Of course, among the games with the highest upgrades is No Man’s Sky – but not in the top 5.
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Upgrades are rewards for perseverance. Rewards for development teams not simply sweeping their games under the carpet after release, but continuing to maintain, improve and expand them over months, maybe even years, until the original version seems like an almost forgotten nightmare.
In the podcast, Michael Graf and Florian Franck talk about the ten highest upgrades we have ever given, i.e. the ten games that made the biggest jumps in rating in the post-test.
Namely:
- Universal Europe 4which we finally gave the rating it deserves as one of the best global strategy games in the post-test seven years after its release – although not quite officially, because it was an experimental post-test.
- Planetary Annihilationa former Kickstarter flagship project, proved that $2.2 million isn’t necessarily enough to release a finished game.
- No Man’s Skythe biggest comeback story in modern gaming, which today, among other things, keeps the multiplayer promises that Hello Games broke when it was released.
- Wolcen: Lords of Mayhemwhich climbed into the top 3 most-played Steam games when it was released and then crashed again in flames because its technology was more flawed than a Diablo hero after visiting the butcher.
- Fallout 76, which featured the best fallout world in Bethesda history (quote Micha), but “forgot” to fill it with human NPCs. The Wastelander DLC finally addressed this problem.
- Spellforce 3 we even upgraded it twice: once when the developers had mostly fixed the serious release problems, and again when the free Reinforced Edition was launched.
- Vanguard: Saga of Heroes appeared as an online role-playing game in the middle of the World of Warcraft hype and went under. That didn’t stop us from upgrading – though the stories behind the game are even more compelling!
- Dragonsang Online has a no less tragic history, because behind it is the bankruptcy of the Drakensang developer Radon Labs, which was bought up by Bigpoint and switched to browser game development.
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 is the game whose post-test Florian carried with flaming zeal to all our editorial conferences until we finally let him have it – it was high time!
- eFootball 2022 has… is… so… just listen for yourself.
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