Voidtrain

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If you're looking for a survival game with a soul, Voidtrain is it. The story completely hooked me from the start. Beyond the story, the atmosphere is incredible - a hauntingly beautiful void with floating islands and strange creatures. Building and upgrading your train into a moving fortress feels rewarding, and the survival-crafting loop is solid without being overly punishing. Overall, it's a unique, atmospheric adventure that stands out from the crowd. Highly recommend!

I suspect the developers are going for whimsical but they're delivering incoherent. The beginning is incredibly boring and clunky. The game spends 20 minutes setting up nothing and giving you popups of the most obvious mechanics (usually 3 popups in quick succession). Actions feel purposely slowed down, so they might be trying to push for a more patient relaxed vibe. However they do it by force like having you just stand still as the character figures out the best place on his toolbelt to place the new hammer. I like the idea of "slow down and enjoy the game". I don't like what amounts to constant cut scenes of your character fiddling with the environment. After the intro I have no idea what is happening. Whatever, I'm on a train and nothing from the first 20 minutes appears to be important. But now I'm on a train and the game is painstakingly telling me what each thing does. Yes, I've seen a brake before. Why was the brake not interactive until I did some checklist of stuff? Finally you're moving (although you have no idea why moving is good) and picking stuff up. 10 minutes of just moving and picking stuff up and I'm bored. The mechanics are a bit clunky, the UI is that old style of popping up on you constantly. 80% of the space in UI menus are pointless, like the research tree shows 2 items and asks you to change pages to see more. This thing takes up the whole screen. Art is pretty but it feels like an asset flip that was colored graded for cohesion. I don't have any context for what this stuff is. It seems to be for whimsy and to attract kids but it's just... not for me. The game performs well, no issues or bugs in my short preview. A lot of little things feel like the game is in early access though, like very limited character creation and default sound settings blasting you with music while the narrator barely mumbles below it. The intro story seemed pointless and not in a mysterious way. More of a placeholder way. Moving around the train is clunky with hard transitions when you're close to and approaching the train. You can't just move naturally, you have to learn what the game will let you do. Don't approach the train from too low of an angle or you'll just stop on the tracks! And no there's no jump, so you need to swim back out and swim back in from the proper angle! Then I read other comments that say the beginning is the best part? No thanks. I'll stop at 30 minutes.

It is a little repetitive at times, but that's pretty similar for this genre. Otherwise it's a lot of fun and I recommend playing!

Симулятор [strike]машиниста[/strike] дёргателя рычага. Чтобы пройти всю игру, нужно либо останавливаться каждые 10 секунд для сбора ресурсов, либо найти такого задрота и убедить его зайти с нужными. Переводить поезд на электричество особого смысла нет. От погони уйти невозможно (догонят, даже если успеешь отстрелить вражеский двигатель). Физический движок для платформинга ужасен. Сюжет несколько рваный и наивный (и короткий). В некоторых местах даже крипповато. Внешне игра выглядит очень красиво. Для коопа на двоих вполне себе подходит.

Прикольная, атмосферная игра. Мне как любителю Raft и Subnautica зашло. Эпичный финал, русская озвучка и приятный геймплей.

what a nothing burger of a game

cool train game and pls add workshop and sandbox plsss