Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Dec 16, 2021

  It is bad, in the sense that the controls seem to be extremely counter-intuitive. I cant even drive a car in a straight line. They promised chaos. They delivered chaos. But not in a good way. There is no way I can make this game work for me. The controls are a dealbreaker.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 18, 2021

  Really wanted to like this game, but it just controls like absolute garbage. Moving and shooting is not very fun and the driving is horrendous. Just go play GTA 2 for something better. Such a shame, I hope they can rework it in the future and then I'd return.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 4, 2022

  I really want to like this game, but it's hard. Technical difficulties aside (choppy frame rates), I spent most of my time in game trying to find npcs to kill, so I could have enough money to buy ammo or guns to run a mission. NPCs are ridiculously hard to find. so 1.8 of my 1.9 hours was spent running around an empty map just to get enough money for a basic weapon. **Edit** Came back a couple months later. If you treat it like a bullet hell, it's a bit more enjoyable. But... eehhhh. The balance of everything still seems off. Police bounty cooldowns are staggeringly long and ridiculously easy to attain. I went for a smoke while the game ran, came back and still had a bounty. It's been three months, and I can't find any dev news on updates. This game may never leave early access.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 27, 2022

  Awesome. Take GTA2. Feed it all kinds of drugs and some neons. But most importantly. Buy the game. On a more serious note. We all love GTA 2 for this one reason propably. Unique setting. A setting thats not really that much of a cyberpunk. There is very little of noir in both GTA 2 and Glitchpunk. But there is enough psychosis. Madness. Insanity is what sells this game and what was so charming in GTA 2 back in the days. Glitchpunk is psychotic and insane. I thought i hate its radio loops yet i discovered that they fit excactly in this very narrow and unexplored space of insanepunk, psychopunk, freakpunk. Remember kids. Don't take your meds. Or maybe take them after all?. Embrace total insanity. Get blown. Get free. Be the one glitched or the glitch. Be both, none or the mix. Be the king of psychos. Or get eatean by them.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 5, 2022

  I was expecting a GTA2-style-game with a cool cyberpunk look. What I got was a game that was far too difficult to control. Frustration from the second mission onwards, due to a difficulty level that was too high. Police cool down is way too high. It has frame drops and freezes some times. Yes it is EA, but please do something to make the game better.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 23, 2022

  Tl;dr: this game is very hard. Very pretty, but very hard. I enjoy and recommend it, but there are very good reasons not to get it. The game is definitely in Early Access, which shows but also leaves room for improvement. Pros, as I see it: I love the art style. What can I say, I'm a sucker for the aesthetic. I enjoy the intro/hook, and it leads into potentially good story The factions have personality The soundtrack is very fun Cons: It's very hard. I'm not very good at games, and running on not the best laptop, but even that aside, it really needs to be toned down. Police chases are *ridiculous* and take like five minutes to cool down, but they're also scripted into the missions in kinda unavoidable ways. The system requirements seem higher than I would expect. It is very pretty, but seems kind of strange. There's not yet much to do (yet) other than very hard missions and very hard "headhunts" where you have to kill groups of ten cops/gangers in a very short time. You can also kill citizens for money, but it gets very grindy very fast. The Devs only seem to post updates on Discord, which I do use but prefer other platforms for updates. They say they're working on it...again...rather than still...which is concerning...would like to see more communication here and on twitter.
• gamedeal user

  May 22, 2022

  Unfortunately I still can't recommend this game in the current state it is in. Driving is tragic, in my opinion there is no way to even learn it. Making a 90 degree turn in a narrow space is almost impossible without bumping into 50 things because of all the floating to the sides, also there is no way to do that without reversing once or twice first. New Balta - you start with 4 medkits, but the first contract requires you to buy one as part of the quest - why? So you end up without any free slots for another medkit, and you need to scroll through the controls to figure out how to throw out an item to free up the slot. Super weird if you ask me Police wanted levels are way too long if you ask me, but that's my personal taste. Combine this with the really bad driving mechanics + the floating of the cars making them uncontrollable, and you're gonna be chased around all the time I came back to this game now almsot 10 months after buying it in august and I still have no joy in it. Driving is what makes this an unpleasant experience, and thats a huge part of the game
• gamedeal user

