Edit 2025: At last, the bug concerning the "near-house-crash-to-desktop" is gone and I can play more than 5 minutes. It's nice to see some updates, continue like this!
To other players: if you consider buying this game, know that it will probably never be finished, but it can rub your itch of building.
Man :(
It's been one year (since august 2022, my last bug report) since this bug is here --> The first house I approach --> Crash to desktop. --> Uninstalling the game, frustrated.
Today, I tried the new version and it happened again.
Do you know what happens when a player/customer is frustrated? He uninstall the game, and will tell his friends and other customers to not buy this game.
Sorry but now I will leave a bad review.
I really want to like this game, there's a lot that is well done. I really like the voxel terrain and how we can manipulate it, the feeling/ambiance of mystery in the game is nice, I also like to build things before it crashes. I never had the patience to build something big enough to play with the "manage your NPCs" side of things, but I think this is a really nice idea.
I know this is a one man alpha-state or beta-state game, but you really should at least make your game playable.
I don't care if it is a bit "rough on the edges", you know, some things that don't work in the game, but you can work around in wait for the next patch. But those crashes to desktop are a real downer. I'd rather play a version of the game without the crashing things inside instead of having the fear of doing any action in the game, knowing it can lead to a CTD. And saving my game every second is not a thing I want to do when I play.
For now it will be another of those games lingering in my library, I won't get any hopes of getting it in a playable state before long because the bugs that I encounter (other players too) and report are not being taken in consideration for a long time, the dev is still adding more things in the game(and possibly more bugs) without removing the big bad bugs that makes the game unplayable anyway.
Another thing: if you have the slightest hope of selling your game one day (and I think you do, because otherwise you won't be trying to sell it on steam), you really should communicate more often with your community. Just a few lines in a news post on the steam page to tell your players on what you work - no need to do a big wall of text - every month or two months can suffice to keep an engaged community. Being in the dark for almost one year without any news is too much for players. And no, don't tell us to follow your twitter or any other social media. Here we are on Steam. We, as players, have many games to play and we must choose wisely where to spend our money. The videogame marketplace is flooded with small projects like yours with passionate developpers who cares about their projects but also to their players.
TL:DR: If you sell a game, even if it's an early access release, make it playable for your customers, or make it free till it's in a playable state, or squash the damn "crash to desktop" bugs!
Post-scriptum: I know this post can be seen as rude. It's not the intent. I care about this game because I won't be taking my time to write something this long not in my former language to express my feelings about it. Please don't take this personally. And if I see this game getting love and attention, I will gladly change my bad review into a good one.
(In comparison to your game, go take a look at "Rising World". It's a Voxel sandbox game a little bit like yours, made by one dev too, I think. They don't communicate much more than you, but they show really great progress each time and they take the time to answer some posts in their steam forums. Look at their reviews: mostly positive. They got a first version in Java and they decided in 2020 to restart their game from scratch to change the engine. What an amazing work they have done so far! I'm sure your game can easily reach something like that with a little more polishing!)
