Valorborn

(Quick Edit: After thinking about it for a bit, and then being reminded when looking on the steam page, them charging $25 for this mess is kind of insane, and pushes me even further on the not recommended side of things. It's an absolute MESS for that price and is absolutely not worth $25 at the moment. Charging $5 less than its near-perfectly realized father, Kenshi, is insane and the devs should be ashamed.) I'm 50/50 between recommend and not recommend. I wish there was a mixed option. I Recommend if you want to support the future of a game like this. I do Not Recommend if you're hoping to hop into the game and play it right now. I (initially, but came back and changed it upon remembering that it cost me $25) reviewed as recommended because I don't want to down-vote this game into being abandoned. There is something here. A diamond DEEP DEEP DEEP in the rough. Maybe someone else can find a lot more to enjoy at the moment than I could. This one is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tough for me. I don't review games often. I think about it often, but I'm usually too lazy to type something up. I want to write something while it's fresh in my mind, but also this game legit gave me a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ migraine. I LOVE Kenshi, with all of my heart. As we all likely know, this game is trying to be a medieval Kenshi. Heavily Kenshi inspired. This game is cursed to forever be sat right next to Kenshi on the bench, and that gives this Dev a STEEP uphill battle, and I commend them for taking it on. This game is Kenshi, but only in pale pale imitation, with weights tied to your arms and legs and you're standing in a raging river. It is ROUGH. And the map starts blacked out, but due to glitches and being able to see parts of the blacked out map, it looks drastically smaller and less diverse than Kenshi's map. (I actually feel bad for saying "this game is Kenshi" a moment ago, that is a disservice to Kenshi.) I have not gotten as frustrated at any game as I did at this one, in YEARS. If you want more detail, I'll post more in the comments of this review. I'm not going to type the details here because I just exited the game and am exhausted from it. I have a headache. I've been wanting to get back into making videos for YouTube (I'm not self-promo-ing, just context) and often take notes while I'm playing a game so I can form a narrative for a video down the road, and so I can remember what I did. 85% - 90% of my notes for this game are not narrative. It was literally impossible to "forge my own story." My notes are 85% - 90% frustration at the mechanics. I'm just going to copy/paste the notes I took into the comments here. They are time-stamped so you can literally just follow my experience of 6 hours of playing the game from today. Everything is there chronologically. I hope the dev sticks to it and makes this game what it absolutely can be. But for now, I can't even respectfully call this early access. I truly feel this game needed A LOT more time in the oven before even being released to early access, this should be labelled a "barely playable play test" or something. It's rough. It's frustrating. If I'm not back within this week for some more (if I come back and have a different experience, I'll update this review), it'll probably be a long long time before I launch the game again, granted it not becoming abandoned. But there are also hundreds of other games in my library I want to, and would rather play.) But it's fine, keep my money, Dev. Just make this game great. It could be great. Please make it great, Dev.

Not sure how this can be an open world sandbox game where you click to move. WASD movement is needed along with jumping so you can go just about anywhere. This game is not worth the time

Horrible Tutorial I gave up after trying 2 times just to get Thru the Tutorial!

Honestly the game has potential but it is certainly lacking content and has alot of small bugs some being with quests just not being able to be completed because some of the npcs just dont spawn others like not being able to loot certain chests because of how they are placed, not all of the map is developed which isnt a big deal for me i feel the game will go through some great improvements in time but be ready to find bugs and empty areas of the map till then

