Green Hell

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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

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  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 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,    I 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.    … Expand
  2. harris90
    Sep 8, 2019
    3
    World in Green Hell feels so empty. Story mode is a pure boredom. Overall huge disappointment.
  3. whitedruid
    Sep 8, 2019
    0
    This game is not a survival but a cheap walking sim of eating. The worst of the worst. A story mode is some kind of joke. Bad AI of Natives, animals and too much walking, eating and boring dialogs by walkie talkie. Amateur, bad designed little game for 25 bucks is unacceptable.
  4. Spamws
    Sep 6, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Игра была бы отличной, но есть одно, но!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Вы меня конечно простите, но вы серьёзно? Это щас так модно делать такие вот концовки? вам реально было так сложно сделать пару сценок что бы показать нормальную концовку? Я правда должен сидеть и додумывать конец игры? Простите, но за такие вот халтурные концовки я ставлю 0! Если вам лень было сделать сценку нормальной концовки, то мне впадлу вам ставить нормальную оценку... в самом конце игры я понял, что я потратил, зря своё время! ибо мне показали огрызок, в котором я должен сидеть и думать! успел герой или нет?… Expand
  5. Chezidek
    Dec 22, 2019
    3
    The game is very disappointing!
    The plot is so dull, boring, stretched and stupid that at the beginning of the game you want to turn it off and go to sleep!
    Gameplay the game is good but I could not play it because 10 times died of any nonsense! Every time he started the game again, he knew what to avoid, but again he died for a different reason... Could not figure out how to get some    The game is very disappointing!
    The plot is so dull, boring, stretched and stupid that at the beginning of the game you want to turn it off and go to sleep!

    Gameplay the game is good but I could not play it because 10 times died of any nonsense! Every time he started the game again, he knew what to avoid, but again he died for a different reason... Could not figure out how to get some elements of the craft because of what he could not learn to cure poison. Once again dying and losing all the resources and buildings, in the end I got tired of it I said to myself-one more time and I had enough, developed, built a lot of things and eventually died again because I could not find the right plant and recover... After that I removed the game and bought Stranded Deep from which I got everything I wanted from green Hill but didn't get...    … Expand
  6. psilovibe
    Apr 25, 2021
    0
    I do not agree in the slightest with the general consensus. This game was awful, bushes that bite you (the snakes are just a biting bush) a rng that sucks, meaning you will, even when loading a save game be either greeted with something straight away or you never see it. The crafting system was ok but not enough was explained it seems like a game that is primarily a time sink. AfterI do not agree in the slightest with the general consensus. This game was awful, bushes that bite you (the snakes are just a biting bush) a rng that sucks, meaning you will, even when loading a save game be either greeted with something straight away or you never see it. The crafting system was ok but not enough was explained it seems like a game that is primarily a time sink. After playing starnded deep the forest the infected and this I can see why the infected is been made cause this game was another well dressed turd that failed to deliver. I have played dayz since its beginnings and that is still a better survival game than all of these latest offerings. my choice would be the infected (and this is still early days and craps all over the rest then stranded deep then this abomination and then plain old f**k the forest. looks beautiful great environment but suffers from clutter to much just for the sake of having to much. Flashy with no substance but at least i didnt feel the need to get a refund like i did with the forest but still not worth it.… Expand
  7. Tk4Bullet
    Dec 20, 2020
    4
    Anyone giving this game over 6 can't be real. The only thing you have to look out for is different kind of food, or you are dead. Green hell is nothing else but looking for food, eating, building, and dying. If you meet a snake - he bites you - 100% chance of getting poisoned which will kill you if you don't find necessary flowers for cure(and you won't). When you manage to stock a lot ofAnyone giving this game over 6 can't be real. The only thing you have to look out for is different kind of food, or you are dead. Green hell is nothing else but looking for food, eating, building, and dying. If you meet a snake - he bites you - 100% chance of getting poisoned which will kill you if you don't find necessary flowers for cure(and you won't). When you manage to stock a lot of items and food, you will find out there is not much to explore. Had a few issues with playing co-op but fixed them. Graphics are 7/10. Was thinking that it would beat The Forest, but it does not.… Expand
  8. HfknK
    Feb 18, 2020
    4
    Graphics = 8/10
    Performance = 5/10
    Character Game Play 5/10 Health Management System = 4/10 Graphics look good, even on low settings. The health Management System is, eat every 3 minutes, drink every 3 minutes, sleep every 5 minutes, die or, wake up starving to death. Time management, not correctly employed. New days always start @ 00:00:01, not in the game. Days are not actual days    Graphics = 8/10
    Performance = 5/10
    Character Game Play 5/10
    Health Management System = 4/10

