Green Hell

 PC
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Sep 6, 2019
    Aside from the plot, I’d say most of what held my attention about Green Hell was how dazzlingly beautiful and technically impressive it was, but the more traditional survival elements are all solid enough that I look forward to playing more. So, it turns out that the jungle does indeed got fun, games, and whatever you may need, providing what you need has a very strong stick component.

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#61 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019
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#99 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

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User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 185 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 129 out of 185
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 185
  3. Negative: 32 out of 185
  1. Funtastic
    Dec 4, 2019
    4
    I was excited to try out this new survival game called "Green Hell", which looked promising at first glance. What I found was ratherI was excited to try out this new survival game called "Green Hell", which looked promising at first glance. What I found was rather disappointing.

    While the overall setting, idea and graphics are cool, the actual game play is rather poor.
    You're stuck in the amazon jungle picking up stuff from your surroundings like wood, stone and all sorts of edibles like fruits, nuts, herbs, mushrooms and different kind of animals. Sounds fun, until you realise how complicated it is to maintain your overall health, sanity and energy.
    By far the most annoying feature is keeping yourself fed. With 3 different stats to maintain (fats, carbohydrates, proteins) the game is basically becoming a diet manager. With the help of your magical watch, which knows exactly what elements your body is missing, you're constantly balancing nutrition as if it's only possible to survive like this.
    So eventually you're forced to eat meat, which has to be cooked, unless you want to vomit in the jungle and become insane. Which forces you to make a fire.
    Creating a small fire is like creating a piece of art. You need exactly 6 small sticks and 8 sticks, otherwise its not a small fire.
    But since it's constantly raining in the jungle your fire goes out quickly unless you create a shelter for it. With more wood. And more leaves. Leaves you can not just rip off the plants, you actually have to destroy them. With a tool, that you have to craft. Which drains your energy while swinging it. The more tired you get, the less energy you have. So go to sleep, and waste valuable time.

    So you're running around the jungle, wasting time, to find the exact pieces you need, instead of just finding wood and burning it. And while there are actually structures in the game, you could use for shelter or take material from they are merely cosmetic. Logic doesn't apply in Green Hell.
    You have to do all these things before it's getting dark. So dark that it's hard to recognize and find the things you need to survive. The day is pretty short and your character is strolling through the jungle like on a vacation. So good luck with cooking that meat.
    And you still need water, my friend. Clean water, unless you like parasites that drain your energy.
    So either find somethin antiparasitic to eat, find a coconut shell and wait for rain or build a water filter, which you need a blueprint for, unless you have personally memorized how to build it. There are plenty of ways to gather rain water in real life, but you are stuck in the jungle with a lack of creativity.

    Saving the game requires a specific type of building. So either build that or die from a jaguar attack, crazy natives hunting you down, snake bites, food poisoning, poor diet or just your random PC crash and start all over again. Of course you can deactivate perma death, but you could also implement a reasonable save game system.

    Overall the game is squeezing you into it's idea of survival, which feels odd and exhausting.
    Way too much effort for too little of an outcome. The difficulty of Green Hell is a supposed selling point, but without sufficient logic applied to the game mechanics its just a chore, instead of a creative sandbox survival game. The word hell does indeed apply. The Long Dark did it better.

    I give it 4 out of 10 maggots.    … Full Review »
  2. AllNewSuperfake
    Sep 6, 2019
    7
    I think I'm just not as entertained by starving and sleeping under trees as I thought years - and several titles of this genre - ago.

    But    I think I'm just not as entertained by starving and sleeping under trees as I thought years - and several titles of this genre - ago.

    But this one is a little different. Starting with the lack of zombies, even though the AI of the "natives" is not too impressive either, and they all look pretty much the same, so that is only a minor improvement.

    But all the annoyances, or as I am supposed to think of them: The challenge, is customizable, and I'm extremely fond of that. Maybe one of these days I have enough time to attend to not just one, but three different hunger meters, but I don't have to. Maybe one day I feel like having all my hard work destroyed by randomly spawning enemies, but I don't have to. Maybe one day I'll be ready for eating tarantulas, or just having them swooping from trees in general. But, you guessed it, I don't have to.

    So for the fans of the genre there is all the nutrient management and random ant attacks you could possibly wish for, but you can also minecraft your way through this nicely designed jungle.

    The story mode is surprisingly fleshed out and a good start into the game. It still certainly doesn't hold you hand and could really use a pause feature, but since you can get rid of pretty much of everything remotely dangerous I can't really complain about this one.

    Let's hope the developers aren't done with this one yet (as they state in their road map). This could easily become more than a 7/10.    … Full Review »
  3. Zol
    Sep 5, 2019
    10
    Gr8 fun looking now for coop, dev's done Gr8 job over 1 year im EA now new road map plz
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