This review contains spoilers
This was an okay game. After finishing, I'm still on the fence between recommending and not recommending. It's a small team of developers, so I wouldn't want to compare it to bigger studios producing isometric or survival games. I haven't tried the multiplayer in this game, only single-player.
The world and survival aspects are decent. It's a big map and survival is a challenge and levelling up is fun. There's a mystery here that I wasn't too enthralled with, but it seems a lot of people liked that part. There's good environmental effects that impact survival. It also has a clean and neat looking polygon art style.
The inventory is pretty straight forward, despite not being given proper stats on most items - which is fine and makes sense being a survivor of a crash landing in the middle of nowhere. There's lots of ways to survive and inventory management provides a challenge of choosing your survival route, The design of the whole game is fine.
Here's the problem. There's lots of bugs. I've read of some people getting stuck in walls frequently, and I've only been jammed between two objects and had to pry myself out once. The physics have almost an ice effect, throwing things further than expected or sliding into things.
Combat is a mess. It feels like it's using a point-and-click method with moving targets, which would make sense that you would need to land each hit on your target precisely - ranged or melee. Except some projectiles that are supposed to hit the target don't actually land, even when the target is still.
Pathing for enemies can be pretty wonky at times. It made the ending pretty anti-climatic for me. [spoiler] You're supposed to fight off a horde of enemies using a stationary gun. The enemies kept getting stuck in a wall or running towards me on the lower levels, nowhere near where I was. [/spoiler]
Finally, some quests I thought I had finished or started didn't really indicate where I was, and there were lots of reports of a mission not ending when it's supposed to. Some of these are bugs, but some of the design choices around quest selection, visibility of each step or indications that you've entered a mission can be confusing or unhelpful.
Overall though, it's a good-looking and fun survival game. None of those bugs broke the game for me, but did impact some of the immersion for me.
The world and survival aspects are decent. It's a big map and survival is a challenge and levelling up is fun. There's a mystery here that I wasn't too enthralled with, but it seems a lot of people liked that part. There's good environmental effects that impact survival. It also has a clean and neat looking polygon art style.
The inventory is pretty straight forward, despite not being given proper stats on most items - which is fine and makes sense being a survivor of a crash landing in the middle of nowhere. There's lots of ways to survive and inventory management provides a challenge of choosing your survival route, The design of the whole game is fine.
Here's the problem. There's lots of bugs. I've read of some people getting stuck in walls frequently, and I've only been jammed between two objects and had to pry myself out once. The physics have almost an ice effect, throwing things further than expected or sliding into things.
Combat is a mess. It feels like it's using a point-and-click method with moving targets, which would make sense that you would need to land each hit on your target precisely - ranged or melee. Except some projectiles that are supposed to hit the target don't actually land, even when the target is still.
Pathing for enemies can be pretty wonky at times. It made the ending pretty anti-climatic for me. [spoiler] You're supposed to fight off a horde of enemies using a stationary gun. The enemies kept getting stuck in a wall or running towards me on the lower levels, nowhere near where I was. [/spoiler]
Finally, some quests I thought I had finished or started didn't really indicate where I was, and there were lots of reports of a mission not ending when it's supposed to. Some of these are bugs, but some of the design choices around quest selection, visibility of each step or indications that you've entered a mission can be confusing or unhelpful.
Overall though, it's a good-looking and fun survival game. None of those bugs broke the game for me, but did impact some of the immersion for me.