I bought this game for about 2.5€ and I still honestly feel like my money was entirely and utterly wasted. For starters, you can't change the controls. AT ALL. Yeah, not even kidding! A PC GAME IN WHICH YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE FLIPPIN' CONTROLS! Let that steaming pile of insults to gaming sink. Adding to that, there's no tutorial in the game, just a few signposts saying stuff like "Hey, maybe you should drink water to not die of thirst" and "You can use a raft to go down the river". Gee willickers, how helpful of ya to mention that! And sadly, I'm not exaggerating the vagueness AT ALL. The mechanics of this "game" are insultingly poorly thought out and even more poorly explained. The notion of survival in games is nowhere near new, so how can there still be developers that completely bollocks it up this bad? I've played dozens of survival games of varying levels of quality and entertainment, and to date, this is quite possibly the worst of them all, or at the very least one of the absolutely worst. The graphics are murky and unclear even at the highest settings so it's often obnoxiously difficult to distinguish what you can interact with and what you can't. The randomness of the game basically means you're rolling a bloody die to see if you can survive or not, unlike in games such as, say... Subnautica or Green Hell, where survival depends solely on SKILL, not RNG-based dumb luck. Unless you luck out like a leprechaun on a four clover diet, you WILL die early on to a freakin' BOAR, simply because you couldn't find the 15 components necessary to make a bow + arrows in the 2-3 locations you've visited before having to put up with that unrealistically hyper-aggressive porkchop. I thought the low price would make me less hateful of the game in the end, but really, I should've seen the price-tag for what it really was: A warning. A big fat "Here there be buggy and awfully poorly developed dragons" sign, pointing out just how tedious and frustrating the game truly is.
I'm going to spew a lot of hate all over this game and moreso its so-called "developers", so if you're a nancy little tyke or the like that can't stand someone ragging on something that's objectively horrible, don't bother continuing to read this review. Now that that's done with, let's get to the verbal spanking! This "game" is by far the worst game I've played in recent years. Granted, I'm a savvy gamer/customer/general human being and I rarely if ever buy things that I suspect will be at all horrible, but hoo-boy this one took me by surprise! I mean, WOW! We're talking Guinness World Records level of "wasted potential" and "most immature responses to well-deserved criticism" here! Let's start with the tutorial. Oh, wait... there isn't any. Now normally I'd concede to there being a *general possibility* that the so-called "devs" have patched that in like other devs have done for their respective games, such as Volcanoids, Subnautica, etc., but given that there are issues in this game that've persisted for about a year now... yeah. Let's be honest, they haven't fixed that. Bugs? Check. Got plenty of 'em in this mess. Hell, if you're looking to get a game which you yourself can set a Guinness World Record of quitting out of from perfectly justifiable sheer disgust and revulsion over its unplayable state of utter cringe-inducing bugginess and unreliability, then go ahead. Buy it, play it for 10-15 minutes (if you can even manage that, really) and then refund it like any sane person would. But I think what I hate the most about this garbage is the so-called "developers". They have here a nearly unique concept for a game that in the hands of competent game designers would possibly be on the level of Surviving Mars in terms of depth and enjoyability, but they've completely wasted it by not just ignoring but even contemptfully telling people off for complaining about the game's bugginess! In closing, I'll never buy ANYTHING from these so-called "devs" again. EVER.
