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Quasimorph
Developer Magnum Scriptum
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life. From the Steam store page
544 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
340 positive · 110 negative
95% range 71–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 340 | 110 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 34 | 2 | 50 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
4,308 of 5,130 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
75% recommend · 222 yes, 74 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 296 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (7,019 of 8,478 positive).
Many note the brutal difficulty and steep learning curve, which can be rewarding for those who persist. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize poor communication of mechanics and inconsistent difficulty balancing. [4][5][6]
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- [5]
I pretty much only play turn-based games. I love challenging games. I'm old school and played games when you had to read manuals and stuff to even get started. But this game takes it to a new level. It's like the developers wanted to purposely confuse people rather than just not bothering to implement any QOL. The little information that's presented in the UI is scattered across a million different screens. The …
- [1]
This game is great. One of a kind experience right here and that's a good thing as well as a bad thing. This game is not only very different, but hard. Which, I'd imagine, is exactly what the devs are going for. This game takes a dark souls approach to things so to speak. What I mean by that is it doesn't hold your hand. You WILL die. Over and over again... My advice to you dear reader? Embrace it. Expect it, but …
- [4]
I have a lot to say about this game. I will lead with the bad because there’s really only one major issue with this game, but it’s a doozy: Quasimorph has deep and complex mechanics, but it does a TERRIBLE job at explaining them to the player. Game knowledge is the difference between feeling frustration and helplessness and control and understanding but if you rely solely on the information that the game provides, …
- [2]
The game is brutal. The game is addictive. The game does not hold your hand. The game does not love you. The game runs well on a 486DX machine. You do not play the game, the game plays with you. Buy it. Play it. Regret playing it. Uninstall. Reinstall when you wake up next morning and start a new run.
- [3]
I enjoy this game a lot, it is challenging and brutal in the best way roguelikes can offer. It will be unfair at times but you can also steam roll through if you come prepared and know what you are up against making you feel like a god of combat. If you also like being a loot goblin this game provides in spades. Its like a top down escape from tarkov but singleplayer and without any of the horrendous mechanics that …
Summarised from 34 of the 386 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Quasimorph talk about unique and addictive gameplay loop; those who didn't talk about poor explanation of game mechanics. Which matters more to you?
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60 of 544 · most liked firstI pretty much only play turn-based games. I love challenging games. I'm old school and played games when you had to read manuals and stuff to even get started. But this game takes it to a new level. It's like the developers wanted to purposely confuse people rather than just not bothering to implement any QOL. The little information that's presented in the UI is scattered across a million different screens. The 'difficulty' gauge for missions is actually composed of multiple different things…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →loved the game at the start but every update that comes out it feels like the game is punishing you for interacting with its systems, to even attempt a story mission you'll have to run like 50 normal missions collecting the best possible gear and as many meds as you can, usually just to get stun locked to death and in the rare occasion you aren't? well mid and late game you need to have top tier armor for every faction, day dream chems? better have armor you can only get via working for...day…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great. One of a kind experience right here and that's a good thing as well as a bad thing. This game is not only very different, but hard. Which, I'd imagine, is exactly what the devs are going for. This game takes a dark souls approach to things so to speak. What I mean by that is it doesn't hold your hand. You WILL die. Over and over again... My advice to you dear reader? Embrace it. Expect it, but don't stress over it. Even if it happens a lot and you have to restart a couple…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game advertises itself as a game about a space PMC working for corps while demons are rampaging across the system. In practice you are a gearless augmented psychopath who goes into someones private domicile and proceeds to rip and tear your way through while scrapping anything deemed useless and cutting chunks out of corpses for augments more valuable than your own. You die fast, lose everything, and its very unforgiving until you clammer your way to success by brute force alone. Would…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea and premise for the game is great, and i love it. However the game as it is currently is extremely poorly balanced. I find myself curbstomping regular enemies by the dozens most of the time, and they can't really pose a threat to me due to how i build my character to be extremely tanky and wearing exclusively heavy armor. Why do i build my character like