nice game, yes bugs, but still a nice game

（追記2）ロードマップが発表されたが、New～の項目は現在ほとんどないもので、それ以外は現在全くないと言って過言でないもの 今どれだけスッカスカなのかわかりやすいので、購入前に確認しておくと良い （追記）20時間強で0.1.3aのコンテンツを全て終えてしまったようだ 実装されているクエストは10個ほどしかなく、どれもおつかいで微妙 あとは成長の感じられない虚無の育成が待つのみ 今後のアップデートでは、コンテンツの大量追加とともに、抜本的な変革が求められるように思う --------------------------------------------------- まだ10時間ほどしかプレイしていない段階でのレビュー 他レビューのKenshiという言葉に惹かれて購入したが、「騙された」というのが正直な感想 Kenshi風味は感じられず、このゲームならではの面白さも感じられず、どこかで見たOWゲームを混ぜて劣化させただけにしか感じない 高めの推奨スペックの示す通り、動作が重く、読込速度が遅く、セーブデータも重いので特にロード直後はもっさり感が酷い オートセーブの頻度が高いせいもありそうだが、設定項目が無かったり反映されない EAなので当然、バグや未完成要素は山のようにあり、アイテム消失もクラッシュもする クエストは今のところ全ておつかいのみで、わずかなクエストギバー以外のNPCに存在価値はない（盗みの邪魔をするために居る？） 戦闘にアクション要素はなく、ほぼ装備が全てで、スキルもわずかしか影響しない 建築要素も薄く、生産設備を野ざらしに設置していくだけ（素材要求量多め？） こだわってキャラメイクしても実際のプレイ中にはものすごく小さい表示になるためほとんど意味が無く、仲間になるNPCは固定なのか愛着が全く湧かない 夜が完全に真っ暗（無視界）になるのも非常に厄介だが設定変更できず、松明の照らす範囲は極小 個人的には食事とインベントリの不便さがとにかく苦痛で、せめてMODで緩和できれば良かったのだが、残念ながらこのゲームにはMODが全く存在しない このままだとコミュニティの活性化も望み薄だろう 暇つぶしのためだけに買うなら悪くないかもしれないが、面白さを求めて買うには時期尚早過ぎるので、おすすめしない

Après plusieurs heures de jeu, je ne peux malheureusement pas recommander Valorborn en l'état, surtout au vu de son prix. Le jeu confirme clairement d'être en accès anticipé, peut être trop anticipé puisqu'il n'y a rien ! Il souffre de nombreux bugs qui bloquent la progression. Par exemple, une quête me demande d'éliminer les quatre bandits d'un camp. Une fois vaincus, rien ne se passe : la quête reste active et le PNJ ne réagit plus. Résultat, impossible de la terminer. Le système de craft paraît très riche au début, mais on se rend rapidement compte que l'on fabrique énormément de ressources qui deviennent inutiles. On passe des heures à débloquer de nouveaux établis qui produisent finalement les mêmes objets ou des variantes très proches. La progression manque de sens et donne une impression de répétition permanente. La carte est assez grande, mais elle est paradoxalement très vide. On passe de longues minutes à marcher sans rencontrer de PNJ, d'événements ou d'activités intéressantes. Beaucoup de zones semblent n'avoir été créées que pour allonger artificiellement le temps de déplacement. En quelques heures, je pense avoir parcouru 25% de la totalité de la carte.... La lisibilité est également un vrai problème. Si l'on zoome suffisamment pour distinguer son personnage et les détails, on perd complètement la vision de ce qui nous entoure. À l'inverse, en dézoomant pour surveiller les ennemis, tout devient minuscule et difficile à lire. Après plusieurs heures, cela devient réellement fatigant pour les yeux. Enfin, le contenu paraît très limité : peu de quêtes, très peu de dialogues (souvent une ou deux phrases seulement), peu de PNJ et un sentiment de vide qui revient constamment. Je pourrais encore citer de nombreux bugs et problèmes d'ergonomie rencontrés pendant mes parties. J'espère sincèrement que les développeurs feront évoluer le jeu, car il possède quelques bonnes idées. Mais aujourd'hui, je déconseille clairement d'y investir de l'argent. À mon sens, mieux vaut attendre plusieurs mises à jour majeures avant de l'acheter. En tellement d'années à jouer, c'est l'une des plus grosses blague du monde de Steam.

I recommend this game if they can follow through to the end. This is very early access. Only one programmer is working on this and it shows. They really need the funding to hire more programmers. If you have the available funds to contribute and get this game off the ground then it would surely help them out in getting this game fleshed out more quickly. Concept is there and what I would consider a "rough draft".

the type of game this is, it just isnt as good as older games and current games of this type. the play is a bit wonky. ill try again after the developers have time to improve play.

Bevor this Game adds Content they should fix AAAAALLLLLLLOOOOOOTTT of QoL things ! 1 Pathfinding is an absolut mess ! 2 You can't quit a Menue with Escape O.o this is a HUGE no GO !!! 3 the Damagenumbers visualization is ugly as hell, same for the Design for Quest Textes 4 Every few meters of Moving the Camera, I've got mini Lags 5 i am not a big detracor of graphics but i have to say the world textures are horrible O.o 6 Game-mechanics in common feel all a bit clunky And last but not least : I DON'T NEED MAGIC IN THIS GAME !!! Let me return to this Review to the end of the year 2026 ...