Ember's Verge

We need more survival games that are actual survival games and not just crafting, combat, adventure games with a hunger bar.

I really wanted to give this game a thumbs up, but honestly, I can’t. It feels very unfinished, weak in a lot of areas, and full of bugs that make progression either frustrating or straight up impossible at times. There are trees everywhere, yet you have to spend two in-game days running around a stone biome looking for granite just to make an axe. Regular stone does not work. If you don’t find it, you’ll be cooking food on random sticks that occasionally fall from trees — and sometimes there are none nearby at all. Can you break branches off trees by hand? Of course not. That would ruin the “realistic survival” experience 🤡 Want to build something better than a shelter made of leaves? Get ready for a lovely adventure trying to find oak saplings, because they’re used in basically every structure. After wandering around the map for ages, I finally found a tiny biome with three oak trees in it. Maybe there are more somewhere, but that’s all I managed to find. And the map itself is incredibly repetitive and boring. Locations all look the same and nothing really stands out or feels memorable. The final straw for me was during a flood event, when dirt suddenly stopped turning into mud, which completely blocked my building progress. The game literally tells you dirt becomes mud when soaked in river water. But when the flood raises the water level, apparently that’s some different magical water because the mechanic just stops working. I could forgive this in Early Access, but not in a full release version. Overall, the game suffers from the same problem a lot of “hardcore survival” games do: in an attempt to make survival feel realistic, the developer ends up making players die because they can’t find some very specific twig or rock. If this was Early Access, I probably would’ve left a positive review. But I bought it specifically because it was advertised as a full release, and right now I honestly feel a bit misled. Hopefully I’ll get a reason to change this review later.

I've played a lot of survival crafting games, and I have to say this is definitely one of the best. Excellent graphics, thoughtful crafting, suspense, and above all, the developers are present and attentive to every comment. Congratulations on the game! Don't hesitate to buy it, it's guaranteed to be fun.

I have run into a problem. I have an ultrawide monitor (49in). There is no option for windowed and no matter which resolution I pick it does full screen. When I land on the island I am stuck in the 1st text screen and unable to move past it. I assume that there is a button that I need to press to continue but it must be at the bottom. I would post a picture to illustrate if I could. The text "Good Luck and don't Starve" is halfway below the bottom of my screen.

Booted up my first world, gathered enough sticks for a campfire and as soon as I go to light it, it starts raining. Move to a rock overhang for dryland and then light my campfire. Go to make shelter. Its too big to fit in the overhang. fire runs out of fuel. freeze to death. Great game, treats me exactly the way I hoped it would.

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