We Steal From Old People: Review

Sources reviewed: 2026-11-12

Worth $9.95 if you want a short satire roguelite this week. Wait if you want the early difficulty settled. The second patch is already out, and it says the opening can be too hard.

What the short reviews actually say

The first page of top reviews lists playtimes of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.7, 1.2, 2.1, and 4.5 hours. A 0.7-hour review says the game is fun and that the developers put time in. A 1.2-hour review praises the gameplay and the art, and adds that it works on Linux. A 0.2-hour review tells people to buy it. Those are Steam users, not a studio quote.

Where the complaints cluster

The discussion board, not the review blurbs, holds the sharpest complaints. One post says scaling is awful: two minutes in, the fight is already past the player, and homing projectiles finish it. Another says you trade hits because mobs are not staggered and you are. I treat those as the current risk, not as a balance patch that already landed.

How fast the studio answered

v0.1.1 shipped on launch day, 10 Nov at 20:20 UTC, mostly sound: the truck honks, cops chatter, the ground pound has audio. v0.1.2 shipped 11 Nov at 18:11 UTC. It fixes saves when a cloud sync locks the file, restores menu links on Steam Deck, retunes stamina effects for AMD cards, and says in public that early difficulty can be too difficult. Dexerto’s launch piece quotes Ben calling it fictional satire. That is the media record so far. One article, no critic average.

A Reddit post on r/SteamDeck the same week calls it a couple of hours of fun and says it plays well. I would buy it at $9.95 for the joke and the toy-brick look, and I would not buy it yet if the thing you want is a tuned roguelite. The sale date is the decision clock.

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