Themes · complaint churn
Depth autopilot
The game plays itself; there is nothing to decide or execute.
- Steam complaint718#10 of 11 · 344 reviews · 2.3% of negative reviews · median 15h
- Stated reason for quitting11#10 of 12 · 5 quit sentences
In HALL PASS
What responds to it.
- Flash Step, Domain, Elective, Shikigami, TagCursed Energy and the five things you can doTuned
Cursed Energy is one shared pool. The basic weapon is free and fighting fills the meter; Flash Step recharge, the equipped elective and the shikigami all spend from it. Carrying more abilities means casting each of them less often, which is the cost we wanted.
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.
Per community
Where it shows up on Reddit.
| Community | In request threads | In praise | In complaints | In quit sentences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/vampiresurvivors | — | — | 5,690 2,491 items | 9 4 sentences |
| r/roguelites | — | — | 4,742 2,088 items | 2 1 sentences |
| r/roguelikes | — | — | 2,124 908 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/brotato | — | — | 814 373 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/SoulstoneSurvivors | — | — | 295 138 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/hallsoftorment | — | — | 539 262 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/DeathMustDie | — | — | 431 203 items | 0 0 sentences |
| r/20MinutesTillDawn | — | — | 142 70 items | 0 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.
IDK man, I guess I just don't "get it". You move around, avoiding enemies and collecting auto-attacks. You have no control over your attacks, besides some limited choice of what you get. Maybe I had the wrong expectations, I was expecting an action game where I kill monsters, not
Unpopular opinion: Vampire Survivors is overrated. I don't hate it; in fact, I had some fun with it. But in the end, it just felt like a waste of time. Once you unlock all the items and figure out the evolutions, there's not much to the strategy. There's almost no real variety to the enemies or l...
If this game were less highly reviewed I would have probably just ignored it, but the hype about it as a roguelite got me to buy it, and I'm kinda confused why it got so much hype in the first place - to me it feels like the worst possible cross between an auto battler and a twin stick shooter. T...
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
plays itselfno (skill|input|agency)auto ?(pilot|battler|attack)barely (playing|a game)not (really )?a gameidle gameafkno (real )?strategy