However, there hasn’t been a peep from Conan Chop Chop‘s team since April. Thankfully, these messes get cleaned up in the coming days, weeks, months, and in Cyberpunk 2077‘s case, years. Typically it’s AAA games getting rushed to market to make it before the fiscal year ends, but sometimes indie passion projects can disappoint as well. Games releasing in a rough state are almost a given in the gaming industry at this point. That tells me that there won’t be any updates to come in the near future. It seems like something that could be fixed with a few lines of code, but we’re well past the release date for a simple hotfix to be deployed.

This glitch persisted and rendered my playthroughs impossible.

It didn’t matter if I rebooted, switched from mouse/keyboard to controller, or reinstalled the game either. The particular issue in my playthroughs of Conan Chop Chop was that the screen you see above, telling me to head to Darkwood, was plastered smack-dab in the middle of my screen and wouldn’t go away. I did like that instead of heading into a dungeon, as with just about every other roguelike, Conan Chop Chop has you traverse different terrains and had something of a hub world for you to explore. There are some interesting mechanics such as timed parrying, an ultimate that builds up, and different abilities/weapons between the four playable characters. When Conan Chop Chop does work (AKA the Tutorial), it plays like an above-average roguelike. As Conan Chop Chop targets a four-player co-op focus, this is a far cry from what the devs/publishers want to see. The 65% of negative reviews in the past two weeks, well into the game’s third month of release, note that it is completely unplayable online.

It sits at 20 Mostly Negative reviews and a lifetime 68% approval of Mixed. One look at the Steam reviews for Conan Chop Chop paints a distressing, worrisome picture. How well does this franchise transition into this niche genre? On the cartoony roguelike end, though, we recently got Conan Chop Chop, which plays more like Binding of Isaac than God of War. Whether it’s Conan Exiles which is infamous for letting you let it all hang out, the Age of Conan MMORPG, or the 2007 hack-and-slash game, there’s some variety to be had for fans of the barbarian warrior. Conan the Barbarian has had a lot of video games come to the forefront over the years.

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