    Graphics look good, even on low settings. The health Management System is, eat every 3 minutes, drink every 3 minutes, sleep every 5 minutes, die or, wake up starving to death. Time management, not correctly employed. New days always start @ 00:00:01, not in the game. Days are not actual days and nights aren't either. If you're not constantly looking for food to balance the broken nutrient system, your fetching wood to keep a fire going to so can sterilize water to drink. Food spoils too fast, the hunting mechanics is clunky. There's no RMB to steady your aim and you can only hold your breath for like 5 secs. Your bow always wobbles, not realistic. Items disappear all the time. Backpack hold more than the storage crates. Every time you log out of the game, even after a save, you log in to find everything in your backpack rearranged. The impression of your character in the load ad is nothing like the character in the game. He looks macho but sounds like a wus when playing him. Weight distribution is another issue. Nothing seems to be at a real balance or numerical proportion considering, you are a healthy human should be able to carry your own weight. The building mechanics seems to be broken a bit. Stuff doesn't fit well together, some of it disappears/despawns when you aren't looking. One save/play through, 190 days survived and barely have 1/4 of the map discovered. Too busy managing my health and rebuilding my camp or, fetching wood all over the place due to, limited resources and and nothing grows back so, the Amazon is ready for a parking lot and housing community. I started after beta so, others may be better off than me due to their time playing the game from the alpha stages. Patience is a virtue if you're into these games. I own 25 survival games and play about 5 of them regularly. The rest, well..., they are basically, not realistic to say the least and just a waste of time.    … Expand
  9. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  10. bennymate
    Nov 10, 2021
    2
    Tried to give it a crack, but the game is very poorly opitimised and the story is awful. It is empty, gameplay is boring. Game can easily become a cheap crappy walking sim where you search for plants.

    Also, the devs clearly make the plants you need rarer and rarer as the story progresses to make you continue playing this total f********* trash heap. Waste of time.
  11. Renaigse
    Jun 21, 2020
    3
    Супер скушна зато с графононием, хотя начало было весьма и весьма интригующим, но последующий гейплей просто жэсть
  12. PGD
    Feb 2, 2021
    0
    В этой игры ты можешь умереть от любой болезни (не прямо как в жизни, в жизни человек в джунглях выживет, а тут нет), а в игре их довольно много и притом игра не объясняет в "ОБУЧЕНИИ" как вообще играть в ЭТО. Тупо никому не нужный пролог, который длиться довольно долго (может для некоторых доходить и до 2ч, что не даст вернуть деньги за игру). Пока не поймешь, как лечиться, то будешьВ этой игры ты можешь умереть от любой болезни (не прямо как в жизни, в жизни человек в джунглях выживет, а тут нет), а в игре их довольно много и притом игра не объясняет в "ОБУЧЕНИИ" как вообще играть в ЭТО. Тупо никому не нужный пролог, который длиться довольно долго (может для некоторых доходить и до 2ч, что не даст вернуть деньги за игру). Пока не поймешь, как лечиться, то будешь умирать бесконечно.… Expand
  13. roten
    Apr 30, 2022
    0
    this product is not available in your region
    "games out of politics" right?
  14. Marinusf
    Aug 23, 2022
    4
    Overall pretty complex and unforgiving. Realism is good but this game over did it. Crafting is not intuitive and menus are sloppy. The world and mechanics are pretty boring. You can't see anything well because of the many trees.
  15. GaryGrimtooth
    Nov 28, 2021
    2
    So boring and repetitive. Like an early access game. Just felt like a grind and was not fun.

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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. TheSixthAxis
    Mar 11, 2021
    90
    Green Hell is a fantastic survival experience with an exemplary sense of place and peril. Creepy Jar have really nailed the feeling of loneliness and despair that true isolation would lead to and married this to some well balanced challenges and a refreshingly user friendly approach. The range of ways to play are really welcome and should ensure that even those players who may be turned off by the rigours of hunger and thirst mechanics can enjoy the immersive jungle experience. This may not be a welcoming jungle, but there’s plenty of fun and games to be had.
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  2. Impulsegamer
    May 15, 2020
    82
    Overall if you are hankering for some pretend survival whilst we are all doing it for real with COVID 19 I would definitely recommend this game. Even if you just sit and enjoy the atmosphere I feel it is well worth the money.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Oct 16, 2019
    75
    Green Hell is a hardcore survival that will give you the atmosphere of wandering and surviving harsh Amazon jungle, all while posing an intriguing story to lead you onwards. Even though it does not possess multiplayer and suffers by being an average survival game in many regards, it will provide you with a few hours of quality fun, especially at this price range.
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