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Themes · complaint churn

Balance RNG

Useless picks, overpowered picks, runs decided by luck, bullet sponges.

In HALL PASS

What responds to it.

Scoreboard cluster 01 Balance and RNG: August AT-RISK, now Ongoing 55% our estimate

Per game

Where it shows up on Steam.

Weighted count in each game's reviews, with the share of that side and the median hours of the reviewers who raised it.

In negative reviews

  1. Megabonk1,54221.9% · median 33h · 803 reviews
  2. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor77911.9% · median 52h · 371 reviews
  3. Death Must Die51017.4% · median 36h · 226 reviews
  4. Brotato33813.2% · median 42h · 159 reviews
  5. Soulstone Survivors1998.7% · median 42h · 92 reviews
  6. Vampire Survivors1844.1% · median 18h · 89 reviews
  7. Halls of Torment1597.7% · median 26h · 68 reviews
  8. 20 Minutes Till Dawn1597.6% · median 13h · 82 reviews
  9. Crimsonland207.7% · median 8h · 11 reviews
  10. Geometry Wars 361.6% · median 8h · 2 reviews

Per community

Where it shows up on Reddit.

CommunityIn request threadsIn praiseIn complaintsIn quit sentences
r/vampiresurvivors——6,742 2,966 items2 1 sentences
r/roguelites——10,071 4,636 items27 12 sentences
r/roguelikes——13,337 5,493 items11 5 sentences
r/brotato——8,305 3,758 items10 3 sentences
r/SoulstoneSurvivors——1,275 574 items0 0 sentences
r/hallsoftorment——1,025 466 items0 0 sentences
r/DeathMustDie——1,087 494 items1 1 sentences
r/20MinutesTillDawn——408 192 items0 0 sentences

In their words

The highest-weighted reviews that matched.

Truncated to the first few hundred characters as they were in the harvest reports. The weight beside each is one plus the natural log of one plus its helpful votes.

Amazing first impressions. Super fun and addicting game. Then once you reach tier 3, it all falls apart. The balance is a mess, or should I say, the game has so many guardrails to prevent you becoming very strong because it seems that the devs are terrified of you becoming overpo
Megabonk · 14h playedw 7.9
I generally don't like giving negative reviews, but the price-point for the genre vs the experience is just not it. So Soulstone Survivors looks great at first glance. It's got good visuals, seemingly tons of customisation, good controls. So why, then, do I not recommend it? This
Soulstone Survivors · 1h playedw 7.4
UPDATE 2/25: More thoughts at the bottom of the review. It's very hard for me to give a negative review because I really do love what this game wants so badly to be, and I love DRG and the guys that made it, but in its current state, I simply can't recommend it (DISCLAIMER: Yes,
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor · 98h playedw 7.3
I think this game has the potential to be really great. But right now since EA release it is just daily patches to nerf things people find out are good. There's a lot of imbalance between the gods and skills. Part of the appeal of these games is getting wildly powerful. Maybe the
Death Must Die · 15h playedw 7
I'll start by saying that the game caught me by surprise, I played about 9h straight after I bought it, and have unlocked ~70% of the unlockables. It was more fun than I thought it would be from the videos I saw, but ultimately fails to deliver on what you expect from the survivo
Megabonk · 30h playedw 6.8
At the moment of this review the new content patch dropped and it is a BIG step but in the wrong direction. The whole premise under this kind of game should be fast paced free movement and power fantasy and its the opposite of what act 3 has brought to the game. Too many movement
Death Must Die · 116h playedw 6.6
Fun at first but shallow in the long run I came to this game as someone who has completed Vampire Survivors 100% as of 1.0 and if you're looking for a game of this type and haven't played that yet, go play that instead. As for Soulstone Survivors I was having fun with the first c
Soulstone Survivors · 26h playedw 6.6
There's the bones of a great game in there, but in its current state it feels like the devs ran out of ideas halfway through. I got to Hazard 3 which is meant to be the midpoint but I simply lost all interest because the only realistic way to progress further is a brutal and quit
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor · 35h playedw 6.4
Need to list a couple of disclaimers here: -- If you are just now considering whether to buy the game or not, DO. This is one of the best horde survival games on the market. There's a lot of content, especially with the Act II update, and you'll get your mo...
Death Must Diew 6.3
The game isn't really bad, it's good but as it has been pointed out by so many others, it lacks depth and variety Meta progression is grindy and honestly not worth the effort. You barely feel the difference in gameplay with runes and apparently the dev was so afraid of creating "
20 Minutes Till Dawn · 52h playedw 5.9
After 88/88 unlocks I have conflicting feelings about this game. On one hand it is well made, looks nice, and is even fun to play (at least at the beginning). On the other hand, it has two terrible flaws. The first is the traditional opposition found in the quasi rogue-lite genre: skill-based vs....
Vampire Survivors · 34h playedw 5.7
At first you are going to like this game. But after a period of time, you will realize, that the game has very little depth. Every run feels the same. This is because the enemies are just blobs of health and damage, with mildly varying movement patterns. Don't let that fool you into thinking ther...
Vampire Survivors · 14h playedw 5.4

How it was counted

The patterns that matched.

Case-insensitive regular expressions from the harvest scripts, reproduced as written. A review or sentence counts once for the theme if any pattern matches.

Steam harvester complaint

  • \brng\b
  • unbalanc\w+
  • \bnerf\w*
  • overpower\w*
  • useless (weapon|item|upgrade|character)
  • luck[- ]?based
  • unfair
  • one[- ]?shot
  • bullet ?sponge
  • bad (luck|rolls)