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High On Knife was pretty bad.
The base game had a whole bunch of vibrant worlds to explore with strange aliens and interesting dialogue and jokes.
The DLC was essentially an empty desert, which tried to gross you out as its only real sense of humor. It felt like they basically said "what'd be easy?" and went with that, spending all their time on a single Cheers joke, which was essentially just a room with scripted dialogue and no interaction.
The rest was a big desert area, with a giant to throw you to the final area rather than having an interconnected world.
The coolest addition was the chainsaw wall riding, but it wasn't really useful in combat. The only time you could use wall ride in combat was the boss, and then you couldn't actually hurt them with it, so it's literally just a transportation. For melee attacks, it felt exactly the same.
The pinball gun they added ended up feeling like a cop-out because they didn't want to pay a voice actor. I absolutely hated accidentally entering a dialogue with that gun out, because they just "hibbidy bibby" the whole thing and you have no idea what's going on. The actual gameplay of using the gun was actively detrimental to the fast-paced combat of the game. If the enemies were ever anything but something that required the gun, it felt all but useless.
As much as I don't agree with ppl who spout nonsense about games being "woke", this DLC felt like they swung the pendulum away from Justin Roiland's controversy by being as gay and female empowerment as possible. The new gun was a quirky girl to replace Justin, but didn't really have much to stand out. The boss was a "boss bitch," and it was just meh. And the king of the poachers was just some gay dweeb. Not to mention the duffalos, and the jokes about muscle relaxants and buttholes.
This DLC felt like it was written to try and distance itself as far from Justin as possible, and it just wasn't good. I'd rather Squanch Games have stuck it out with Justin and had ppl try and cancel them. Instead, it feels like the studio has hit an identity crisis and is going to cancel itself.