Wanderburg

This complaint comes up more than any other, and about as often in positive reviews as in negative ones. Players expecting a roguelite are surprised that silver buys only new modules, captains, crews, chassis and artifacts. These are sidegrades: as one reviewer puts it, a module's damage ceiling in your first run is the same as in your hundredth, so harder maps give you no raw power to grind toward. The prices make it worse. Many unlocks cost 5,000 to 8,000 silver or more (one artifact 18,000, a cosmetic sheep pet 50,000), while a run pays roughly 1,000, failed runs pay little or nothing, and some quests ask for enemies that don't spawn on the map they're tied to. Some describe replaying the same early maps with the same starter build just to afford one new piece, then finding the piece is weaker than what they had. A few reviewers are fine with the horizontal design, but those who complain want cheaper unlocks, partial silver on failure, or some permanent stat progression.

Difficulty complaints cluster in two places. The first is the jump from the first map to the second: one reviewer beat the first map easily and then lost three times in a row on the second. The second is the four- and five-skull zones. Players name specific culprits: rams and walking mines that build speed off-screen and one-shot you, enemies that aim where you are going, mortar spam with hard-to-read arcs, bosses buried in dozens of escorts so you can't reach them, enemies faster than your nitro, and very scarce healing. One reviewer sums up the result as "speed is king", since extra health can't offset damage you can't avoid. Some also report that the first minutes of a run are the hardest part, since you start weak with no permanent upgrades to lean on.

After the last boss, Overtime lets you keep playing for more silver, and it draws angry feedback. One reviewer says the question becomes "how long can you run away" rather than "how long you can fight for", and others describe swarms of sawblade and spiked units faster than you, kamikaze bombers, and mortar and cannon fire with near-perfect accuracy. It arrives right as a build finally feels powerful, so the power fantasy is cut short. Because it is also the main source of extra silver and leaderboard score, some see it as a grind wall. A minority defends it as the real challenge of the game, and a few ask for a separate endless mode.

Reviewers who discuss builds say only a few work on hard maps. Archers and arrows are named as reliable picks (though one reviewer finds cannons underpowered), while summons, melee crews, many front weapons, support crews and most captains are called weak or useless. Summoned units get stuck and pick targets poorly, and one reviewer found infantry and archers stop reaching enemies after the castle grows. Upgrades are mostly flat percentage stat boosts, with damage stats split between auto-attacks and abilities so that the wrong picks are wasted. Weapons rarely interact with each other, and one reviewer says "just pick the highest rarity" is often enough. The boss-kill choice between defense and mobility is called an illusion of choice. Reviewers want more distinctive chassis (a few find the tank chassis too slow to be worth using), more module slots and more build-defining upgrades.

Every weak module or artifact you unlock stays in the level-up pool forever and lowers your odds of seeing the pieces your build needs. Some players say they deliberately avoid unlocking things or restart runs at the four-minute mark when the right upgrades don't appear, and they are annoyed that still-locked items show up as level-up choices. They ask for a way to ban, lock or reroll options.

Crashes are among the most common complaints from players who left a negative review within two hours. Players report crashes at launch, on selecting a map, at level-up screens, after the third or fourth boss and when alt-tabbing. AMD Radeon owners report some of the worst cases, including GPU driver crashes and full system reboots. A bug several players hit drops the game to a few frames per second after it sits paused or on an upgrade screen for a few minutes, which can cost a whole run. Frame rates also sag with heavy on-screen action and in Overtime. Several reviewers confirm that launch-week patches and the DX11/DX12/Vulkan launch options fixed their crashes. An early hotfix left some players stuck on a "Generating world" screen, and one reviewer says the 19 and 21 September hotfixes brought crashes back.

The UI is described as placeholder-grade, and one reviewer says the menus feel "like something from an old Flash game". Players list mismatched fonts, blurry elements, Backspace instead of Escape to go back, no mouse cursor in parts of the menu, an in-game bug reporter that softlocks on controller, and V-Sync resetting every launch. The lack of key rebinding is a hard stop for some. The fixed WASD-plus-QERT layout leaves left-handed players stuck, one reviewer's hand hurt within minutes, and another says the developers have known since the demo that players wanted rebinding. Players also flag typos and unclear translations, and descriptions like "boost significantly" with no numbers, which make it hard to know what upgrades or quest targets actually do.

A small but serious cluster: players who switch between two computers report Steam Cloud overwriting their unlocks with an older save, and a few lost progress for other reasons. For those affected it wiped hours of grinding.

Some find the always-visible leaderboard intrusive and full of impossible scores, and want it filtered by map. Others ask for a mid-run save, an enemy compendium to see which enemies spawn where for quests, a stats view during level-ups and a more detailed end-of-run screen.