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As someone who is just starting out learning Unity (I'm past the "Hello World" stage and into the top-down-shooter-controls-and-camera nightmare that traditionally comes next ), I am so incredibly grateful to you for sharing it as a Unity project.  Just being able to look at a feature-complete game that I'm relatively familiar with (I've played many previous iterations of the LCS codebase) is going to be hugely helpful in getting my head around some of the ways-you-can-use-Unity concepts.

So, thank you.  And that's without even having played it yet.    Downloading now!

So, more Steam reviews are in. 91% positive! RPS wrote an article about it too, with a lot of positive impressions in the comments.

It seems like people are really enjoying it. So I'm back to wondering if I'm just missing some huge part of the game, or if this is what people expect out of a $20 product now.

A couple of comments on the RPS article are now making mention of the shallow/semi-mobile feel of the game, so you might want to hold off a little while longer.  Game depth isn't one of those things that's easy to judge in the first few hours of playtime, so you may wish to see whether the reviews are still as positive once people have had a better chance to dig into it.

If you care about that, that is - if you're happy with it being a relatively shallow but apparently quite well done game then you might be happy to jump in now!

I still stick with my bleak original post on page one, though. 

Yeah, no, if you've got any even slightly modern form of router or other gateway, SB can't even listen for incoming connections from the internet without you having to port forward (at least in my experience), so even the mailbox analogy isn't sufficient - this is like being worried about being charged for stamps and therefore not even wanting to own a mailbox that's locked inaccessibly inside your own house.  In the basement.  Guarded by dragons.  It's literally almost the exact same identical setup, in terms of server/client architecture, to Minecraft.

I have a holy quest for you guys - tell me why I should not buy this when I'm back home Monday. You have three days, proceed.

While you have the means and the motive, deep down you're cynical.  You know that the shine of a game that looks this good can, all too often, be found false in the playing, and you worry that you'll get a scant few hours of enjoyment out of it before the remorse sets in.

Not true buyer's remorse - you won't be upset, or feel deceived, or be so disappointed that you'll want to return the game (if that's even still an option).  But the gentle, quiet remorse that comes from not being quite as bowled over as you expected.  Not a negative feeling, but an undeniable gap between where you hoped you'd be and where you've ended up.

Gradually, as time goes on, you'll play the game less and less, never quite putting in the hours needed to 'complete' it (because that starts to feel too much like work rather than play), but just enough that you can't justify writing it off and leaving it alone.  Your Steam library (or other library of choice) will sit there, a hundred ranks of quietly judgemental games that you once felt enamoured by but which now stand as a testament to your lack of impulse control and inability to follow through.  Over time, Halcyon will become just another small grey-lettered monument to this history, and on those occasions late on a Sunday (too late to do anything productive, too soon to start anything anew) when you click from 'Installed' to 'All Games', looking for something to assuage that growing emptiness inside, your eye will barely pause as it scrolls past Halcyon and onto its identical, unchanging, unsatisfying brethren.

When your time finally comes to an end and you pass away, an old man(?) with a lifetime of minor but still grating regrets, your final thoughts won't even register this game's existence, and it will fade from history along with every other quickly-purchased, quickly-forgotten mistake.

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Quest completed?  No, but seriously, it looks awesome, buy it. 

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Met in a public place. (for his safety?) Didn't see a build. He's "doing the best that he can"

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Yeah. No update. I could have posted literally nothing but that seems even worse.

Context please?

Hmm, looks like the website's gone down (internal server error).  Possibly too much demand, possibly something else - either way, no Steam version for me right now. 

So I've had this on my wishlist for a while, and the Sale may be the time for me to take the leap...but I'm wary of games that are, ultimately, mainly built around the multiplayer (because of some historical annoyances in the past, usually due to server populations waning the game becoming progressively more and more empty as time goes on).

I'm aware there's a solo play/singleplayer mode.  Is it enjoyable enough to make the game worth it purely for that?  I mean, I will play the multiplayer, but in eight years' time when the multiplayer community is dead and gone, will there still be enough game left over?