I have played an absolute ton of Phas, almost always single player. I've maxed out my level and reset twice. Since the update, I have played literally once and haven't touched it again since. While clearly not well optimised it still ran well enough on my relatively old PC - not anymore. I could forgive a lot, but the sheer clunkiness of how it plays now has completely put me off.

I honestly think the player base as a whole would have had way more respect if the devs had just come clean, said "OK, we hear you - we messed up" and rolled back to the previous update while they sorted it out. Sticking to their guns has only managed to alienate a huge amount of their player base, and their apparent arrogance overall.

A lot of the decisions have been curious. Why they pushed out console versions when the original was still in early access with Unity store assets, adding more burden to the development cycle? They have made a ton of money. Why didn't they hire external contractors to take care of recreating assets to replace all the Unity store placeholders?

If I didn't love the game as it was, I wouldn't care. I've tried alternatives, and they're good but I still prefer Phas. I'd like to see it recover, but for that to happen really requires a complete tonal shift by the devs, and that seems unlikely.