Enshrouded

This is for real the best Survival game I ever played! It became my favorite game and I love spending so much time to explore and building my base. Best game <3

I love this game. It's everything I want in a dark survival adventure, like a fusion of Valheim and Elden Ring. All of the systems feed beautifully into each other such that you always have something to do and always feel like you are progressing. The world is beautiful and stuffed with little details and things to do. However, I cannot recommend this game until two major progression-blocking bugs are fixed. One, friendly NPC's constantly gets stuck inside the terrain and random objects, which causes villagers to get lost (though they can be re-summoned) and livestock to starve. Certain important items become much more difficult to obtain as a result. Two, entire areas of the map randomly become "corrupted," and not in the canon way. Structures and enemies lose their hitboxes, or do not spawn at all, which will hard-lock locations and quests. My server's main quest is indefinitely postponed because the Shrout Roots in the Albaneve Summit Elixir Well cannot be cut down. Hopefully these issues are fixed very soon. I would love to come back and play again.

If you're used to a regular RPG control scheme on any other similar RPG with a gamepad controller, then the controls on this will be absolute trash. Not even worth to see if it is even possible to re-bind because every single button is so bad put that I personally have no patience to fix the whole horrendous control scheme. The other way around would be trying to get used to it, which I did, and spent hours trying to build a home just to blow the fk it down accidentally and fkin lost all of those hours. Turns out that random mobs can drop explosives, they go straight to the action bar and if you're not specifically taking care not to blow your house off, which was definitively not my case, you might eventually simply drop the stupid grenade and explode all your hours of building off. not even a single button to reverse the savefile, just the feeling I could have had more fun spending those hours in fkin connecting my peepee to the outlet instead. And I'm a guy who always adapt to ♥♥♥♥♥♥ controller schemes, but it is so fking easy to brick your hard work that those little details tilted me the fk out of this trash. Sad I can't ask for a refund at this point.

lame combat cool basebuilding

grind your ass an 80+ hours run for the long hyped fight only for your melee character to be shoved down your ass in the lamest bossfight tactic you are forced into like a cucklord, rest of the game was absolute fun despite the bugs but this alone is such a massive buzzkiller.

I would not recommend this game. My wife and I bought this to play together and both experienced frequent crashes and stutters. The combat felt really jerky and unreliable. As a fan of the souls games I figured I'd like this game more but it feels like its trying really hard to be dark souls 2 and vahleim but it feels like I ordered them off of temu instead of amazon. Every character I've seen has this weird squat hobbit-like appearance. Not to mention the building is janky to a level that causes frustration. I'll somehow end up with weird gaps everywhere. I wish I could have tried it for free before I wasted money on it, or had a quicker trigger finger on the refund. My bad for honestly trying to enjoy such a bad game. I cant think of many games that had a grappling hook that I didn't like.

Game is taking 2-3 hours to compile shaders on a regular basis and it's only getting worse. Completely unplayable. Don't waste your money, not on 1.0, not on 1.1. Devs are prioritizing content over experience, and it shows. Don't buy it now, wait for 1.25 at least.

This review is a long time coming. I have owned Enshrouded for quite a while, but repeated attempts to get into it failed. I'd play the game for a few hours over the course of a couple of days and then just put it aside to go play other games. Which doesn't really merit a steam thumbs up recommendation, but I didn't dislike it enough to say thumbs down either. Early Access being Early Access, the game has evolved between each of my attempts to get into it and here we are at a point where the game is finally in a state that I am enjoying it enough to keep playing. With that said, my recommendation is only luke warm. The game is solid; the building in particular is phenomenal, the skill tree is quite engaging and the combat is finally at a state where I find it enjoyable due in large part to the recent addition of special attacks for each weapon type. So why I only luke warm? Because there are still a few things that I am not a fan of. The shroud, in particular, is quite annoying to me. It's a visually gorgeous game, but then you have these massive shroud-covered areas where you cannot see a dam thing. Fortunately there's a mod for that; I am using a mod that cuts the shroud effect, set to reduce the shroud thickness to 85% of its normal value. That 15% is a small value, but it's huge in terms of making the game better, imo. Beyond that, Enshrouded is a fairly typical action rpg with a lot to explore and discover, decent enough gear itemization, a gem system for upgrading said gear, an engaging skill tree with a good variety of different builds that are viable and one of the best build/construction systems I have ever engaged with. Worth a purchase at this point, particularly given that the 1.0 release is coming very soon and the price is going to go up.