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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 78.3 hrs on record (78.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: Feb 8 @ 5:42am

Early Access Review
Enshrouded is an exploration game with some interesting mechanisms and somewhat boring enemy variety. The game is in Early Access, just like every similar game at their first release, to me this type of release looks more as a scam than a feature, so the outcome of my review is based on the content and fun I received based on the price of the game, not based on future promises.

So the background of the game is…. Ok, so something happened :-D I wish I could tell more but friends were shouting in discord to skip the intro and let's start the game. Shame on me, I have not started a second character yet. One thing is clear, something cataclysmic happened, which wiped out civilization and every human being. Some, including you, survived in sealed chambers. While my friends also kept playing until the end, after a dozen hours all of us continued in single player. Why? I’ll explain that, so let’s check with the problems of the game first:

Disliked

The issue which forced us to play alone, while irregularly joining to the servers of friends to help them against bigger enemies are the quests. Most of the time it was finished only for one of us, while it stayed in the quest log of the other players, just like all the marks on the map for the players who suffered by the bug of the unfinished quest.
I disliked the low variety of enemies. You will find the same enemies in the shroud at level 1 and at areas where the enemies are level 30. Do you like to beat wolves at lvl 1 area? Fine! But I guess you are not curious about them after 20 hours at level 11 areas. A creative mind was clearly missing on the project.
While I liked the build aspect of the game, it might have happened because I have not played many similar games. Even not, when friends keep telling me i should play Valheim, but hey, Valheim don’t have achievements, i don’t play such games 😃 Still, I have a certain feeling of lack, expected more building variety, round object, pillars, and so on. Probably more will come during Early Access, but i said, i review the game based on current feelings.
Some minor bugs, like enemies stuck in the ground, nothing serious 😃

Liked

I liked the shroud mechanics. You go in the “fog”, and you have only a few minutes to explore before it consumes you. Some talents or increasing the strength of your flame altar increases this time, but the risk always touches your nerve system while you get lost in the shroud and trying to find a way out as you run out of your last seconds.
Gliding. It is just awesome. Not sure I mentioned it before, but gliding is AWESOME. Did i? I think not, so: gliding is awesome.
Huge world, there are a lot of areas to explore, different biomes.
Building aspect: while it was in the negatives, because of the lack of round pillars, objects and because I could expect a bit more variety of items, it is important to notice that you can build walls, pillars, etc, from millions of different materials. This is the only aspect of the game where the variety already reaches what is expected in a fully released game.
Not experienced a single crash and was not falling through the floor 😃 Nowadays it is important to mention these ☹️
Btw, Gliding is fantastic 😁

Conclusion

Enshrouded is not a bad game, there are room for improvements, sure, but I already enjoyed it in current version, was totally worth the 30€(-10%? Release discount, i don’t remember how much it was), and usually i am very hesitating when i need to spend that much on a game, I am usually waiting for deep discounts. If

Hey, I am an achievement hunter!

How to perfect?: Just play the game. It is long, yes, but eventually you should get everything as achievements really for fully exploring the map, all flame altars (you might get the location marker unlocked by found scrolls, but you still need to go there, marking actually visited flame altars with custom markers is recommended), cutting out all shroud trees, levelling up to max, etc. Nothing really hard or challenging, but as the world is huge, it will take some time. Don’t need to be afraid if none of your friends are playing this game, there are no MP achievements at all.
Perfection Difficulty: 3/10. As I said already, completion is not difficult, it just takes time, but some bosses/areas might be good, if you have a friend who is also playing the game and can assist you.
100% time: ~50h+

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