Necromunda: Underhive Wars

No idea what all the crying is about... this is a decent game - it's fun, fairly unique, and in 25 hours I've not yet come across a single one of these supposed ubiquitous and game breaking bugs...

Gameplay loop is pretty simple, you make a gang, you level them though Thug Life related activities, you make them pretty, you do harder shit, etc. I mean okay, it's not Elden Ring or Mass Effect but it's a perfectly playable and enjoyable game with a pretty unique setting and innovative ideas. I literally paid $2 for this. It's the price of a cheeseburger... the fuck is wrong with y'all?

I enjoyed this game quite a bit, but it has many many issues.
Story was decent, but nothing to write home about.
The AI is terrible:
*They grenade themselves.
*Often sits and does nothing but overwatch/ambush
*Gets stuck trying to walk somewhere, and then gives up and just ends turn
*Take elevator up, then jump down just to go back up then jump down and end turn
*Run past enemy AI to focus player way further away.
*They will attack your HQ even if you literally have nothing.
AI also have some cheaty things:
*Some have insanely high initiative
*Sometimes they throw grenades across the entire map
*Sometimes they have insane graze chance like 80% making it halfways impossible to kill them. (often you can remove some of it by relogging)
*They seem to crit alot when they actually decide to attack
*They can graplinghook downwards somehow.
*Higher difficulty they have like double the health.
Some other annoying things:
Game crashes quite alot, tho it has not bothered me that much.
*Overwatch and Ambush sometimes does'nt work, and often you shoot at them before they come all the way out resulting in just shooting the wall.
*There are ''safezones'' (spawn zones, ziplines, heal stations) everywhere where it moves you if ending turn there. (crouched behind barricade then it pushed me out infront of it so infront of the enemy)
*For some reason the enemy damaged stat maxes out at 99,999.
*Multiplayer achievements.
Out of the 3 non-DLC factions House Orlock is clearly the best being based on ranged dmg.
The others are Melee or poison based.. When you can fully kill a fighter in one turn from 40-50 meters away why would you bother with poison or melee.
With classes same thing.. just ended up using only Heavies and Deadeye classes as they have range and useful skills.
Pretty fun, but very flawed. :)

Don't listen to the whiners on here - if you love the tabletop game and the WH40k setting in general you will enjoy yourself with this.
I have only two gripes -
1) the AI is not the best. Not as bad as some on here make out, but certainly not good or much of a challenge.
2) There is currently no way to play a local private ongoing campaign. It's either play against the AI, or play against other people you don't know - a choice between two extremes. As a casual player, I would like an option to just play against friends and family in a private campaign where gangs still make progress - at the moment the only option to play privately against friends only is to play a game where nothing counts and no progress is recorded.
Other than that a great game. If the developers made point 2 above an option, I would be shouting about this game from the rooftops.

Excellent environment design, reasonable attempt to represent the concept of necromunda. Buggy, bad gameplay, the worst campaign I've ever seen in a game and for some reason customization is locked behind said terrible campaign. Don't buy this for more than $5.

Was waiting for another game like Mordheim: City of the Damned and this one works for me! It has its annoying features, like AI is not very good, but overall have really enjoyed the game. There are a couple of bugs here and there, but game is worth it. If you like strategy turn based games in Warhammer universe you will love it.

There are comments on how awful the games tactics are compared to X-Com, and that the 3rd person camera is ridiculous. Well yes X-com precision fans better stay away, but that said I do like the game and did not expect to build gang of my own and getting bit of hooked on their leveling,after I played through the story.
The AI is pretty much all over the place and still somehow uses the pretty funny movement restrictions well to its advantage. The story part of the game was still easy, thou there were some surprises in the AI’s pocket occasionally, but this was pretty much because I didn’t expect it to perform like that, compared to previous decisions it made. The 3rd person views surely are bit odd for a game like this, but it was nice variation and maybe as the universe is so tight up in the tabletop models, they were trying to bring the models closer or something.
The only issue was when there were three or more gangs involved and you must sit through them all without skipping the movement. But in the end, I realized that this was perfect time consume more brewed refreshments and maybe this game should be enjoyed with couple of malty drinks or something equivalent. :)

I really don't understand the hate this game gets. Bought it on sale as a gamble, expecting it to be broken garbage. But in all honesty it's a super fun and unique take on the turn based strategy genre with an excellent coat of pain. Sure, the voice acting is rough and the AI can be a little funny, but that's honestly the 40k video game charm. Great little pick up on a sale and looking forward to the devs next project