Untamed: Life Of A Cougar

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This game is terrible... and yet I still recommend it because at least its ACTUALLY a survival game featuring a cougar living its best life. There are simply not enough games in the wildlife simulation genre. My quote after two hours: "Omg... this game is so bad its good". SOMEHOW... despite all the odds... and poor design choices.... this game provides the player a decent survival loop... Which is surprising considering how botched everything else is. For example the mini map doesn't follow standard compass rules or get directions correct with master map itself. The master map screen looks as though it was drawn by children or sleep deprived programmers. Despite the low artistic polish, however the game does deliver on simulating a cougars daily x rated romps though the wilderness. Your character model is fairly well done actually, and you can tell there was a desire to get cougar related things done right. Despite the games rough quality the simulation part is largely correct. Games Accuracy? More or less passable, but keep in mind the cougars in the wild are going to hunt and eat more bunnies and smaller game. Yet we have the option to put down bison spawns in Untamed. At least the game does a good job encouraging players to take down smaller game since its easier to bring them to the hungry kitters. Prey also fights back (especially things like Bison) and these prey can kill you. My Gripes: In game design its common knowledge UI and menus should not jarringly stop players from doing things. However Untamed doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥, flashing full screen ugly kitten images. Sometimes I marvel at the ability of this developer to make kitten images ugly. Sometimes I scream and jump out of my chair at the unexpected jarring flash of ugly kitteh. A true horror story. After 12 hours I don't even care what is written anymore. You never know when these will appear next. Another design flaw is enemy combat: Most games will not have entry level enemies just BOOM, one shot your character. I mean realistically even in real life a cougar is not going to just flop over and die instantly. The reason that games don't insta-kill players straight out the gate is to manage frustrations and allow players to learn. Untamed doesn't care about your feelings, and so it takes a little while to get use to combat and come to terms with getting absolutely destroyed. Once you have been thoroughly crushed it begins to get better. The combat system is actually pretty similar to a triple A title called " Man Eater " which is another animal game about a bull shark. The difference between the two was you had time to learn shark combat, while no such luxury is afforded in Untamed. The good news is once you understand the attack animations timing, and understand target mode (being able to snap, and lock onto enemies)... then combat is fine. My suggestion to a new player would be start in easy mode for an hour or two and then go normal mode. This will afford you the time to learn and will fix the entry level problems so you can enjoy combat more. Stealth is also a thing, and all creatures also have openings during combat for example eagles have moments when they are vulnerable, and moments when you should dodge away or risk death. Stealth can also be used against creatures that do not provide many openings. Combat is sometimes not the correct choice. Sound design: Don't expect much. I'v learned that there are "basic animal sounds" that play when you are near a creature. These are short loops of sound on repeat. So if you hear a horse loosing its ♥♥♥♥ in a field nearby probably just the audio for them. Same thing with howling wolves on repeat. Given the barrage of horrible groans coming from the forest its not a relaxing game. XD As for bugs. There are many of them, some can be worked around - marking a tree with your scent is often easier when done near the part of the trunk that has a bump on it. Otherwise you may spend several minutes having a seizure next to it , if you try and mark the tree in the "wrong" place . Eventually you just work around the glitches , and sometimes it can be downright funny watching derpy deer accidentally jump off cliffs. The glitches were actually less offputting to me then the horrible pop ups and screaming animals. Anyway, thats it... Thats the review... I'm going to give it a thumbs up. Just don't expect much from this product. I really need to install DOS box, and download "Lion" (Sanctuary Woods) from 1995 again. It still blows my mind that a game that was around before windows was mainstream is still better then half of the animal survival games out here.. Lol, we need more shelter games.

Very interesting experience playing this, feels like a weird dream or something. If you want a pretty realistic, unintentionally funny, glitchy game with weird graphics and funky music then you're in the right place! It can be quite frustrating tho.

it's a fun game and all.. but I can't rlly recommend it because it has been abandoned and I've experienced so many breaking glitches that have forced me to restart. The models are old. And so on..

The game feels kinda knockoff and clunky, but it’s alright. Takes a long time to complete and waiting can be pretty boring, and there isn’t that much in terms of options. It’s pretty unique compared to other animal survival games, and it’s the only one I’ve seen portraying a cougar, but is a not that good gameplay and graphic wise. I can see what the dev was trying to achieve, but just didn’t quite reach. Overall, I’d recommend it only if you’re willing to set aside the flaws.

This game feels like the developer was working on a passion project. All the ideas and mechanics are there to make this interesting. As someone who loves animal simulation games I had to try it. But, it's not good. As much as you can tell that love was put into it, that's sadly were it ends. It's buggy, clunky and hard to play. I was fighting against the controls and events non stop. It took me about 7 hours to grow my cubs, but Im glad it's over now. There are a lot better animal simulations out there, like wolf quest and this is not getting updated anymore, so I really cannot recommend.

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This is one of those games that feels like a really promising beta release that could be amazing with a bit of cleanup and polish. Unfortunately, this game is out of beta and hasn't been updated in nearly a decade. (The studio's website linked in the game doesn't exist anymore! Spooky!) The controls are terrible, the ui is passable at best and actively hinders the experience at worst, the constant animal noises are grating, and it commits the ultimate crime of having really ugly baby animals. The thing that gets to me the most is the static feeling of all the animals. There's a decent variety of critters to find, but they all act the same. Prey always runs. Killer prey always holds its ground and attacks if you get close. Predators try to kill you the second you get into their line of sight. No sense of realism at all. What business does an EAGLE have attacking a fully grown cougar?! Combined with the combat that's either pitifully easy or instant death, it just makes you actively avoid every animal on the map. Honestly, if you want a game like this that's actually good, get either Shelter 2 or WolfQuest. Much better animal sim games.

非常糟糕，近50的价格，连个半成品都不是，完全没有内容的游戏

Great game! its fun, pretty (on good graphics) and just over all amazing!