Astral Terra

Neat fantasy setting and the world editing tools are really cool. Exploring the 4 biomes of the endless procedural worlds is a nice time sink as well. Looking forward to being able to create a town once more content is in place. It has bugs but meh, what Alpha game doesn't.

Early access to early grave, don't buy it...

After playing Astral Terra, I decided have really enjoyed this game and it'd be nice to see more people enjoying it too. I started the game up and gave it a go for myself. I went into it with an open mind, knowing the game is still in alpha stages at this point. I had the options to play single player or multiplayer, but I stuck to playing solo. I created my character and chose to be a Dwarf, though I could have been a Fey, which are some kind of woodland type of elf, or a Dark Elf. As the game is still in alpha, there wasn't much character customisation, but there was a tab saying there is more to come. Before I started playing this game I was excited to try out the terraforming. I've not played a base building/survival game where I was given the option to do this before. It's safe to say I wasn't let down by this feature as it was as fun as it looks. I spent a solid half an hour building an underground base with the tool. It was really cool. I can see endless designs being created using the feature by some talented individuals. I moved onto building myself a little base above ground after playing around with the terraforming. This is done by collecting wood and stone, then refining those materials to build foundations and walls etc. It was very basic, but so is every house I build on games where you build! The building mechanics however, as well as the rest of the games controls, has a learning curve to it. Everything feels a little clunky to start. I looked past this though due to the game being in early access. The game allows you to fight monsters, craft items, level up skills and survive. I never did much fighting as I have been too busy building and overusing the terraforming! There's some fun gameplay to be had and will only get better. The devs are active on putting more content into this game so it's definitely worth keeping and eye on. The game as some good potential and is already on the right track to being a brilliant survival game. I'd say if the sandbox genre is your kind of game then pick it up. It's cheap, has some nice graphics and with the devs constantly working on it you can expect more content to arrive!

I love the idea of this game but it is just so full of a lot of bugs.It cooks my system fans are screaming then skips CTD and goes straight to Computer shut down. Can't honestly rate yay or nay for this game. I am still hopeful and patient.I uninstalled and will wait for awhile .

Barely can move to place/construct anything.

Love the genre and the overall look and feel of the game. For an indie game, this little title has a lot going on. I started off by customizing my dwarf and spawned into a town area that I made my own. I see lots of gameplay in my future and cant wait to see it develop even more.

Terrible looking game. Movement is all but choppy and the grapics/engine look like they come from the 90's. No wonder some people claim they get 60FPS with a crap PC. I don't see how they can possibly make this game any good unless they rethink/redo everything. Also, I don't think there's sound. I turned off the music because it probably sucks, just like the rest of the game, so I don't know if there is music. Oh well.

[b]Review Written on Thursday, May 19th, 2016[/b] [h1]Review[/h1] Ok so Astral Terra is a sandbox survival game, so to start off i created my character which was pretty easy to use and then i created my world, Once loaded the game looks good and the detail as you look up at the sky and upper part of the tree is quite impressive compared to some of the other sandbox games that are similar to this, So i started to do some exploring and ended up doing alot of running around and basically terraforming EVERYTHING in sight which is pretty fun. I know this game is at the alpha stage but there has to be some objective or quest to keep me entertained or even wanting to keep playing as wandering around terraforming can only keep me going so long. The game has single player and multiplayer of which you can use your own created world for mulitplayer which is a great idea if you want to show friends something you have done in your own world and vice a versa. The game has a minimap which is awesome but not one thing was shown on it apart from direction. The game has a fully configured steam controller which made the game alot easier with the steam track pad. I have seen on some other reviews that you need a monster pc to run this but i disagree with that, my pc is or wasa budget pc, paid about 550 GBP and i can run this on ultra and with no issues Overall i feel this game has huge potential and i am honestly wishing the dev the best with it as it seems like he really cares about this game. It looks good and the the idea and concept of it all are great, but for me i need something to do more than just run around [h1]Rating:[/h1] 5/10 [h1]Pros:[/h1] [olist] [*]Graphics are really good. [*]Terraforming works really well. [*]Steam controller works flawlessly, trackpad made it easier than using a keyboard and mouse [*]Easy to move where you want, so if you need to get really high up, you can move yourself and no need to spend hours building or terraforming platforms. [*]Active dev, has been 3 updates recently and they are very open to feedback and constructive criticism. [/olist] [h1]Cons:[/h1] [olist] [*]No objective or quests [*]No tutorial for the alsolute newbie on the game mechanics. [*]There are still many bugs but the dev is sorting them out. [*]The music in my own opinion started to get on my nerves abit, This should be varied with some other music. [*]The game should not be early access just yet as i feel there is still a way to go before it should be sold as early access [/olist] [h1]Hardware Information[/h1] [table] [tr] [th][u]Hardware[/u][/th] [th][u]Type[/u][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Monitor[/b][/td] [td]32 TV[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Headphones[/b][/td] [td]turtle beach px3[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Keyboard[/b][/td] [td]logitech g15[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Controller[/b][/td] [td]xbox wireless[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Mouse[/b][/td] [td]logitech mx518[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Microphone[/b][/td] [td]turtle beach px3[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Motherboard[/b][/td] [td]gigabyte[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]CPU[/b][/td] [td]hex core 3.4 ghz[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]GPU[/b][/td] [td]radeon 7750 OC[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]RAM[/b][/td] [td]16 gb[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]OS[/b][/td] [td]windows 10[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]HDD[/b][/td] [td]1tb sata[/td] [/tr] [/table] [h1]Disclaimer:[/h1] [code]Source of consideration: Tethys Interactive LLC[/code]