On-Together: Virtual Co-Working

Really, really wanted to love this game, but despite having a pretty decent laptop that runs far more demanding games just fine, memory and CPU use skyrocket while running this game to the point my laptop sounds like its about to take off. Defeats the point of it being a background game. Would consider repurchasing if these issues were fixed as I love the concept.

If you can't tell from my hours, I idle in this game a lot. I use it for both productivity and connecting when I'm at home. I enjoy the fishing, the aesthetics are just my flavor! I genuinely really like this tool. That said, I cannot recommend this game in it's current state. This game has had an ongoing memory leak issue since the beginning. It's a topic in their Discord that doesn't ever seem to be faced head on. Folks that mod games have already created a small fix for it so it seems it would make total sense to work with them to incorporate this into their base game? No. We release an update with voice chat instead? Something majority of productivity folks wouldn't ask for this in a productivity tool. Just a quick scroll through of the server lists and you can see how well received VC really is. The most recent update that brought VC into the platform makes this program unusable. You cannot run the vanilla version alone if you want to run any other program alongside it because the memory leak compounds and builds EVEN IN A SOLO SERVER RUNNING VANILLA. For reference, my Palia game runs about 2k RAM and On-Together runs 14k. I've even seen it hit 25k a few times. It will stress all 32g of your RAM and it will still not be enough. It will openly lag anything else you have going on. It will stress your hardware. The only way you can safely run this is with mods which I was against doing for the longest time. I didn't want to add more processes on a memory leaky game as it is. However, there's a mod to do memory sweeps and it's the ONLY way we can run this tool at the current moment without wanting to table flip your setup. Again, this is a productivity tool. It's not really that if it's not a lightweight efficient item that FEELS GOOD TO USE. Please fix!!

Constant memory leaks, burning up my computer even though it's an idle game meant to be run in the background. The dev team has not said a word acknowledging the memory leaks. "We're looking into it" is not acknowledgment. No roadmap mention, no bug post, no detailed explanation of memory leak, no requests for community logs to pin down the issue. You also cannot join any servers offline. Not even your own offline server. You need internet to open an offline server.

I really want to give it a great review but can't recommend it to other people right now. I would love to edit this hopefully in a near future as I do really enjoy the game, the memory leakage is my issue. it is supposed to be a game that is running in the background while you work. I can live with it being on the higher side since its multiplayer, graphics and etc. but it keeps climbing and it has crashed my computer not a small number of times. It is adorable, I love being able to see my character working knowing that someone is also working at the same time, especially in a screen corner. I try to make them do something similar to what I am working on. The outfit and pets are also so cute and I want to constantly unlock all of them. I am going to continue keeping an eye on it, I know there's a small dev team trying to do a lot but the numbers shown by the mac monitor you have to have some insane spec computer to play the game if the memory leaking isn't fixed.

The best game I have come across for locking in! You get to idle with your friends in a cozy environment and earn cute rewards while you're at it. With the added bonus of getting to meet people all over the world, but with no pressure to yap if you don't feel up to it. This has all the tools you'll ever need to help you stay on task!

So far the game is nice, but I miss some features I feel are essential for the purpose of this game: - The ability to add friends in game (not only through Steam) - A private chat feature - The option to show publicly what you're studying while in Focus mode - The option to show publicly your to-do list and the items you've already completed this session - Increase the character limit of the items from to-do list I feel like these features would make the game much better! It would be more engaging and motivating.

As one can probably tell by my hours logged, I love this game. That being said, it runs like pure unfiltered ass. I'm pretty sure every update has introduced some form of performance issues or memory leaks. I've seen peoples task managers reporting this game eating like thirty GIGABYTES of ram. That's unacceptable for what this game is fundamentally designed to do. This game is intended to sit idly on the side of your screen doing literally nothing while you work, hogging your pc's resources is the LAST thing it should be doing. Often times people who work from home, which this game is almost entirely populated by, don't have some $2k modern pc to run this and I have seen so many reports of people unable to run this game with so much as a drawing application at the same time, it's shameful; do better.

I love this game! Its a very clever way to infuse co working and motivation. Very Neurodivergent friendly. The new stats feature is a great way to track work and the incentivised items are brilliant. 10/10 I would love to see parts of the map expand and to include parts of the map you can unlock as you progress through your goals.

A great way to motivate yourself to do the work you are avoiding. Either group with friends or just join a lobby. I love unlocking pets and buying outfits with my task progress. There are a few features I would like to see: - finding a way to handoff a lobby (this might exist but I have generally been joining ones and then getting kicked and that takes me out of focus.) - being able to move tasks between groups/lists - export/import from other task lists (i starting creating lists here but it would be so nice to sync them with Notion or even just export as a csv)