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Unknown Worlds Entertainment has shown us with Subnautica that they can publish a game full of bugs and pull of a great survival, horror, base building, exploring game.
With that being said Below Zero is full of bugs (duh) as it is in its earliest stages of process.

Buy this game if you want to contribute to the developers via funding and via crucial feedback. Doing this will ensure that they will deliver another excellent game.

17 euros (or 20 dollars) is a fairly high price for a game as unfinished as this, but considering that they pulled of Subnautica I have the fullest confidence that they'll update it weekly, so that it becomes more and more playable.

(Edit)
I've played this game for 2-3 hours now (exploring, scanning etc) and progressing through the "story". The story is good and new, but it's very minimal. Subnautica (original game) had more gameplay (regarding exploring and such) than Below Zero. Plus the fear factor (for now) is kinda missing.
I really hope they add more story + creatures soon. For now I'm "done" with the game (yes after only playing 3 hours), but as soon as there is another update I'll jump right back in.
Notable bugs are: Resources that are floating mid air, rock punchers that are floating in the air, when using the repulsion cannon on land, the resources don't fall down they start floating in the air like they're in water, the audio and text don't match during the storyline (most of the time it does, but sometimes it's not).

Reason thumbs down = not worth the price AT THIS MOMENT. This can and will (I'm certain of it) change in the near future.

TL;DR
Not much content storywise, but it's promising.

Thank God I got this for free...

To describe this game in 1 word? Unfinished.

There is nothing and I mean absolutely nothing you can do. You can't build, create units or call in support.

Do not be fooled by the trailer, because it's nothing like this.

It's a nice game for that price.

It's simple yet fun. Only problem I have is in wave mode the lag that happens when you're past wave 10 or so. Ragdolls don't go away causing major lag.
Also you can't delete units. Once you places a unit it's there forever unless you restart completely.
Challenges are almost impossible.
The dead units stay on the field, resulting in massive amounts of lag...

Over all a decent game. Why the thumbs down? It's frustrating most of the time to paly it...

It's so simple, yet so much fun to play. You just can't stop collecting the poop of the slimes...

Game with a lot of potential.

Right now the only objective you have is to survive.

There isn't much else to do apart from that. BUT it's still fun to play. I really hope that at one point sharks start attacking you. That'll add to the horror aspect of this game.

+ Large and beautiful looking biomes
+ Challenging. It will take some time before you can start building your full base.
+ Passive, aggressive and defensive creatures. Ranging from creatures as small as your toe to as big as a submarine (and even larger).
+ Base buidling (there are a lot of possiblities in building your base. You can build it as big as you want)
+ Power (there are plenty of ways to generate power. From solar panels to nuclear reactors.
+ Storyline (not that this is not yet finished, but it shouldn't take too long.
+ Scary. When you're just swimming and minding your own bussiness you'll ♥♥♥♥ your pants when you hear a Ghost/Reaper Leviathan coming your way. They are really scary. But even the smaller creatures can make such a noise that'll make you close your game...

- Resource gathering (it is time consuming, BUT this doesn't get boring. You have to constantly be on your guard which makes it more interesting)
- Reefbacks. These big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ keep bumping into your base and will get stuck. You can try to kill them, but that takes forever.
- Some small texture bugs
- Cyclops (submarine) is a bit useless imo. It's large and very hard to manouver. The only reason one would use it is to go to great depths. But it's a ♥♥♥♥♥ to get to it. I understand why they changed it (it was very OP), but now it's more of a nuisance.


TL:DR
In general I highly recommend this game for those who like exploring, base building, jump scares, survival and tension.
Game is still in "early" access, but is such a good looking and awesome to play game.

Awesome game. I have 100+ hours ingame... And that is for Singleplayer alone.
TL:DR at the bottom.

It has the basics of Minecraft, but it looks way better and plays better as well.

The challenge in this game is also nice. You can chose what difficulty you want and every couple of nights there is a full moon. This causes the zombies to become more aggressive. They only attack you when you get too close tho. They won't come after you when you are pretty far outside a town or military base. Another challenge is that on certain maps there are dead zones. There is a lot of radiation in those areas and you can only go there when you wear a hazmat suit. The Hazmat hood loses it's durabilty over time when you are in those dead zones. They added a filter so you can keep the mask on and change the filter itself. Befre this you had to have spare hoods in your inventory and manualy change them.

They added some boss zombies to the game to make it a bit more challenging, which is great! Fire zombies will explode when killed, toxic zombies will spit acid (like the spitter from L4D2), tank zombies (increased HP and dmg), invisible zombies (well not really, you can still see them, but they are transparant with a purplish radience).
What I hope they might implement is a siege mode. Every couple of nights your base (or the town you are currently in) will come under attack by hoards of zombies. They sorta implemented this in the horde beacon. This causes 100 zombies to spawn and become more healthy and have increased damage. So you can build this to act out a siege mode, but I want this to be implemented in the game itself.

TL:DR: You can build your own base, raid towns, craft items, drill for oil, farm, ... There are some many things you can do in this game. Another possitive aspect is that it's free to play. (Which I don't understand, this game is worth at least 10 dollars in my opinion).

It has somewhat the basics of Minecraft (mining, farming, ores, etc), but what makes this game stand out is the difficulty of this game and the smoothness (it runs like butter). Each night zombies attack your colony and you have to fight them of by placing archers. You yourself can't fight. This makes it that this game is a bit of a challenge. Not only do you need to protect your colonists, you also have to feed them.

I highly recommend this game to people who like survival type games as well as building.

Quick note: The trailer for this game looks amazing. The game itself is just as the trailer suggests BUT the amount of time and effort you have to put in to build cities like you see in the trailer is just astronomicle... I have "only" 12 hours on record, of which 7 in 1 world save and the only thing I have are 4 buildings, around 8 wheat farms and a wall surounding my "city" which is 1 layer thick. This shows that it's a prety slow paced game. Just to clarify this is NOT a bad thing! It keeps the game interesting and makes you think before placing stuff (not easy to delete an entire base once it has been build).

Nice stress relieving game.

All maps are challenging so you won't finish the game too fast. The last map is pretty much impossible to complete in 1 go. Bomb cars are coming at you every 10-20 seconds and the flanking of the terrorists is just too op.

Graphics look amazing. Explosions are just too much to handle.

9/10.

Relive all the classic maps of the zombies series.

The maps look so beautiful. Highly recommended for hardcore zombie players.

A major flaw (but that's CoD BO3 in general) when you disconnect from the server (which happens A LOT) when playing zombies SOLO you will lose all progress. I was on round 77 and it did not save. The only good part is that it does give back all your Gobblegums. But it's a pain in the ass to get to high rounds when the game randomly decides it doesn't want to play online anymore.