Savage Lands

This is abandonware. It's unfinished and not worth picking up.

Abandonware

This game probably shouldn't have left alpha. It's a nice little survival crafter, but as soon as you get off the first island, there's not much direction and next to no balance or direction. Even if you manage to upgrade from tin to copper to steel, the combat system is so flawed that you're going to end up dying to bad hitboxes and damage sponge enemies for no reason. Skip this one.

Savage Lands ma bardzo dobry fundament pod survival fantasy. Mroźna, nieprzyjazna kraina, walka o przetrwanie, zbieranie surowców, crafting, budowanie schronienia, eksplorowanie lochów i walka z fantastycznymi stworzeniami brzmią jak przepis na naprawdę wciągającą produkcję. Niestety w praktyce gra nigdy w pełni nie wykorzystała swojego potencjału. Świat potrafi sprawiać wrażenie pustego, walka jest dość toporna, a zbieranie zasobów i wykonywanie kolejnych czynności z czasem stają się monotonne. Brakuje również odpowiedniej głębi, która zachęcałaby do pozostania w tym świecie na dziesiątki godzin. Szkoda przede wszystkim klimatu, bo mroźne fantasy stanowiło ciekawą alternatywę dla ogromnej liczby podobnych survivalów opartych na bardziej typowych realiach. Dobry pomysł i kilka ciekawych mechanik, ale jako całość Savage Lands pozostaje dla mnie niewykorzystaną szansą. Nie polecam.

I picked up Savage Lands on sale and found myself with genuinely mixed feelings — the open-world exploration has a certain charm, wandering between islands and slowly gearing up without anyone holding your hand, but the clunky combat, dated graphics, and painful inventory management drag the experience down constantly. The game has been in Early Access for nearly a decade, passed between developers like a hot potato, and while Last Bastion Studios deserves credit for still patching it, the core issues — stiff enemy animations, frustrating resource grinding, and a UI that feels like it was never finished — remain largely unchanged. There are flashes of something interesting here, like the boss encounters dropping unique loot and the surprisingly seamless co-op, but these bright spots are buried under layers of janky design that newer survival games solved years ago. At full price it's hard to justify, but if you grab it for a couple dollars in a bundle and bring a friend to laugh at the absurdity with you, you might squeeze a few entertaining hours out of it.

As broken and abandoned now as it was ten years ago.

Savange Lands is Skyrim in survival mode; it is underrated honestly doesn't deserve a mixed review rating.