that? Because on the rare occasion that i'm not massacring waves of regular enemies, one with a gimmick gun will show up, usually…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I want to love this game (I even bought the supporter pack, since the OST is great), it's unfortunately way too difficult and volatile, even after enabling free repairs. In Quasimoph, you get a free grace period of easy missions (which is an option that can be disabled) at the start, where you would feel like you can understand the game and enjoy it. Once this period ends, constant deaths start, due to missions making a jump from ~900 power and 1 skull missions to almost always…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ripping the best rated QoL mods off the workshop and just adding them to the game as vanilla content is a peak move. More game devs should do it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tentatively recommend this game for players who specifically look for unfair challenges. For the general population, I do not recommend it. Over the time playing, I've waffled back and forth from thinking its amazing, to being incredibly frustrated and completely incredulous at the idea that it could be so popular. After over 100 hours, I get it. Pros: Interesting worldbuilding Fun combat* Solid/intricate mechanics Amazing music Phenomenal visual and sound designs My hands down favorite…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In short: the game loop is fun. The true suffering is learning the game and its mechanics. Quasimorph is great, and I enjoyed it to the point where I somehow spent 250+ hours playing it. But there are a few grains of salt. First of all, my deepest respect to whoever composed the soundtrack. It is genuinely amazing. The music is dynamic and surprisingly diverse, with a separate theme for each planet and several stages that intensify as the mission progresses and everything around you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really hate to give this game a thumb's down because parts of it are really great. The weapon, class and build diversity is excellent, the sound effects, music and sound design are good,. I like the pixel art style. I like almost everything about this game except for one not-so-little problem. It absolutely sucks at communicating certain aspects of the game that are absolutely critical to making informed choices in the game before and during missions. The way it communicates mission…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quasimorph is one of those games that looks much deeper than it actually is. After the initial novelty wears off, the whole experience becomes incredibly shallow and repetitive. It feels like most missions boil down to doing essentially the same thing over and over with slightly different enemies and locations. The difficulty is inconsistent. During a mission the difficulty seems manageable until a bunch of enemies you cant kill mob you and one shot you. It does not feel like a natural…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought Quasimorph two years ago and ended up refunding it. It had too little inventory space, an annoying hunger rate and horrible late game balancing. Now with 1.0, it still has all those things, but you can change the settings to have more inventory space, change the hunger rate, tweak damage, make losing less punishing so getting randomly 1-shot isn't as much of a problem, and there's a Steam Workshop to change anything else you might dislike.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Greetings, mercenaries! Quasimorph has officially left Early Access and launched in version 1.0. For the next two weeks the game will be available at a 33% discount. Thank you to everyone who stayed with us throughout Early Access. Good hunting, mercenaries. #roguelike #turnbased
neutral · AI labelView post →Very good, very fun. Trying to escape while you have a broken leg, nicotine addiction and literal Satan is trying to kill you. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game will not be for most people. In reality, this has a target audience of a couple thousand dedicated, fawning psychos. I am one of them.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a lot to say about this game. I will lead with the bad because there’s really only one major issue with this game, but it’s a doozy: Quasimorph has deep and complex mechanics, but it does a TERRIBLE job at explaining them to the player. Game knowledge is the difference between feeling frustration and helplessness and control and understanding but if you rely solely on the information that the game provides, you will feel lost. I started playing in 2024 on 0.8.x (at the time of writing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a lot to like within Quasimorph. The soundtrack is amazing, there is a large variety of enemies, weapons, classes, etc. that feel unique and viable, and the setting and atmosphere are stellar. With that being said, I cannot recommend the game in its current state for several reasons, but my main gripe is that the after a time, the gameplay loop becomes both repetitive and unrewarding. You fly around in your ship, taking missions for your preferred faction(s), gaining reputation and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only anarcho-capitalism. Who cares its the end of the world, we got money to make! Many people compare Quasimorph to extraction shooters because of the "go in, do a job, get loot, leave" gameplay loop. But for me it's highly reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon, even the plot is similar to an extent. Get your dudes, do missions, get upgrades to get stronger and do harder missions. Gameplay is similar to XCOM but with only one character at a time…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All due respect, the game is more frustrating than it is fun. "You are as oneshotable as the person you are against" just doesn't work when the game throws enough people to overthrow a government. Whole game core seems fun in theory. But reality is more questionable than it is interesting. There is no reason even for a dystopian super mega planet-ruling corporation to just send 1000 armed men to defend a single floor of a random food production factory? It seems that it just isnt thought…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our new Steam bundle is live! 