Posted on: September 25, 2022
balkaster
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 229 Rezensionen: 21
Waste of your time
Yeah, we get it, it's "a sandbox". But when the sole dev chose to reinvent the wheel with the UI, THE UI NEEDS TO BE EXPLAINED. And I don't mean the popups that are constantly blocking part of your view. Recruit people. HOW? Gather food. HOW? Learn to "git gud" at combat. HOW?? The interface is constantly pushing you to "build buildings" but you have no idea what the buildings would be for or how to build them. I have a staff in my inventory but no idea how to equip it or use it. How does combat work? NO IDEA. You're told to "click the 'Defend' button to defend but you won't ever attack". That's the sum total of information about how combat works! An alleged "Tutorial" only tells you that combat is nearly always fatal, you should never go out in the desert alone. The vast majority of NPCs are completely non-interactive. Of the very few that are, a minority have dialog and want four digit money to join you--many times the money you have. Okay, so how do you get money? NO IDEA. The UI keeps warning you about hunger. Okay, where do I get food? NO IDEA. I see a bartender has food for sale, so I buy some. Now I'm completely broke. The food sits in my inventory. How do I eat it? NO IDEA. I wander into the desert anyway. The cursor changes over a pile of rocks. I click. My character is now pounding the ground with a pickaxe. Am I harvesting some kind of resource? NO IDEA. Nothing is spilling out on the ground. Nothing is added to my inventory. After two hours of screwing around with this nonsense I uninstalled the game and will probably never touch it again. If you want people to play your game and choose to use a non-standard interface, YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. Don't make the brain-dead excuse that "it's a sandbox". Leaving your players clueless and wandering around aimlessly... that's not what "sandbox" means. This is a proof-of-concept project you give out to friends. Not something you CHARGE MONEY FOR and pretend it's a game.
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