The game itself is alright and the dev's update frequently, if you like these kinds of grindy survival mmo's you'll probably like Wild Terra...However, buyer beware.

It's very rare that I feel the need to leave negative feedback on a game, but considering this dev basically just took away the game from a large portion of it's playerbase...Well, yeah.

Today's update (5/26/17) disabled the ability to create or run existing private servers without paying for premium time on the public servers. This is an understandable change from a business standpoint but the devs gave no warning or hint that this might be occurring. People with months of progress or tight communities suddenly cannot access those servers without shelling out more money for a game they already paid for. Paying customers that potentially based their entire purchase off the fact that private servers were available and that the game was not subscription based, now have no choice but to pay a reoccurring subscription fee if they wish to continue playing.

The devs, at the very least, should have told us this was coming. Perhaps they should have grandfathered in existing servers and made creation of any new servers require premium. Springing this gigantic, money costing change on it's player base is unprofessional at best and reputation ruining at worst.

Just bumping a old review to try and sway a few people from being scammed into getting into this game.


Features that were once part of the paid game are now locked behind a monthly pay wall. to play single player or have a private server, now you need a $15 a month subscription. too bad I cant refund this ptw cash grab. Stay away from this game and these greedy devs.

edit: 12/23/2017

the developer is now going to review threads and lying about what they originaly advertised last year.

the developers keep doing a bait and switch. when i bought the game you got a free private server just for buying the game. somewhere along the line they got greedy and decided if you want a private server you have to pay a monthy subscription for it. now i believe they are removing private servers all together so more people play on official servers.

if i buy a game when its advertised that when you buy the game you get a FREE private server i expect it to remain FREE. not wait a few months then decide that if you want to keep your server you have to start paying for it.

Again stay away from this game, do not give these people your hard earned money.

Best game ever. I love that its not first person view. I like seeing the player i am guilding. Most online games are not like this. I also love the PVE version. Again many games do not have this and I dont like to fight. It was tough at first to get the hang of avoiding predators but after a while you get the hang of that too. I am a 76 yr old great-grandmother and love that the game keeps my mind active. Improves my coordination and amazing how my side vision has improved watching for godsends and predators. If every 'old' person played this game it would surely help their state of mind. The body might decline but game keeps mind from declining.
Great job guys.

OK here is the straight info on this game. Update was banned from community

1 Its dead as player pops go.
2 Its a cash grab point blank. Pay for the rite to play on a server then pay to win with the cash shop. Buy chests so you get a head start on recipes or buy scrolls to upgrade items. All the cash shop themes found in all PtWs.
3 Its a russian dev using a old isometric game engine and feel the sprites are from a asset pack. And got a virus warning when installing it since it uses old code that needs to be patched.
4 The wiki is a joke. Basic stuff is not documented and forums you get please ref to wiki. So get to were you blindly hunt for next step when crafting.

So over all this game is a waist of time if you like building games like Wurm online. Its got same issues that mine craft had with greifers. And think this will be dead when it is released because most will leave after the first hour and request a refund. Like grand pappy said "run and don't look back because it will only harm you body spirit and soul."

Edit 11/24/17

WARNING WARNING WARNING
The devs of this game is taking money from cash shops on private servers knowing full well they are closing them in a few days. Don't support scum moves like this. They are doing a cash grab and we as players are losing out. So if you are buying this on black friday bewarned they stated they are closing private servers in their discord channel. But still taking money in the cash shop. I just lost 20$ in stuff I bought there. Paid 3 months for the private server got 2 weeks to play it.

Disclaimer: Steam does not have a neutral review rating. Just recommended or not recommended.

I have completely rewritten the review so if some of the people in the comments section don't make sense this may be why.

Since I had a negative experience with the devs, I will leave the review as not recommended. I will cover this below.

Wild Terra as it stands right now is an early access title. It has been getting regular updates, usually small ones sprinkled with larger ones here and there. The title has come a long way in the last 6 or so months before it hit Steam just in terms of character movement which has helped immensely.

I have only played on a PvE server so cannot vouch for the play on a PvP server. The game is slow paced which I like. I can sit back and relax while playing. Game play consists of running around the map collecting resources for building up your dominion (what the game calls your base of operations). Once you have your dominion built then you can work on expanding it and/or collecting resources to make into useful items needed for the extensive amount of recipes found in the game.

While wandering the map you can find godsends, which come in the for of decomposed adventurers or crashed wagons. Inside the godsends you can find items as well as recipe fragments. The recipes you cannot make from the beginning of the game can be found in these godsends. Each recipe requires a certain amount of fragments to be found before you can create that item. From what I can tell it can take from 1 to I believe 4 or 5 fragments to unlock specific recipes. It seems that once you do unlock a recipe that some recipes have a gold recipe that can be unlocked. The crafting is deep in the game.

