I've played about five hours of the blue-collar bug-squasher so far, and admittedly it’s grown on me. The special launcher weapons and diverse array of weird-ass bugs keeps skirmishes interesting, and I'm still in the process of finding new jobs to do and new biomes to do them on, so the sense of discovery is still there. But I don't think Exterminauts has made an airtight case for horde shooter fans to choose it over their current favorite. It doesn't have the open-endedness of a Deep Rock Galactic, the slam-dunk tone and mood of Darktide, or the strong satirical comedy of Helldivers II. None of that is a death sentence, especially not this early in development. But it has its dirty work cut out for it.