SIngle player only

[tinfoildoor]

Is this game worth it if i only want to play solo?

[The United States of America]

Yes its quite fun in solo, it offers a different style of gameplay in my opinion. Bots get better every patch too. You also need to be either using the Vanilla ships or very well made workshop ships as not all the ships work well with bots. The game is really good in multiplayer too though and you should consider playing it too at some point in time. because they are really two different experiences.

[Pat Splat]

Single player is great, totally playable that way if you don't mind micromanaging everything.

[the.lovewyrm]

It's a different experience, inferior to multiplayer, but not completely awful.
You might get bored of the missions real quick tho.

[tank16365]

Yes, Single player is fine, not the easiest outside the sub with noone able to competently watch your back but, what i did was design subs and gizmos to help with that.

[Goffik]

I finally tried the game during the free period specifically to test singleplayer, since I have no interest in playing online. I find it quite enjoyable, enough that £6 for the whole game was well worth it.

That said, I don't think it's currently worth full price if singleplayer is your thing. While I'm still having fun three days later, the repetitive missions will eventually become pretty dull I'm sure. That said, the devs are planning to add a lot more to campaign mode in the future so that should help.

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I'm also interested in SP but how long to beat the game ? I hate short games.

[Goffik]

Originally posted by Nintendo:

I'm also interested in SP but how long to beat the game ? I hate short games.

Depends. There's an option you can enable in the SP campaign which will force you to progress through the game, though it will still take a decent number of hours to complete. If you disable that option you can literally play as long as you like, deciding for yourself when and how to progress.

[DuckieMcduck]

Originally posted by Nintendo:

I'm also interested in SP but how long to beat the game ? I hate short games.

The bad (good) thing about Singleplayer is that unlike multiplayer you must understand every role and understand how to keep the ship running on your own. The bots simply become more limbs for you to work with. This means that you're playing every part of the game at the same time with some minor automation thereof.

Until you get a hold of how to play the whole game and every role and how to complete every mission consistently, it's going to take you at least 30 hours without reading guides. You'll need snap decision making and that takes a while to develop even with guides (you *will* lose). Then the campaign itself is at least 6-10 hours even if you know what to do.

[Zothen]

Originally posted by Nintendo:

I'm also interested in SP but how long to beat the game ? I hate short games.

Lets say the direct path to the end is ~30-35 routes. Rush a route and youre at <10mins (e.g. transports), do wrecks or ruins and youre in for 15-25mins+. Usually you stay at outposts for 2-10mins.

Ofc you can stray off the direct route when youre playing without radiation, but this gives you a good estimation of the min time involved?!

And then, when you reached the end you can start the same map with all your stuff and +25 difficulty on each route! (per time you finished the campaign)

In general replayability of BT is decent.

[AfkForCoffee]

Originally posted by doormattzz:

Is this game worth it if i only want to play solo?

No.

[Greb]

It's playable solo, especially if you find a custom submarine designed for solo play, but the AI bots aren't exactly solid right now, but they're good at keeping the submarine repaired and manning the guns.

You can swap between all of the bots on your team in singleplayer so you'll be able to (with a bit of busywork) acquire all the powers each role's Talents have to offer, which is a plus I suppose. Can't vouch for the bots ability to accompany you on missions outside of the sub though, I think you can order them to follow you and they're smart enough to put on a Diving Suit if you are wearing one as well, but no clue how good they are at salvage and exploration operations. I've always used them as a background element and nothing else.

You'll be doing everything yourself, which can definitely drain your sanity after a while, and is why I gave up my singleplayer run early, since I had been spoiled by multiplayer, which in my opinion I think is where the game thoroughly excels.

But yeah, Barotrauma is playable in solo, but it's not going to be giving you its best.

[Wilihey]

Originally posted by doormattzz:

Is this game worth it if i only want to play solo?

i bought it 2 days ago and i've been playing only solo and man its super fun, you can give orders to crewmates and they'll do tasks in a rimworld like fashion automatism, you just gotta focus on navigating and doing some missions, the AI even does a good job when theres intruders on the ship etc, i'd recomend it by just having played singleplayer tbh

[Moriarty!]

Originally posted by Nintendo:

I'm also interested in SP but how long to beat the game ? I hate short games.

probably 50-100 hours. You will need to experiment (solo manageable sub..crew managing, crafting)before going all the way to the campaign. ssolo campaign is still in early acces and not yet completed.

[kento10]

bots won't do anything on a solo host server for fabrication so SP is way to go since you use the bots to do all the task including skills. Yes it takes lots of micromanaging but most of the essential can be automated with orders only problem is they break sometimes because idk pathing.

[Kangaroo Salesman]

I have 116hours mostly singleplayer so yes.