I recommend Veloren(free game)

[Frutty]

Hey all! If you want a game that's close to Cube World, I can recommend you try Veloren. It's free to download and play, without microtransactions.

I'm not here trying to take members of this small community, but I think people deserves to have fun. Do as you want.

[Seth Abercromby]

For how much shilling is being done for Veloren I was honestly shocked how barebones that game currently is.

I'm not sure if it's just people getting swept up in the next new thing or this is some poor covert advertising, but so far I doubt I'll have to worry about people abandoning CW entirely as you seem to hope.

[Frutty]

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

For how much shilling is being done for Veloren I was honestly shocked how barebones that game currently is.

I don't think you actually gave it a fair shot. You say it's bareboned, but that's only the first couple of hours, after which you've progressed enough to understand the game and then the fun begins. Don't give up when it becomes to hard or because you're lazy. Because then you miss out on a lot of fun games.

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

this is some poor covert advertising

No, it's not. This games reviews are at 44% positives, which means a great majority is incredible displeased with this game, I'm just giving people options instead of desperately trying to keep them in a game they don't like. CW has pretty much been branded as Abandon-Ware.

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

but so far I doubt I'll have to worry about people abandoning CW entirely as you seem to hope.

Please don't put words in my mouth. I've never said I hope people abandon this game, not once. The creator made sure of that himself. I'm just giving people a tip about other games that are similar, not abandoned and doesnt have less than 50% positive reviews on it.

Feel free to fanboy this to death, but I just want people to enjoy a similar game, that's not abandoned.

[Dustreaper]

Played both for a few hours now and even modded cubeworld is boring and nothing to do. Most things you cannot fight. I do like the combat a bit more in cubeworld or at least alpha with skills.. But veloren is pre alpha and already has way more potential played it so much more and felt like i was actually progressing.

[ChaoticGamer]

Originally posted by Frutty:

Hey all! If you want a game that's close to Cube World, I can recommend you try Veloren. It's free to download and play, without microtransactions.

I'm not here trying to take members of this small community, but I think people deserves to have fun. Do as you want.

Do you know what I think? I think the dev should fork over the game to the gaming community's hand the fact I know the modding communities can make this game thousand time better but what I really think that the dev did was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ move they did because making your game under a aggression type like how the karen these days for example made bad product because the owner don't give a ♥♥♥♥ how the product should be or how made to be and always say faults claim it is better and it is good as well better what you have but this can lead to big boy (gov) to put them down like a wild dog. Right now I am only giving them an option before I'll send and asking the steam what they do with the complain of cube world and could of cut tides with that company because due of the contract rules of the policy they have.

[Seth Abercromby]

Originally posted by Frutty:

I don't think you actually gave it a fair shot. You say it's bareboned, but that's only the first couple of hours, after which you've progressed enough to understand the game and then the fun begins. Don't give up when it becomes to hard or because you're lazy. Because then you miss out on a lot of fun games.

Ah yes, the classic defense of whatever counts for a sunk cost fallacy in free games. "You don't get it because you didn't spend X amount of hours with the game" and "you just don't like it because you're bad/lazy". The combat isn't yet anywhere where it needs to be to be comparable with Cube World. CW may seem simplistic at the surface, but it's snappy and very rewarding for skill-based play. Veloren doesn't even have proper defensive actions for most weapons, so the common strategy I've read from the chat was to get enemies stuck in geometry for easy kills.

Originally posted by Frutty:

This games reviews are at 44% positives, which means a great majority is incredible displeased with this game, I'm just giving people options instead of desperately trying to keep them in a game they don't like. CW has pretty much been branded as Abandon-Ware.

And they are allowed to be. But branding Veloren as the grand savior when it hasn't even proven itself is either incredibly haughty or you're being sucked into a hype spiral I hope you won't get burned by. Veloren is coasting on a lot of goodwill because of its alpha status, but I'll wait and see how it spends that with actual development steps.

[Frutty]

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

Ah yes, the classic defense of whatever counts for a sunk cost fallacy in free games.

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

But branding Veloren as the grand savior when it hasn't even proven itself is either incredibly haughty or you're being sucked into a hype spiral I hope you won't get burned by.

Ah yes, the classic "I know I'm wrong, so i better put words in your mouth"-defence. I've never once branded Veloren as the "grand savior"(your words). All I've done is to give people an option instead of this abandon-ware game, that follows the same gameplay and graphics except it aint abandoned. They updated the game 4 days ago.

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

"You don't get it because you didn't spend X amount of hours with the game" and "you just don't like it because you're bad/lazy". The combat isn't yet anywhere where it needs to be to be comparable with Cube World. CW may seem simplistic at the surface, but it's snappy and very rewarding for skill-based play. Veloren doesn't even have proper defensive actions for most weapons, so the common strategy I've read from the chat was to get enemies stuck in geometry for easy kills.

Sure, that's true. But there are some huge differences you're missing. First, Veloren is in PRE-alpha. It's not even in Alpha. Second, CW is a fully released game which costs 20euro, where you can't make any real progress in without having to mod the game heavily. Veloren is free and without micro-transactions nor any real money transactions.