🎉 store.steampowered.com/bundle/73254... Two great turn-based tactical games: - Cyber Knights, approaching its 1-year anniversary; one of the highest-rated tactical RPGs on Steam. - @Quasimorph.bsky.social, so close to full launch; already 3,000+ 👍 reviews. #Gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is brutal. The game is addictive. The game does not hold your hand. The game does not love you. The game runs well on a 486DX machine. You do not play the game, the game plays with you. Buy it. Play it. Regret playing it. Uninstall. Reinstall when you wake up next morning and start a new run.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game man - this is so close to perfection. I've had it sat in my library for a long while assuming it to be another top down roguelike like so many others, but nah this is special. It's a roguelike which feels like escape from tarkov meets space station 13 meets doom. You are essentially a mercenary taking jobs from the various factions in some form of anarchocapitalistic future where everyone is sabotaging each other to take over planets. You fly your mercenary ship filled with clones…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The looting and shooting are fun but everything else is more annoying than challenging. There is so much the game does not explain properly that in every other menu you can read something that just adds more questions rather than answers and the atrocious UI doesn't help. I check the rewards for a mission and it will say i.e. "Δ reward: 1000" so I expect to get 1000 barter points (Δ) with that faction but instead I get random (?) items from that faction worth that many barter points. Then…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would have given this game a resounding thumbs up for the interesting gameplay and intercompany relationships. but the one moment that told me I won't be playing this game again was a situation where I cleared a room and all adjecent connecting rooms, no doors in or out of this area except one. I walk out that door, then some guy comes out of the area I just cleared and 1 shots me with a machinegun to the back. The fact that I just observed an enemy spawning in on a low difficulty mission…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had the pleasure of observing this game development for the last just a bit over 2 years, since just before the launch of 0.6. We are now in 1.0 and the game is the best it has ever been. Not every patch and system change was an immediate success, but the devs were very receptive to feedback while knowing what makes their game good and fun and were able to stick to their vision. So what does make the game fun? For me, it's the pressure, you have limited inventory, especially at the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love this game. Best in test, all categories 10/10. Epstein didnt kill himself.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is the closest I think we can come to the feeling that Sisyphus had to pushing that boulder up the mountain for an eternity. It is an unforgiving experience that punishes you even when you don't knowingly misstep. I am sure with enough hours and attempts at pushing the boulder up the hill that I'll become proficient at the game. However, at the normal difficulty, I'll go 100 missions and successfully complete 1. I could lower the difficulty to something easier but then that would be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look, I like a complex, obtuse turn-based game as much as the next guy... as long as all the information I need to play is available inside the game. Constant alt+tabbing to view guides, wikis and videos just to understand basic mechanics and systems is not my idea of a good time. The first tutorial missions were straightforward and simple enough, but then they basically throw you into a galaxy map full of planets, factions, and a whole meta-game layer happening with no explanation or direction…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoy this game a lot, it is challenging and brutal in the best way roguelikes can offer. It will be unfair at times but you can also steam roll through if you come prepared and know what you are up against making you feel like a god of combat. If you also like being a loot goblin this game provides in spades. Its like a top down escape from tarkov but singleplayer and without any of the horrendous mechanics that game had. It does have however cybernetics, quasimorphic monsters and bosses…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I agree with another negative review that said the systems don't meaningfully affect the gameplay much. The best part of the game is the music, vibe, graphics, progression. The biggest motivation I had was to gear up, create some unstoppable character, max out a class, fully upgrade the ship, etc. Unfortunately, I just dont see how it's going to change the gameplay, which I'm already tired of. You still creep around, and shoot things from behind cover, which generally triggers the whole map…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quasimorph (2026, PC) Enjoying this game quite a bit! Cool mix of X-Com and traditional Roguelike (DoomRL in particular).
