Ok, so it's been a long time coming, and the developers for this game have thusly been moved to other projects after being acquired byOk, so it's been a long time coming, and the developers for this game have thusly been moved to other projects after being acquired by someone. (I literally forgot who it was..) But let's get down to it.
What I seriously loved about this game was that it had a bunch of quirks and cuteness to it. The fact that you can design or edit some character models is fantastic in itself. I love the relationships they can build or destroy all on their own and the weather mechanic was indeed handy. The stress of getting the people with the right skills to the job and keeping them safe is not too overbearing, but it can get you sometimes. The music is lovely, it's score is definitely some to take with you on the go when you're on long road trips. (Trust me on this one, I put the main title theme of the game on one of my train trips.. it seriously made things a lot more.. epic? Like you're in your own movie kind of way.) And the fact that you don't have to follow each tribe's core atmosphere really does heighten the difficulty spike a wee bit.
But enough gushing over how cute it is in its vloxy form. Let's get to what brought the score down a few pegs.
First off, the bugs.. It had severe issues and would just quit sometimes. They seemed to have added the thing to somewhat help 'fix' these issues, but I'm no programmer, I have no idea on what it is to fix or how it works. There was just so much that they added in before their departure to other projects, but not enough to help explain how this would work for us who have no idea on what to do. I get it that there's some 'pro's' out there who do this kind of thing, even making mods, but for us who aren't.. this is really useless.. The other issue I'd like to bring up, is characters just standing there.... doing nothing when there are things that must be done. 'Idling' is a problem and no way to fix it. I even did one chore at a time and still the same thing persists. And I know it's not just me. And what I said before on the creation level of the characters? How I liked it? That still remains.. but half the time, you get the 'stupids' of the lot, and it makes getting ones who are smarter to know what they're doing, seriously difficult to obtain later on. (And what I mean by stupid, is where they have less than 4 on their stats. I literally put those as workers, but it makes it difficult to get things made for survival when I don't have those 4 or higher.) Thirdly, and this is more of a personal problem, but I really... REALLY hated a very small map. I initially thought that it would be much bigger, but it's well... too small. It would have been interesting to find shrines, mine caves, and well.. something akin to Minecraft, but something that makes it stand out, like.. a chance encounter with someone on the same map with same coordinates. I'm not saying multiplayer, but you can trade/fight/cooperate, that kind of thing.
Now, most reviews on here would say a lot of terrible things, but I'd like to think of this as the ugly duckling. Once you get past some snags, it's actually really fun to play and you can get creative. There is story, there are choices and there's so much you can do. My only regret is being that I kinda wish that the team would stay on to see its growth (possibly) and make it better in terms of fixing a few issues here and there. So if you see this for sale, I would definitely implore you to try it out for yourself.… Expand