I received this game for free, and had a "commitment" to stream this game. I have searched for a way to privately contact the Devs, but no luck, so sadly, im having to leave my review here along with why I will not be steaming this game.
I am an advocate for indie devs and supporting them, and avoiding publicly giving a negative opinion on something that can be helped/fixed, but when I have a commitment and 0 ways to contact when there's issues, i have no other choice.
I will start off saying that the scenery is beautiful, and there's potential for this game,
however if they don't reach its potential soon (and i mean ASAP) this game will just be a flop.
The translations in the game are terrible, often giving instructions that do not make sense, leaving it a guessing game and causing frustration that takes away from the "relaxing" vibe the game goes for.
There is literally 0 replay-ability and nothing interesting.
you start by standing next to your car, you "unpack" your essentials by clicking them and placing them in the designated spot. you walk around collecting rubbish and mushrooms. guessing how to complete the tasks that are repetitive, boring and just slow.
You can choose to complete more "tasks" such as "stay up past midnight" where you can just idle while doing something else IRL, the box ticks and you can then click to go to bed.
THEN..... you get to pack your car up again by click....walk....click...walk...click.... walk (you get the picture)
Then the game is done... you can chose a second location and upgrade a few items that literally make NO DIFFERENC to the game, such as you can choose to eat a hotdog instead.... which is just more click...walk...click... and more guessing as the translations cant give clear instructions.
again, collect some rubbish, collect some mushrooms.. click the tent, sleep and finished....
There is no way this would entertain an audience, unless it was to mock the game for how boring and repetitive it is (sorry but its true and i refuse to slam an indie game online to my viewers)
The "vlog" is just your camera phone you place in the area and that is it.... you don't interact with it again until you pack it away in your car. there's no "vlogging" aspect at all.
I LOVE simulator games, I've spent countless hours on power wash sim, gas station sim etc, i have an entire folder for them... and this game sadly offers nothing other than a pretty graphics.
my tips for the devs to make this a game worth playing, especially for steamers and you tubers to showcase the game.
Have a vlogging aspect, hold your camera and capture the beautiful scenes, have some dialog pop ups to choose from to "record" along side the "vlog" have a feature where you can "upload" the vlogs on your phone and simulate social media responses such as views, likes, comments etc. (think along the streamer life simulator side of things).
Add tasks that actually offer some kind of reward. collect more rubbish and "vlog" how many bags you collected, the more you collect, the better the response from the in game "socials". Have in game "sponsorships" where you're paid to go remove rubbish to help the environment and choose a sponsor best suited to the vlogging.. rather than just collecting money from thin air for collecting mushrooms.
There's many ideas that can improve this game (sure with a love of development etc) but to get this far and release a game called camping vlog simulator and only have the camping part, its a bit of a let down.
This could be an amazing game, but its missed the mark massively. I hope the Devs do fix this game up a bit, otherwise i can see a lot of refunds happening. If i'd paid for this, id have requested a refund for sure.
