The Forever Winter

I'd love to play this game I love the vibes and the sounds and the art, but it just doesn't run well at all even on the absolute lowest settings. I haven't been able to finish a run I get through the tunnels into another area and I'm sneaking around and then the game chugs to a halt. I had to return the game and I want to get it later once it works properly.

Pros: -Has great art style -Engaging core mechanics -Amazing atmosphere -Gritty lore -Decent gameplay loop Cons: -Par/Subpar UI -Near endless jankiness to all enemies and animations for AI -Zero stealth mechanics -Zero Ally/Semi-friendly mechanics (outside of shopping) -Horrific AI director forcing enemies to 360 No-scope you without ever seeing you (if they are fighting) -AI Director forces enemy units to unpredictably walk directly around cover into you -Some of the worst weapon balance in any game I've played last 27 years -Unavoidable teleporting enemy spawns -Unkillable, unavoidable 15' Robot dog you can't outrun or stealth around (search Forever Winter Underground Cemetery). Genuinely a near unplayable map with many Main Questlines forcing you through it over and over.. DO NOT PLAY THIS MAP -Unguided loot spawns (can be forced to dice roll a 0.02% spawn chance item when you need 5 of them for a single base upgrade-potentially dozens of hours for single items) Outside of all this, if you can get the game for $15 or less and want a horror-survival looter shooter I would suggest it. Highly unlikely with the incredibly slow dev time they will achieve any true balance to the game/maps, so you would play to only enjoy a unique game with great vibes that has no end goal, or viable way to get there. I see support continuing for some time (1-2 years) with quality of life updates until it is ultimately abandoned

Game crashes before you even load in the level. You lose your gear. want to recover it? sorry, not happening, no place for a recovery drone to grab your swag. get stuck in weird geometry in the tunnels or other parts of the maps? same deal. no recovery possible. This game feels like it should be fun, but some of it is such an excessive grind, with such a high risk to losing your stuff to things out of your control, that it just sucks the fun and desire to play it out the window. Some custom gameplay settings or tweaks to personalize the experience might make this more manageable, seeing as it's more or less a single player game. why this isn't implemented already is well beyond me.

I really wanted to like this game, but it is more frustration and boring than it is fun. The enemies are the main problem. They pursue you for way too long after you get their attention, spawn right on top of you at times (especially near extraction), and will prioritize you over their actual enemies (enemies will walk past a deadly mech and die on the way to looking for me in a dark corner far away from the fight). A lot of the maps feel like pointless deathtraps that have the same loot as that starting tunnel A. I found the same loot in Downtown Lost Angels as Ashen Mesa (bigger risk for nothing more). That resulted in me never going to the maps in the later tunnels (no point in risking it on harder levels when the loot is the same and pointless). making the loot random or at least feel random takes away any need to go to the later tunnels or other levels. I found going to tunnel B would produce the same tier of loot as anywhere else in the game. that made the experience boring and pointless to me. it feels like you've seen everything this game has to offer after 1 hour of gameplay. It is just a miserable experience overall. You are under powered with bad janky mechanics with grindy loot and progression. You never get a sense of accomplishment playing this game.

Not ready at all. save your money.

I think this game is interesting, but not too much more than that. As of right now, the world and story are very cool, and the designs are pretty unique. (I mean, not many other games have stuff like a tank covered in bodies). However, this game's world and art cannot lift it above its shortcomings. Currently, the game, at least for me, runs like trash on my computer. Which, while it is not exactly a great rig, it is not a potato. On top of the performance issues, the gameplay loop is very repetitive in a way that, for me, is just tiring. In all, I think this game has an audience; that audience is just not me.

A really cool idea whos mechanics don't play out quite as good as they should be. Performance is an abomination. The game play is swimmy to begin with that's OK but with poor performance it becomes not OK fast. Just not acceptable. If you do decide to play make sure Epic store is blocked. For some reason this game is particularly persistent about installing it. Too bad this didn't work out.

Love the atmosphere, lore and story, but god is this game ♥♥♥♥. Gameplay wise

the forever sex how the hell is hydration a problem in this world with scav girl's kevlar cannons around?

игра крайне мрачная, и это плюс не подумайте не так, Но самый большой минус я даже на поверхность ни разу не вышел из-за оптимизации, кадров 40-60 не стабильных прерывистых, и с шакальной картинкой. Из-за этого желание играть просто отпало если есть желание попробовать игру то только строго на скидках