That was surprisingly refreshing about the Arknights: Endfield thing that happened recently. It was a solid base game with most major mechanics present, virtually no polish and obvious lack of content and direction outisde of “level up and beat bosses”. Many companies would release this and call it good, patching things later, but it was given to players as a technical test instead to test their base systems. I really appreciated that they didn’t call it “pre-release” or even “alpha”
That was surprisingly refreshing about the Arknights: Endfield thing that happened recently. It was a solid base game with most major mechanics present, virtually no polish and obvious lack of content and direction outisde of “level up and beat bosses”. Many companies would release this and call it good, patching things later, but it was given to players as a technical test instead to test their base systems. I really appreciated that they didn’t call it “pre-release” or even “alpha”