Astral Terra

Early access to early grave, don't buy it...

just horrible cant wait what they will do next because its just horrible not even woth the cost of it since its in early acces it should be like 1.00,50$ or free.

Neat fantasy setting and the world editing tools are really cool. Exploring the 4 biomes of the endless procedural worlds is a nice time sink as well. Looking forward to being able to create a town once more content is in place. It has bugs but meh, what Alpha game doesn't.

Astral Terra feels like Minecraft and World of Warcraft got married and had a child. Since the game is on Alpha, there are some bugs and glitches here and there, but it is a very promising game. For people who like to just explore and level up, it's there. For those who like to create things, it's there as well. The graphics looks very good and the artwork as well. It looks like that the team responsible for the game is updating it on a regularly basis, showing the players what they have on schedule to improve it, that's why I highly recommend this game. They have a very good relationship with the public, they hear what's need to improve and they do it, so, the game will probably be fully released very soon, I will stay tuned for that!

[b]Review Written on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016[/b] [h1]Review[/h1] This is a decent sandbox game that resembles Minecraft and Elder Scrolls sort of. The game allows terraform which I think is cool at first, but this game feels kinda like a pre-alpha. The crafting system is cool and kinda feels like the game Grav with the farming for materials aspect. The graphics look decent considering that this game is an alpha. The artwork and animation look decent enough as well. Hopefully the finished product will produce more detail in the characters and background. The multiplayer didnt work for me. I guess its still being finalized for the complete version. There are several bugs that did require me to restart my game a few times. My controls got stuck and I was stuck in a ditch i dug on my own lol. Being that this is a sandbox game I hope the final product finishes the bugs along with the multiplayer to see how well this game runs with multiple people in one server. The possibilities can be endless. So only time will tell. The price range is a bit high in these early stages, but I do hope that the finish product does make it worth while. [h1]Rating:[/h1] 6.0/10 [h1]Pros:[/h1] [olist] [*]Decent graphics makes it easy on the eyes [*]Crafting and farming for materials [*]Added RPG elements to make it lasting [*]More unique take on the minecraft aspect [*]Please fill out all 5 pros. [/olist] [h1]Cons:[/h1] [olist] [*]Clunky Controls made me restart the game [*]Repetitive music makes me go crazy add some more lol [*]Multiplayer doesnt work for now... [*]Buggy game with hopefully patches to follow [*]Please fill out all 5 cons. [/olist] [h1]Hardware Information[/h1] [table] [tr] [th][u]Hardware[/u][/th] [th][u]Type[/u][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Monitor[/b][/td] [td]Samsung Series 9 S27B970D Display Port 2560x1440[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Headphones[/b][/td] [td]Astro A40 Headset[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Keyboard[/b][/td] [td]CMStorm KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Controller[/b][/td] [td]Xbox 360 Wired Controller[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Mouse[/b][/td] [td]CMStorm Mouse[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Microphone[/b][/td] [td]Astro A40 Mic[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Motherboard[/b][/td] [td]ASRock X79 Professional[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]CPU[/b][/td] [td]Intel i7-4930K 340GHz[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]GPU[/b][/td] [td]Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 X 2[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]RAM[/b][/td] [td]16 GB Ram[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]OS[/b][/td] [td]Windows 7 Pro[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]HDD[/b][/td] [td]WD 2TB Hdd[/td] [/tr] [/table] [h1]Disclaimer:[/h1] [code]Source of consideration: Tethys Interactive LLC[/code]

This is a terrible piece of software, just... No. The UI is awful. The graphics are unpolished, they don't look 'awesome' in the screenies/video, but somehow they look worse in-game. Terraforming/building interface is really awkward. No tutorial? Spawned in single player, there was an NPC selling items, immediately jumped by some river goblin thing, combat is basic (of course, insta-death), just a mess all over. Was not expecting this considering the game has been on Steam for a while now...

After almost a year without any news, it seems that developer has abandoned the game so I cannot recommend this game anymore plus the fact that the last update makes the game unplayable. My old review follows. After rereading the comment in the last update from the developer, I decide to change my review to positive to give him the chance to finish the game. The game is not bad and has potential to be very good but with the last update in April, the developer has put new bugs in the game (corrupt saves, no mining anymore except for gold, creatures stuck on walls, etc.). I post that in the forum and email him about those problems and have gotten no response yet. You can still build things but it will be harder to craft higher items without mining, you will probably have to buy them from the merchant. And you will have to exit the game using STOP from the steam library (Alt-tab to switch) to not corrupt the save. Also, the developer should improve how the combat with enemy creatures work. The game is not very expansive only $10.00, and the next update should be in December.

Terrible looking game. Movement is all but choppy and the grapics/engine look like they come from the 90's. No wonder some people claim they get 60FPS with a crap PC. I don't see how they can possibly make this game any good unless they rethink/redo everything. Also, I don't think there's sound. I turned off the music because it probably sucks, just like the rest of the game, so I don't know if there is music. Oh well.

After playing Astral Terra, I decided have really enjoyed this game and it'd be nice to see more people enjoying it too. I started the game up and gave it a go for myself. I went into it with an open mind, knowing the game is still in alpha stages at this point. I had the options to play single player or multiplayer, but I stuck to playing solo. I created my character and chose to be a Dwarf, though I could have been a Fey, which are some kind of woodland type of elf, or a Dark Elf. As the game is still in alpha, there wasn't much character customisation, but there was a tab saying there is more to come. Before I started playing this game I was excited to try out the terraforming. I've not played a base building/survival game where I was given the option to do this before. It's safe to say I wasn't let down by this feature as it was as fun as it looks. I spent a solid half an hour building an underground base with the tool. It was really cool. I can see endless designs being created using the feature by some talented individuals. I moved onto building myself a little base above ground after playing around with the terraforming. This is done by collecting wood and stone, then refining those materials to build foundations and walls etc. It was very basic, but so is every house I build on games where you build! The building mechanics however, as well as the rest of the games controls, has a learning curve to it. Everything feels a little clunky to start. I looked past this though due to the game being in early access. The game allows you to fight monsters, craft items, level up skills and survive. I never did much fighting as I have been too busy building and overusing the terraforming! There's some fun gameplay to be had and will only get better. The devs are active on putting more content into this game so it's definitely worth keeping and eye on. The game as some good potential and is already on the right track to being a brilliant survival game. I'd say if the sandbox genre is your kind of game then pick it up. It's cheap, has some nice graphics and with the devs constantly working on it you can expect more content to arrive!

Barely can move to place/construct anything.