Prism Wilds

Hi Nicole! I am going to assume you are an independent developer, and I want to say.. that's gotta be HARD! I saw your game posted in my cozy games group on facebook, and I'm always down to help solo devs! That being said: I did not even put 10 minutes into the game and I had it refunded. I just couldn't do it. The controls are wonky, some graphics hurt my eyes and there is absolutely zero direction. I found the quests tab but nothing pops up to let you know you collected anything or finish a quest. The UI is not user friendly and I found myself super confused off the bat. I was told to craft something, but I wasn't told how to craft. This seems like a very early beta demo at best and I don't think its worth $12.99. I really hope you continue to develop this into something great. I'll be keeping my eye on it!

So this feels more like a rough demo than an actual game. There is no guideline on what to do, and it feels like a mismatch of concepts than something to actually play. There are two guidelines in the top left corner telling you the buttons to a "guide" and your "quests". Beyond them you are totally on your own, figuring out how to even interact with people and items. Sometimes you get popups that you've picked something up, other times you don't. Items in your inventory have no names, tags, or descriptions of any kind so it's a crapshoot to guess what you have at all and there are only a couple of basic recipes for your minecraft style crafting system. There's also a massive clock taking up the entire top right ( and honestly nearly half) side of the screen that blocks the view of the terrain and with no map that I can find, it's really quite difficult to navigate. Maybe I'm giving up too soon on what could be a gem of a game, but it just feels extremely unfinished and unpolished and not worth it in its current state.

I bought this game because someone had posted it in a group that I am in on Facebook. I reaaaally wanted to like this game but after about an hour I gave up and refunded it. I will try to do my best to explain exactly what made it unplayable for me. Immediately loading in the graphics were not great. The giant clock in the right corner is a genuine eyesore and should be made smaller. The UI is not good. Interacting with various items using E is good, but the fact that i have to exit my chest etc using ESC got really annoying. Also the fact that when I wanted to unload my inventory into my chest, I had to physically add each item to my tool bar so that I could get it into the chest since your actual inventory is hidden behing the chest inventory box. I had constant tool glitches where when I went to fish my rod would get locked in the casting animation and I had to exit the game to fix it. I also couldn't figure out how to use the crafting bench after building it. It said to open up my survival book to access the crafting bench menu but I genuinely couldn't locate it. There was a menu with a house icon but I was never able to access it. There is also no way of picking up chests etc after you have placed them down which I really did not like. The energy system is unbalanced. Your hunger bar runs out way to fast making exploration nearly impossible. The RNG on catching fish is also unbalanced since you basically just get crab legs, cloth and rope. Fish almost never dropped for me. The crafting is also incredibly tedious. Using the minecraft crafting model is fine but the fact that I can't have my inventory open at the same time as the crafting recipes got annoying. Having to constantly switch between the two menu's was rough. If the game was cheaper then I might have kept it but paying 13,49€ for a game that absolutely does not feel finished I just can't do. That said the concept of the game genuinely did sound so much fun and I will be following your game for future updates.

i love the art in this game. That's what drew me to it! I commend the effort it took to create this game. I happened to stumble upon it on TikTok and felt compelled to try it out. I look forward to updates and your future. games! Its actually pretty fun once you figure out how to craft and find the other people