The Surge 2 Reviews

Have only played a couple of hours at this point my view so far Graphics sub par compared to the first Surge game. No character voice lines cut scenes are not cgi'd as well either Combat is a little more arcady which makes it more player friendly break down of what gear offers is more understandable. Will play until i have completed all the campaigns but i feel like they should have expanded on the first game rather then making a new one with worse graphics.

Fun game, an improvement over the first one in terms of gameplay but it could be better performance wise, it looks identical to the first one while being harder to run, the game stutters a lot if you don't cap the fps and it has some kind of memory issue with the gpu almost using all my vram regardless of the graphics settings, although you can probably brute force these issues with a stronger pc, mine's a little old. Over all i think is worth buying on sale :)

quest bugged at aid command center unable to progress even after having guttenbergs card disapointed

Not my favorite, but I think it's good enough as a soulslike game. Yeah, it's worth to try I think, just give it a shot and feel it your self

Not as good as the 1st game, but still pretty good. Things it excels at: gameplay and weapon variety.

For a AA souls-like this game is pretty good. Personally I felt a bit let down. I enjoyed the first game a lot, but it had many shortcomings. Shortcomings I overlooked, because the studio is of smaller size compared to others, and I assumed they would be improved on in the second game. Don't get me wrong, they did improve many things. Combat is very good, there's a nice variety of gear and weapons, and thus playstyles. But I went in hoping for more enemy variety and bosses. Similar to the first game, there's not a lot of it. Also some of the player animations are just goofy, which I was hoping they'd have improved. E.g. single-rigged or heavy duty weapons. Storywise, the finale of the first game has huge implications in regard to nanites and the fate of the world, whereas the second game starts off very tame. Yeah nanites are a thing and they are spreading, but it's still just mostly humans lootin' and murderin'. 90% of the game you just fight humans (with different weapons/movesets and gear to be fair). I went in with the expectation that apocalypse was on full display, whereas here it is contained in a small part of a city. I thought the story in the first game was excellent, about the implications of an unchecked company just unleashing dangerous tech without regard for the risks, showing that the ends don't justify the means. Second game story is like "ok it's unleashed, but well it was all about humans and their emotions anyways!". Personally I'm not a fan of sci-fi games/movies about technologies beyond our understanding suddenly pivoting into "OuR lOvE iS tHe OnLy ThInG tHaT cAn SaVe Us". Yes I'm not a fan of interstellar's ending, how did you know. Still, I think Deck13 has the "sauce". There are so many quality of life things in this game, that other high budget games don't have. The few cutscenes the game has are great. The stories are overall very intriguing. The level design is most of the time excellent (fuck the power plant though). Combat is original and fun. There's fun stuff and jokes hidden in small details. Overall I enjoy their games very much and I just wish there was more "meat on the bone". You can see small glimmers of greatness in their games, they are just not quite there.

No issues with the first game. Horrible performance issues here. Tons of suggested solutions, some worked passably well, none worked well enough (or were permanent enough) for me to justify playing this.

I'm not someone who normally blocks in Souls-likes, but apparently the devs at Deck13 keep their fingers firmly placed on the block button, because in both Surges and LotF they keep insisting on a particular playstyle. It all kind of feels like an antitheses to what these sorts of games are supposed to be like.

One of the most entertaining souls-like i've ever played. Better than it's predecesor, Surge 2 delivers a strong fight mechanic, a beautiful setting and the thrill of finding out what the heck is happening. NG+ makes it even better.

Absolutely loved the first game, short and sweet and a pretty unique take on the souls like genre. This one is just not it. Random extreme difficulty spikes which force you to play in a specific way which kind of removes the whole "hard but fair" attraction to these kinds of games.