The developer compares their game to Blade Runner and Game of Thrones in their description, and calls it Monty Python-esque in response to another review. Neofeud is none of those. It's South Park.

Within the first few minutes you'll see references to Deus Ex, Terminator, My Little Pony, and more. The brief amount I played of this game was comprised mostly of references. The 'are robots people' and 'corporation bad' themes were so hamfisted and in your face. This works for South Park because it stays current, and leans into the absurdity. But in a game like this, it feels dated and unimaginative.

I cringed a little when the first achievement 'Robot Lives Matter' popped up. Sci-fi is such a broad genre, it just feels lazy to pull your inspiration from so many external sources instead of writing your own. I had to stop playing when the 'gangster kid' character called the protag a 'whack old honky' and dropped the n word. It seemed like every non-white coded npc I met spoke like a walking negative stereotype. Also interesting how the n word exists in the future, but the f word has seemingly been replaced by 'flakk'.

As other reviews have already mentioned, the voice acting is laughable. The art style is quite ugly to look at. The music is unmemorable. These are all things I could look past, or blame lack of budget on. But the poor writing is what let this game down most of all. It's dull, overly referential, and kinda racist. And I only played 40 minutes or so, I couldn't stomach any more.

Here's some indie sci-fi games you should check out instead:

Dex

Stasis

Technobabylon

Space Pilgrim (series)

Sentience: The Android's Tale

Citizen Sleeper

Top negative review on Steam. Seems like this game is just like any narrative adventure game from the 80s-00s not made by Lucas Arts or Sierra. A jumbled mess of low quality assets smashed together by a terrible (to a comical degree) story. I legitimately don't know if this was intentional or not, which is the best part.

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Snapshots:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)