"Hey guys, I know we're making a survival game but how about we make a tower defence mission?"

"Yeah, great idea, lets also make it really bloody difficult"

"Not far enough! Lets make it so it's a mandatory mission right at the end of the game!"

"Great idea, Jeff!"

This is how I imagine the conversation went but it was a decision that has lead me to hate this game. I didn't sign up for a tower defence game so don't force me to play one. It was reminiscent of when I played Brutal Legend back in the day, a 3D beat-em-up game that suddenly became an RTS for no reason, I quit the game shortly after that.

We spent quite a while building defences, using a lot of our hard earned resources only to get clapped by an army of different bugs before we'd even made it a third of the way through the mission. Now, I know what you're thinking - Get good - and you'd be right, however, another problem I have with this game is that it's a buggy mess (Pun intended).

I lost count of the amount of times I went looking for a rain drop to quench my thirst, found one on a blade of grass and cut the grass down only for the droplet to stay perfectly still in the air - Turns out, that droplet doesn't actually exist and you can't drink it. By the end of the game, there were so many rain drops floating in the air, it was ridiculous.

Another bug we encountered was when we were in a cave and then had to quickly go back to the base because we were being attacked. We died in the cave and then teleported back to our home base, only for the game to remain as dark as it was in the cave (Regardless of the fact that we were outside in the middle of the day). We had to try to fight an army of Orb Weaver spiders in the dark and it proved difficult. During this encounter, another bug occurred, one of the Orb Weaver spiders had ascended to godhood which meant that it could happily destroy our base and kill us but we couldn't hurt it at all, we had to wait until it got bored and left, after which there was almost nothing left of our base and we had to rebuild again.

Aside from all of these issues, I just found the game wholly uninteresting and the characters unlikeable, which is a shame because I had enjoyed the prospect of a 'Honey, I shrunk the kids!' videogame.

This game is hot garbage. I played it with my 7-year-old daughter (Who, frankly, could have written a better story and better dialogue) and the whole experience was painful. The combat is awful, the platforming is janky, the co-op is a nightmare because if you get even a little bit too far away from your partner, you just despawn - often for no reason at all - and then you have to press a button to spawn back in again. We sped-run through the story and even that was too much for me, there's no chance in hell that I'm going back to get all the collectibles, I don't care how cool the unlockable outfits are. Also, I waited the entire game to find out when this so-called 'Sphinx' was going to 'rise'... How is a butterfly a sphinx anyway?!

I played this with my wife, it took us roughly 5 hours to roll credits. We found that the characters were kind of dull and the story was uninspired, once you work out that all of the scary things you're seeing are all a result of the hallucinogenic gas your characters are inhaling, it makes the game a lot less scary and makes the choices a lot easier to make - Oh, there's something attacking me, it's obviously not real so it's probably just one of my other characters attacking me and acting could result in that character dying, I'll just do nothing. In the end, we escaped with all of our characters alive and well and feeling dissatisfied.