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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.0 hrs on record
Posted: 7 Dec, 2023 @ 2:34am
Updated: 7 Dec, 2023 @ 2:56am

Early Access Review
Gathering is slow. Crafting is slow. Combat is slow. Healing after combat is slow. Quests are weird. Music started to be grating an hour in. The other gamesounds are immediately to be turned off once you reach a bigger village with animals.

[Edit: And they already have 'micro' transactions of about 30 Eur of ingame Items, no cosmetics, in their store. I do not know if you can buy them several times, as I didn't want to waste money on it. Pay to skip.]

Had a quest given by Guy A to deliver stuff to Guy B
Also had a quest by Guy C to deliver stuff to Guy A.

I could not deliver Guy Cs stuff to Guy A before delivering Guy As stuff to Guy B and telling Guy A about it.

The game has some bear bone tutorial which is just tell don't show and then has an ancestor quest it doesn't tell you about which is the real tutorial. And even then it's "Craft this thing. Won't tell you how to. Enjoy."

On the second Island you can't and can craft stuff you have the stuff for randomly whenever the ancestor quest decides to, which is good, in theory, but it is not good if they don't communicate it.

For example the ancestor quest wanted me to craft a sickle. So I did. It being a quest I assumed I would turn in the sickle so I wanted to craft two sickles. Got the materials again, crafted the raw mats into processed mats aaand it was greyed out. Couldn't craft it. Looked at my inventory, still had the first one so I just shrugged it off.

By now the quest wants me to craft a better weapon. After searching the entire Island for the next crafting station I took the boat to the next Island. I was confused which Island I was on. On the new Island I found the crafting stations I needed. Now I need to get good sandstone slabs, not common sandstone slabs. My mistake those are obviously way different. For that I need good sandstone. Every node I touch gives me common sandstone. Apparently I need to find a bigger deposit of sandstone to receive good sandstone. The game never told me that, some player on their discord did.

The combat is neither fun nor tactical. At least in the early game I am at. Turns are slow. End of turn is slow.

A single enemy takes 8 Turns to kill and takes me down to 1/3 HP. The reward for combat is laughable and not worth the time invested. Nearly died, spent 10 Minutes to kill one enemy. Got 3 currency and two bark. Nice.

At this point I am wholeheartedly uninterested and bored. Let's hope I still get my refund.
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5 Comments
Klesk 🌈 Нептун 🇺🇦 11 Dec, 2023 @ 8:10am 
@Nuvenor, yes, like a small textbox reading "mining level 1" while you're mining. Or something else, I'm not a dev :D
Nuvenor 11 Dec, 2023 @ 1:49am 
@Klesk 🌈 Нептун 🇺🇦 in that case they need to make systems more intuitive. You shouldn't accidentally stumble into a tremendously important system.
Klesk 🌈 Нептун 🇺🇦 10 Dec, 2023 @ 8:51pm 
@Nuvenor, yes - as someone in the discussions wrote: part of the game is to figure out the mechanics.
Nuvenor 10 Dec, 2023 @ 10:01am 
@Klesk 🌈 Нептун 🇺🇦 then they need literally anything to tell players that. Point still stands as having a horrible system and never explaining how to make it less bad is not that much better.
Klesk 🌈 Нептун 🇺🇦 9 Dec, 2023 @ 1:50pm 
Hi, you can level up your gathering skills and then you will cut a tree or pick a rock within one second :) Took me some time to figure this out but skilling progress is pretty fast compared to other games.