Aloft

Honest Review Pros: -Great game, very relaxing and has a bit of a grind to it. -A lot of ways to build your own place (unique pieces of walls, floors, roofs, etc.) -Interesting concept of moving around with your island -Puzzles are super fun to figure out Cons: (This is subject to change) -Performance is not in a great state at the moment. There is some areas that will give me 20 fps at Medium settings with a good PC. (RTX 5080 with i7 14700K and 32 GB of RAM) -Some clipping issues in some of the islands. Some items can't even be grabbed due to them being in the ground There is a launch option that can fix some of the performance issues if you have not found one yet but is very hit or miss. Add this line "-force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded" .

Steam needs to add a "Meh" recommendation option for games like this. The game is what it tries to be, but that's all it is...a basic run of the mill exploration game with no rime or reason to it other then to "be" those genre tags. The TLDR, if you are looking for something interesting to play, this isn't it. You build to build, you farm to farm, and you explore to achieve those 2 goals. That is it (from what I have seen). To start with, the game doesn't really explain much of anything. Why are you here? What happened to everything/everyone? Why are you doing what you are doing? Who knows lol. Things just are. You are slapped into the game with no explanation of anything and that doesn't just apply to the world environment either, it applies to game mechanics and resource collecting as well. Some stuff is explained with tooltips or popup icons when you look at a resource, but not everything. It took me 8 hours before I realized you need to use the "dorkips" tool to get "tuff" by stabbing the ground -_- lol The exploration is mainly resource and knowledge stone hunting, very little exists outside of that. Because of that, most islands are generic resource fillers with one or two interesting places to check out with maybe a puzzle or two to solve in each map section. I've explored through the main 4 sections of the first zone and there is nothing to motivate me to continue. The game has no storyline, no fun/exciting/cool things to unlock...and if it does it does a poor job presenting that to you. The puzzles are nice but in some cases it's just too much work for such a small reward. All in all, it feels like a crafting recipe unlock simulator and everything it tries to be is merely just a means to accomplish that. The game is indeed a cozy sim with exploration and farming/building. But in order to do most of it, you have to spend tens, if not hundreds of hours to unlock recipes and explore in order to make anything worthwhile and by the time you reach the point where you got a decent amount of things unlocked to build and decorate with...you have no reason to even play the game anymore because once you build what you like...there is literally nothing else to do. The game is neat, but I can't recommend it for anyone who want's something more then a basic building simulator.

I don't understand the amount of complaints about performance. I'm using a mid-range machine and it's playing AMAZING. I'll come back after I get some more in game time :)

This is a game about survival—but the kind of survival you experience on a sunny morning with a cup of hot chocolate in hand, as you try to enjoy the sun’s rays gently brushing your face while wearing pajama bottoms and a fluffy robe. If that’s what you’re looking for, then it’s a plus: a warm little game about being caring. I recommend it for those seeking thrills and adrenaline in a new take on a book about veganism and Winnie the Pooh. If you're here for a survival game, go somewhere else. If you want to spend a few lovely days with your niece who loves llamas and are desperately trying to rebuild your family bond with her, you've come to the right place. Early access means little content.

I played the demo a while ago and really liked it. There felt like progression and I kept finding new bits to unlock or loot to add to my base. With the most recent update, the progression feels awful and I can't build anything. I can't find new knowledge stones to unlock more, and the world feels repetitive. This might be exactly what someone is looking for so if you can get it on sale, go for it. I think the devs care about the game and it will get fixed. I think the performance also got worse, frame stutters and whatnot. I'll keep an eye on this game, but right now it needs to cook some more..

Sadly, this game runs very poorly on my PC with my current rig. I played with the lowest settings and roughly had around 45-59 fps. I refunded the game because i know it will be even more demanding as i progress further into the game.

please optimize this game i beg 😭

Unable to play atm. Too many Stutters. I'll check back after a few improvements. Edit: Just found the legacy branch(betas) A lot more stable but, it doesn't have all the latest content :(