Should I buy this game?

[LordChaos]

I've been wanting to buy this game years ago, ever since alpha. Couldnt because Wally decided to pull it off his site. But now we can buy it again, but its an entirely different game now. I understand there is mods that'll improve the game, but thats the only reason to buy this game. It may take 6 years or never to ever get a word out of Wally ever again. I hope someone out there is making a similar game like this who would actually update the game.

[MaPaKa]

You can refund every game on Steam if you only play it for 2 hours or less. Be aware that you most likely will not experience the region lock in that time, but if you wanna play with mods anyway that shouldn't be a huge deal.

I personally think the game is okay, even though it has much more potential (Have to say I never modded the game). But I recommend trying it out to form your own opinion.

[Stra2G]

Would honestly look elsewhere. The game is average at best in the state that it's in and spending money on this game means that you're basically handing money to a developer that has completely abandoned his game with 0 communication.

[LordChaos]

Originally posted by Stra2G:

Would honestly look elsewhere. The game is average at best in the state that it's in and spending money on this game means that you're basically handing money to a developer that has completely abandoned his game with 0 communication.

Can you or anyone recommend me any game similar to Cube World? Voxel based game or action rpg or whatever. I dont think there is much out there like Cube World, so I just want similar gameplay. If I can play it on my Deck then it'll be a 10/10 recommendation

[Mharr]

There really isn't anything much yet, a few promising clones in early development and the Veloren project at a more mature stage but trying for a very different type of game. Nothing that really scratches the same itch. :/

Note that the original Cube World alpha is easily available on the Internet Archive and people are still actively modding that too.

[LordChaos]

Originally posted by Mharr:

There really isn't anything much yet, a few promising clones in early development and the Veloren project at a more mature stage but trying for a very different type of game. Nothing that really scratches the same itch. :/

Note that the original Cube World alpha is easily available on the Internet Archive and people are still actively modding that too.

Its very sad. You'd think something as big as Cube World would have other developers try to make their own version of cube world after what has happened.

Its probably hard to mod for cubeworld(adding new races/biomes that kind of modding) but its all we got

Thanks for the recommendation, finally was able to play cube world after all these years

[Zemecon]

500 hours in the current release version, never been modded, and I can say I'm enjoying it a lot. So have a number of other players. It is easy to be swayed by negative stances on pretty much anything because we tend to want to play things safe but on the contrary the following saying is also true: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." If you do try the vanilla game out much later down the road and find out you like it, you might regret not trying it sooner.

Plus there was an update only a few minutes or hours ago as of this post, which is probably the most ironic thing to come out of whatever's been said negatively about Cube World recently.

[LordChaos]

Originally posted by Nilandros:

500 hours in the current release version, never been modded, and I can say I'm enjoying it a lot. So have a number of other players. It is easy to be swayed by negative stances on pretty much anything because we tend to want to play things safe but on the contrary the following saying is also true: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." If you do try the vanilla game out much later down the road and find out you like it, you might regret not trying it sooner.

Plus there was an update only a few minutes or hours ago as of this post, which is probably the most ironic thing to come out of whatever's been said negatively about Cube World recently.

I plan on buying the current release version eventually, but I doubt it will have a sale. Playing the alpha there isnt much to do, and mages is lacking in spells. Not sure if the recent release has more option for mages, but atleast there is a lot more stuff to do

[Zemecon]

Both versions of Cube World are fun.

I have trouble getting back into the older alpha version of Cube World if I haven't been playing it for a while since much of it depends on keeping track of how your current level fits with where you are and I don't like needing to make sure that where you are will be enough for your level, but for short-term fun the alpha version is great. There is also the issue of trying to make sure that what you pick up matches your level, which I'm not too fond of.

I can always leave the current released version of Cube World and always pick back up again where I left off. It doesn't take long to catch up since there are only ever 5 "levels" and each region is relatively small so there is not a whole lot to catch up on. But unless the region changes, the released version can get repetitive after a while.

I would recommend playing both versions and alternate depending on what you're looking for. Plat the released version for the long run and the alpha version for a short-term thrill.

What I think, anyway.

[Domac]

not worth a buy

[Crimsus]

Nope! The developer is MIA. They made a bunch of money during alpha development, went radio silent forever but released several "in-progress" teaser trailers, and then released the game out of nowhere with significant changes in the game, and most of the teaser trailer videos turned out to be a lot of nothing. After that, the developer went MIA again with no bug fixes to be seen.

[Zemecon]

Originally posted by Crimsus:

Nope! The developer is MIA. They made a bunch of money during alpha development, went radio silent forever but released several "in-progress" teaser trailers, and then released the game out of nowhere with significant changes in the game, and most of the teaser trailer videos turned out to be a lot of nothing. After that, the developer went MIA again with no bug fixes to be seen.

That would mostly be out of vengeance against the developer, though. The game itself is still fun so there is no reason not to play it if you've already bought it. And if you haven't then check out some gameplay videos (stay away from those videos trying to make a point because that's only one POV).

wol_lay is the sort of developer with whom you kinda need to take what you get. Anyone who knows what they are doing when buying videogames online will buy a videogame based on what they see of the gameplay itself and not based on what the developer tells them. wol_lay tends to be quite reclusive; he works at his own pace and doesn't communicate very often, if even at all. Anyone who knows this about him and still buys his game thinking "If this isn't what I want it to be then I'm gonna pitch a fit and I should get what I want" deserves no sympathy from me.

[Mharr]

Thing about that is some of us bought this back in 2013 when early access was a new idea, hoping Wollay was a similar developer to Notch. (Who also didn't age well for... other reasons)

[Zemecon]

This might sound cynical but I owe my satisfaction with over 90% of the games I have to not trusting their developers to update often or even at all. I buy all of my early access titles with the mindset that they are finished and that what is in front of me is the way they will always be. That way, I can only ever be pleasantly surprised.

I played Cube World before the Steam release, too, but at the time the Picroma store was closed so I needed to download a cracked version. The only thing that would've set me back would be the sudden changes made to the game, but (1) I found that I enjoyed Cube World just as much - if not more - than I did the older alpha version, and (2) I still had access to the older alpha version. Even if you'd paid for the older alpha version, you still have it. You still technically have what you payed for as long as what you wanted was what you had in front of you. So there is no actual sense of loss that one could have if they'd bought the older alpha version. You can look at the current Cube World release as an entirely different game - maybe even a sequel - and be fine with it.

So in going back to what you would tell a new buyer, is it really the released game in its current state that you would warn them against or is it the fact that it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to? What would you tell someone who didn't like the older alpha version of Cube World at all and wanted something different? Something to consider, maybe.

[Decton]

The game has seen practically no work done on it for 9 years. Consider the game an abandoned project. I graduated highschool, got through college, bounced multiple jobs in this time. All while this game has seen a few number changes, working mechanics since commented out in the code, new tags onto items to remove their use outside of regions. Quests were moved from a 'big dungeon' once a region to tedious bs you have to do to regather all of your travel equipment that was taken away from you each biome.

If you still really want to play it, I would suggest pirating it. Do not give these guys more money

[[PC]Roco45]

Don't buy it. At the very least don't buy it simply because no more money should be funneled to Wollay through this product. Aside from that, the game that is on the Steam store is a completely different game than what was sold on the Picroma site many many years ago (not in a good way).

Whether this was a passion project or not, the way it was handled was absolutely appalling. Typically I don't care for future updates when I buy Ea Games, which I buy a lot of them, but again, the way Wollay communicated with the community was honestly probably the worst interaction I've experienced in all my life playing video games.