Developer: Ares Games

Publisher: Ares Games

Played on: PC

Release Date: June 6, 2017

Time Played (Steam): 3.7 hours

Played with: Mouse & Keyboard

Paid: $0 (Key provided for review)

Hell Warders made an awful first impression.

Upon loading it up, I was quickly greeted with clipping assets, overflowing lists that disappeared off-screen, a non-functioning character creator, and various spelling and grammar errors in pieces of menu and help text. Oh, I also couldn’t play the game; there were no multiplayer games available for me to join, and the “Create Game” function seemed to be broken.

The second attempt didn’t fare much better. After some of the more egregious issues (namely, the character creator problems and the ability to actually start a game) were sorted out, I was greeted with something that felt tiresome and monotonous more than anything. Enemies spawned in from multiple directions, leaving me quickly overwhelmed and resigned to defeat. It appeared it was going to be a bad time all around.

Thankfully, subsequent patches proved this to not be the case.

Read the full article here [GameSpew]