theres nothing quite like drugging yourself up on every single substance you can get your hands on and shooting up a half the city's population and police force before coming back home and playing some Aneurism IV 10/10 best laundry folding simulator I've ever played

I was walking down the street and watched 2 guys beating each other with pipes. A cultist came out of the sewers and stabbed both of them, looked at me and chased me all the way to my apartment. Then I got on my computer and played ANEURISM IV

>Hop on my least favorite american server >The Rot is Consuming >End up in metalworks with a group of proles and doctors >One slave was working off his karmic debt when the gates blew open >Now he's ours >We get him shitfaced drunk and have him huff and ingest all the narcotics in our collective inventories >Doctor and I make jars, decide we're gonna have him huff jenkem for all eternity >Gather a massive crowd of proles and cortex units ready to watch this slave eat shit >The gathering begins to get cultish >We offer him meat, bystanders offer more drugs, the banker who owns the nightclub bathroom we holed up in even gives free drinks to the slave >The slave begins saying cryptically positive things. >"CONSUME" >"FEED" >We start to praise him like an otherworldly being, and he responds in kind by beginning some sort of insane glue-sniffing gospel >He's like our ET, and those RotHead bastards are the government, trying to take him away >Start referring to him as "my son" and "my boy" >Zealot tries to take him but the room erupts into a cacophony of belted cries >"HE WANTS TO EAT SHIT" >"He's happy :)" >"DON'T TAKE HIM FROM US" >The Zealot leaves to get backup, we hold up with a guard >Cortex_Approved_Shithuffing.mp4 >The zealots arrive, kill everyone. I hide in a bathroom stall. >They stare at me as they aim down sights at my head >My last request is that they take the jars of fermented fecal funny with them, as to make sure he has a good life >They let me say goodbye >The slave speaks to me before they riddle me with bullets >"I WILL ALWAYS HAVE YOU IN MY HEART" >murdered in a bathroom stall with a jar of Jenkem meant for my son in between my legs 10/10, haven't had this much fun since stealing printers in darkrp.

the game is fucking amazing but the player base is toxic as hell sometimes. i'm a woman so its difficult for me to play any game but especially this one just because theres so many bitchless creeps on here that will kill me over and over if i reject them, making the game completely unplayable. yes i have talked to mods and they don't really care.

Befriended a lonely man addicted to glue, became addicted to glue myself. Man in a black coat approaches us and offers us glue for killing each other, my "friend" instantly smashes my skull. 10/10 game

I watched a man get brutally murdered in the middle of the street. I wept over his corpse and called for help and a cop came over and accused me of killing him before beating me and arresting me. A bit too realistic for me

i buy cigarettes and leave them on the floor in random places so that someone takes them and gets addicted. i dont do it to boost cigarette sales or anything im just doing it for the love of the game

Extreme prevalence of very sexist people who will kill you for using voice chat if you are a woman. But really if you only type to respond to people you'll be killed while typing. Most I do is use this game to sell the cosmetics now since I can't even communicate without dieing half the time.

joined the discord and saw that they're punishing a cheater by cutting their feet off and forcing them to push over 50 boulders up a ramp while livestreaming it and playing music can't entirely recommend it currently because its full to the brim with DDOSers, exploiters, and hackers. but its a good game

Laundromat workers do not understand the struggles we experience in the factory. They think they're better than you. Eat them.

