Here are some reasons to try the Gravhounds open playtest on Steam:
- It's free for the next few days and seems well put-together for a playtest of an unreleased early access game
- It's a co-op wave shooter and those are basically always fun to muck around in with friends, at least for a bit
- The movement feels good, especially gliding across networks of buildable cables
- There's a light resource mining and tower defense element that has potential
- You collect resources by hucking them across the map with a gravity gun, which is satisfying (just don't do it with explosive materials, I learned)
- It doesn't really play like Helldivers 2, it just replicates the home base spaceship setup, but it's a good format, and the shooting is fun
Also, you may have noticed that the characters are dogs with people bodies.
Is that also a reason to try it? It did catch my attention, mainly because I find these particular dog people a bit unsettling. I felt the same way about Fox in the
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