Wildmender

I'm 10 hours in, there is something good here, and I'd like to keep playing one day, but I'll just write down all the things that were bothering me that made me stop playing: - You need to eat and drink a lot. - You empty your water bottle after a couple of sips because it's apparently tiny. - You refill water at local springs, which you're constantly running back and forth from because... - ... the game is about replanting the world, but unless you plant near the water you have to manually water every plant yourself with your tiny water bottle. - ...you can shape the ground so it forms small flows that water your plants for you but... - ... even though you can carry what seems like a just tear drop of water in the bottle, refilling it seems to suck up gallons of water, so much so the water level of your spring visibly drops each time, which takes the water away first from your carefully dug streams for the day, meaning you have to manually water them anyway. - Your goals, objectives, food, upgrades and ingredients mostly come from growing plants. Your primary goal is regrow the world with more and more plants. - More plants means more running around with your tiny water bottle. - Plants are vulnerable to everything. - You CAN in theory build walls to protect plants, but... - ... the walls themselves are vulnerable to everything too, so you're just passing the work on. - ... the walls are ugly which seems against the nature of the game - ... the walls use an uncommon ingredient so are hard to build enough - ... the entire point of the game is to grow your garden, so you would either have to constantly adjust your wall position constantly to fit the garden anyway, or wall off small parts of it. -... and enemies can spawn inside walls too, and can ruin your ground which needs a very specific ingredient to fix which you may or may not have. - Plants drop ingredients constantly, which also constantly degrade over time, so you have to... - ... decide which ingredients you keep for food, carry for crafting something, store for crafting something later, put in the compost bin on just leave on the ground to spoil and... - ...you'll have just enough time to decide this before the next batch of ever spoiling ingredients drops on the ever growing, ever vulnerable garden you're planting. There was no way to preserve anything in the 10 hours I played, and even things you craft like potions spoil. So, I found myself worried about my hunger and thirst, worried about how much water I had left, worried about the distance to the nearest water source, worried about which water source I should actually use, worried about which plants to have near the water, worried about if the waters is in the right place, worried about watering the plants not near the water, worried about weather and environment damage to myself and the plants and things I've built, some you can't repair until you unlock something, worried about remembering where to put the most important plants, worried about the next batch of ingredients and what to do with them, worried about the ingredients and potions I have on person that are spoiling, worried about ingredients and potions I have in storage that are spoiling all the while worrying about attacks by enemies that spoil bits of the garden and all before just trying to get five seconds to myself to get away from the garden to explore and finish quests to find items that are needed to grow/improve not just your current garden but to start other gardens everywhere else! I'll say, this was the default mode, and some things can be turned off, but the default mode is the game as intended, was I not supposed to play this mode? Because there is an ever increasing workload as you plant and plant away, it simply has to be that you have to learn to let some things things fall through the cracks; it would literally be impossible to manage everything. The issue is, as much as that is the idea, with the way my mind works, and possibly yours too if you looked for this game, it's entirely unsatisfying to do so, and you're always worried about everything above to some degree, even then worrying about what to let fall through the cracks. I felt the game was just constantly pestering me, and mean everything seems to need your attention all the time or you or your structures or your gardens die, which each mean more work to get back on track. This game reviews positively, so perhaps your ability to enjoy it is tied to your ability to let things go. What the game has as a positive pull is the central mechanic of wanting to see the world changed through your work, but I found it genuinely irritating, and it's not just unsatisfying it's actively stressful, which is the opposite of what I got it for.

I had some trouble at the start of the game adjusting the settings so my device would run it better. After that I got the hang of the game and enjoyed it. The fact that there are a variety of quests, directions, and the open world game play has a semi-foolproof directory is great. I enjoy games that I can go at my pace and direction and Wildmender turned out great for that. I am currently on the end game quest but am finishing perfecting the rest of the world before I finish it. Seems like it would be enjoyable to share with a good team as well, I did not test the co-op.

There are definitely a few really cool ideas that I'd like to see in other games, but as a package, I don't recommend it. There's a lot of jank, and

Wasn't gonna review this game either way until I got the Windwalk ability, a literal actual game changer. What a fun game. Terraform a desert while playing an expansive open world adventure. Meaningful upgrades. Unique settings. Hardly any of the usual trappings, and it absolutely benefits from it.

What a beautiful game. My boyfriend and I played through almost all of it in co-op, and we enjoyed the process of transforming the broken world into something alive again. I can't say we left every stone unturned, but we definitely enjoyed our time with it.

游戏玩法很独特，至今没找到过竞品，画风也很温馨治愈，期待新游

Скучное дермище, с ужасным мувментом и интерфесом. Игра не стоит своих денег, выглядит как тупая мобилка