How Evolve Devolved 

Hate it as you may, evolve stage 3 is more likely than titanfall 3 :]

Evolve is the perfect example of modern abandonware. A fully functional bit of entertainment software that neither company who made it is supporting in any capacity anymore. Yet, if you were to say, make a distribute copies of the game, you'd be labeled a criminal, despite the fact every company involved with the project has actively expressed their disinterest in making money off the sale of this product in any form... _Yar har fiddle de de_

“Never try to force your game into a E-sport” Thank you, someone finally said it. PREACH!

I remember seeing evolve on youtube as a young teen. It was the coolest thing back then. I absolutely adored the concept. Never got to play myself. Never even knew gorgon existed, or stage 2 for that matter. Its such a shame DBD of all games thrives when something this cool faded into obscurity and died.

Evolve is the game that made me into game design, The further you understand it's core mechanics & pitch The more you understand the untapped potential of that kind of game

It was truly incredible how quickly evolve became irrelevant. I had a friend get it day 1 and within a week he had lost interest in playing. Another L chalked for Turtlerock

The main thing that sucks is that even at stage 3 of evolution, it is extremely difficult for monsters to win cause some hunters can just not be grabbed.

This games story hurts my soul to several degrees. I was in the top 3 Goliath players back when it came out, and every day after class I would poor my soul into it. To see something I loved so much melt due to corporate greed and shit management kills me inside

What stings me more is that, iirc, there was originally going to be a worm-like monster called the velvet worm that never got added, and it stings me that it was never implemented

The lore was so fucking good! I wish they made a comic about the backstories on other planets. Like the Fall of Factor, the Mutagen Wars, Bounty Hunters, The Sky Cities of Venus, Soviet Mars, Paradise on Earth and Hunting on the Moons of Jupiter.

I loved the concept of this game but it just didnt hold up

I loved this game man. Shame it got stiffed the way it was. I hear Turtlerock weren't even allowed to Hotfix it because the publishers thought Hotfixes made them look bad for some reason.

I remember playing evolve with my old buddies. We don’t speak anymore, but things were so much simpler back then.

"They turned the spy into a monster", dude he is already french (I'm french too, please don't backstab me)

I honestly miss this game, I thought it was really fun

Brilliant editing my friend! 👏🏻 Had me rolling the whole time please make more! Cheers! 🍻

I used to play this game as a kid, even got it for the xbox on my birthday when it first came out. Didn't get much chance with the multi-player, when Xbox gold became the thing that restricted multi-player functions behind a paywall. My biggest gripes with the game that really annoyed me were the monetization (locking monsters and hunters behind paywalls, but I could care less for the hunters) and a lack of a story mode (like, I want to learn more about the monsters and their origins, I need Lore if you want to keep me playing) And as a kid, I always pretended that one game mode that puts in hazards into the environment after one side or the other won the previous game and it's preferred game mode was the story mode. Also, throughout my entire time playing the game as a kid, I always pretended (or head canon, i suppose) that the monsters were an entire species of environmental activists, who wanted the humies and their polluting ways off the planet... they just didn't know that there could've been a peaceful solution, so chose violence instead. Never had the chance to play the stage 2 game cause it was on the PC and there wasn't much advertising for it, so I remained unaware of it before it was too late. Wish someone bought the IP and gave life to it.

I’d love for this to make a comeback….plz

i hope evolve actually works one day

man i remember the hype, i was sold the moment i seen cool monstir vs dudes and pre ordered that shit

Evolve is a game i always wanted to have played... its unfortunate that it all went down.

Titanfall 2 and Evolve: both games i arrived in time to learn to love the pvp of and then watch them die

I remember when this was the “best game of the year”. It came out of absolutely nowhere. I also remember when titanfall 1 was crowned game of the year. The difference is that titanfall1 actually freaking slapped

Evolve was like a flower, it had yet to bloom.. it had yet to evolve into its full potential.

Evolve stage 2 killed it because it was streamlined so much and made trappers as a class useless

1:40 bro wanted 500

I miss Evolve(

Such a shame. I loved this game, but the bullshit DLC in a game that wanted to be an e-sport title and the terrible balancing just killed it. And yes as you mentioned still there is a big interested In this game. I sometimes just boot up the game and play an offline match against bots (in the legacy version). I feel like If someone just picked up the game repolish the original version and remove the bullshit, this game would basically be good to go.

Wait till he hears about AVP 2010 and the discord servers keeping it alive. What a game.

The helmet and cig edit made me laugh so hard. Gj man

For those of you who dont know you can still play Evolve on PC through a downloaded line of code. Still have a thriving community. Safe hunting.

