Played it first a year ago when it was on PS Plus, and enjoyed it way more back then - got really obsessed, knocked out like 20 hours in a week. Now it's still charming, but feels a lot more shallow.

The biggest problem is that I didn't notice any significant additions, even though I tapped out of the game for over a year. All the missions, characters, items etc were exactly the same as I remember them from Jan 2022, I didn't even need any onboarding and just hopped back in. There was some seasonal content announced, but none of the missions I went on had any of it. There were a couple new types of enemies, but they didn't lend much variety to the gameplay.

Just like all of these, it's probably way more fun with friends, but since I always have to play with randos, I have to judge it on that. The community back on PS Plus was surprisingly friendly and cooperative, an outlier by a pretty wide margin compared to other multiplayer games I've played. Now on Steam I found it much more alienating: everyone was just doing their thing, it was even rare to get a celebratory "Rock and Stone" or "For Karl!" from the lads, which is, like, 60% of enjoyment from the game.

Might come back one day if by some miracle I find videogame playing friends lol.