CryoFall

Amazing sci-fi survival rpg!

Seems unfinished, like it's in Beta or Early Access. It's fun for a few hours on your own, beyond that, you really should play with friends. If you don't have any or aren't the type to make friends very easily, well, PVE turns into a lonely grind, with other players (mostly soloists on asia server) becoming competitors for rare and consumable resources. I shudder to think of what the hostility is like on the PVP servers. MP aside, the game itself is... well.. bare. There's not much in it that isn't made by players. It's mainly an island of lots-of-the-same with a few varied terrain types and associated resources at various corners, but mostly it's trees and minor mobs that block your way and annoy your every journey. Unless you're in a mech. But even the lightest, fastest mech is slow. Much too slow. And no, you'll never have multi-weapon mechs. Every mech can only carry one weapon, and you'd have to exit it to switch (really not a good idea as it takes time, so doing so in the middle of a fight is nuts) Actually building a mech or hi-tech weapons require rare resources, namely gold, of which each bar requires 10 nuggets, which are like 1-2% drops on mining, which itself is a tedious process, even if you use drones (max 4 and they're slow) and suffer lower xp gains, or worse, use a pickaxe and have to hit every single rock you mine several times until it breaks and vanishes forever (rocks respawn randomly in the same terrain type eventually). Everything is slow. Getting around is slow, even with vehicles. Teching up is slow. Gathering materials and processing them stage by stage until you have what you need for buildings or equipment is slow. Oh, and equipment breaks too fast, IMO. That means you'll never keep what you make for long, whether it's food, gear or weapons. Everything is consumed. Repairs? Hah, you'd need to sacrifice two of the same type to repair it to one somewhat less damaged version of the same item. If you're soloing, you could make your own 'new world' and adjust difficulty and resource sliders to make it all smoother, but then again, you're really, really be grinding alone. I can't imagine taking on the bosses all by yourself even with the best (which really aren't great) weapons in the game. This game really needs... 1) Ways to get around quickly 2) Private instance dungeons so people don't journey all the way to a ruin only to find it already stripped bare and all their traveling wasted 3) NPC shops or settlements so that currency actually means something 4) Actual quests rather than just some tutorial line. 5) Clear info given in-game about mobs (def types, hp, locations, etc) and 'world events' (repeated every day, but we could really use some sort of schedule to know when what pops up). In short, if I'm to give my recommendation, it needs to be a game, not an empty sandbox.