positive · AI labelView post →In honor of Sseth releasing a new vid about quasimorph i wanna finally leave a review, because that was the guy who made me buy the game with his first video. I love Quasimorph, it really is the game for me. I enjoy the gameplay loop, I like the mechanics with crafting, augmentation, etc etc, I love the music, I love the setting and the story. Big shout out to the community and the modders too. I enjoyed very much seeing new mechanics and complexities added through the patches. To the newbies…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoy the concept, and I want to love it. Unfortunately, the game seems to refuse to make any attempt at teaching a lot of extremely important game mechanics (at least in anything close to the timeframe necessary), including but not limited to: -Quasimorphing, *the namesake of the game*. It's not explained why the meter progresses sometimes but not others (answer - if the meter says "absentia", it will not progress no matter what; though when it will be "absentia", "somnia", or "grasp" varies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a good game underneath, but as it is right now it's just too frustrating. It's not clear what items count as cover and what doesn't. The enemies are just really dumb and run into your gunfire one by one until you kill 20 people, like the good old days of Commandos 1. And let's not even mention escort missions... you just know they're going to be terrible. But the real difficulty comes from the absurd number of things that can kill you instantly. It's so ridiculous that even smoking a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The more I play the game, the more I feel like the difficulty is (for the most part) pretty fair when you understand the systems and enemy characteristics. I think the game's main issue for new players is that some of these mechanics aren't very well communicated, and the biggest offenders here in my opinion are the travel time and faction growth systems. Outside of the turn based missions, the game takes place in a real-time simulation where factions attack eachother and advance their power…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Long story short: this game is just gambling. You may think there is some strategy, but you are mistaken. You will try a melee build just for some mook to toss a flame grenade at his own feet. You will bring a heavy machine gun with body armor only to find out that all the robots on the base (that you didn't know were there!) are functionally immune to most bullets. Your best runs will be undone because the maps are really big, the elevator isn't marked, and the time wasted will summon…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[SsethTzeentach] Quasimorph Review | Schizo Edition.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m not going to lie — I downloaded a pirated version of this game and spent a ton of time playing it. The game turned out to be so good that I decided to buy it on Steam, and I went for the Supporter Bundle. 10/10. Laugh at me if you want, but as of right now, this is my GOTY. 🔥
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gosh this game is rough. I like it! Once you get past some of the obtuse stuff there's a bunch of fun. This weird extraction roguelike doom thing. Unlike doom however, on default settings, the game has you abusing a lot of sneaky gorilla like tactics to deal with the difficulty. Tough enemy in another room? Fill the hallway nearby with gasoline and lure them over for a heated surprise. Big scary demon on the way? Revive a robot and slap down turret to help out while you take pot shots from…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The 1.0 release messed this game up real bad. This was a rushed release out of nowhere, and it shows. Difficulty felt like it was hard but mostly fair before. It had that souls vibe to it, it was addictive. I really enjoyed my time playing in EA and told my friends to play this gem. Now, forget about it. If the issues get fixed I'll happily change my review to recommended but in this state, the game is either infuriatingly impossible, or utterly boring. It feels like the gameplay was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I certainly recommend trying Quasimorph out. It’s a pretty unique and neat game drenched in cool lore and atmosphere that also delivers a lot of really satisfying gameplay moments. However, in this review I’d like to focus on criticism in order to better explain what’s keeping me from fully enjoying it (and if you’re like me you’ll probably get the same impression). In short, Quasimorph is ultimately designed for tinkererers and min-maxers looking for “challenges”. It doesn’t let you simply…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Version 0.9.5 26+ hours in and this game starts out really fun. Its a little too much grind to get items you need to upgrade your ship because R.N.G.easus is not a kind diety. I like the weird Quasimorphs. You build up your guys and get some really fun gear. Sometimes they die and that sucks. However once the "starting bonus" is over the game ramps up and its a rapid death to failure. Your ship has barely any upgrades by that point and the death of a clone is massive blow taking your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @gog.com! Quasimorph is a #turnbased extraction #roguelike. Unforgiving combat, your own spacecraft, and mysterious dark threat to all life. Next Major Update will be big! www.gog.com/en/game/quas...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the vibe of this game, but the in-game explanations for things are totally absent. Tutorial was okay, but then the game just opens up and there's no tooltips or guidance or anything. After playing for 1 hour, I was already on the internet looking for information on how to play. That's not a great sign. In-game FAQ doesn't answer nearly enough questions. I don't even know how to sell items or how "currency" works without having to look it up online. There's really no excuse for that level…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely repetitive The core gameplay comes down to 10% fighting enemies and 90% looting every single container and corpse on the map in the hopes of being blessed with the 0.001% drop chance to obtain one of the dozens of items you need to make any actual "progression". Since mission reward loot is also randomised, these mechanics reduce the entire game to a test of RNG where the player has to hope and pray that they get the right items before the factions rapidly advance their tech level…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →step 1: Spend 14 hours building the ultimate character step 2: Snipe enemies from across the solar system before they see you step 3: Profit step 4: Die in 3 seconds to a basic melee enemy step 5: Quit the game 10/10 gameplay experience
