This game has a HUGE amount of content. That's a plus! It will take you quite some time to explore everything. I don't think I've even scratched the surface. You can find villages, even cities, lonely huts, animals everywhere, ruins. The underground is also full of mysteries. The biomes are large and complex. The overworld and underground are nice to look at. There are so many features. There is a LOT you can do in this game.
BUT: This game just want to kill me. Even touching flowing water can propel you at high speeds, often leading to insta-kill. The world is full of deep chasms that will kill you with fall damage. Even a single tiny wasp can kill you within seconds and you usually don't even know what killed you. Sometimes you just randomly die at full health and have NO IDEA why. If you happen to find a city, there are cars that just crash into everyone and everything. Food is somewhat sparse and hunger and thirst come fast. Especially thirst, figuring out how not to die of thirst is tricky.
There's an elaborate parcours mechanic. A LOT of special moves. But I keep triggering the moves when I do not want them and fail to trigger them when I don't. A worst of all, make a wrong parcour move, and you may take collision damage.
I don't have anything difficult games. But if most deaths just happen by random chance, this is not fun.
The menus look ugly and are full of typos. Many menu images are placed in a weird ways. Item names often look like "Crystal15".
And there are just outright bugs. So many bugs I don't even want to list them.
But still … this game, despite all its flaws, still was … kinda fun? Too bad its so broken and frustrating to play. :-(
This game really needs serious polishing and bugfixing before I can recommend it. To the developer I strongly recommend to stop adding more features but instead refine the existing ones, fix all the bugs, polish the UI and review ALL the text for typos.
Here are some more thoughts about some specific features of the game:
The world is very nice to look at. The trees are gigantic. The very tall grass in the jungles is quite annoying tho. I can't see, and I often keep missing the hitbox.
There is a shop feature. You can buy and sell items at any time everywhere and you even get to keep the coins after you die. This makes the shop pretty OP in its own right. The shop incentivizes you to just loot and plunder the villages and sell their stuff. Which is so hilarious that its fun again. Oddly, there are also special shops in villages, but the items are always more expensive than the shop you can access everywhere. And these shops are completely random.
There are "functional skins", skins that give you special skills. The snowman is completely broken. If you equip this skin, you regenerate health, food and water levels very quickly when you stand on snow, thus basically solving your food problem.
Features like this show how messy the game balance is. At parts, this game is ridiculously deadly but then much of it is nullified if you press the right buttons.
Cities are very broken. You just walk through the world and *POOF*! A city appears either inside you or under your feet. Full of cars that are all going to crash into everyone and everything including you. This makes GTA look peaceful in comparison. :D
Many foods can be eaten multiple times but this often leads to chaos in your inventory. Like, if you have a stack of 10 flesh, and eat it two times, the partially-eaten fleshes just litter your inventory. Very annoying.
And finally, to be fair, I barely scratched the surface of this game. There are so many features I did not use yet because I just die too often. XD
I think I will look again at this game later, hoping that the worst problems get fixed.
(review for version 2024-01-23)
This game has a HUGE amount of content. That's a plus! It will take you quite some time to explore everything. I don't think I've even scratched the surface. You can find villages, even cities, lonely huts, animals everywhere, ruins. The underground is also full of mysteries. The biomes are large and complex. The overworld and underground are nice to look at. There are so many features. There is a LOT you can do in this game.
BUT: This game just want to kill me. Even touching flowing water can propel you at high speeds, often leading to insta-kill. The world is full of deep chasms that will kill you with fall damage. Even a single tiny wasp can kill you within seconds and you usually don't even know what killed you. Sometimes you just randomly die at full health and have NO IDEA why. If you happen to find a city, there are cars that just crash into everyone and everything. Food is somewhat sparse and hunger and thirst come fast. Especially thirst, figuring out how not to die of thirst is tricky.
There's an elaborate parcours mechanic. A LOT of special moves. But I keep triggering the moves when I do not want them and fail to trigger them when I don't. A worst of all, make a wrong parcour move, and you may take collision damage. I don't have anything difficult games. But if most deaths just happen by random chance, this is not fun.
The menus look ugly and are full of typos. Many menu images are placed in a weird ways. Item names often look like "Crystal15".
And there are just outright bugs. So many bugs I don't even want to list them.
But still … this game, despite all its flaws, still was … kinda fun? Too bad its so broken and frustrating to play. :-(
This game really needs serious polishing and bugfixing before I can recommend it. To the developer I strongly recommend to stop adding more features but instead refine the existing ones, fix all the bugs, polish the UI and review ALL the text for typos.
Here are some more thoughts about some specific features of the game:
The world is very nice to look at. The trees are gigantic. The very tall grass in the jungles is quite annoying tho. I can't see, and I often keep missing the hitbox.
There is a shop feature. You can buy and sell items at any time everywhere and you even get to keep the coins after you die. This makes the shop pretty OP in its own right. The shop incentivizes you to just loot and plunder the villages and sell their stuff. Which is so hilarious that its fun again. Oddly, there are also special shops in villages, but the items are always more expensive than the shop you can access everywhere. And these shops are completely random.
There are "functional skins", skins that give you special skills. The snowman is completely broken. If you equip this skin, you regenerate health, food and water levels very quickly when you stand on snow, thus basically solving your food problem.
Features like this show how messy the game balance is. At parts, this game is ridiculously deadly but then much of it is nullified if you press the right buttons.
Cities are very broken. You just walk through the world and *POOF*! A city appears either inside you or under your feet. Full of cars that are all going to crash into everyone and everything including you. This makes GTA look peaceful in comparison. :D
Many foods can be eaten multiple times but this often leads to chaos in your inventory. Like, if you have a stack of 10 flesh, and eat it two times, the partially-eaten fleshes just litter your inventory. Very annoying.
And finally, to be fair, I barely scratched the surface of this game. There are so many features I did not use yet because I just die too often. XD I think I will look again at this game later, hoping that the worst problems get fixed.