Super-B is a Third-Person Multiplayer Game on Steam. I usually start reviews by explaining to which genre a game belongs to, so readers can get a grasp of what the game is all about. With Super-B this categorization appears pretty difficult. It seems to want to be a game of everything, like a mix of Roblox and Fall Guys elements perhaps. Maybe Blankos Block Party would be an even more fitting comparison (a game which I also reviewed on this blog: https://gamereviewnation.blogspot.com/2024/01/blankos-block-party-pc-review.html).
A difference to those games, however, is that you can’t actually create your own levels in Super-B. Instead, you have to choose from around 10 premade gamemodes by the developers. The variety isn’t actually too bad. You have two different Battle Royale modes with classic “Battle Royale” and “Battle Isle”, which are the same gamemode just on different maps. You have classic gamemodes, like Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Bomb Defusal and a Gungame mode called “Random Weapon Challenge”. Bomb Defusal and Random Weapon Challenge are FPS gamemodes, while all others are played as third-person shooters.
Another really weird gamemode was Hide and Seek, which I didn’t fully understand, but you seem to have to blend into a crowd of NPCs. At some point there was also a Call of Duty Zombies Rip-Off gamemode called ‘Monster Survival’, which played like a bad Roblox imitation of said gamemode. Additionally, there are also 2 Parkour based gamemodes in Super-B. ‘Obstacle Race’ is a scuffed version of classic Fall Guys Racing Stages and ‘Parkour Game’ is a much longer Platforming Parkour, which took most of its difficulty from the poor and imprecise movement controls in Super-B. Interestingly enough, I saw additional gamemodes and maps in the trailer of the game, which I never experienced ingame. Maybe they are supposed to be added in at a later stage, if the game even manages to exist for much longer.
Super-B was already dead on arrival. The game launched with an all-time Steam player peak of less than 50 and has only reached 10 simultaneous players on two days in the last 3 months. For a game with a focus on Online Multiplayer that’s beyond devastating. I have played all gamemodes in this game and I have never met another player. At least the lobbies fill up pretty quickly with Bots, which keeps Super-B playable.
But is that even worth it? The Gameplay in all gamemodes is not good. Movement and Gunplay feel stiff and unprecise, like the game wouldn’t even have proper analog movement. It made the platforming levels way more cumbersome than necessary, but shooter stages are not really better. I also experienced no difference when switching between Mouse and Keyboard and Controller. The gameplay isn’t broken, but it’s also not fun. There are hundreds of games out there, which do the same in better.
Outside of the regular gamemodes, you can also take a stroll through a hub world called Brick City. There is, however, nothing really to see or do there. Social features don’t work, if the playerbase of your game is nonexistent. You can also visit the homes of other players, but the housing feature is locked behind a monthly subscription. This game with a totally dead playerbase has 3 tiers of a monthly subscription for 5, 10 and 20 Euro/Dollar per month. That is absolutely insane. Who in their right mind would pay 20 bucks per month for an Online Multiplayer Game with no other players?
And there is, of course, also a Battle Pass for 15 Euro and a shop with a bunch of skins available for purchase. You can theoretically earn a bit of currency just by playing the game, but it’s a long grind and totally not worth it in a dead game.
Let’s also take a short moment to talk about the visuals of this game, which are really poor. You could easily call it terrible without lying. Even Roblox looks nearly good in comparison. The fact, that the developers, however, advertise this game on Steam as having “AAA Visuals”, is a contender for joke of the year. If those graphics are AAA, then I don’t want to ever see bad visuals, because they would probably make my eyes hurt.
The soundtrack however is actually not too bad. The variety is small, but the actual quality is decent. I did, however, experience some audio glitches with missing gunshots or strangely delayed sound effects.
Settings are furthermore for a professional game way too limited. You can barely customize anything. This seems more akin to something we would see on a mobile game.
Super-B also features 66 Steam Achievements, which initially seemed to be broken. I and some of the few other players fulfilled the requirements for a bunch of them without being able to unlock any of them. It turns out, the achievement descriptions are false and the actual achievements are much more grindy. The game can therefore not even be recommended for achievement hunters.
Result:
Who was this game made for? I am not sure that there actually is a target audience for Super-B out there. The gameplay and visuals make the game look like an inferior Roblox copy, but Super-B doesn’t actually allow players to create their own maps and gamemodes. You end up with dedicated gamemodes with homemade quality and a nonexistent playerbase. The game itself isn’t awful. Nothing is really broken, but Super-B also doesn’t even reach mediocrity and I struggle to find any actual reason to play it.
4/10
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