TIKTOK SPREADS WRONG INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GAME!

[Thomas]

There are several tiktok videos online which spread wrong information about Their Land. I'm a single developer still studying and Their Land features a story mode and a online coop wave-based gamemode. I am sorry.

[dong]

You shouldn't be sorry. I believe that you should take the feedback from players that are willing to give you an honest review and patch up the problems/bugs/errors piece by piece. You got this! I will watching your game grow into a great one. Take care

[ProVegaGamer]

Who uses tiktok? lol. So i have no idea what' happen or who lied about what. I'll check out the game later today and see how it is. Cheers.

[Brustrik]

You should have done something about it instead of try to use the hype

[Roxy Constantine]

What the F is going on with this game? The reviews are absolutely brutal and seems like collective bullying.
I don't understand what the dev did, to deserve all this, with a FREE game.

Thomas, ride this wave of negativity and eventually they will tire themselves out. Don't let it get to you too much. Don't give up on gamedev or your game.

[Thomas]

Thank you :) Idk what happened, I guess because of a TikTok that went viral spreading wrong info about the game :(

[fantasynoff]

I don't understand why people have such strict standards for a free game. I find it highly unfair. I've played almost to the final chapters, and although there were some occasional lags, overall, I think it's quite good. I didn't encounter any major issues throughout the gameplay, and there were some creative elements (like the part with the elephant). The limited ammunition made the difficulty level higher. Regardless of what others may think, I want to give this game a thumbs up and sincerely support the selfless efforts of the developers.

[Roxy Constantine]

I installed the game and tried to play it. I understand peoples frustration. My laptop was overheating from the main menu alone and I was not even able to run the game for 5min.

However, this is no reason to bully and be so disgustingly mean to the developer. Especially a solo dev with a free game. Give the person a week to fix the mistakes and calm down.

This is the main reason people are upset. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Most people and steam users do not care if its indie or triple A. They don't care if its free or $60. They want a game that runs well. The first impression on steam is the most important one and it's near impossible to fully recover after a bad first impression.

You do carry some of the blame and should learn from it.

1. If you want to sell a product, in this case it's free, test the hell out of your product before you submit it to the masses.
What good is a free cup, if it breaks as soon as you pour water in it and get peoples feet wet? People are going to be pissed off.

2. Start small and simple. Many new gamedevs try to make their dream game first try. There is more to 3d games than just map design, 3d models and game features. It's complicated and I comment you on what you have done so far, but performance is horrible and it shows.
A good and simple 2d game is better than a bad 3d game.

Just like a simple cup that holds water properly is better than a fancy cup that shatters on first use.

I see many features in the game. Should have invested more time on optimization, because that is the reason for all the hate. Not tiktok.

Steam users do not care and are quick to bully and insult. This is not ok, but it is what it is. You should defiantly not give up and spend more time on improving it!

What you have so far is great, just needs a little more and all will be fine.

[fantasynoff]

I find this game to be more passionately crafted than many paid games. There have been numerous games I've purchased but couldn't proceed with, leading to their deletion. However, I have genuinely dedicated myself to playing this game (minor issue: it's excessively dark inside the cave, making it nearly invisible even with the gamma set to maximum). I've also dream of creating my own game, but lacking the required skills, it remained a mere aspiration. I genuinely believe this game is exceptional, which prompted me to provide a second response. As the game has just been released for download, there are many who superficially try it and leave negative reviews. However, I anticipate that with time, more individuals will offer positive feedback after fully experiencing the game.

Furthermore, it's rather comical to see negative reviews in the comments section solely due to the absence of Chinese language support. If the developer has the resources to introduce multi-language functionality in the future, I'm prepared to provide my Chinese translation assistance free of charge. Please feel free to reach out if needed.

[Len's]

F tiktok
dunno why people are using Chiness social platform
got banned from many country and more will come.

[LNX BDSKZ]

I haven't played this game myself, but this hate and review bombing you're getting seems completely undeserved. This game seems very decent and solid for a dev just getting started, the only issue seems to be very bad optimisation, other than that it looks like a very good start to game development.

The fact that absolute sewage like Garten Of BanBan and Balan WonderWorld both have over a 50% despite probably being the worst games in their respective genres, meanwhile this completely free FPS made with passion by a single solo dev as their first full game and no strings attached has below a 25% is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ absurd, even Babylons Fall (probably the worst Live Service game ever with absurd monetisation and crap everything) has a 38% compared to this free passion projects 24%, that's idiotic. And worst of all the absolute dumpster fire of Security Breach, a game that barely functions on top tier PCs, has terrible gameplay design and writing, and is all around a mess rushed out for Christmas sales and merchandise outside of pretty visuals, somehow has 85% compared to this

It's baffling some TikTok douche-bag with no credibility makes up random ♥♥♥♥ and lies and then the audience gets mad at YOU instead of the loser who lied to them.
Stay strong Thomas, ignore the haters, I hope you can go on to forge a successful career in development as you clearly don't deserve this BS that's happened to you.

[GRÄV̆¥ GÄMÈR]

Thomas, I want to thank you, for spending you hard earned time making a game and putting it out there for anyone to play for free. I hope the negative reviews aren't messing you up with school or what not.

I just got the game today and I'm definitely going to check it out. From what I've read, from the true reviewers of your game. Is that it's a pretty good game to check out.

Unfortunately, you had to go through this mess with this TikTok BS and get all these bad reviews.

In my opinion, it's probably a bunch of damn 10 to 14 year olds jumping on a band wagon of some TikTok jobber. That still lives at home sucking mommy's teet and don't know the difference of what left or right is. I honestly can't stand all this Social Media BS that goes on right now. All these damn kids have nothing better to do than follow some other kid that makes 30 sec videos about who knows what and probably doesn't even give 2 ♥♥♥♥♥ about their follower base at all. Honestly, they're probably sitting there saying the same thing, look at all these jobbers following me, giving me money, and making me more rich when they don't even have a pot to piss in.

Stand strong my friend and like everyone else has said prior to me. Just let this unfortunate wave ride its course and their fearless TikTok leader / TikTok regime will be on to something else. Probably ruining someone else in the process.

What happen to the times when people were just thankful for free stuff and gave it a 100% just because whoever made it free work their ass off to get that free thing where it is.

I'll let you know how the game is once I play it later today or tomorrow



UPDATE FROM THE DAY I WROTE THIS:

I showed a couple of my streaming buddies your game the other day. My buddy downloaded and we played the game back & forth for a good while. For a solo DEV, you are doing pretty damn good. I honestly like the game and believe its really good.

KEEP UP THE HARD WORK MY FRIEND!!!!!

[Thomas]

Thank you so much everyone :) Your words really motivate and keep me going! The reviews got a lot better the last days and hopefully this trend continues :)

[⑨ ChocolateMystia]

Sucks that you are getting brigaded by a group of entitled clueless teens, but hey I had never heard of your game before, and thanks to this now I have, and coming in with no expectations, I'd say it looks very well made from the trailer alone, will definitely check it out!

[cleric]

stay strong, #king