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frustrating to the point of not being fun. The tutorial tells you how to heal and shoot but leaves out the other 98% of the gameplay mechanics. One-shots and stun locks against the player seem far too common to be intentional. Redo the tutorial to actually help newer players understand the game and rebalance all the unfair cheese.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why are objectives LoS based in the defense missions? Was it TOO hard to make them activate when in the same room? In this situation you have the wonderful choice of : A. make a mad dash to the objective to defend it, usually about 3-8 rooms away. keep in mind enemies already spawned and are trying to beat down the doors to get to the objective first so you could realistically die. or B. cut your losses, evac and accept you failed the ENTIRE contract. I have to question the minds of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quasis got me morphin till I Magnum, Actually though. The worst thing in the game is the shock guns, literally remove them, especially the shock minigun, they serve no purpose other than insta killing clones based on luck. Only like 2 factions use them and no other status affects the gameplay nearly as much or are as stupid. But here is a guide to not be baby in case game hard. Scared an enemy will kill you once you go through a door? Shoot door, enemy attracted to bullets impacts and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't understand what is going in this game at all. Is there something on your character that makes enemies know where the hell you are at all times? Why does sneak not work sometimes, I'm really supposed to believe that a room for 8+ enemies made no noise at all when I stood directly outside of it? Why does the enemy not have any self preservation? I'm not talking about the Quasimorphs, robots, etc. I'm talking about the humanoid enemies. You have things like fear, surrender, anger states,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't really know... I really like the retro flavour of the game, but the difficulty balance is a bit off. Getting repeatedly one-shotted in missions on low difficulty is extremely frustrating. Yeah, I know — 'Skill issue!' — but when it happens that often, something feels wrong. I was hoping for a game that was challenging without being this punishing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buy it. Suffer. Refund. Buy it again. Suffer. Get good. Realise not really. Can't refund. Love it. Hate it. Love it again. Can't stop playing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get me wrong, I like this game. But more a pick-up-and-play game rather than a progressive roguelike. At some point later in the game, you will die, you'll try to recover with the free equipment they give you if you die, and you won't. Just start a new run.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It needs work, it really doesn't feel like a finished game. The UI is very clunky, and its clear that it was put together without much forethought. Its very easy to look at the way the UI is implemented and go "why can't I view the name of these items in the planet/station inventories? Why do you need to open a new window to view not just the sprites of the items but also the item names when going to upgrade your ship? Why is this missing mouseover windows, and why is this other menu or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You will like our game Quasimorph if you enjoyed: - Sword of the Stars: The Pit - Jupiter Hell - Stoneshard - DOOM - ZERO Sievert #Quasimorph | #roguelike | #turnbased | #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Completly unbalanced i was going to wait until the 1.0 release but i have experienced way too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ recently to really care about that this game is the actual worst aspects of both rougelikes and extraction shooters, meta progression is entirely tied to RNG and no i do not mean the item pool i mean wether or not your goons are going to survive a single fire fight after you reach the 14 hour mark on your (normal it's now hard dificulty after an update, implicitly admitting that it was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Did you know that Quasimorph has various tutorial messages and an in-game Help menu? The ongoing Unstable Beta even expanded them with more info. #WishlistWednesday #roguelike #turnbased #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Gameplay is great, but I bought this to play on Steam Deck. Although it's listed as Verified, the menu navigation on controller and some of the UI leaves a lot to be desired. Navigating tabs and moving items are more tedious than they should be. There is no keybind I've found to quickly navigate between tabs, you've got to manually go to the top of each page and select the tab each time. To prepare your inventory before a mission, you must click on each item, select "take", then drag it to your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @oxymorongames.bsky.social! Quasimorph is a #turnbased extraction #roguelike. Unforgiving combat, your own spacecraft, and mysterious dark threat to all life. We recently added a new mechanic to our game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Design looks good, execution feels bad. Struggles to find a consistent difficulty curve, and will waste your time with a lack of info and readability.
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