The Map: This is the biggest issue I have with the game. Everything is player driven (which isn't a bad thing). There are no NPC cities or towns. Everything on the map is one flat surface with trees, water, wild life, and resource nodes. There is absolutely nothing that stands out that you could reference as to where you are in the world. Once you have a dominion, you get a marker on the edge of the screen that you can use to get back, but that's it.

Player base: This is where the game shines for the most part. Most people in the global chat are very helpful and willing to help people out with questions and issues they have. Some people leave a chest or storage outside for others to come along and rummage through for anything they may need. During the Christmas event (before the devs lowered the cost) the stockings were hard to make because they needed a loom which unlocks from recipe fragments (found in godsends) and most weren't able to make them. One good person on the server would make the items you needed if you brought them the resources.

The devs: I was wrongly banned from the Steam forums and it took a week before they realized I was wrongly banned and unbanned me. The devs seem to just willingly ban anyone from their forums that speak bad about the game or the cash shop or in my case ban the wrong guy. Instead of making a sticky at the top of the forums that lists exactly what is in the cash shop and opening it to discussion. I feel everyone that is on the fence about the game has a right to know as much information on the game before they make a purchase. So that brings up the next part.....

Cash Shop: Once in the game, you can bring up the cash shop. Inside you will find titles you can bestow on your character along the lines of Duke and Knight and a handful of others. If you want a mount, you can pick from horses, deer, wolves, and bears. If you want to dip into their premium offering you can get a bonus for your character for a period of time based on how much you wish to spend. I tried to see what the time length was for this review but the cash shop wouldn't come up for me at time of writing this review. The premium is described (I wrote this down earlier when I was replying to someone) as: Doubles chances to get rare items, gathering, building, and crafting speed. As a PvE player this doesn't bother me in the least. I don't care what the other guy is getting or what he is doing. In a PvP setting I can see this as being an issue as the other guy is now pulling out double resources on some of the harder to find resource nodes in the world. If the rare drop is (no clue what the actual drop rate is) 10% then the premium player is getting 20%.

Due to how the premium is worded this is how I see it as working. It could be double to getting rare items and an increase to gathering, building and crafting. Even though an increase in rares can still be an advantage depending on the drop rate imposed in the game.

Is the game bad? No and I feel I more than received my monies worth during my past and most likely future game play. As an early access title the content is limited despite the large amount of items you can craft. This is an issue that plagues many early access titles and is the bane of the whole ea system in general except for a few exclusions.

I do recommend Wild as the game itself, but you must realize what the game is and what it isn't. It is not an action packed game full of dazzling sword play and fireballs whizzing inches from your face. In fact there is no magic to speak of.

I do not recommend Wild Terra based on the actions of the developers. They seem like they care about the game and are definitely actively working on it, but deleting posts in the Steam forums and banning is definitely not the way to go and sends off bad vibes to current customers and prospective customers. They need to take the good with the bad, embrace it and use that feedback to allow the game to flourish.

Verdict: Neutral. If what you have read appeals to you and you can get past the developers then you can find a nice little time sink here. If you're like me and try to answer questions for other people in the forums and just be an all around nice guy, then beware that you should probably not talk about the cash shop in any form at least until the devs smarten up and just embrace the contents they provide in the shop and not try to hide them.

a pay2play game that's still pay2win and a developer denying that fact...
but make your own opinion if the following is pay2win to you or not:

you can buy mounts you can't lose (they're invulnerable)
free users have to grind for mounts and those are killable what means you'll need to grind for anotherone if it get's killed

you can buy premium time that doubles experience, resources gained aswell as halved crafting times

you can buy recipes for items that otherwise would be locked behind a huge grinding to obtain

you can buy scrolls to impreove the quality of items that free users would need to kill insanely strong enemies to obtain

you can pay to move your entire base to a new location, free users need to rebuild everything
(and no, you don't get any materials back when destroying a building)

in one of the next updates they're implementing loot chests with equipment in them and guess what?
you'll be able to buy the keys in the store while free players will need to kill insanely difficult enemies to maybe obtain a key

on a side note, if you're thinking that in a game like this the prices can't be that high tio get anything you're wrong, here's a small list to get a general idea about the prices:

500 gold - 2$ / 5000 gold - 18$ / 20000 gold - 65$

premium days:

