for an average completion time, [b]with lowering the difficulty at some points.[/b]

the core gameplay loop itself is enjoyable, however they kinda just stopped there... - the story sucks, character personalities and text almost feels ai generated, conversation is in like a weird visual novel format so its hard to like - there are literally only 3 bosses as of writing, which gets slightly more difficult without extra variation as you progress so it becomes real stale real quick. - items barely add any variation to gameplay compared to other roguelikes - difficulty progression just feels strange, apart from the bosses, all they do is add more obstacles and make hills slightly more disorienting - endless is just a stage with endless levels, you still finish runs after 30 odd seconds - levels are not procedurally generated, adding to the staleness especially after game completion - every stage has the same small variation of obstacles, the only difference being more of the same things as you progress - scoring when landing is misleading, a "perfect" is the only thing that actually gives you speed not enjoyable for more than a couple hours as things stand, other roguelikes i feel like i could sink days of my time into and replaying in comparison pretty much what you get in the demo, is about all the game has to offer, will update review if they do some big overhauls but i doubt it as landfall is already working on their next game and only doing bug fixes for Haste

Aight look. The running is great. The speed feels great. The music is pretty bop. But jesus christ the devs seem to really not understand what's fun about their own game. It's like they were afraid to just make an endless runner, so instead, they tried to answer the question of "what does a REAL game need???" So suddenly there are now incredibly annoying bullet hell bosses, rogue-lite elements that don't do much because you can't really make a build, there's clunky map from slay the spire, there's awkward story presented a-la Hades (except Supergiant Games know how to write and it's not as annoying to die in Hades, as it is here) and then there's final boss that simply makes you run in circles across the broken shifting terrain where you can just hit a brick wall and fall to your death, because that's what's speedy arcady runner is supposed to feel like, apparently. Not to mention the fact that the random generator sometimes gives you levels that decide to f you over for no real reason - for the last 3 shards I just turned down the damage slider to 5% because I couldn't be bothered anymore. I was very hyped by the demo, but by the end I just left annoyed. I won't bother finishing the last boss.