Elin

I bought this game back in December of 2024 and not only am I still playing it, I'm STILL playing my first character. I've literally made no other characters despite the growing list of character options since I got the game. No alternate saves either. I've just been going with the flow no matter what mistakes and mishaps befell me. I think the fact that I've been playing a single character, on a single save file, for going on 500 hours should say something of how good this game is... or maybe it simply reveals the depths of my hyperfixation. I'm in my mid-40s and a veteran of many grindy RPGs over the decades and let me tell you... if you like RPGs with the good kind of excessive grind coupled with a level of freedom that at times evokes choice paralysis, you'll love this game.

This is a game you either completely hate starting out or get addicted to it and play it forever. Tism people beware.

Just to get it out of the way at the start - I did not play Elona. This game can be really hard to enjoy at times because it fights you at so many different steps throughout each run. You will absolutely hit multiple walls where you're thinking: Am I doing something wrong? Why is progress so slow? The answer to both of these questions is yes. Today I was googling a boss because he was beating my ass like a Sunday roast dinner. I read a comment where someone had over 700 health when fighting it. I looked at my health pool of 164 and thought to myself, maybe I should just leave and call it a day. You really need to focus all your skills, not just the primary ones that actually benefit your class. Everything is important in some capacity and if you don't spec into magic in any way good luck to you for some of the tougher dungeons. You chose Archer? Read every damn book you find for magic arrows. You had to reset your fame? For x reason? Grind some low level magic while you're working back up. Oh, you chose melee? Pray to the gods not me. Nobody is going to save you but them. Did I mention the random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that happens in dungeons? There's a level 1 snail here, his buddy is level... I think that says 42 maybe my old eyes are failing me. I swear this dungeon said level 27. My smoothie has more consistency and that's on the way out. I'm sure glad this evolved fire doge at level 63 doesn't immediately aggro on me cause I'd be turned into burnt toast. Use your potions kids. On that note, Did you know a darkness damage cane can possibly blind enemies? I didn't... Also if you find some lucky doodab from a god you can wish at wells. Though, if you have bad luck you'll probably get poisoned or faint. Don't hit your head on the way down or just save scum but no good adventurer would ever do such a thing. You could try living a civilised life of farming, cooking, cutting a few trees. Enjoying nature. Though sooner or later you'll meet some unscrupulous PoS who wants to steal your sleeping bag or you'll get dead. Very dead. Was the rosewood worth it? You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ right it was cause I got a proper bed so who's the real winner? Speaking of cooking, food matters A LOT. Stuff that fat face with all the goodness but not to often! Don't want to get bloated and waste that precious xp. Yes, your party members also enjoy your meat. Well... I mean, yes. That as well but, you get the idea! Feed em, smack em, throw em on the gallows and beat em some more. Some of them blush from being whipped, so they probably don't mind. No judgement from me. Am I still rambling? It appears so, I guess 170 hours of this PoS will do that to a person. I haven't touched a different game for more than 20 minutes in the last 2 weeks, maybe 3? Time is gone. My life is gone. I see only xp numbers... So... Many xp numbers... So, did you make it to the end? Yes you, you valiant soul, do I recommend the game? You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ right I do. It is a blend of different mechanics I really enjoy. Can it be kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥? Yes. Is it a grind? Definitely but that payoff and getting over the learning hurdle is incredibly satisfying. Also, there's a demo? I didn't try it but if you're on the fence maybe have a look or just go in raw and buy it. Pricing is very good compared to other titles and there is more than enough gameplay available for an early access title. I don't often make reviews like this but this game has been a special case. Buy it, don't buy it. I'm not your dad. P.s never play music.