After a long day of work mining resources out in the wasteland and processing the raw materials into axles and parts for the prosperity of ANEURISM IV, I found myself roaming the city and looting through trash as any good prole does. This is when I heard someone attempting to get my attention. Turning around I spied a pair of ne'er-do-wells beckoning me over to a dark alleyway, green lighters in-hand. Deciding I had nothing better to do, I stashed a few items save for my trusty pocket rat and a bandage, and went over to meet with them. They offered myself and a fellow prole membership in their club and we decided to see what it was about. A short jaunt through poorly lit tunnels, stairwells and various locked, underground passageways later and we arrive at the antler-headed pair's destination: A pit. They begin to explain to the both of us proles how they need to kill and consume our flesh, and then toss our bodies in the pit below. Deciding that this was a sub-optimal way to continue living, I begin explaining that I can be of use to them, I even have items (the rat and bandage) with which to trade with. My companion has other ideas, however. He immediately sets about pleading for his miserable life, desperately trying to say he has a lot of fat on him, and isn't very healthy. An interesting tactic, to be sure, but the antler-heads didn't seem convinced and before I could even get to bartering my pocket rat away for my life, they begin to hack down the fat prole until he lay in a slump on the ground. The pair do not stop there, however, and openly consume his flesh, then toss his bones in the pit. This doesn't phase me, though, and they make a new offer: I help them lure more souls down here to meet the same fate, and I get to live and be consecrated into their cult. Of course, I agree to this arrangement. Beyond simply getting to live, I am interested in what they believe. They tell me the Cortex is evil and that the Rot, in fact, is the only thing worth living for. The only thing that will free the city. So we set about returning to the surface. I manage to convince another prole to come with us into the depths, again offering membership in the cult to him. He is slightly misguided and thinks he's joining the KKK (not sure what that is, to be honest) but we lead him anyways. Once at the pit the antlered-one yet again explains to this new victim how he's going to be cut down, eaten and tossed into the pit. This doesn't seem to sit well with the chap however and he simply tosses himself into the pit before the Mr. Antlers can finish his monologue. It's then that all Hell breaks loose: My vision goes blood red, nay-- the whole world goes blood red. Immediately I'm led out of the sacrificial chambers and told to hide. Already I can hear the gunshots, I can see proles running in fear for their lives. I'm told we've all been limited and the whole city has begun a purge. As I flee through the streets, I can see the mangled corpses of fellow workers, medics, Cortex agents, and cultists alike strewn about. These are truly the end times. I scribble these last thoughts down in the hopes that someone will not make the mistakes I did. TL;DR: Tried to join a club, started the apocalypse. Oops.

i got addicted to glue cigarettes and booze. lost my mind when i couldnt find any and ultimately ended up just having to jump in a pit of fire. then i found a dead body, ate it, got sick, and jumped into a fire pit. after that i came home and got on aneurysm 4

Logged on. Asked a cop how to play the game. Procedes to shoot me in the face and sell my body to liquidators. Spawns back in. Gets beaten to death at the metal works

Be a liquidator, minding my business at the local civil center just as a new ration cycle is announced. Be the first one inside, ready to get my slop. Some prole walks in standing a little to close to the ration vendor as its vending my hard earned meal "Mind if I steal this ration, thanks...". I turn around, take out my flamethrower, and reduce him to a pile of burning ash right then and there in the civil center. Take my hard earned ration, then proceed to drag his smoldering corpse to the nearest infirmary to throw him in the incinerator... [b]You have been rewarded one Anamnecyte.

Police brutality and systemic oppression simulator 10/10

Genuinely fills a void in the multiplayer RP market and I'm enjoying it a ton. Here's some experiences I had on launch day: -> Become hard working metal worker, toil all day in mines -> Become thirsty, go towards vending machine. Funny vent man sells me silver bar for cheap, I buy to sell for more later at other funny vent man. -> Drink refreshing state-made soda -> Get searched by cop and summarily executed for having contraband (silver bar) in front of the vending machine. -> Next life, war is declared on kidneystan. Rush to war factory for good pay and serve great Cortex by making bombs. Server pop is at 50 so it is utter chaos as everyone is running around with parts and stabbing bombs with screwdrivers. We make good money. -> Zealot Rebels do ritual that causes purge event (no laws enforced) ... The war factory that is packed full of people so it becomes a complete blood bath. Small group comprised of myself and other faktory workers hide in laundromat. First we hide inside washing machines. -> One of them goes "man fuck this, I'm doing laundry" and then we all proceed to peacefully work at the laundromat while the streets are literally being painted in blood and gore from zealots outside. We all survive somehow as they ignore us. -> I buy can of food from shady alley man, try to go to apartment to cook it. Run into shootout between rebels and cops. I hide in an alcove next to a conscript. He just types "I'm cooked, fr fr." and fucking dies in front of me. I take some of his stuff and just walk through the shootout towards my apartment. "I just wanna cook my beans, man, don't shoot me." The rebels let me pass. -> Another glorious day living under the Cortex

some of the best emergent storytelling potential i've seen in a game in a long time. i literally exposed a bank trust and caused a revolution by being an honest banker. i set my deposit fees lower than anyone else on the server, and the rest of the bankers tried to get me to raise my fees to a ridiculously high amount they had all collectively agreed on. instead of cooperating, i ran around telling all the proles that the other bankers were colluding to jack up deposit fees so that they would bank with me instead. this lead to the proles rising up and killing the bankers who were price gouging deposit fees, which completely overwhelmed the police. 10/10.

