Worth it?

played soldat, played Kag, love both of them.

but i'm not sure about trench run, since i feel the trailer didn't show me enough to make a good judgement.
is it worth the price? also if you want to TL;DR your posts you can just make it a 1 to 5 rating.

 

Trench Run is a very fun game, it will keep you busy for a few hours and an occasional match can be fun, but to be honest not more. There is a big issue right now:

• The lack of players

The lack of players is the biggest one. There are quite a few people who own the game, but I doubt more than 500 to be honest, usually there's 0 people playing unless someone feels like doing a bot match, there's a meetup, or a few friends decide to hop on.
Hopefully this will be solved by putting it on Steam and adding more content (because it could have some more - and it's planned). If you're not low on money I would consider pre-ordering it (lower price than final). If you don't like it you can always refund (I think? THD lets you refund KAG). You could say that this is a promising Early Access game I guess

TL;DR: 3/5 fun (multiplayer) game but not a lot of people actively playing.

 

It's based entirely on multiplayer, but it has no players.
Pixel density is low and static: Shizz' text, shizz' chat.
Controls and graphics are 200% indie.
0/5

 

I love KAG classic, but I could somehow never get into the current KAG. Just too much stuff, not simple enough and I disliked the "floaty" controls (compared to KAG classic). I had way more fun with KAG classic than I have with the latest build.

Anyhow, when I discovered Trench Run today I was very happy, as it looks like the kind of simple game I enjoy. Unfortunately I did not manage to get any kind of demo version of it to run. The preview builds all seem to have been time-limited, so whenever I start one of those it just says "The free test has expired. Thank you for playing!". Is there currently any way to at least try out the controls? I really don't want to spend 8€ just to find out that I somehow just intenstely dislike the way the controls feel, as I did with the latest KAG.

Is my only option to wait for the next preview build as of now? I really think there should (eventually) be a free build with limited options (that ideally does not split the player base) to get more players hooked.

 

@Chaos-Knight I'm quite sure but maybe @Furai can confirm
If you actually proceed to buy it and your only issue is the low amount of players, please wait until a Steam release (or maybe bundles if planned) <3

 

I just stumbled upon this: https://forum.thd.vg/threads/fixed-how-to-activate-local-multi-again.24732/#post-367719 which actually lets me try out the controls. Unfortunately apart from the "Z"-key and the "Arrow right"-key no other keys seem to work (apart from "t" and "y" to open the chat windows). I fumbled around in the game files but couldn't find anything that actually lets me rebind the keys. Could anyone help out with that?

 

Solid 4/5.

The problem at the moment for the game is he lack of players, as stated by Mazey and the likes. If this game was at its full (currently only preorder) it would be the solid 4/5 as stated above, but with the lack of players a 3/5.

 

Rigid 3.5/5
As others have stated: pretty good, but lack of players. I've played a fair bit and still haven't had a game with a real person. (Also no AUS server yet)

 

Thank you Geti that worked :) The keyboard controls feel decent enough and the sniper is a blast to play. If someone around here is awesome enough to upload their /Cache/player1.dat (or whichever plaver.dat they use a wired xbox 360 controller with) I'd love to try out my controller. If the controller feels even better I think I'll just purchase Trench Run. Frankly KAG Classic gave me so many hours of enjoyment I practically owe supporting you guys :)

EDIT: Woo 100 posts.

 

oh yeah, is there a way i can download a demo? i saw a fella on youtube playing a few rounds on the demo, but now that i think about it maybe you only released one for a short term some a while ago. is it possible to get a demo version for free?

 

This current steam release I'd say it isn't worth buying unfortunately, it is very fun at first but the two gamemodes get tiring after an hour or two. Another problem as you've already read is the low player count which I think is connected to the more shallow gameplay. One thing KAG had that was so charming about it was that you could use multiple strategies with your team which kept gameplay fresh but here matches are very short, feeling like an arcade game. In it's current state I wouldn't recommend it but more gamemodes and deeper gameplay will definately help. Along with the devs talking about making personal modded servers available this can be an awesome game!