There is an insane learning curve with this game and the tutorials will not teach you everything there is to know (although more tutorials are being added as updates come out). The difficulty can spike drastically depending on whether or not you understand what you're getting yourself into when exploring certain areas or dungeons. Base building is immensely limited early on unless you either grind for things you want or be patient with recipe unlocks. There are exploits to cheese your way to riches and power, making the entire game a cake walk. Despite all of this, I still view all of these things as positives. This game offers you so much freedom and is such a fun way to pass the time. There's an absurd amount of content already and many different ways to play. This game can be relaxing or intense, fair or a power trip, strategy focused or mindless fun, and more I can't think of right now because I stayed up all night playing this game again. I really hesitated with this game at first. I saw the screenshots and reviews and thought this was my dream game, and after trying the demo and reading up on the learning curve I thought it was garbage. I stewed on it for a bit, read up some more on the game, and ultimately decided to give it a shot. It took a few days to finally get into the groove of things, but after about a week I finally found a comfortable loop to keep my character progressing. After 200 hours, I'm still checking the wiki and asking for help in the discord to learn about features I don't know about. There's so much stuff, both big and small, to learn about this game. The steam workshop has some outstanding mods as well, a few of my favorites are the ones that add more games to play in the casino. I learned how to play Craps and lost my life savings on a single bet after a huge winning streak, I got in trouble with the law after forgetting to pay my taxes, I played DOOM and won a body pillow with huge hooters that teaches me new things to craft when I sleep. I'm also getting married to a goblin with breasts that are larger than I am. Only three of the things I listed were modded, DOOM, Craps, and the breasts for my Goblin, the rest is in the base game. This isn't just a bunch of wild nonsense though, you can do some really chill stuff too. You can run your own store, become an expert at an instrument and make thousands playing at parties or on the street, become a master chef, learn how to sculpt, own multiple plots of land and give them each their own purpose (a tourist hotspot, a shopping mall, a vacation home, a bustling town, whatever you want really). This game is all about freedom. It's still a work in progress, but beyond the iffy translations I can't name a single thing I dislike about this game in it's current state. It's quickly become one of my favorite games, and I'm so excited for what's going to come from the devs and the community in the future.

×何でもできるゲーム ○何でもしなきゃいけないゲーム 前作もプレイしていましたが残念なほうに進んだなという感じ。 とにかくクラフト要素の主張が大きく、ありとあらゆるところでボトルネックになっている。 どの職業を選んでも結局同じスキルを身に着けて、同じ順番で育てていくようになる。

Collected an egg from a goat. Roasted the flesh of a bandit for dinner. Paid my taxes. Lost all my copper coins to a gatcha machine. Stole someone's tv with funiture tickets. Pissed in a toilet still on display at the funiture store. Went to the hotsprings afterwards pixel ass naked. This is what gaming was meant to be. 10/10

二编 此评测的大部分留言更加坚定了我不推荐新人的决心，因为我的评测在这个圈子里完全是被视为异教徒的亵渎，删除了大部分纯粹发泄情绪毫无逻辑的留言。 ————————————————————————————————————————— 避开连圈内人都承认的引导烂、沉浸成本大不谈， 人、立绘、设定不匹从古早被认定为随机游戏设定机制我也认了。 但是这畸形的数值和完全违反直觉的一系列系统及机制来拉长你的游戏时长，大概60h时长还是加了许多辅助mod下，垃圾零碎时间占了百分之九十，真正有体验的时长聊胜于无借此让人感觉到虚假的“耐玩”“自由度高”实际上处处教你玩游戏。 为了给自己一张遮羞布美名其曰地造了个“原教旨主义Rougelike”的标签，这里我引用他人的话 “宗教学中，为了敬神，为了避免其教派的世俗化，部分教徒以以原教旨主义试图正本清源。政治学上，一些观点偏激的人会激烈地指责某些制度是对其根源理论的背叛，最典型的就是中国特色社会主义，市场原教旨主义者认为它背叛了自由市场、马克思原教旨主义者则认为它背叛了社会主义……但我们会对这种观点一笑置之，因为实践已经证明了，不管黑猫白猫，能抓到耗子就是好猫。” 真正的好游戏给人带来的体验是不会有标签的，令人诟病的点反而成了一些人圈地自萌的来源... 并且其中参杂了作者低俗恶意意淫包括但不限于[spoiler] 恋童恋母乳业卵蛋猫奴等 [/spoiler]，时不时跳出来恶心一手，以满足某些群体的恶趣味癖好。 还记得我第一次接触到前作elona的时候还在12年之后还玩了社区的版本，给我三观带来了一定的冲击，但当时玩游戏自动忽略了很多，现在来补票越觉得不对劲... 灾难式的更新速度，宗教信仰泛滥的游戏社区，所以我不推荐新人这款游戏，玩这游戏的大部分是有游玩前作或其他相关游戏的遗老。 如果你耐心看完了以上内容，那大可尝试一下，因为不可否认此游戏还是有出色之处，毕竟其前作是我此类游戏启蒙。