Downloaded game for the first time Got offered glue Enjoyed sniffing glue No more glue I need more glue Quickly become street beggar desperate for glue No one wants to give me glue Someone offers me cigarettes instead They’re laced. They’re fucking laced. Desperate for food, water, and glue now as parasites eat me alive Find pickaxe I know what i must do. The great laundry room massacre will live on in history, with the blood of the proles staining the walls forever 10/10 this game is incredible

Edit: Since writing this review, the community manager in question has been removed from his position and it seems he will allegedly fully depart from vellocet come September, for now it looks like he is just a mod on the discord server. I have also been unbanned from the game and discord server and it would be disingenuous of me to not inform you guys if this. However I feel it would be equally disingenuous to take the review down, and if the review had anything to do with my unbanning, so here is what i'll do. If you have been wrongfully banned from this game i.e banned despite not cheating submit your appeal here: support@vellocetsoftware.com. And let us know the results in the comments of this review. If this is a genuine effort by vellocet to turn a new leaf or just damage control remains to be seen, but I think this is a step in the right direction and if this continues (and if the devs stay out of trouble lmao) then I think it would be fair to change this review from neg to positive but for now we'll see how this new moderation team handles the game. Enjoyed the game until the community manager Ayayron permanently banned me off of it for talking to someone he didnt like, despite "Malicious association" not being a bannable offense on their own EULA he doubled down on his decision and denied my appeal request after vaguely saying he "received evidence" against me despite me never having cheated once on this game, nor ever clarifying what evidence he actually had. The aftermath of this is a game ban sits on my account over a game I never even broke the rules on and am permanently banned from the game and I cannot sell the items with actual monetary value I got over the course of my almost 300 hours. The community manager for this game is incredibly intransparent in the ban appeals and has a guilty before innocent mentality and will ban you for any arbitrary reason he can think of if he wants to, even if you didnt actually break any rules. I am also far from the only person affected by this, aneurysm definitely has a moderation problem and it is solely because of the incompotent and corrupt community manager, who has made it a habit to ban people off the game falsely with no warnings whatsoever. On top of this he has some serious allegations against him involving showing minors pornography over discord and apparently only keeps his position because he is friends with the lead developer, I would say this literal one person is killing the game entirely because of his power trips. Other than that the game is good but buyer beware, you may talk to someone Ayayron doesnt like and be locked out of the ten dollars you spent and get a ban on your account over an indie game

I stole 5 boulders in the slave pits and got server banned yesterday from the only populated server by an admin who accused me of using multiple accounts because I was "standing still" while waiting for other slaves to deliver boulders. I AM AS OF TODAY NOW GAME BANNED FOR MAKING 2 FORUM THREADS, READ BELOW. Apparently it's allowed to play in cheater groups where everyone has cheats that disconnects players when they get attacked because I've never seen the admins step in and stop them from rotting and these groups play almost every day and rot the servers regularly. God forbid someone being good at slave soccer though and stealing 5 boulders, apparently this is enough of a reason for them to send in one of their delusional discord mods to ban you. UPDATE, I AM NOW ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that vellocet have permanently GAME BANNED my 2 accounts I own this game on as well as 1 family shared account because of me creating 2 different steam discussions forum threads trying to bring attention to my incorrect ban. I created one steam discussions thread on https://steamcommunity.com/id/powerhourlol/ which were a direct copy of my steam review above. After I got forum banned for reason "TOS" I logged onto this account https://steamcommunity.com/id/bigstankdickdad/ I created a new thread with the exact same text but I replaced the "delusional discord mods" part with nicer wording to try and not be offensive. I genuinely thought that the nicer wording would allow the thread to stay up and bring attention to my case and maybe even cause you guys to look into my case further. This was obviously a mistake since you banned that account too from the forum for "TOS". Shortly after this account got forum banned too, which I find very silly by the way, I recieved permanent game bans on the family shared https://steamcommunity.com/id/bigstankdickdad/ account as well as my https://steamcommunity.com/id/gamermanz/ account the game was family shared from. A few minutes later I also recieved a game ban on my original alt account I got server banned on https://steamcommunity.com/id/powerhourlol This proves that my GAME BANS were issued directly from supposed "steam discussions forum violations" which I don't even consider to be violations. This is plain wrong. I really have done nothing to deserve this. I simply got mad because I got server banned after being accused of something I didn't do. I haven't used any of my accounts to play multiple characters at one time. I use one account at a time and it is simply wrong to issue game bans due to forum threads. This is abuse of the steam game ban system clear as day.