Man i miss this game, I still have it in my steam library to this day and one play it again

Remember how you could preorder skins before the game was announced?

The start of the video has more story than all of evolve lore

Thanks for the vid! Gotta love the community still mucking about after all this time, Evolve players kept me going through the pandemic :33

Man, no joke, that intro mixing various Sci-fi midia is fucking awesome

God video , nice editing and humor keep it up my man

I remember watching Skilled Apple play this game. I remember him describing the Wraith as the Pubstomper

It lived, it died, it resurrected and it died again

Bearded dragons mentioned, day made. Furthermore, PAGONA VITTECEPS ARIIIIIIISE, RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!

i remember playing evolve when i was like 7 or 8 and loved it, its sad it died. i forgot about it but every few years remember it, i recall watching videos about it in 2020 and missing it. i never knew about stage 2 as i didnt have a pc at that time, im gonna have to see if i can get a steam key for evolve seeing as there is a discord community that actively play. if anyone seeing this happens to have a key and would be kind enough to share, if i haven't already got one id very much appreciate it if one of you could slide me a key🙏id be willing to pay too if you arent willing to just give one away

It’s such a shame this game died. It was so cool. I’m sure if done right they’d be able to revive it.

I had a lot of fun during the Stage 2 era. My favotire hunters to play were Jack, Lennox, E.M.E.T and Kala. My favorite monsters were both variants of Kraken, preferring Elder Kraken overall. It's so sad to see this game to end how it did, but at least it was fun while it lasted.

What I hated was the one trapper that had the pet dog cause when you play as a monster, the dog just goes straight for you even if you leave as little tracks as possible. It was also a pain of having to attack and down the dog first cause of you don't it revives anyone you down

I actually liked the different game modes. Some of them felt like it gave me more to do and, in some cases, a distraction for the hunter/monster so I could sneak around better. Once they took those out, everything felt more repetitive, and I felt like I wasn't getting my money's worth.

Evolve was such fun to watch disappointed that we never got to see velvet wormy

i miss playing Evolve loved playing as wraith

Honestly, this game even in its current state on CONSOLE is better than any other 1vX on the market right now and I will fold people on this hill

I played this game from day one to the last. Rip.

5:00 Alright, hear me out.

My favorite part of Evolve is that it left us with the Wraith who continues to crop up in porn, once in a while.

God I miss Evolve so much. It was the first game I pre-ordered the super special edition of it.

I loved the game back in the day, if it get a sequel, I think it could work. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Funny that you mention that, but I actually DO have Evolve Stage 2 on my Steam library...

Evolve is one of my all time favourite games ever, it felt like a video game specifically made for me with all the things I like, including getting to play as a giant alien monster in a way that no other game matches and it breaks my heart to see what happened to it, it got shafted so fucking hard by 2k stupidity/greed but also hypocritical gamers who looked at dlc, had a bitch fit and then proceeded to be completely OK with it on other games cuz blue is OK as long as its in call of duty right?

The funny thing is, the greed that killed Evolve is common now. Guess it just came out too early.

Tyyppi tekee iha vitu hyviä videoita ite kaivannu just tällästä. Broidi ei voi pysäyttää suomalaista aksenttia🤣

Maybe our evolution were the friends we made along the way

I only got to play this game by the end of its life cycle when it turned to f2p, ngl would love to play it again. To me it was fun even if I was losing all the time haha.

Commenting for the algorithm. Great Video

When i hears about evolve servers working i started streaming it again. I was a goos goliath back in the day. My twitch got reported by salty players.

Ngl the commentary on the Gorgon made me subscribe.

I always loved evolve

I don't know if I'm the only one but I actually got the game in 2024 for Xbox and still play it today. I really want to play with someone else other then bots though 😂

What I found funny was what happened after the community begged and cried for years to get the games servers back online for the free 2 play edition. Well, 2k did actually give the servers back for a short period of I think like a few months. But what did the community do? When the servers dropped it remained nearly dead because most of them were still playing on the completely separated original evolve that could only be accessed if you had bought the original game when it was out. I was hyped as shit to play it, and even dragged some friends along. What did I find? Literally nothing as there was no one to play with.

