One Lonely Outpost

This game was advertised as co-op and the devs removed it at launch. It's been 2 years since that.

This game is a huge disappointment. It started out really strong, and for the first 10 - 15 hours I was really liking this game. But then I got to the later half of the game, and the game shows massive signs of being rushed or not even properly finished. And worse, you can easily get softlocked due to how quests are done here. I was softlocked behind Xenolight Ore, which required me to go to an area that I couldn’t get to yet, and the game REFUSED to ever give me the quest to unlock that area. Everything online said it may unlock with time and/or boosting relationships, but I was in year 3, how much longer do I need???? I even used cheat codes to boost most relationships to max, nothing. Eventually I used the code to give me the needed ore so I could progress, which did the last main quest of the game, or as far as I could tell. The game never really told me. But I advanced the game about 2 more weeks and got no new quests so I assume it is over. Here are more of the issues I ran into. When I got married my spouse just stood at home all day. Never moved. I couldn’t give her assignments like they said I could. So she was just a lump standing there. Many quests will soft lock you behind items you can’t grow that season (though that is less an issue once you get the incubator), or behind gold ore (which never respawned once for me), or behind other ores that you can’t get, or flowers that are total RNG if you get them, or animals needing a fish I can't catch yet, or just needing that fish but I can't get it yet as my drone isn't powerful enough to get there, or all of the above. And to top it off one region it looked like I could go farther but I can’t. I hit an invisible wall on the wide open path, so couldn't go farther into that zone. What gives? Oh and in game the version numbers do not show 1.0 despite the steam claim it is 1.0. Overall it is a shame as the first 10 – 20 hours are pretty fun. And since it is sold as complete but looks very incomplete once you get about 10 - 20 hours into it, I have to not recommend it in the end.

Just buy something else. It suffers from poor pacing, a lack of meaningful things to do, loads of QoL issues, unintuitive & poorly explained game mechanics, a barebones story, and flat characters. There's a glimmer of a good game in there but ultimately it's just not very fun or deep compared to most other farming sims.

This is the third draft of the review. First the good things. It`s actually playable, there is content and it feels different then the usual farming sims, especially in the beginning. And it actually is fun. Now the bad. There seems to be a lot of content that is unfinished. For example "gene splicing". It says you can gene splice different crops/fish/insects to get new variants. But there are only three possible outcomes TOTAL. 1. nothing 2. Coconut 3. Eldritch Fruit and yeah, that is no matter if you splice fish, insects or crops. That is just an example of how unfinished it seems to be. I guess because the changed major things like the art-style more then half way through the production they then ran out of money to actually make a good and finished product. So while my opinion of the game changed from absolutly catastrophic in the first review, to "okayish" in the last, it still will get a thumbs down from me.

Game bought in early access. I regret buying the game at the time because it had potential at the time, which was completely gone after the full launch. The game has a lot of bugs and unfinished mechanics. Unfortunately, the game seems to have been abandoned a long time ago and no one cares about it or responds to bug reports. The game could have been good and fun, unfortunately it never reached its potential.

I want to like this game, and I wanted this game to be good. I put 36 hours into it in an attempt to get all achievements. The concept is good, and I typically enjoy the grindy games like this that sort of boil down to repeated fetch quests. That said, this game is not in a good state at this time. The control scheme feels clunky, hitboxes for interactions are a nightmare, and the pacing is horrid. This is a great place for a game to be in if it's looking to release in a few months perhaps, but as a game claiming to be in a finished state not so. Early game is slow as a snail, midgame is great, late game is somehow slower. For any achievement hunters, I believe the 100% omniac achievement is broken (and thus so is the platinum trophy), and you have to use console commands. I was able to get 512 of the omnistars, and I believe the others are locked behind unobtainable cooking recipes.

The game had a lot of promise but the dev sold out and the new dev/publisher couldn’t be bothered. It’s horribly unfinished and no where near polished. Would not waste my money, go try Stardew or one of many fam sims that followed and actually tried to deliver a good product.

Honestly if I'd not waited ages to play it so it was too late, I'd have asked for a refund. It's unwieldy and weirdly disappointing

Ok i have played this game for a bit now and it really is somewhat of a headscratching mess. Tooltips on some items say what they are good for and in fact there not. Chickens and Robochickens like thistle and another seed but in fact they dont, they dont even like the grown product from these seeds and the only item these are used for is making a bouquay of flowers (a 1 time use) after that these are wortjless and just not worth the time or effort in growin them for 5 coins each. Green refuse (left overs from harvesting crops) says can be made into animal feed but in fact there is NO animal feed in the game, it was never implemnted. Quests are literally a confusing mess, leaving you wondering what there is to do to unlock stuff, there are items that you need that you just cannot obtain so your constantly wondering what the hell you missed or what you must do now, online is not helpful as half the time you must make this item and upgrade that but you carnt becuase your missing that item. I have now gone through 2 yrs of in game time and i am still none the wiser. This brings me to now, that i have just had enough alias this thumbs down review, stay away there are much better games out there, this one is not one i could even remotely recommend, its one to avoid.

Half a game. Very rushed and not worth the buy.