Astral Terra

[b]Review Written on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016[/b] [h1]Review[/h1] So first of, this is a Early Access game, in a Alpha state (in my opinion it can be considered to be in a Pre-Alpha for some more weeks, if the patches keep on coming) with the genre of Sandbox and Survival. When you start you get all the tools you need to gather resources, build a house, or a castle, or whatever you want, use your imagination. You can also use Terraforming to chape the world with your own hands, so, go build that underground city you always dreamed of. Yes, Early Access means some bugs, but every game has at least one, even the finished ones, so expect some on this one. But the Devs are pretty active, and many of the reported bugs are fixed in the following patch, so, the more feedback you give, better the game will turn out to be. P.S.: I have around more 15 hours of offline gameplay, mostly on singleplayer mode though. [h1]Rating:[/h1] 7.2/10 [h1]Pros:[/h1] [olist] [*]Very active Devs, who listen for ideas/sugestions/bug reports, and more, and patch them, or implement them, as soon as possible. [*]Terraforming, in other words, the ability to change the world around you, its a powerful tool at your disposal [*]The Map Seed, which means, each map has its own number, its Seed, and if you found a amazing world you can send the number to a friend for him to play in the same one (without your modifications to the same). [*]Several classes to choose from, each one with his own backstory and lore. [*]The art is amazing for a Early Access game, we can see that they gave much time in that area. [/olist] [h1]Cons:[/h1] [olist] [*]The Tutorial. Or better yet, the lack of it, it may be a sandbox game, but we still need to learn how to play it. [*]The controls either for construction and for movement, after a while you get a hang of them, but still hard to use them. [*]This game requires a High-Spec computer, which means, a lot of people wont be able to enjoy it with maximum fps. [*]Its a Alpha(Early Access) game, but in my opinion, its still on a pre-alpha level, but with the help and feedback from the community, soon enough will be a Alpha level game. [*]In my opinion, the game is a bit overpriced, i see this as a 10/15 game max, so the 20+- pricetag i think its a big push. [/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]1366x768[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Headphones[/b][/td] [td]Ozone Rage ST[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Keyboard[/b][/td] [td]- Laptop[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Controller[/b][/td] [td]-[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Mouse[/b][/td] [td]E-Blue Auroza[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Microphone[/b][/td] [td]Ozone Rage ST Microphone[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]Motherboard[/b][/td] [td]Motherboard[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]CPU[/b][/td] [td]Intel Core i5-3210M 250GHz[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]GPU[/b][/td] [td]NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]RAM[/b][/td] [td]6Gb[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]OS[/b][/td] [td]Windows 7[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]HDD[/b][/td] [td]750Gb[/td] [/tr] [/table] [h1]Disclaimer:[/h1] [code]Source of consideration: Tethys Interactive LLC[/code]

Unique game for the genre. I like that there are different races and sexes to choose from when creating a character. Lots of choices on what to do in game depending on your play style and objective. I like building the most. Again, lots of choices of materials & shapes, Lots of ways to customize your home or create a town/city of custom built houses. Would like to see more furniture and decorating options in the future but a great start! Having fun so far!

After almost a year without any news, it seems that developer has abandoned the game so I cannot recommend this game anymore plus the fact that the last update makes the game unplayable. My old review follows. After rereading the comment in the last update from the developer, I decide to change my review to positive to give him the chance to finish the game. The game is not bad and has potential to be very good but with the last update in April, the developer has put new bugs in the game (corrupt saves, no mining anymore except for gold, creatures stuck on walls, etc.). I post that in the forum and email him about those problems and have gotten no response yet. You can still build things but it will be harder to craft higher items without mining, you will probably have to buy them from the merchant. And you will have to exit the game using STOP from the steam library (Alt-tab to switch) to not corrupt the save. Also, the developer should improve how the combat with enemy creatures work. The game is not very expansive only $10.00, and the next update should be in December.

This is a terrible piece of software, just... No. The UI is awful. The graphics are unpolished, they don't look 'awesome' in the screenies/video, but somehow they look worse in-game. Terraforming/building interface is really awkward. No tutorial? Spawned in single player, there was an NPC selling items, immediately jumped by some river goblin thing, combat is basic (of course, insta-death), just a mess all over. Was not expecting this considering the game has been on Steam for a while now...

I don't get it. Ran around for 40 minutes and nothing is editable.(no food). Ore, trees, resources, etc are all over the place and no challange to locate. No animals. I'm just bored.

I brought 2/3 years ago and it's was just soo buggy I couldn't play it, so I thought I'd try again a couple of years later and to be honest it's still buggy! I don't think this game will ever get fixed and I've lost all hope for it. It did have loads of potential but I feel the developers have just lost interest in the game and to be honest I don't think the game did well in the market as much as they wanted it to. SO please don't waste your money their are much better games out there than this one.

as of right now its very buggy, movment is jerky, player spins around in circles ifyou want to get on a game from the ground floor maybe, but this just isnt finished enough for me

I thoroughly enjoyed this the game. In particular sandbox is a lot of fun, and it even has a single player with NPC + you can create the world you want (or at least totally modify it after it generated). You can easily switch between singleplayer and multiplayer, that's very important. It has some bugs now, but for alpha it's ok.

all ill say is nice idea but how the controls and how the game work are atrocious and it needs alot of work b4 it should be in early access in my opinion as it is now not worth geting