Project Kongor is a fan made non-profit server, created after the official servers were closed by parent company Garena, in June of 2022. The project allow fans of Heroes of Newerth to continue playing the International client of the game. There are other fan servers for HoN, but Project Kongor is the largest.
Project Kongor crossed the 100,000 registered accounts earlier today, and the game currently has 3000 concurrent users at peak. It is a far cry from official servers, when HoN had 150k at peak in 2015, and about 35k-45k peak concurrent players in 2020 and 2021 (numbers including SEA region).
Here is the FAQ from the Discord server providing more information about Project Kongor. https://discord.com/channels/991034716360687637/1007701022732468376
Anyone notice how unfinished games are these days at the time of release? The solution would be so simple: Stop. Buying. New. Games. It’s that easy. Especially don’t pre-order them. It’s because of idiots who prioritize novelty over quality and simply don’t care if the product is finished or not, that game developers are getting away with this “Release first, Fix it later” attitude. Not only are they using paying customers as alpha/beta testers, they even dare to announce “season passes” despite having released half a game worth of a product, at best. (Callisto Protocol, anyone?)
I haven’t bought a game newer than 3 years old in a long time, you know why? Because there’s so many older, fully patched games out there that I haven’t played yet. Fully patched as in done. Finished development. No more patches needed. I know that’s almost unheard-of in an era where games seem to get patched for all eternity. But …
Personally, I enjoyed Hello Neighbor. I thought it was a cool idea; open-level stealth horror game where you have to complete puzzles without being caught by a fairly intelligent AI. Yea it had its issues, but overall I thought it was a pretty cool and fun game.
With Hello Neighbor 2, they decided to take this same concept but add more layers and challenge to it. Instead of being open-level within a house that had 3 different variations, they put it in an open world town. Now you have to sneak around a whole town, explore every corner, evade multiple AI rather than just 1, etc.. But no, that’s just not what we got at all at release.
Not only is the game in a majorly unfinished state, but they released the game WITH 3 paid DLC? You can’t even experience the full game because 3 aspects of it are locked behind a paywall at launch and the game itself wether you have the DLC or not is practically unplayable.
Before this post begins, this how the ratings are done by each site:
https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-rating/
Now let’s move on to the top 20 games for each site:
SteamDB top 20 games:
1.) Vampire Survivors (Left Early Access), 97.61% Rating (Also the 2nd highest rated game on SteamDB just behind Portal 2)
2.) Stray, 96.13% Rating
3.) God of War, 95.66% Rating
4.) Powerwash Simulator (Left Early Access), 95.61% Rating
5.) Entropy : Zero 2 (Mod), 95.56% Rating
6.) Persona 5 Royal, 95.25% Rating
7.) Neon White, 95.25% Rating
8.) Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, 95.00% Rating
9.) Dorfromantik (Left Early Access), 94.98% Rating
10.) Brotato (Early Access), 94.84% Rating
11.) Cultic, 94.83% Rating
12.) The Looker (Free), 94.81% Rating
13.) Metal: Hellsinger, 94.58% Rating
14.) Teardown (Left Early Access), 94.57% Rating
15.) Trombone Champ, 94.56% Rating
16.) Placid Plastic Duck Simulator, 94.55% Rating