Salt & Schooners

Ok I can see the concept for the game but the execution needs work. First off no tutorial. There are some tooltips that pop up when you hover over things but they are small text and hard to read. You start out dropped off in the water and have to swim to the closest island. There you have to figure out what you can pick up. Some things that look obvious you cannot touch, for instance a compass laying on the ground on the first island I was on. Could not touch it or interact with it. made no sense to me why it would be on the ground if I could not interact with it. You end up punching trees for wood and picking up items off the ground for everything else once you figure out what they are. Back to no tutorial. You have to look in your inventory to find the crafting menu tab. There it gives you the requirements you need to craft items. I was able to build a boat to sail to the next island over. The boat is a basic polyblock rowboat with no sail. It moves very slow while the hull integrity steadily decreases. You cannot make it move faster as far as I could tell. Hunger/thirst bars go down way too fast. I lost over a third of a bar sitting still in a boat doing nothing more than watching an island approach as we sailed toward it at less than one knot. When I got to the second island it was sparse like the first one. Back to punching trees. I was looking in the crafting tab for a repair hammer since my boat was almost dead and couldn't find one. Remember the bit about no tutorial? Took me a minute to find out that if you hover your cursor over the boat, it gives very tiny text prompts to fix the boat if you have wood in your inventory by pressing G on your keyboard. At this point, I uninstalled the game. Like I said i can see the concept for the game. It is not a bad concept but I think the execution needs more work. I absolutely love survival games, they are my bread and butter when I want to kick back and enjoy my time. But I don't think this game is my cup of tea as things stand at the moment. This is the time I really wish Steam would put some sort of "MAYBE" option for reviewing games. I didn't spend money for this game, so I didn't lose anything by giving it a try. I don't want to discourage the devs from further development of the game by leaving a negative review. However I can't truly recommend the game because I stopped playing after about 10 minutes. Which also makes me concerned that I am not giving a completely fair review of the game. I am going to leave this in the hands of the devs and say that while this game might just not be down my alley, it does have appeal. Other players may think the game is challenging and awesome and that would be fantastic. I hope Clayton Games continues to develop the game and take into consideration feedback from players. I will come back and check things out in a few months to see how the game is progressing. Until then, in the spirit of encouraging the developers I an giving this a positive review.