Games good, but devs protect a pedophile in their team who also streams p rn to kids and also tries to groom them, and this is a usual thing byw, if you speak against him or talk about it you get banned from discord and also from their main servers in the game, dont buy it.

I think this is the best format for my review so cope. > Join as a prole (working class) > Go into metalworking, and make money, teach others how to play (I watched a guide before joining) > Get enough points to become a black market dealer > Time to make money moves > End up being one of the only black market dealers in the city > Partner with a bar to supply them with cooking ingredients in exchange for free food > End up spending 6 hours as a black market dealer, becoming decently well known n making money moves > Decide to go into banking because everyone kept asking me to become a banker > By this point I was the guy who got things for people and bartered/sold them > Someone else randomly decided to become a banker, competition > Undercut their rates (already was) but see them essentially not contributing to the city by just sitting around waiting for proles to deposit money > Banker notebook commandment says "Eliminate competition" > Offer to hire a prole to kill the other banker, 20c hit placed > Prole comes back, other banker was willing to pay them 50c to kill me instead > Offer to match his 50, and supply him with a knife to kill the banker ("That's so good I won't even ask for a counter-offer") > Walk with them to look for the other banker, find them in the laundry > Watch as the banker is horrified to see the prole start stabbing him going "I paid you!" > Execution is essentially public with multiple people watching > Watch him fall over dead, he had nothing on him > Pay the prole 25c and let him deposit at a 1% rate since the other banker already paid him > Have a new black market dealer come up to me and ask me how to do what I was doing (apprentice acquired) > Have multiple people in the city fear me because I would "get them killed" if they were business competition > Have cops try to sell me illegal goods > Finally die because I didn't press E on a ladder Genuinely peak. 9.5/10 Only downside is a lot of drama around the devs and some people in the community being wack (but I haven't met those people in game yet so like W for me)

-Become doctor -Find large amount of bottles from digging in trash cans and dumpsters -Finds officer -I ask "what should I do with these" -Officer responds "make some jenkem or something idk" -Officer commends me -I find a prole in the nightclub while im making said jenkem -"Hello this is my first time playing this game" -I say "Want to start a jenkem drug empire with me?" -Prole says "Yeah sounds good to me" -We make around 7 bottles of jenkem and hide them in the dumpster behind the greenhouse -Prole asks what the jenkem does while its we are waiting for it to ferment -Let him test the product -I then find out hes already addicted to sniffing glue -Prole becomes violently addicted and is also starving to death -I continue to heal him to keep my drug addict alive -Banker buys some of our jenkem -Me and prole go to buy gabagool to eat food for the first time -Goes back to greenhouse dumpster -Cops waiting for us -Prole was holding our inventory of jenkem -Cops kill my prole buinsess partner -Same cop walks up to me -"I lost 10 amnecytes because of you" 10/10 game

