Pine

This game has massive potential. If you need to cure that Zelda itch then this game may scratch that, but it may have game aspects you are not familiar with. Gameplay & quick-dive into the world of Pine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tc29cEDlHQ Your human tribe needs to find a new home in a world newly discovered by your species. This world is ruled by animal tribes you must fall in line within its circle of life. Although the trading and political aspect of the game may not appeal to many it's not overly complicated. You give a certain species tribe stuff you have collected and they like you more. It just doesn't seem to appeal to many of the adventure games players and that, unfortunately, includes myself. It does leave you tons of options on how to play the story. So if you like to explore all aspects of how to go about your journey. This would be a game for you! The crafting is simple enough and gathering is straight-forward. The combat requires more tact and timing rather than just hack and slash. Also knowing when not to fight and when running may save yourself a headache. With all this said I didn't experience any technical issues with the game. It ran smoothly without error. I would recommend the game for a player that likes adventure games like Zelda and also likes to explore the numerous ways you could about completing the journey.

I'm in the middle of the beginning tutorial. The story at this point remind me of Terry Pratchett's "Nation". Every game that reminds me of a Pratchett book is a good game! If you have issues with the lunge attack: press left-shift for a moment, wait for the evade movement, then press left-mousebutton. Took me a while. The camera movement is far too fast and motion sickness inducing. Beware. I'm very much looking forward to completing this game. Even after 10 minutes I'm getting a feel for the characters and am very curious of what we'll find out there...

On the surface, this game looked beautiful. A bright, vibrant world filled with places to explore and races to interact with. The idea was also very interesting. However the camera is controlled with the mouse. Very bad design because one little move of the mouse can twirl the view all around. What's really weird, when I was playing the game and moving the camera around I'm suddenly looking at nothing more than the character's teeth and gums. After a cut scene it was critical to talk to one of the villagers to progress the game, but I couldn't because he was floating up in the air. You can also "swim" down a waterfall. Anyway I fell off into the world below and was stuck down there, not knowing what to do because the game auto saved. To sum it all up, the graphics are nice, it's an interesting plot but I just couldn't play the game because it the overall mechanics of it were so poorly designed.

Great story, nice graphics, love the gameplay overall. I do not have any problems with the performance. Running a gtx970 i4400. Considering the developers made this with only 7 people it's a true achievement!

so it sounded good, and a brief discounted period made it v. cheap - so I tried it. I stood it for 25 mins (according to Galaxy) before giving up in disgust. All those AI-driven character who "respond" to what you do? They just stand there like wooden poles, doing nothing - just standing there - until you poke them for conversation. They babble (universal language?) except at least half their lines aren't voiced, just silent text. It's hard to tell from the dialog popup who says what - is it the player-token, or the bean-pole in front? Crafting - pathetic. You are prompted to get some, ok "rope" (stuff), and get a quest marker and spoon-fed the ingredients. No skill, nor interest. It's supposed to be "open world" so I tried exploring, only to be bounced back to a nearby "relevant" point, quite suddenly but repeatedly. Bored by now, I tried more, to discover that "some" but not "all" of the off-the-edge falls will kill your character and throw you out, but most don't. So you get careless, only to get a nasty shock. Well, actually I was relieved by then, and could not bring myself to restart, so I uninstalled the game and had done with it. Coming from Skyrim, just repeat-finished, there really is no competition. Skyrim isn't perfect, and some of the AI routines for NPCs are repetitive, but at least they look like they belong and live there. Bleh!