Not to jump on the hate bandwagon but all the criticisms are completely true. This game has loads of potential, and there are a few games in here that really show how great the game can be... but currently, S&box is a complete technical mess that shouldn't have been released at this state.

1. Performance is terrible, regardless of what you do. Even on the lowest settings, my RTX 4060 laptop is struggling to maintain 60fps on lowest settings.
   
2. The play fund that pays devs per playtime has good intentions, but indirectly wrecked the ecosystem of the games. Most games are idlers, slow paced, or take too long per session just to get people to spend more time on them. You slowly realize how many games are built from the ground up to waste your time.
   
3. There aren't many game modes yet. Finding good game modes is a struggle as the browser is filled with AI slop and aforementioned "time wasting" games. The few that are good feel like tech demos with little content.
   
4. Do you have slow and/or limited internet? You will DESPISE this game. The game devs don't optimize their content, many game modes have you downloading gigabytes of content just to try them. I already have over 15GB of addons installed in just a few hours of playing, some game modes take over 5 minutes just to load.
   
5. Games often fail to load on Linux, which is unlikely to change considering Garry doesn't care about Linux at all.

What's so offputting about this is that all of this was mentioned ad nauseam during the playtest and the devs have been ignoring feedback for years. When I heard it was releasing this month my first thought was "What? The game is ready to release this soon?"

Evidently, no.

I want this game to succeed because the idea is great, but the devs need to spend the next year listening to the community and actually fixing this mess. Maybe then the game will be worth playing.

Not to jump on the hate bandwagon but all the criticisms are completely true. This game has loads of potential, and there are a few games in here that really show how great the game can be... but currently, S&box is a complete technical mess that shouldn't have been released at this state. [olist] [*] Performance is terrible, regardless of what you do. Even on the lowest settings, my RTX 4060 laptop is struggling to maintain 60fps on [b]lowest settings[/b]. [*] The play fund that pays devs per playtime has good intentions, but indirectly wrecked the ecosystem of the games. Most games are idlers, slow paced, or take too long per session just to get people to spend more time on them. You slowly realize how many games are built from the ground up to waste your time. [*] There aren't many game modes yet. Finding good game modes is a struggle as the browser is filled with AI slop and aforementioned "time wasting" games. The few that are good feel like tech demos with little content. [*] Do you have slow and/or limited internet? You will DESPISE this game. The game devs don't optimize their content, many game modes have you downloading gigabytes of content just to try them. I already have over 15GB of addons installed in just a few hours of playing, some game modes take over 5 minutes just to load. [*] Games often fail to load on Linux, which is unlikely to change considering Garry doesn't care about Linux at all. [/olist] What's so offputting about this is that all of this was mentioned ad nauseam during the playtest and the devs have been ignoring feedback for years. When I heard it was releasing this month my first thought was "What? The game is ready to release this soon?" Evidently, no. I want this game to succeed because the idea is great, but the devs need to spend the next year listening to the community and actually fixing this mess. Maybe then the game will be worth playing.