Survival: Fountain of Youth

Классная идея, но ленивое исполнение Survival: Fountain of Youth это тот случай, когда задумка реально цепляет, а реализация заставляет зевать. Атмосфера и сеттинг крутые, но всё рушит одно: ленивость в мелочах. Хочешь добыть дерево? Забудь про нормальную анимацию. Просто жмёшь E, открывается меню взаимодействия, выбираешь сколько палок добыть и готово. То же самое с тушами животных. Без движения, без ощущения процесса. Ни тебе взмахов топора, ни шкуры, ни звуков, ничего. Как будто Excel открыл, а не survival запустил. По сравнению с Rust, Green Hell, Palworld или даже Enshrouded, тут всё ощущается сухо и безжизненно. Идея крутая, потенциал был огромный, но разработчики будто устали на этапе планов на будущее. Если тебе важен иммерсивный процесс выживания, то проходи мимо. Если хочешь просто полазить по острову и не заморачиваться может и зайдёт.

I'm a bit so-so on this game because obviously it's not the best survival crafter on the market but it isn't bad enough to be worth a thumbs down either. It's pretty much riding the "okay" line for me. In many ways the game feels like The Long Dark but in a tropical setting. There are many things that are similar to TLD: - Weather and conditions affects your character. - Building, reading and crafting takes in-game time. - You constantly have to tend to your character's needs. - Very few amount of animals/enemies. - Immersive - Dated visuals - Sense of loneliness ( which is good if you like that ) But in my opinion it's a more complete game than TLD. It hides most of its depth at first and you will be fooled into thinking that there's less content than there actually is. For example, there's more than one island, but the game doesn't show you that right away. An extra layer of depth was added by the main quest which adds a nice treasure hunt aspect to the game. Just like in The Long Dark, wild animals are your enemies and are very limited in amounts of species. There's also an infinity of them, as they respawn at the same locations after a cooldown period. I think this was the lazy way of implementing wildlife. It makes me think of grindy MMORPG. The animals quickly become irritating and annoying since you'll always have to kill them even if you did so dozens of times before. You will get so tired of encountering the same animals ( especially the early game badgers ), it's ridiculous. Player movement is really odd. You move quickly, kinda like in The Forest, but it's more like you're on roller skates since you always seem to slide or roll when you move. You will often try to jump on stuff and "slip" because the movement is so bad. It takes a lot of time to get used to it. I have no idea why they made it like that. Just like in TLD, you level up different abilities and gain attributes along the way which is a great incentive to keep grinding. Because it's a pretty grindy game and you will often have to look for something very specific in order to build things and that can become quite tedious over time. Something that's pretty cool is that items you drop will never disappear. This adds realism to the game and is rather rare to see ( off the top of my head, only Project Zomboid does something similar to that level ). Even when you drop perishable items, they turn into compost. For me, the game began to be grindier and grindier and at some point I decided to get on the main quest but the game is pretty bad at telling you what to do sometimes, so I often ended up wandering in places I had no reason to be, trying to find very specific things to keep going. The hints and clues the game leaves for you aren't always very precise or informative. The sense of progression in this game is very good at times, and very bad at other times. It definitely can get tedious at some point when you're looking for something and need to go back to a place filled with wild animals you are obligated to kill. This game will eventually have multiplayer. This is very good news because it'll make it more fun and less grindy. This should've been a thing right off the start but I guess they had other priorities. Seems to me the future online features of the game will definitely enhance the whole gaming experience and may multiply the interest in the game. For now, I'd say the game is a 6.5/10. Hopefully future updates and multiplayer can make this rating go up a little. It's a rather cheap game, not the best, but can probably satisify your needs if you are a survival/crafting fan and need a new game to test your prepper skills.

The game feels really disconnected, mainly because of the movement. It’s like you’re just a point floating in an abstract space. To make matters worse, all interactions with the environment are done through menus. It feels more like a text-based game with visuals, rather than a dynamic, immersive world. Maybe there’s a great game here, but I’m not willing to stick around to find out when the fundamentals already bother me.

