Just kinda whatever? I'm surprised that for how long this was rumored/leaked to be happening for like the past year or so, the end product feels pretty barebones and not as well tested as it really should have been. A lot less LEGO Minecraft in Fortnite and more like a LEGO Valheim which annoyingly includes the stuff I don't like about that game, but not as much of the positive either. Combat is scaled really weirdly, either going from the hit and dodge repeat loop or realizing immediately that your gear does not do any damage whatsoever and you just get instant killed with no in-between. The material grind feels obnoxiously long to deal with and manage which is something carried over from Valheim which was always my least favorite aspect of that game in particular, if anything it's worse in this LEGO version because the treks to certain caves and biomes get excessively long.

Frankly that world gen is the killing blow for this; after spending an actual 15-20 minutes straight just running in a single direction desperately looking for a desert biome or the ocean for materials I needed for equipment and upgrading the workbench so ridiculously far away from my home village, only to somehow clip through the world forcing me to exit back to lobby and reload the world, I called it quits there. I don't think there's much here that's like outright bad but it's just bleh in a sea of sandbox games just like it. I like the village building aspect and hiring NPCs to do things, but even that aspect needs a lot more meat on its bones for me to come back and really get hooked on it. I might check this out again after it gets some more updates as time goes on, if Epic is as determined to make this a thing as they say they are.

Reviewed on Dec 12, 2023


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