The Last Caretaker

This is a fun game. It has some optimisation issues, but the core loop is enjoyable, and you are often given enough reward for exploring weird, out-of-the-way areas that it feels nice for doing so. Many puzzles are exploration/environment puzzles, "I can see <x>, but how do I GET it?" and this is great, for me. There are some optimisation and graphics issues, but I can run the game for an entire day and it remains stable, just with some ghosting of blur on the screen. Sometimes the fog can be a bit much and is a little clippy, but it's not unmanageable and, you know, it's in early access. I rate it a thumbs-down because this is the only way to express a disapproval of shady behaviour. I know this will bring review trolls out (hi! I don't care!), but the reality is that near as I can tell almost _all_ the writing is LLM-generated. Like.. every single journal entry/memento/clip that you come across, and it feels like a decent chunk of the exploratory text, too, is just churned out from an LLM, and at the time of review, they have no AI disclosure. I am not anti-AI, really. There's things it's very great for, and in general the potential is neat -- though I think writing is not its strong suit, compared to what you get from an actual writer -- but I am anti-deceit, and Steam *specifically* asks developers to disclose this information. They have not. Sometimes people say that an em-dash is how you can tell that writing is AI, and they do that because they are not writers and do not know how to write. What *is* a tell-tale sign, though, is a certain cadence that all the models as of the time of this review speak in; because LLMs are told to prioritise clarity and impact, they often favour shorter sentences over long ones -- but no writer, nobody who writes creatively for a living, is going to write a game's worth of text that never uses a second clause in any of its sentences. They're just not. Even illiterates do not write and talk like that; people like to use variety in their cadence. Additionally, the whole thing is rife -- I mean RIFE -- with the, "It's not <x>, but <y>" pattern, which is another enormous tell when seen in proliferation. Good writing can indeed use this pattern (that's why the LLM does it, because it was trained on good writing), but not every other paragraph in every single form of text in the game. Look. I get it. It's expensive to hire a writer! You're in EA! You'll just go back and hire a writer for the text later (you won't; any 'stopgap' measure becomes permanent after a point)! But game development is baking, it is not cooking. Both baking and cooking are an amalgamation of ingredients put together for an end result. But when you ♥♥♥♥ up cooking, you can just not eat that part. I can just not eat the burnt crust, or the side dish, or I can pick out the banana or the peppers or whatever. But when you're baking, it is everything coming together for a whole singular product. You have a nice cake here, truly. So please stop making the topping out of faeces. Cheers.

Только пощупал эту игрульку, даже половины не изучил, но уже однозначно могу сказать она того стоит!!! 1) Оптимизация не очень, но с обновлениями стало лучше; 2) Графика шик; 3) Баги: пока что попалось 3 невидимые стенки, один раз пришлось перезагрузиться из-за того что застрял; 4) Сюжет есть, но я пока не прошёл, так что ничего не могу сказать; 5) Геймплей интересный и разнообразный, особенно понравилось разнообразие врагов.

This game is genuinely a dream come true for someone with an ADHD / Autism dual diagnosis. Its so dang satisfying to clear through each monument/point of interest dismantling literally everything and building up a huge supply of items on your ship. Its also so satisfying and fun to do things like pretend / "roleplay" that you're on a worksite and set up temporary lights, cable systems, etc, and roleplay that you're doing a job on a worksite of dismantling everything, and then packing things up and moving on to the next worksite when you're done. Like theres just so much fun to be had for someone who likes games like these, and theres also combat to spice things up too!

I've been looking for something that feels like Satisfactory, but isn't. Something that has lore like Fallout 3, but isn't. Has crafting, and resource management, and exploration, and all the things that I love, but isn't what's out in the market. It's early access (when I wrote this) and I'm 25hrs in. The story is vibrant and the visuals are lovely. I read through some of the reviews and seems most people have issues with the hit boxes, and the FPS / graphics settings. I always wonder if they truly understand Early Access, or if the gaming community just wants full games, fully polishes, at full price. Didn't matter to me. I knew going in that they're working on stuff, and I've loved my experience so far. Great to be on the open sea, to feel a sense of exploration again.

Why didn't i find this game sooner

Easy to understand, relaxing to play but with some excitement here and there. And super addictive too. You can follow the main questline or wander about exploring the map, either way it's a fun and satisfying time. Would definitely recommend

Great game. Lots of fun. Basically the best solo survival/crafting type game I've played in a long time. Despite still being in early access the game is very much playable and full of content and hours and hours of playtime. Can only get better. Really the only issue is that it's pretty graphics heavy and so my some-what potato machine struggles a bit. We are talking old i5 CPU, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB VRAM) is only just managing 30 fps at 1980x1080 and medium quality. So basically the "recommended" specs get you OK but not great graphics quality. At the "minimum" specs they are listing, you would need to dial the graphics wayyyyy down.

The system requirements are misleading. If you have a newer graphics card than the ones listed in the recommended spec, you will actually get WORSE performance, not better performance. Search the forums if you need to validate this - there are literally hundreds of posts on this topic. Despite this being a recurring issue for months, the devs have done nothing to fix it. In fact, with each update the game becomes progressively more broken as systems and features are added, but optimization is neglected. And it's a shame, because the game itself is awesome. Download the demo, have your fun, and then wait until the devs actually optimize this mess.

Raft with a gun and some intricate story telling. I really enjoy this game and exploration, but it gets somewhat repetetive at some point - same resources and same enemies. Would be great to know about all robots lying around, maybe battle rogue AI\awaken caretakers, customize your ship even more.