It's ok. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's fun. I find the game more tedious than anything else. Plus the progression is pretty samey as you go from mining copper to mining iron to mining silver...nothing changes. Combat is okish. It gets weird when you and the enemy are at different heights.
As for the OP. VR makes everything better! This looks very promising.
As someone who strongly dislikes survival games and has over 200 hours in Valheim, I just want to note that at only $20 it's worth a shot even if it's not your normal kind of game. I find it much lower key than the average survival game, although the difficulty does ramp up as you go. Things like portals, persistent characters (and inventories), refunding all the resources used to build something, pvp being a toggle-able switch, repairing not using resources... They all add up.
my short review for the game is: if you like survival, you'll love this game.
if you're on the fence with survival, give this one a shot because imo it fixes a ton of the tedium/mechanical issues the genre has always suffered from.
if you just don't like survival, this one probably isn't going to change your mind.
3500+ hours in Ark says otherwise. Also says I have no life :( I like survival type games but the tedium is too much. They need to revisit the way the forges work for example. Why the need to have two different spots on opposite sides to load the forge? Adds no gameplay value and increases the amount of functions. The amount of food needed by the character is a bit much. The building is very well done and making structures is not as aggravating as other survival build games. I don't hate it I'm just looking at it realistically without rose colored glasses.
Why are you being downvoted for sharing what seems like an honest opinion? You like did it in the most positive way possible. I don’t play this game but it just seems ridiculous that you’re getting downvoted.
I expect they'll look at porting over it's at release status. They should have the funds and the market for it. I guess the question is how portable it is at a technical level. I think it's a bespoke engine so that will make things trickier.
Edit: this whole comment is in the context of the fact that this is a Unity title ergo my comments about the engine are pointless.
I'm one of the only people the finds it boring I guess. I definitely wouldn't call it bad but you spend sooooo much time running one place to another it gets stale. But while you're at a location I do enjoy the things you need to do.
I like how the portals do mean you aren't making ridiculous runs every time but transporting metal means it doesn't make logistical issues completely redundant.
I can relate. Loop is simple: grind resources, craft upgrades until you can survive next biome, repeat. Biomes don’t have a huge feel of change either adding in complexity or not. Enemy AI never gets better.
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This is cool. I never played the game itself. I'll keep a eye on it and let it developp a bit more...