VEIN

very good game so far i love it

This game has much potential. I don't want to discourage the developers as I will be eagerly waiting for bug fixes and inventory QoL improvements as well as a more intuitive User Interface. My review will be updated to positive when the game becomes more playable. ✅ The Good: Survival systems are fairly deep (food/water/sleep/smell needs). Sandbox settings are decent - I can tweak it somewhat to how I want. World interaction is detailed - (lowering blinds by 3/4 down, nice, destructible almost everything, move furniture, push cars etc). Starting character had a lot of classes to choose from, which is interesting to try different styles. If you leave blood on the floor and walk over it, you will track blood on the floor. I had to internet search how to clean it up, the game doesn't tell you anything. ❌ The Bad Bugs and glitches everywhere - I claimed a house and noticed a deer got its antlers stuck in the wall. I had a jiggly dear head trophy. - hair style glitches - poor choice in hair styles for women. They either made my character look butch or overly feminine. I was looking for a "Winnie the Welder" look but couldn't find anything. Putting on a hat make my female character go bald 🙄 I always felt pressed for time as I tried to figure out how to play, then it was dark and my character was starving before I knew what to do. My character had the Inconsolable debuff with no real understanding how that happened. The game systems are not well explained. Example: I cut up all my newspapers because figured they were useless and the paper scrap would weigh less. Then found out I could cover windows with newspaper. Why doesn't the game EXPLAIN THESE THINGS? Why should I have to tab out and search the internet to learn every little thing? 💀 The Ugly INVENTORY SYSTEM IS A NIGHTMARE AND IT MADE ME QUIT! - Equipped items should be removed from the "bag" until unequipped, instead of a little square showing I have it on. I can't count the number of times I accidentally stored something I was wearing and later was confused on where it went. -I found an insulated flask, filled it with hot coffee for later, and kept going. Then I apparently grabbed another identical flask without realizing it. When I used “Move All” to dump the food I’d collected, the full flask got swept up with everything else. Later I went to take a sip of my coffee and the flask was completely empty. I honestly thought the game bugged out. Nope—turns out the full one had been shoved into a cabinet somewhere. - How many claw hammers do I need to find before I can use two of them together to break down a piece of furniture for requisite wood to build a base-cabinet. Seriously, I had to hunt around for "heavy" hammer to do the job. I had like 8 claw hammers and still couldn't break a wooden shelf. - Everything is locked, but a good hammer and a screwdriver will defeat most common padlocks IRL, but it might make noise and attract zombies. Lockpicks and sledgehammers shouldn't be the only way to break into things. - The year is 2033 and hotwiring cars seems to be a common skill we all start with, and what's worse, auto manufacturers haven't evolved security systems to prevent hotwiring? -Locked cars can't be entered without lockpicks. I tried to break the window and open the door, but nothing happened. Is this an option? Do I need a sledgehammer to break a car window?