Smalland: Survive the Wilds

I played the game with 2 more people. We enjoyed it and just finished it so I was checking for Smalland 2 and came back to this game to see how the graphics changed and then ended up reading the reviews. I don't understand the negative ones.. I want to start by questioning the people who claim the game isn't finished... There is a clear end with a clear finish so I don't know what fiber they smoked or what insect juice they consumed. Yes, there is some things that could be polished with this game, like very often I felt like exploring didn't really reward you with anything special or cool at the end of it, it was mostly all just a nice scenery. There were a few things to be discovered like some cosmetics, some crafting recipes for building and some for spells but I feel like there could have been more, even if it's just camps with chests of material and more decoration stuff and. Would also have been nice to see other NPC's living around the place that are not Story related but would give you something for talking to them. I saw a mini toy car and would have loved to pick it up but couldn't. Though it's fair to say decoration and building wise I had a LOT fun. I'm the builder in the group and the different things I could do and build were pure enjoyment for me. there is a lot variations but if I would have one suggestion it would have been big half walls.. (I worked my way around this by using pillars to create a half wall and was proud.) Storywise the game is interesting and very nice to look at too. Though you only follow the main questline with little optional quest. (Yes, we did them all) But honestly it didn't bother me too much. It didn't need quests of "Go there and kill 10 ladybugs!" to feel rewarding. We always felt like there was something to do. It never felt repetitive or boring like others in the reviews claimed. There was also reviews about no new equipment while progressing to look forward to - which I'm also questioning - I feel like most people in the comments even with their 20+ hours in the game, didn't actually play the game. Each NPC gives you new upgrades, you just have to take your small attention-span and actually engage with them and read everything they have to say and do the quests for it. I was always excited to learn new recipes for my gear, equipment and decorating. The intelligence being tied to the rarity of the gear wasn't clear at first, I was the only one who busted some points into it and then got hooked when I was able to make rare equipment for the group. No harm done anyway since you can reset your points if this is not something you're interested in. Lastly, I loved that we could capture creatures, that's something that I had a lot of fun with and always felt proud when the capturing was a success. The only thing that bothered me is the group point capacity.. I feel like that entire system was a bit iffy, I had 2 same "pets" in my team, same stats, same traits, same level but one took 33 space, the other one 34, which made no sense.. And at some point my team was over 100 points and I send one back to the stables by accident and I couldn't take it back, after I've spent so much time leveling it and caring for it, that was a extreme bummer. I think the max of 4 pets should be enough, without a points system. Or at least a rule that you can only take 2 rare ones but still can have 2 normal ones in the team as well. I think that was the thing that bothered me most about the game. (Apart from the fact that Wyrd doesn't recover slowly by itself, or when killing enemies and not even when sleeping.. That is super annoying.) The egg hatching, defending the tree while was a nice thing, we would hunt for pure eggs sometimes and the world Events are fun things as well. The leveling goes fairly fast and easy too but honestly the HP always felt too low and needs a % instead of just one point per level. Most of the time it was better to just mount your pet and fight with that. Anyway we got a good amount of hours out of the game and really had a lot of fun so I think the game deserves a good review. I'm already excited for Smalland 2 and looking forward to that, I hope it'll have a wider variety in character creation but either way, I'll 100% play it.

В этой игре я пережил больше дерьма, чем за все свои годы в Skyrim. Я ковал доспехи из хитина жуков. Я приручил геккона и назвал его Гошей. Я построил замок на ветке дуба, который шторм пытался сдуть трижды. Если любите собирать 100500 веточек ради одних трусов - берите не думая.

The game feels unfinished, 20hrs of gameplay... NOT recommended they are relasing smalland 2 when this looks like its in beta smh

I didn't want to leave a bad review because I feel the artists team did a great job with the assets and the overall aesthetic. But the game design is a total mess. The biggest issue are the quests, which most of the time consist of you going around the map to just talk to people. Very rarely you get an actual mission, and even then it's lackluster. The second biggest issue are the recipes for crafting, which are so limited that you don't feel like there's any reason to farm any material in any area, so you just storm through the quests that are boring. Third biggest issue is the traversing, there's no fast travel, and until you get a useful mount you're already done with half of the game. We disabled losing items on death, and I still believe that the traversing was like 70% of the game for us. The fourth biggest issue is the combat, which you are basically kinda useless if you don't bring companions, but bringing companions usually ends up in you purposely taking aggro and running in circles until your companions finish the boss (they often do more damage than you, and keeping the boss moving is best so they don't get hit accidently) Lastly, there are also so many things that the devs went out their way to implement badly, for example quickslots not working for all items like in most survival games. Why would you even give time to code this, what's wrong with keeping iron on my 10 quickslots in order to see how much I need more to mine? Other things include monster loot being shown for 0.5 seconds when you pick it up, companions walking away when you get too close to them (which you need to, to interact with them), UIs overlapping, tutorials not being thorough, the inventory lagging the game for some reason when you open it. Overall both me and my friend had a very frustrating time playing this, and when we got to the last area, we simply finished the rest of the steam achievements and didn't even bother with the quests and bosses there. We love open world survival crafting games and this is the fastest one we 100%, both because it was unenjoyable and we rushed it, and because there was no need to farm any mat for crafting or quests.

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only buy if on sale - ie less that £5 - quite a lame game - frustrating at times

A unique little survival game about being a little fairy person in a forest with equal parts charme & jank. Makes for a great first-time experience if you can catch it on sale, does make you wish it had some of the charme & visual identity of 'Grounded' though What's nice: - the aesthetic and the locations are well crafted, the changing seasons give it extra flair - building pieces are beautiful and really make you feel like a small fairy, you can even dye / color many pieces - the world feels lived in with different factions and tribes with their own styles and you can really feel there is some history to this place - a lot of the early to mid-game equipment looks very unique and thematic, flying around with bug wings feels awesome - having different mounts with unique movement styles is cool even if ,sadly, they will eventually all get outclassed once you get a flying one What's bad: - bug companions are a nice feature but nothing is explained well and spending time raising one only for it to die permanently feels bad. If you disable pet-permadeath you start drowning in bugs without really knowing what to do with them or what each of them might be good for. - the game has this cool miniature aesthetic but then for the highest material tier you move away from bug/nature parts to essentially make basic iron weapons - that's NOT what we play a game like this for! the same goes for ditching your buggy wings for bird ("angel") wings in the lategame. We can have that in any basic fantasy game - the factions in the game have a unique mechanic where you can earn tokens to unlock faction-specific gear and decorations. However the rate of earning them is SO slow that it will never be worth it to get anything past the first armor set. A lot of cool decor and gear wasted / unused. - the world is full of scenic unique locations and base-building materials look beautiful yet you are pushed towards building on top of the game's trees which all look the same and are basically a big, flat round surface. If you want to build in the world anyway you will constantly have to go up a tree for base raids while incubating pets etc. - you can't really pick a favorite bug and level it to bring it up to par with later ones. A dragonfly will never be as good at flying around as a hornet, no matter what you do so for efficiency you will eventually all use the same ones which is a real shame

Please add Polish language :)

O jogo e bom e divertido tem alguns probleminhas de balanceamento e de progressão mas de resto da pra se divertir bastante.