Steam Community :: Mazebound

2 people found this review helpful

Recommended

16.5 hrs on record

Posted: 20 June

It's decently fun and mostly functional. No hard crashes, stuttering or blatant softlocks.

It is, however, extremely jank.
Monsters will go through your cart and cause all of its items to fly out and onto the ground.
Monsters will clip through walls and some terrain pieces simply don't exist for them.
All monsters have VERY far reaching attacks that make no sense visually. A boar will swing its head 2 meters away from you and it will still hit you.
All of the bosses are highly cheesable or, otherwise, practically impossible to defeat solo. Lead one to a spot it cannot fit through and repeatedly attack its face for an easy kill. Doing it mono e mono is extremely difficult without absurd quantities of ammunition, one boss took around 60 headshots from a rifle to put down. Ridiculous.
One area is meant to be pitch dark, however, you can still see into it from the outside as if it was normally lit. Only when entering does it turn dark. Weird.
During solo gameplay you will still have the "waiting for players" to sleep. It will say 1/1 for a moment before disappearing.

Now for the more miscellaneous complaints.
The maze doesn't change, like at all, only which of the several doors you get to enter... but they all lead into the same starting area. You will enter through an opened door and see the other closed one right next to it. What's the point?
Duct tape is only ever used on the raft, never to upgrade your cart or craft anything. That seems like a really wasted opportunity.
There's a lot of generic loud sounds but they don't mean anything. Sometimes they'll be mono-audio and just affect one ear. It's odd that they're not directional or at least surround sounding. Not great.
Nighttime is pretty boring. There is a few weird creatures that spawn but they're quite pathetic compared to the daytime creepers.
Clothing comes in 3 categories; basic trash that's not worth its resources, military clothing (?) and boss-dropped armor. The high defense stuff will slow you down immensely and you will still get chunked by everything. So why bother? You're essentially railroaded into crafting military gear and just kiting everything. Very little viability in doing anything else.
The RNG for getting the antlers from deer is roughly one-in-two, but getting tusks from boar is one-in-twenty? Why? You can kill the boarmother for a guarantee... but the weapon you make from tusks is not worth it at all.
In the beginning you'll be tasked with getting wood and ropes and whatnot for the raft, but after you achieve those milestones new ones will appear with different item requirements not mentioned prior. A new player would go around drinking the water bottles they find, only to discover they need 4 of them to finish the raft. They're not that common to find either. So that's annoying.
The big enemies like to yell, and when they do, your screen will wobble severely. After having to fight so many of them I genuinely became motion sick.

Mazebound could definitely use more patches. But other than that, I had fun.

GreenStripes

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Easily Kill Enemies With Corner Cart

This is a method that I sometimes make use of to defeat stronger enemies especially as a solo player. With how limited guides are for this game, I may be unaware of anyone else who has done this. (Contains Spoilers)

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Waluigi

1 person found this review helpful

Recommended

6.5 hrs on record

Posted: 19 June

Not a long game, could be longer (please make it longer) but its real fun with friends.
Would 100% recommend!

3-4 players we used 4.5 hours of play time :)

Holse

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1 person found this review helpful

Not Recommended

11.3 hrs on record

Posted: 15 June

Very interesting concept, but its to soon to say its a well polished game.
The whole premise is amazing and creative, but the gameplay needs to be overworket. The whole collecting system is not smoothe, its enoying that you can only pick one type of an item at a time, especially when youre cart gets knocket over by a creature (even the blackforest deers can knock it over) and everything gets spilled on the ground. maybe the Devs can work more with the weight mechanik and introduce an Hotbar for small items, or a backpack item or what so ever.
The next big thing is Combat, it is fast getting boring to engage every kind of enemy, the worst chapter is in the second biom in my opinion where you have to constantly fight boars. the game laks more different kind of weapons and utility items, the beartrap for example is very weak, it stuns for only 2 seconds and does only a small amount of damage and you cannot even pick it up when its set, only if its used.
Every ranged weapon is similar useless, (the bow does is the eception cause its very earlygame) the ballista is way to hard to use, because of the aiming mechanism, and even if you hit it does way to less damage to use it against minibosses, another thing is that you cant even pick the ammo up when used by the ballista (the bow lets you pick the arrows up) wich is in my opion way to punishing when you dont hit the enemy. The last pure ranged weapon is the riffle and in my gamethroughs i found way more riffles then their ammonution. for the rarity does the weapon like 0 damage and its only good against the Face enemys. I think it would be best if riffle gets bufft and the ammonution gets craftable.

To the bosses, I hate the fights against them (im playt only in solo), the only way to kill both bosses in solo that i found is to find an portal and lure the bosses to it so you can jump in and out everytime the boss swings their weapon, there is no point to attack them headon cause you dont have the slightest chance onlone the Weapons and Utility items dont offer enough protection/damage to kill them.

To the map, I think the map is a bit to small and it nearly always happens that the 4 entrance doors at the beginning are on the inside connectet that makes the whole doors opening mechanism pointless when it leads to the same room in the inside. then if you reach the second biom you can walk betwenn the whole length of the map, that hurts the feeling of being lost in a maze, i think there should be a boss arena and a big room for the giant so they dont seem so random spawnt, same for the last biom in the maze it is way to open and it has no loot at all, its only there for a second giant and the boss thats it, i was very disappointet that there was not more to be found at the very end of an maze, maybe a treasure room or something to be found after killing the last boss or so .

To be fair for this review the game is very young and I hope much contend is gonna be added sooner, but for the current stage of the game it laks the deephness of an good Survival game, so i dont recommend it for the time
(ps sry for the writting errors :) )

odrater

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how to easily defeat the wendigo

i had a difficult time dealing with the wendigo and i couldnt find any videos where someone did it solo so i recorded how i managed to kill it to help other solos out with the boss fight GOOD LUCK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXL9B-87IDE

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MAZEBOUND FIRST SUB 1-HOUR SPEED RUN

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Ich wage mich ins Horror-Labyrinth | MAZEBOUND First Look

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Found you :}

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COLLECTOR TROPHIES AND STOMPERS

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JEFF'S GLOW UP

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MAZEBOUND - IT GET DARKS

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Все мобы, Локации. Винтовка, Виндиго Мап. - All mobs in game. Locations. Rifle, Windigo Map.

В этом руководстве я собрал гайд на все что есть в игре.

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