The other reviews for this game must be paid for reviews. It doesn't deserve any higher than about 6.
It boasts to be "Open world", when really it isn't. You have to buy land with coins, gradually unlocking the entire world. If it was open world, there wouldn't be a need to do that. I clocked about 20 hours on the game and pretty much did everything. Did I enjoy it? A bit.
There areThe other reviews for this game must be paid for reviews. It doesn't deserve any higher than about 6.
It boasts to be "Open world", when really it isn't. You have to buy land with coins, gradually unlocking the entire world. If it was open world, there wouldn't be a need to do that. I clocked about 20 hours on the game and pretty much did everything. Did I enjoy it? A bit.
There are more cons than pros however. It's an addictive little game, which is a good and bad thing. You can be sat playing and a few hours pass by, now onto why it's a bad thing. It's £16.74 on the Xbox store if you don't have Game Pass and for what you get, it's a huge rip off. Everything goes by real time, be it structure cool downs, crafting, fishing, stores upgrading their stock, everything. The higher ranking the crafted item is, the longer it takes to craft and it can take literal hours to craft depending on what you are crafting. You get spells and items and perks to speed this up, but most of the time, it doesn't feel like it works. If you actually inspect the in-game cooldown times, you will also notice that three real seconds pass before one second passes in game. So a 10 second cooldown actually takes like 30. I wouldn't mind the ridiculous crafting and cooldown times if it was a free to play game where you have to pay to speed up the crafting process, but it's not. It's a cheap way to try and get longevity out of the game.
And for an 8-bit game, the more map you open up and the more resources that spawn, you are met with a LOT of slowdown and lag that it gets irritating. It feels like a stripped down, 2D Minecraft with all the freedom taken away. £16.74 is way too much to charge for this game. I'd say it's worth about £6.99 max. I said it's a good and bad thing that it's addictive. Good, because at first it can be and is fun, but the longer you play and the more time you need to craft things, it quickly becomes a chore and turns boring and then you start wishing you hadn't wasted like 10 hours on the game when you could have been playing something much better.
All in all Forager is basically a glorified mobile game that found it's way onto consoles and is way to overpriced for what happens in it. As I said before if it was a free game I'd understand the long crafting times and would have rated the game a little higher.
I'm not saying avoid this game, by all means give it a go if it's your thing, but there's just no rewarding feeling about it at all. It may as well be called Waiting: The Game.… Expand
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