Im oddly addicted to the game, and I think it has a lot of potential, but there are also way too many glariing issues right now.
This is one of those instance where I dont really like Steams rating system because my thumbs down isnt really that I think its a bad game, but just because I dont really recommend it right now. Id give the game aroun a 7/10
What I like:
Its a surprisingly original and fresh concept in the extraction genre, and feels fun...at times.
What I dont like, or things need improvement:
-Speed. You are way too slow. In a game with a wide open map, and a lot of traveling outside of your caravan. The amount of times you have to travel back and forth between the areas and your caravan is a LOT, and the speed at which you are traveling makes it feel more like a chore. Or maybe its just how wide open and big the maps are. Maybe if the maps were a tad bit more compact, it wouldnt feel like such a slog to travel around them and do the constant back and forths to your caravan.
-Combat is bad. I dont necessarily hate the combat, and it feels okay for this type of game, but its everything else that involves the combat that feels bad. The way the arrows and bow work is horrible. Dodging doesnt help at all and feels pointless. When you just have boars, its fine because they spawn in moderation. But once you get to the point where wolves and whatever those other creatures are start spawning, they spawn way too much and are all over the map. Plus they hit super fast and super hard. I had level 14 armor in a recommended level 8 zone and was brought down to 22hp in
second in the fight. You can barely outrun anything, even if you take your backpack off.
-Inventory focuses on weight when the issue isnt the weight, its the number of slots. There are so many items that randomly have a stack size of 1, like bread for whatever reason, but I can carry 100+ rocks, logs, and sticks in a single stack. But bread, cactus, etc. all have a size of 1...
-On top of that, Item management is all over the place. There are so many items that have no purpose, yet. And there are so many items implemented that I cannot use. Like Ive been holding a blue key forever, and all I get are ones that require green keys, and even when you do open something, its a bunch of nothing. I have so many items that have no use, and very little other places to store anything, and like in my reason above, its not weight thats the problem, its the number of storage spots. So Im gathering all these items and ultimately have to let so many go because I just dont have the space, and then you get to the point where you get an item, that you cant even use because its purpose just never comes up. As well as the crafting being all over the place, because some items just have way too high a crafting costs. Like I have to carry around 30lbs of rocks (10 rocks at 3lbs each) just so I can craft a 0.72lb stone tool kit. Why does a single stone tool kit that doesnt even weight a single pound, need 30lbs of rocks? Its a whole lot of back and forthing between tabs, with some stuff costing way more than it feels like they should in order to pad out the grind.
Update:
Recently the game received a new "major update" called the Big City update. Unfortunately I cannot change my review because of it. Instead some of the issues I had with the game prior to the update, have been increased egregiously.
I cant even play the game anymore because of the new update, and thats barely an exaggeration.
Before, one of my biggest complains was item management was a bit of a mess, and the emphasis on how much you can even carry in and out of a stage. One of the things changed in the newest update was that items now have a max stack size of 20. Before, item stack sizes varied. Some couldnt stack at all, while some items could stack to 100+. Since the update, you still have some items that cannot stack, but now items that could once stack 100+ can now only stack up to 20 at a time.
How is this a problem, and how did it effectively brick my game? Because I had continued to play the game and farm a bunch of stuff prior to the update, I had loads of resources, some of which went in the 80s, some in the 100s, even one stack of items in the 300s. But now because the max limit has dropped down to 20, I cant even use those anymore. It requires me so much management time to try and empty space to break things down, but you cannot move anything if it would potentially overencumber you, but you cant even drop them if the weight would exceed 90lbs, so you are stuck in this limbo of having to much of something you cant move, but you cant drop it because it weighs to much (theres a new mechanic in the game where you literally cannot drop item stacks that weight 90 or more), and I cant break them down to make space because theres simply not enough inventory slots to fit everything because everything is weight based, not slot based. And since I had multiple stacks of items that exceeded 20 prior to the update, it effectively makes it so I can literally do nothing because of it.
Best I can do is delete the save and start over, but after all that hard work, Im really not feeling like starting over. If I cant play this save, I effectively quit. I put in too much work to be locked out by a new mechanic that just makes things more tedious by decreasing stack limits.
