Longevity?

[stilton]

Most reviewers seem to have 10-40 hours played, which I guess is fair for the price, but the game is compared to giants like Terraria and Dwarf Fortress, where the norm would be to sink hundreds of hours into the game.

What should I expect to get out of Necesse? It's not so much about value for money, but more that I like to spend my time on games that offer depth and replayability.

[Rlec]

Just as fun as Terraria. Easily the best value game on steam.

[The Lurker.]

Dont worry too much, some games aren't for everyone, people like to compare this game to others that are more popular due to the similarities which can be a good thing <:

[MrPlaner]

Necesse right now is still in early access and already offers 35-40 hours of gameplay (noted that you DO want to get all the achievements, otherwise speedrunning the main story right now can be... few hours tops?).
Personally I got it on a sale, I think -30 or 40%, played the hell out of it alone, then with friends. It's fun, music bops, being able to organize your chests with villagers is fun too.
It can be compared to Terraria, with more control over Villagers, but that's not a bad thing!

I personally expect this game to get another several hours of gameplay this year, given that the Dev updates the game pretty significantly each month.

It's definitely not as complex as Dwarf Fortress and the bosses or biomes are not as diverse as in Terraria, but I believe it will get there at some point!

[Premium]

This game is in early development and I don't think its really fair to compare it to Dwarf Fortress or Terraria (which have both been in dev for over a decade!) and should more be compared to games like Keplerth and Core Keeper. Of the similar games with similar time in development I'd say Necesse is the best and shows the most potential.

Dwarf Fortress and Terraria are 2 of my favorite games. I already have over 200 hours on just the steam release of DF and over 1K hours in Terraria+tmodloader, plus god knows how much on tmodloader before it came to steam. I hope this game does well enough that it can reach that level, it definitely has the potential.

[info]

Originally posted by stilton:

Most reviewers seem to have 10-40 hours played, which I guess is fair for the price, but the game is compared to giants like Terraria and Dwarf Fortress, where the norm would be to sink hundreds of hours into the game.

What should I expect to get out of Necesse? It's not so much about value for money, but more that I like to spend my time on games that offer depth and replayability.

it's far from being finished. so a lot of people including myself play for a while, then drop it to wait until a few patches (months) to come back and play more.

from what's there now, it's already worth the money. imho at least. I love the game, but I got like 30-40 hours or so and don't plan on playing more until summer

[Shazoo]

Originally posted by Premium:

This game is in early development and I don't think its really fair to compare it to Dwarf Fortress or Terraria (which have both been in dev for over a decade!) and should more be compared to games like Keplerth and Core Keeper. Of the similar games with similar time in development I'd say Necesse is the best and shows the most potential.

Dwarf Fortress and Terraria are 2 of my favorite games. I already have over 200 hours on just the steam release of DF and over 1K hours in Terraria+tmodloader, plus god knows how much on tmodloader before it came to steam. I hope this game does well enough that it can reach that level, it definitely has the potential.

It's absolutely fair to compare it to terraria, people forget the state that terraria launched in, as an owner from day 1, it had roughly 30-40 hours of gameplay to kill all the bosses too. This has the same enjoyment that game did when they launched.

[weirdee]

The games you've mentioned have had years of development, so if you don't find the current offering to be a good value proposition, come back in like 5 or 10 years or something. Price subject to change, ofc.

[Premium]

Originally posted by Shazoo:

Originally posted by Premium:

This game is in early development and I don't think its really fair to compare it to Dwarf Fortress or Terraria (which have both been in dev for over a decade!) and should more be compared to games like Keplerth and Core Keeper. Of the similar games with similar time in development I'd say Necesse is the best and shows the most potential.

Dwarf Fortress and Terraria are 2 of my favorite games. I already have over 200 hours on just the steam release of DF and over 1K hours in Terraria+tmodloader, plus god knows how much on tmodloader before it came to steam. I hope this game does well enough that it can reach that level, it definitely has the potential.

It's absolutely fair to compare it to terraria, people forget the state that terraria launched in, as an owner from day 1, it had roughly 30-40 hours of gameplay to kill all the bosses too. This has the same enjoyment that game did when they launched.

I bought Terraria the day it came out on May 16th 2011. It had 3 bosses (eye, destroyer, skeletron). People tend to blur updates together and act like the game itself always had things it didn't (like King Slime isn't even in release) and act like Terraria was always a meaty game. The game released with 10 hours of content. By December of that year it had more than doubled in size.

Its fair to compare it to release terraria, definitely.

[Sarxis]

I've just been saving Necesse for a later long play after more development has come. I have a lot of games on and off Steam, and I prioritize playing through them by least liked games first, and games that I like more but are still in Early Access for later play.

[Cora]

Originally posted by Premium:

This game is in early development and I don't think its really fair to compare it to Dwarf Fortress or Terraria (which have both been in dev for over a decade!) and should more be compared to games like Keplerth and Core Keeper. Of the similar games with similar time in development I'd say Necesse is the best and shows the most potential.

Dwarf Fortress and Terraria are 2 of my favorite games. I already have over 200 hours on just the steam release of DF and over 1K hours in Terraria+tmodloader, plus god knows how much on tmodloader before it came to steam. I hope this game does well enough that it can reach that level, it definitely has the potential.

I agree!

though there are obvious references to Terraria and though Dwarf Fortress is the grandpappy of the Colony Sims out there Necesse has more in common with Keplerth and Core Keeper and is the better of the three. all that Necesse needs is time to add more stuff as the foundation is already solid

[Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr]

I'm going to ditto what a number of other people said: it's early access, and has the potential to grow into another Terraria sized game. I picked it up on sale, and while I don't have 1,000+ hours worth of play time in it, it was worth picking up at the price, and I really do look forward to seeing it expand.

[HappyCrasher]

Originally posted by stilton:

Most reviewers seem to have 10-40 hours played, which I guess is fair for the price, but the game is compared to giants like Terraria and Dwarf Fortress, where the norm would be to sink hundreds of hours into the game.

What should I expect to get out of Necesse? It's not so much about value for money, but more that I like to spend my time on games that offer depth and replayability.

with the fortress aspect, honestly just building and making houses and stuff adds a ton of playability, its got a good chunk of bosses and difficulty options too, if yah stick with it itlll last you quite a while

[Mulkason]

oy

[Huntard]

i like Necesse very chill game

i am to dumb to enjoy dwarf fortress ( i buy it but dam is to hard )

[BrokenDoop]

Took me 19 hours to finish the game in it's current state, compared to Terraria that's a lot less. But games like Terraria also have artificial time wasters like insane amounts of grinding for certain items and such, Necesse doesn't really have anything that's tedious like that forcing you to waste time, and the bosses feel better designed overall and more fair which makes them technically easier.
But it also doesn't really have much to do between bosses really other than setting up your settlement, defending it from a raid every few hours and getting the gear to fight the next boss.

I think once more content is added with more stuff to do it would be a lot more replayable.
The gear in the game doesn't really give you much for different "builds" most armour and set bonuses are just worse than others and most "trinkets" aren't really build specific and a lot of weapons are also just worse than others.

Necesse was also more fun that Terraria ngl.