Ce sera un "Non, mais..." Le jeu en lui même est bien : la chasse, le craft, l'histoire, etc. Cependant ce qui m'a fait abandonner le jeu c'est la gestion du temps. Dans ce jeu, le temps lui même est une ressource : vous voulez couper un arbre ? Ca fait avancer le temps de 2 heures. Vous voulez allumer un feu ? Ca prend 20 minutes et vous avez 80% de chance d'échouer. etc, etc. etc. Passer ses journées à chercher des ressources pour finalement voir ma jauge de faim/soif/sommeil s'effondrer car je perds un temps dingue à chaque action, ça me gonfle. Je ne doute pas que ça rajoute au réalisme et que ceux prêts à gérer cette contrainte supplémentaire adoreront, mais moi je joue pour me détendre, pas pour calculer si c'est rentable ou pas de faire telle ou telle action.

I started Survival: Fountain of Youth on a positive note. The setting is fantastic, the mystery around the expedition pulls you in, and some of the environmental puzzles are genuinely satisfying to figure out. Exploration feels purposeful (the islands look great) and the survival loop has that nice "plan your day or suffer tomorrow" energy. Then the game started talking. The voice acting in the cutscenes is... an experience. I spent an uncomfortable amount of time wondering if it was AI generated, recorded in a closet, or performed by someone reading the script for the very first time while emotionally detached from the concept of humanity. Crafting happens in real time, which sounds immersive until you realize time is sprinting forward while you stand there watching a progress bar waiting for water to boil. You also can't multitask, because apparently your character's full cognitive capacity is required to cook fish or tie a rope! Some systems feel unfinished too. Missing recipes and odd gaps in progression. Tomatoes are in the game. Cooking exists. But meaningful tomato recipes? Apparently that knowledge was lost with the expedition. Combat deserves its own survival warning. Hitting animals feels like you're negotiating with wooden furniture. There's barely any feedback, impacts feel weightless, and fights drag on in that special way that makes you question your life choices. The foundation is solid, but the polish is very... aspirational. And yet... there *is* a good game buried under the rough edges. Exploration is enjoyable. The story kept me curious. The survival mechanics, when they work, hit a satisfying rhythm. You can see the potential clearly. You just experience it while occasionally arguing with the camera, the crafting system, and the local wildlife-shaped lumber. **Final Score: 6/10** A survival game with great ideas, strong atmosphere, and just enough friction to remind you that survival sometimes means enduring the game itself.

Easily the worst survival game I ever played. Everything is an intraction menu. Least immersive garbage I ever played. Buy ifsunsets over this sorry excuse of a game. Like others said it feels like a mobile game. Devs probably do not even know how to program.. Durability, hunger and thirst are way exaggerated. How does this have very positive reviews is beyond me..

Мне, как большому почитателю жанра «выживалок», эта игра очень понравилась. Попробовал ее еще в раннем доступе, оставил и с нетерпением ждал релиза. И не зря. Главный ресурс в этой игре — это время. Оно требуется абсолютно на все ваши действия, от мелкого крафта до глобальных построек, работает по принципу быстрой перемотки и тратится нещадно. По началу это жутко бесит, вообще ничего не успеваешь, и персонаж устает моментально. Но потом, в процессе прокачки инструмента, становится немного легче. Добавьте к этому страдания не только от голода и жажды, но и от жары, холода, сквозняка, влажной одежды, малярии, насморка, укусов насекомых и змей… Все это не просто иконки статуса, а дебафы, влияющие на действия и поступки. Например, сон в мокрой одежде не восполнит здоровье во время сна, а сквозняк усилит насморк и лечить его придется более продвинутыми лекарствами. Очень порадовал огромный список крафта, расширяющийся по мере изучения флоры, фауны и биомов на новых островах. При этом, в нем практически нет проходных и бесполезных элементов. Все, что находим по ходу прохождения простенького сюжета в духе старых приключенческих книг, пополняет список производимых вещей и требует более продвинутых инструментов и станков. Здесь реально, как в многих современных дорогих играх, есть острая необходимость обустройства баз. Дом — это не просто вторичное развлечение и декорация, а потребность, влияющая на самочувствие ГГ. Хочу отметить и то, что разработчики избавили нас от постоянного рысканья по сундукам, потому как все необходимое для крафта, кроме воды и инструментов, берется станками автоматически из ближайших хранилищ. А еще здесь можно построить собственный корабль! Графика мягкомультяшная, очень приятная. Анимации немного хромают, но это не портит впечатление. Звук хороший, что окружение, что музыка. Минусов у игры, на фоне общего положительного восприятия, практически нет. Мне на память приходит только резкий респавн только что убитых хищников, буквально приклеенных к своей локации. Охота и рыбалка не доставляет большого удовольствия. Если любите «выживалки», то берите, не пожалеете.