Witchspire

This game has spirit and potential, but right now it's in a very very early state. I can't seem to tell what it's trying to be. The aesthetics and low skill floor say it's a cozy game, but the RNG and grind for even basic tames and resources on the easiest difficulty seem like an attempt to create a "hardcore" challenge that just feels like a slog in the absence of deep combat or build mechanics. The lack of simple quality of life genre staples like skill respeccing and storage sorting tells me the devs are either unfamiliar with what survival players want or aren't making it a priority. Look at the lessons learned by every other game in the genre and how they adapted to them; that should be the *baseline* for new entries. Let's not keep reinventing the wheel. Also as other reviewers have pointed out, the game doesn't do enough to set itself apart from every other early access survival crafter. I know it may sound like I'm contradicting myself, but I think they can take what other games did right and, again, set that as the baseline to innovate on top of. People are sick of crafting pickaxes to mine higher tier ores. Make us feel like magic users tackling boring problems with whimsical solutions. I'd love to flip my recommendation around if updates flesh out the game's identity, but right now it has a long way to go.

Maybe one day it'll be worth buying and playing, however currently it is NOT. Needs a whoooooole lot of time in the oven, most early access "early access" game I've seen in a while.

This isn't an early access, this is a blatant beta test: missing basic functions, building system is broken and frustrating, bugs and glitches everywhere. Generally, the game is very promising but this price for a barely tested product is unaccettable.

I am brand new to gaming, I only downloaded Steam last week, This is the only game i have played. And as a beginner and absolutely clueless novice,,,i am obssessed with this game! Love it and cant get enough,

The hype is relatively on point for what's out in early access. The discord says they plan a deeper storyline for full release or updates during early access - which is good since I think it could be better/even more sophisticated - but the storyline isn't where this game shines brightest for me anyway. I say the the best two features are the game's coziness and freedom in base-building. The coziness was smartly engineered through many factors - a few being the low stress/low survival emphasis, and a beautifully whimsical, magical open world. You can proceed through the storyline at whatever pace you choose, and take as much time as you want playing with all the neat crafting and base-building mechanics. I really like this game so far and am impatient for the updates planned in their early access roadmap.

I have played a lot of survival games, so I have a lot of things to say. [h3]Story[/h3] One of the things that stood out the most during my time so far is the story and how it is told. It isn't all that common that I actually care about the story in these games. It is good that a lot of it has voice acting, which makes me care about it so much more. [h3]Gameplay[/h3] The most important thing for me is the gameplay though. - The combat is fun and thanks to different wands and spellblades as well as spell scrolls there is lots of variation. - Harvesting resources is a lot more fun than most survival games, because it uses magic. - Traversal is extremely fun, because you can jump through the air (limited) and fly on your broom. - Familiars are a great gameplay mechanic. They help with crafting and fight alongside you, (also many of them are really cute) - Building and Decorating has a few limitations and I would like to see more styles and object to place in the future, but it already has a solid foundation and I would still play the game even if it doesn't get expanded. [h3]Art[/h3] I like that the game is stylised and can run on lower end hardware. The artstyle feels good and mstly consistent. [h3]Music[/h3] The music fits well with the style of the game and if I were to rate it is under my top 5 soundtracks in survival games.

Maybe it's because the game is still in Early Access. Here's my review. I reached level 17 and just started the third island, Eastell. I dislike that ESC does not pause the game, even though it says it does. I dislike that my Pokemon can't hit ♥♥♥♥. I dislike instantdeath: I got my broom and started flying around to see what treasure I could find on the smaller islands and rock formations away from the main island. I managed to reach one with my broom that I clearly wasn't supposed to access. It was tiny, and I assume it was empty. The moment my feet touched the ground... instant death. And now I can't recover my items because my tombstone is stranded on that death island. I dislike fake choice: Why should I spend my first point in Mining just to unlock the ability to craft a pickaxe when one can already be found in the world (if you're lucky)? Why even give me a choice in the skill tree if some points are mandatory for progression, e.g. ritual candles? On the other hand, I have plenty of skill points.

So far honestly the game is lacking direction and I have a few issues with it. For a co-op game, the fact that loot is not shared between members is really frustrating, only 1 person gets to loot and it takes out the incentive of working together. I love that you can go around and do whatever you want, but a bit more direction would be nice. It is also frustrating to join a friends world, you have to shift+tab and go thru steam to invite someone and it could be smoother and in one place instead of going thru a third party. Also, having your character destroy entire forests for wood and kill all the creatures to maybe get a chance one stays for you to keep is pretty cruel and I don't think it matches the cozy witch vibes. I can see the potential though and will stick around to see what this company has to offer. Love the concept, not loving the current edition but hopeful for the future.

The amount of grind to build a simple house is nuts, you can go and cut down 10 trees to build 3 walls, later you unlock a station to auto harvest that is painfully slow unless you are on an always on server you'd have to leave you game just run for hours and hours, they have rounded walls but no rounded roofs that's how poorly the building is planned out in this game. This should be a demo not a near 30 dollar game.