The game industry has a long history of trying to replicate successful practices without understanding WHY those things worked in the first place. That's what happens when the majority of the executives making decisions don't play games.

ligma 7 the motherland

I remember playing the beta and the game pretty much till it shut down, it’s a good game imo and it’s a real shame it died the way it did

This game had so much potential 😭

I'll always recall my fondest memories of the summer of 2016, before I shipping out to become a Crayon Eater/Marine, was playing Evolve Stage 2 with my friends. All because one remembered hearing about it on TotalBiscuit's podcast. I personally sunk around 80 hours into the game for the month I was able to play it, before I had to leave. I never had the time to really play it afterwards, until early 2017 when I was stationed in Okinawa. However, connecting with my friends who lived on the East Coast of the U.S. from the previously mentioned country... Yeah, you can imagine how horrendous my ping was. Making it basically impossible to play.

I loved evolve stage 2

Real ones remember ghostrobo

Damn this makes me want to play evolve too but the original one. I actually would like the hunt to feel like a hunt instead of a brawl

I bought this game preorder for eighty dollars, had all the hunters and monsters. Then Evolve 2 stole all my content and shut down the store. So i lost the extra monsters and literally, physically, cant get them back. The disk makes me mad just to see.

I loved evolve

I'd be cool if it went the titanfall route and made a sequel that was somehow an absolute banger. I didn't play this game much but I could tell it had great potential.

Lowkey forgot this game existed

Bruh, i wanted to try out Evolve. It legit looked cool for me.

I fucking loved evolve. First game i got for the xbox one. Shame it fell off so hard, so fast, by no fault of its own

Another banger video!

Ngl i like this game

Man i would do anything to play this game again, got a ps4 disc copy and it just doesn't work *sighs* welcome to the generation of never owning gamss and subscriptions

That some good editing there , keep going man

7:30 And that's where the bs lay because publishers in the gaming industry have no f*cking clue what sells so they continuously make wrong decisions that ruins the gameplay and world the developers were making in the name of greed. (even if the concept alone would sell millions) Just look at what Sony ATTEMPTED to do to Helldivers for the biggest recent example. But I loved playing Evolve. I miss getting to play as the big monster that runs at first before growing powerful enough to fight back. I miss my Overpowered playstyle with Wraith, turning her into an aggressive menace that could ribbon a tank in seconds if the healer wasn't good enough, even turning the game into a win while still UnEvolved Stage 1 if they weren't competent enough with their teamwork. I miss Juking the enemy when they were too focused on my tracks, missing that I crouched behind the wall that they would've been able to spot had they tried using the high ground. I miss playing the healer that's always targeted first by the monster, outrunning the monster when they tried to down me and healing any ally the monster tries to go for instead. I miss the Assault and getting to brutalize the monster's health down to nothing if they didn't accept my face tanking tactic. I miss the Support with the many gadgets that makes every game Unique. I miss the Tracker, running off to cut off the monster while my allies follow the tracks, cornering the monster before it gets the chance to reach stage 2. This game was fun as hell, but doomed to die because the two companies thought their fanbase was nothing more than livestock to be taken advantage of. Them being punished for that bs was welcome but not at the cost of one of the best PVP games I've had the pleasure to play no longer becoming available.

Still the best asymmetrical multiplayer game to date

GG

I miss Depth - it definitely pulled off assymetric fps better

Maybe if we petition DBD developer, Behaviour, then they can pick up Evolve and give it the DBD treatment. After all Behaviour has had some problems with new IP's, RIP 'Meet Your Maker' you were a good concept but not enough people liked a futuristic dungeon builder. Should have set the game in a fantasy setting, like the Dungeon Core books, having dragons and orcs sounds way better than human-biological construct 1 and 2.

Skibidi toilet

Problems werent even in E-sports, that came close to game`s death, or so called greed, that began to surface only after the game began to decline in the player count, and it was clear it will not get them any money anymore. Actual problems were the bullshit that people were spouting about it`s monitezation system, like "I`m not gonna pay for a game and its dlc because i want a full game" public sayed, in which they are right, but they spent thousand dollars on WoW addons, so they sloudve fucking shut up, and all the harsh "critique" the game received was a complete bullshit on a level when people critisized 3rd Farcry`s protagonist for being bland (Which is a complete bullshit and clearly shows they didnt even pay attention to the story)

i miss wraith

game was actually awesome before it came out :DD its soo sad

Great vid, btw it's "comes crashing down" not "comes down crashing"

There wasn't a game called gigantic where was like this combined with a hero shooter but more akin to Smite?

Monster scream from the intro must be from Reaper (subnautica) am i right?

It blows my mind that this is not only NOT on gamepass but it's totally delisted ... you can't even buy it on xbox Like are the developers THAT stupid? Do they just hate money?

Nice

Can't you force irnstal Evolve using Steam commands? Like you do with Spacewar, i mean.

This game was so good at launch and then it just went to shit

How is this game being updated after it was token down on steam?