1 day - 300 gold / 5 days 1100 gold / 30 days 4300 gold

those improvement scrolls
for weapons:
1 - 400 gold / 5 - 1900 gold / 25 - 9200 gold
for anything else:
1 - 250 gold / 5 - 1200 gold / 25 - 5800 gold

mounts ranging from 2900 - 17900 gold

recipes:
1 server: 1 - 240 gold / 5 - 990 gold
all servers: 1 - 320 gold / 5 - 1390 gold

moving your base 2900 gold

if you're fine with that feel free to buy the game, otherwise by all means, stay away from it

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EDIT! 1

apparently the most recent update made it even impossible to create "personal" servers without having bought premium time on one of the official servers so by now if one wants to play alone he needs to pay around 15$/month just to do so...
the fact that there are only around 6-10 active players on the official servers while most players played on personal servers i think it's more than valid to call this game dead by now because i highly doubt that anyone's willing to pay 15$ a month for a server with a far worse stability than even the crudest office pc could offer just to play in singleplayer or with a handful of friends!

EDIT! 2

now they've even banned me from the forums because of "massive forum spam" just because i posted a single mesage about the stuff i've written about in EDIT! 1

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933421187

This game has entirely broken mechanics that require you to group up with people in order to progress. For example, a bear cannot be killed by a solo player, regardless of how advanced you are. When asking a developer how it's intended, he said you can shoot a bear using a glitch thru water so he can't cross. This is considered an exploit and has even been fixed so they can cross water. None of this would be an issue if the servers were not entirely dead. In 2 weeks playing this game I ran across 3 people in the open world. There is no map, there are no "towns", there are no central locations that herd people together in any way.

The combat and AI feels clunky and gross, making shooting something as simple as a rabbit annoying.

The progression in this game is based on your property, it's size, and the buildings on it. The leveling system is pointless, there are no npcs, there are no quests, there are no objectives. You collect materials to turn them into more materials, that turn into even more materials and eventually you have a pair of gloves that offer 1% more dodge rating than the ones you started with.

Finally, the game is abandoned in such a way that when you have issues with the game, their discord server has about 70 people in it that might take 3 days to reply. When they do reply, it's another player. There are no admins or support in the discord and their forums are just as bad (and mostly non english speaking)

I like grindy games but this one is a little beyond. What is really insane is the amount of, or lack of inventory space you get. I mean really? Make a way to have bags or something.. you want me to grind my way into a game with sych limited space? And having an in game shop that charges another $35.00 for a starter pack???????? Oh and not to mention, I have played for a few hours and found a few iron chests AWESOME oh wait NOT AWESOME since Ill have to BUY iron keys! Yes, talk crap and say they drop on Godsends.. yea I have found several and several had 2 bread on them.. way to go!

Also i saw how you Developers responded to people who had something negative to say.. especially when they were right.

In short, I wouldnt suggest giving away your $15.00. I wish I had of bought toilet paper with my $15.00 and got the game for free because it most certainly gives me the SH!*s

Pay to win...Blah!

You have to pay to get 30% increase in all skills.
You can pay to unlock schematics.

I cant stand pay to win.

IMPORTANT UPDATE JANUARY 3RD

Dev said this to me instead of helping -
- https://imgur.com/qyVyI2d
- https://imgur.com/PVM5QqF

Pretty classy for a Dev to be saying things like that and offering zero help, when I have already shown him all the evidence and the screenshot, he cares nothing for the real exploit and issue at hand, he just wanted a forum fight for some reason. Now he just cost them money and players.

We found a player exploiting their ingame system by building on peoples bases, that are already fully built, for example he would build walls inside your gate, even while its closed, right on top of it, yet this isnt even possible for you to double up and build.

I reported this, and screenshoted everything posted it, and the Dev told me because I posted it on their official Steam forums, it wont be seen and no one will care, specially not him.

Now I reported this very kindly with full details entrailing everything, he responded instantly by telling me the Steam forums arent the place for help... I responded I have played many steam games, this is where the help and support comes from.

He then responded again that they dont care about the Steam forums, and only care about Discord and other players views..

Well buddy, I was one of your players, giving you insight on your games exploiters, you didnt care, you told me off and now I write a fancy negative review instead of a positive due to the fact you told me off while I was trying to give you support, you read obviously NOTHING about the exploiter and instead made me out to be the bad guy for using your Steam forums for support and posting pictures.

Goodluck with this game, now when people message me about Wild Terra Online, I know exactly what to show them.

Thanks!

Bug/Exploit was CONFIRMED - yet people still troll and flame, oh and it wasn't by him, another player whom also is on that thread, took his time to report it and get it confirmed.