Originally posted by Seth Abercromby:

But branding Veloren as the grand savior when it hasn't even proven itself is either incredibly haughty or you're being sucked into a hype spiral I hope you won't get burned by. Veloren is coasting on a lot of goodwill because of its alpha status, but I'll wait and see how it spends that with actual development steps.

Like I said, don't put words in my mouth. I havent branded anything nor hailed it as a "grand savior". Veloren has proven itself much more than CW, since it's been abandoned and not a single update since it came out. Veloren on the other hand, is still in pre-alpha and has a lot more depth and progression than CW. Just because combat isnt finished in a pre-alpha game, doesnt mean it'll always be like that.

And you can wait as long as you need, because contrary to CW, it's still being updated.

I just try to give people a real option, when they realise how bad CW actually is(looking at 44%) - But still want to play something close to it. You don't have to play the game, but others might. The game is pre-alpha, has progression that doesnt revert once you leave the area and a great deal of things to do. If you don't like it, that's up to you.

[Ferinzz]

Feeling the same as Seth.

My experience with it was okay, but not amazing. Still too early to tell if it will be a great game.

but that's only the first couple of hours

This is far too long to get a feel for how good a game is orhow much potential it has.

It's been a while, but when i was trying it people were hailing it as the best replacement for cube world and I didn't see it. For me the skill tree was far too bland to warrant even having one and leveling just seemed slow and tedious. Combat was awful with hits registering without you having any recourse to avoid.

[Dustreaper]

Originally posted by Ferinzz:

Feeling the same as Seth.

My experience with it was okay, but not amazing. Still too early to tell if it will be a great game.

but that's only the first couple of hours

This is far too long to get a feel for how good a game is orhow much potential it has.

It's been a while, but when i was trying it people were hailing it as the best replacement for cube world and I didn't see it. For me the skill tree was far too bland to warrant even having one and leveling just seemed slow and tedious. Combat was awful with hits registering without you having any recourse to avoid.

True but 9 years vs 3 years old.. how was cubeworld when it was 3 years old.I feel everything is beter except the veloren combat where i can turn and hit to avoid big enemies. Both have about the same weapon variety and skill tree. Every week veloren get's closer to suprass cube world it's a fact. There is a dev update every week. While what happened the last 3 years for cube world? Both games are good but for a limited amount of playtime. I played singleplayer first and the experience is a lot smoother then the multiplayer experience.

[BACON WARRIOR]

Thanks I will give it a try, at least it's free to try instead of giving money to a scumbag dev

[Frutty]

Originally posted by Ferinzz:

Feeling the same as Seth.

My experience with it was okay, but not amazing. Still too early to tell if it will be a great game.

but that's only the first couple of hours

This is far too long to get a feel for how good a game is orhow much potential it has.

It's been a while, but when i was trying it people were hailing it as the best replacement for cube world and I didn't see it. For me the skill tree was far too bland to warrant even having one and leveling just seemed slow and tedious. Combat was awful with hits registering without you having any recourse to avoid.

I'm not here to argue about which game is better. All I'm saying is that Veloren exists, it's free and it's not abandoned. It's for the people who're still looking for a game similar to CW, but, you know, without the abandon-ware. If people want to buy this game, mod it heavily to feel progression and play, it's up to them. I'm just giving them an option.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Couldn't get into Valoran. Combat is incredibly clunky and unresponsive and boils down to a DPS race. One that I failed because my character refuses to turn around to face things slapping me in the face in a timely manner. Aside from that, combat is nothing more than stat checks. Nothing you can do to turn the tides of battle otherwise than pump as much damage as quickly as possible most of the time.
Or, maybe it does get better after a couple of hours, but I already quit way before then. If a game takes hours to have "things to do", then that's not good. And with how unresponsive it feels, I doubt doing things would be fun for me even if I had the patience to reach it. Even moving feels off to me.

Maybe it'll get there someday (hope it does) but it looks like they spent more time making the game look pretty than actual gameplay, in my opinion. How the game looks has far more consideration to it than how the game works. Hell, a bunch of items still have programmer text in their description rather than telling you what they do. Newbie items, too. Even that stuff should be fixed by now since it's not like Valoran has been out a couple months -- it has existed for years at this point.


That said, the multiplayer is already better than Cube World release -- though, even alpha Cube World has better functioning multiplayer than release does... Somehow. So take that for what you will.

[Luigi]

I just looked at the page it's just Cubeworld again I swear Cubeworld even used the same kind of lay out on the site. I'm just going to avoid it at least it's free though.

[Frutty]

Originally posted by Luigi:

I just looked at the page it's just Cubeworld again I swear Cubeworld even used the same kind of lay out on the site. I'm just going to avoid it at least it's free though.

You don't have to play it. I just wanted people to know that there are options out there and it's free. Do with it as you will.

[Marco?]

Yea I tried Veloren and it's not that bad to be honest. The Combat is kinda clunky and the Ai is more A than i but it's fun. Kinda reminds of Alpha of Cubeworld.

I also love how thick the forests are and how the mountains and rivers generate.

[Mharr]

The funny thing about Veloren threads is we get a couple every year, the combative 'CW ded play this' ones are just people having a friendly chat, but the entirely neutral ones turn into whatever's happening here.