(EDIT: This particular edit was made after the other EDIT and after the review. Since doing my review the developer has come at me on my Channel and made false accusations of things I have not done without providing any proof and has been rather petty and bitter about my opinion. Cannot excuse such behavior and wanted people to be aware.)

I love seeing solo devs following their dreams and trying to make something on their own.

I hate seeing those same solo devs make something that I have to give a thumbs down too.

I hope the game dev at least doesn’t let this stop them from trying to do better but unfortunately I simply have nothing good to say about this game. Actually that’s not true. There is ONE thing I can say that this game did right and IMO it was the music. I really liked the music and think it fit the overall theme and mood of the game.

Otherwise, there’s nothing really good here. The game feels falsely advertised to me. The little gif up there about cooking meat is inaccurate, it’s NOT how you cook meat in the game. He releases the game saying it’s fully released without the EA tag and yet the game is blatantly missing a lot of content (including crafting!).

(EDIT:As the dev has stated you actually CAN barbecue your meat in the game. You have to specifically designate it as such by clicking the grill button. The game doesn't tell you why to do this instead of regular cooking or how to do it either. But wanted to clear that up. )

It’s labeled open world which it’s not. And a crafting game which it’s not. And it’s only considered a survival game because it does have stat bars that you need to manage (i.e. food, water, temp etc.).

But overall the game has bad graphics, below average sound design, a terrible plot/idea, with lackluster gameplay and even some questionable stability.

Sure it’s only 7 dollars so I mean, hey, you’re getting what you paid for. So don’t expect it to be anything good I guess? But I kinda reject that idea. IDC about price, it should still be at least decent.

If you’d like a more in-depth look with video footage of the game and its issues feel free to check out the review on my YouTube Channel (link below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9KD6N6WdDo

Otherwise, thanks so much for reading and I hope I managed to help some of you out there spend your money wisely.

I played the demo for this game back during the steam demo fest and was happy to follow the development and play the early access release. Unfortunately, I saw that this game was released into 1.0 and not into early access for further development. Whats even better is that I was BANNED from the community hub for asking about this and subsequently asked why my first question was removed. So that basically killed 99% of my good will.

That being said, besides this game being completely unfinished and essentially an actual The Long Dark ripoff (not every survival game that takes place in the winter wilderness is a long dark ripoff, but this one is). The basic features you would expect to find in an "Open World Survival Craft" game aren't implement. Mainly things like crafting.. oh and the "Open World" part. You will be loading between very small areas I started calling "levels". There is really nothing to collect other than sticks, bullets, and food/liquids. You'll get knocked out at the end of the cutscenes and start in a new level and not have any of the items you just collected.

The minimap although needed because you're just wandering thru a whiteout snow storm for the majority of daylight, ruins ANY sense of exploration because the quest objective just tells you the next spot to go to. Not even a proximity thing like i assumed and wasted time looking around for the truck not right where the yellow dot was. Just feels bad all around. And even going off exploring wont yield anything interesting. Its an empty world. The first couple of POI's in the first level were stacked and decorated like nuts but they quickly devolve to empty asset pack boxes.

Its a damn shame the dev went this route. I would have been completely open to an actual answer for the sudden and abrupt change to full release and it would have gone leaps and bounds with anyone interested in supporting this game but instead the dev has chosen the less productive route. Oh well. I still get to buy, play and refund. Cheers.

Gameplay: https://youtu.be/F7JNRepBxeA

Survival Game im Winter.... nicht unbedingt was neues! Für 5 Euro kann man aber zuschlagen. Story irgendein Verrückter im Wald und geheimnisvolles Monster oder die Monster keine Ahnung noch... Es gibt Story Modus eben und Überlebens - Modus ----> Grafisch ist es halt irgendwo in den 90 ern würde ich mal sagen... Gameplay ja außer essen und trinken und ein Lagerfeuer und pennen, hab ich noch nichts vom Survival gesehen im Story Modus ... Es ist aktuell halt nichts besonderes das muss man schon sagen. Die Story ist aber irgendwie interessant und animierte mich bisher zum weiterspielen . Und man muss sagen für 5 Euro.... da hab ich weit andere Games schon gesehen die bei weitem nicht so gut wie das hier. Ich werd es behalten und mal abwarten was noch so daraus wird.