Aneurism IV is a complex web of a game. While the game itself is essentially an elevated dystopian horror-themed Gmod RP, everything about it is complicated by the community, the developers, and the opaqueness of the gameplay itself. The game itself doesn't hold your hand, and rarely will any of the citizens of Aneurism IV, either. While the gameplay elements aren't complex and are fairly quick to learn, there are no in-game tutorials or explanations to contextualize the general gameplay loop that acts as a backbone for the game's roleplay. If you're lucky, your cries of help will be met by a player who will teach you all of the game's "fates" and jobs with ease. If you're unlucky, you'll repeatedly have your belongings stolen and suffer a pipe to the skull until you quit the game in frustration. The community seems to ebb and flow in character and toxicity, but as someone who has been playing the game since the demo, I have one major observation: the community is nearly always characterized by the most polar extremes of its players, for better and worse. Aneurism IV players both loathe roleplay and excel at it. Aneurism IV players will call you every slur under the sun and will beat anyone who says a slur over the head with a pipe. Aneurism IV players are on every end of the political spectrum, and will overshare and impress their opinions on everything from gender norms to racial disputes in game, and yet they are also absolutely tolerant/intolerant of any and all opinions. It's so fortunate, then, that the basic gameplay loop of Aneurism thrives on strife and conflict. On Aneurism IV, everyone loathes and distrusts one another. Someone who is a law-abiding officer at one moment will die and become the lowest of the low just to exact revenge on That One Guy Who Was An Asshole. What is less fortunate is that the developers of the game ALSO seem to not know what they want, to be all extremes at the same time, to be both universally accepting and overwhelmingly stifling. What I can say about Vellocet is that sometimes they put out really great, compelling, fascinating patches. Other times, they break their own game so terribly that it's quite literally unplayable. For a new studio, this is not surprising: what is, however, is that they seem to carry with them some deep conflict from Online Communities' Past that means their own official servers have regularly faced cheaters, exploiters, DDoSers, and egregious trolls. In the days of the demos, Vellocet-haters would zoom around the map, beating you over the head with a pickaxe so fast that you've turned into ground beef before you can have the thought to run. In the early days post-release, this opposition would run around servers spamming recorded material so egregiously vile that players would regularly sacrifice all of their social currency just to kill them. These days, the biggest problem has been DDoSing, a problem so prolific that the game was completely inaccessible for nearly a week. Vellocet has made it clear since the beginning that they will not moderate their official servers in any capacity aside from exploit, so I don't anticipate that these toxic dynamics will ever change, or that the trolls who seem to have some personal quarrel with the company itself will ever stop. Aneurism IV is complicated. It's a game I really like, and I really dislike. If it were more properly optimized for small groups, it's a game I'd only play with friends rather than with the masses. Simultaneously, I've had some of the most fascinating, hilarious, intense, heartwarming interactions with other players while roleplaying, and I don't know how to feel about any of it. Generally speaking, this game deserves an 18+ rating and shouldn't be played by children, both due to the community and the gameplay itself, addled with addiction and guns and cold-blooded murder. It's also not a game for the faint of heart, the sensitive, the easily agitated. If I could, I'd give this game a flat neutral rating: Play it if you like dystopian horror, absurd comedy, and petty conflict; avoid if you are sensitive to bigotry, find it difficult to teach yourself new game systems, or dislike roleplay. As it stands, though, considering the toxicity of the game's community and the opaqueness and denseness of the developers, I'd have to suggest most people avoid the world of Aneurism IV. Hopefully, that is only for now.

Until there is some form of moderation within this game I cannot in good conscious recommend anyone play this especially if you're female. I was given this game by my friend who thought the game was fun and wanted to teach me how to play. He is a guy and after the one night I tried to play this game with him, informed me that he has never had the kinds of issues that we had. For the entirety of trying to play on the only two servers that had more than 10 people and a playable ping level I was followed by 4-5 individuals of various roles in the game and incessantly called slurs and killed every time I attempted to do anything, even just walking around. I heard Nazi's talking about their supremacy and all that racist crap, and a variety of clips being played over the voice chat system. While there is a mute function it is extremely hard to reach if the individual is moving around a lot and does not change the constant murder issue. They only targeted me, another girl on voice chat who was playing a doctor at the time trying to help me, and the person who was trying to teach me how to play the game because I was using the voice chat and was not a dude as they didn't bother anyone else and no one helped any of us with this for the entirety of the experience of this game. There is 0 moderation of the in game voice chats at this time and the game was unplayable and unenjoyable to the point that if it was not a gift I would have refunded it until a moderation system is in place. Once there is one I'll give the game another shot and potentially take this down but until then I cant play the game again.