  Jul 11, 2022

  GTA2 clone with terrible driving. Pros: • Looks and feels like GTA2 in almost every aspect • Additional cyberpunk elements • Some refreshing elements for GTA2 fans like: mouse targeting, diagonal roads, suburban areas, inventory system etc. Cons: • There is something really wrong with vehicle driving, which makes it MUCH harder and MUCH less satisfying, than original GTA2. I'm not sure what, though... Perhaps cars are too bouncy? Or too "slippery"? Or too light? • No tutorial whatsoever. If it exist - it's not visible enough. I played first Raven mission, and it took me 3 tries to figure out, that I need to hack the doors to enter the area. I also still don't know how to change weapons. • Messy minimap with to many icons at once. • It seems I can't play mission after mission for one faction only. After finally beating first Raven mission I was forced to go to Megacrop, apologize and take mission from them to kill some Hackers. And after doing that... new mission was unlocked from the Hackers? Wat? • Original GTA2 had dusk mode and afternoon mode with different lighting. I think, that would be a nice touch. Or at least day and night cycle. Orienting in the darkness is atmospheric, but also tiring and confusing. But the most important thing is still the driving. I remember playing tens of hours in GTA1 and GTA2 and just racing with police, with agile-drifts and sharp turning. Here in Glitchpunk the car is just not listening to me! Especially during front-back-front-back maneuvers. The car is just dancing, bouncing and twirling! It reminds me those pesky RC-mini-cars from GTA1 kill frenzies. @Devs If you read this: PLEASE confirm you're at least aware of those driving problems and that you're working to fix them. I really want to give chance to this game, but at this point it's just annoying.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 20, 2022

  Short take on this is to avoid as it is STILL a buggy mess with outright game-breaking bugs with a list of official work arounds posted in the forum. Not a great look that these haven't been addressed in the 18 months since it first hit early access. Started this out on the Steam Deck. While a plus is that it runs and detects the controllers, what isn't great is running head first into a bug where you get to the 2nd or 3rd tutorial prompt and cannot proceed. Where you earlier can close the tutorial prompt for buying guns and taking missions, the third one, where you are informed about vehicles, happens over the top of a character dialogue and the game gets conflicted and the button prompts to close the tutorial stop working. I reproduced this bug on both the Deck and the PC using an XBox One controller, and only got passed this on PC by changing to mouse/keyboard midway, which let me click away the tutorial. Bonus is that this tutorial screen completely negated whatever the dialogue was as you couldn't read it underneath and it closed. Which brings me to the second issue: controller support, despite being implemented Spring 2022 is still buggy. Open the map with the select button. Now, none of the usual button prompts work except B, despite the clear note for zoom in or changing the view. Third, I had two big bugs in only the first 20 minutes or so. First was right after getting to the safe house. I was on foot, running off to the mission start when I went up to a store when I was then teleported back to the literal start of the game halfway across the map. Second was when I bought a gun and a bunch of ammo only to lose it all after opening fire on an npc. Mind you, I didn't drop the weapon, as the weapon select button helpfully does, the gun simply disappeared from my hands and I was now in a gun fight with my fists. Past the bugs and controller issues, I found that the cars were very unenjoyable to drive, feeling more like paperweight bumpercars on ice than anything like the old GTA games this was based on. Yes, these are hovercars, but instead of sliding around with ease, you will more spend your time ping ponging off every other car and wall along the way, that is when you aren't coming to a dead stop due to the geometry catching the vehicle. I don't mind the old-school mechanics like losing all items on death, but when you die due to bugs and over-bearing police response it does start to add up to a frustrating experience. On the plus side, the graphics are bright and colorful once you adjust to the shadowy cluttered areas and dark color palette. Is there a good game in here, potentially? I hope, but I don't recommend it today unless you either have a sale or a lot of hope for the future.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 12, 2021

  Update: The developer stated that the DRM would be removed for the EA period. Other than that, I cannot comment: I'm neither for nor against DRM, I simply don't like when undisclosed software makes secure connections to third-party servers from my machine. Original review: Additional DRM layer that is mentioned nowhere is included on day 1 of Early Access. That's how I like it. To check it yourself, try installing the game on a clean machine, but block the network access for the game process. You would be redirected to this [url=https://validate.playgenuine.net/manual/v3/3OIGyiW3D4DYZ28vTbm8FA/?lang=en]manual verification page[/url].