Tutorial

[What?]

Tutorial doesn't explain anything, at MOST it shows you the menus, but even then it took me awhile to realize you can click on the things in the notebook to make them.

First level is insane. First of all, making any kind of structure is useless. I tried making a leanto, a palm bed, none of it has any status effects.

Second of all, fire can't be made, you can't find the materials needed. Any food you gather is instantly lethal. Water will kill you after 1 sleep, you will wake up with rotting lesions everywhere and die no matter what you do. Every time you sleep you will wake up with leeches.

There is no time, a day is like 15 minutes.

How the ♥♥♥♥ do I survive to day 3?

[What?]

OK so after 4 hours of playtime and 3 hours of online research, you're supposed to drink water from coconuts, then use a coconut to boil water. There are no coconuts spawning anywhere. I've scanned the ground every inch (and died five times of thirst doing this) there are no coconuts near the waterfall pool. I've overall died a dozen times, each time of thirst (or infection if I drink dirty water).

I have a limit on how much I can play before I can refund it, so I have no choice but to refund the game right now.

Please refund the amount.

[HunterKiller]

2 hours or less, within two weeks, Sorry, Steam will not refund it.

[diamondjozu]

sorry but refunds wont work if its more than 2 hours. if u need some quick help,join the official discord and people can help u faster.

i can agree that the tutorial isnt very good. it doesnt teach you to make certain basic or some simple advanced items to craft

[davejplatt]

You can drink any water and then eat the orange or blue mushrooms to clear the parasites that you may get from drinking the dirty water.

[BritneyB!tch]

if your really interested in learning the game add me an i will host a simple easy lobby to teach u the basics (:

[BETMARK]

I agree the tutorial isn't useful to learn to... I don't know, survive at least the first day.
I also had a hard time, when I started.
But after I watched some tutorials on Youtube I got how to survive and how to save (so, the basics to start the game should have teached you).
And I'm not kidding: I got bored about how hard it was to die, after I made my second base.
You can literally head shot every single creature in this game and eat it (beside the giants, but they are rare)... and with just a normal spear made with the first long stick you can find.
I know I'm talking ♥♥♥♥ about the game, right now, but my point is: give it a try.
Just look at some beginners tutorials on Youtube and you may even have fun with the game for some weeks (I know I had).

[What?]

This goes beyond simple difficulty like Dark Souls. This is genuine malfeasance, like putting someone in a game without explaining any controls, without showing missions or items, and making it impossible to find out without googling. It's a critical error.

I'm not asking for a lot.

A suggestion that washing is mandatory or you do not survive a day - this is not realistic and not something a person would expect. I had open wounds on my body from dust. Died five times to this before I realized.
Spawning someone next to a pool of water, which if drunk, would kill them. No suggestion this is an issue aside from "unclean" tag - does that mean instadeath, or a chance of death? Died two times to this.
There is only one way a newb would drink water, the coconut. But zero coconuts spawn near the original location, and zero indication is given that you can even travel (I logically thought the map was small like the tutorial). This is like a racing mission in GTA without the player having a car - it is a broken game mechanic. I died dozens of times looking for coconuts.

No. I'm never playing again. Whenever my eye passes over this game in my library, I'll google some article about it and leave a comment discouraging purchase. That's the best I can do.

[What?]

By the way I'm told people used to have tons of coconuts spawn in the original location, so you might not even have experienced this. I searched for hours for one, went over the logs, traveled all over the available areas of the map. I couldn't go farther because I collapsed of exhaustion and died soon after.

The current iteration of the game has ZERO SPAWNING COCONUTS for new players.

[starlight78sso]

The first several times of playing this I also had issues finding coconuts. My 3rd or 4th attempt I finally found some, and it was from one of the palms in the starting area. It's random on where things spawn. Sometimes I've had the plants to make bandages spawn near the starting spot sometimes I havent. One thing you could try to help you get started so you arent dying constantly. Try WeMod. It was what I did finally because I couldnt find coconuts at first either. That allowed me to explore some without worrying about having to find food or water that wouldnt kill me.

[starlight78sso]

Also if you ever do decide to give it another shot, feel free to add me and I can show you the ropes.

[76561198972294167]

Someone doesn't know the word "trial and error"

[davejplatt]

I think Creepy Jar need to consider making a "Paddling pool" level; where Jake Higgins plays the game for you whilst you just sit there eating pizza.

[BETMARK]

Originally posted by What?:

No. I'm never playing again. Whenever my eye passes over this game in my library, I'll google some article about it and leave a comment discouraging purchase. That's the best I can do.

Ok, you got burned and your hate for the lack of a decent tutorial is legit.
But going around discouraging the purchase only because of that is like posting on Internet nude pics of your ex, because you're mad at her. Really not fair.
I mean... if someone ASK for your opinion, ok: "I didn't like it, because...", but really, this game is not that hard and it EVEN may be fun.
Too bad the building system is super limited, 3/4 of the map are empty and the multiplayer is almost impossible (due to bugs and glitches)... those are the reason you should mention.
But still, there are a lot of worse survival games around. This one is not The Forest or Grounded, but for a realistic experience is still a good game to spend your weeks on.
In short: you have your good reasons to dislike it, but if you didn't even try the story mode, Spirits of Amazonia, or even survived a week... you are not "qualified" to spread bad reviews for free.

[BETMARK]

Originally posted by davejplatt:

I think Creepy Jar need to consider making a "Paddling pool" level; where Jake Higgins plays the game for you whilst you just sit there eating pizza.

I'm just honest with this game, not trolling or trying to provoke, really.
But the tutorial of this game is technically a paddling pool.
You find food, a machete, solar panels, a bed and everything.
It barely teach you how to start a fire and make a bandage.
Then the real game starts and you're in a Jungle with literally nothing and you don't even know how to build an axe and start trying to chop a tree with your bare hands, like in Minecraft (seriously. Everyone of us did it, the first time).
I think the topic here is the Tutorial, compared to the actual game and how a new player got frustrated by the experience.
Instead of teasing those kind of comments, I think it's more useful to take the chance to point out a flaw.
"Dear developers: the tutorial doesn't even teach you how to survive the fist day"

[sensei76]

I agree the tutorial needs a bit more explaining on some simple things, and a big one is water. I to had problems finding coconuts, but eventually i found them in the highest trees, and i would check the ones around me daily till they showed up. I drank regular water and ate mushrooms to get rid of the parasites till then. Now that I have coconuts, I have "too many". Also, food was a bit of a problem, till I learned to fish with spear (*starting area story mode), and came to realize I could eat most things, even lots of snails (again story mode starting area). I built a leantoo to save, made every stand to collect my goodies, and a small hut so my fire is safe. I am 9 hours in, and loving the game now. Admittedly, the first hour or 2 was very difficult, and i even had to delete the save and start a new one at lesser difficulty. But now im doing well. I suggest giving it a chance. Just because your not willing to google something doesnt seem fair to the devs. While we all seem to agree tutorial doesnt do enough, there is forums, discord, google, youtube. etc.