The Gold River Project

I avoided this game for ages because of all the negative comments. Then I tried it and I am so glad I did. I have played hundreds of survival games and this one is easily my favourite. Yes it still has some bugs. I haven't found any yet that are game breaking but they do exist. What I would add though is that I have never played an early access survival game where the developers were this involved with their player base. The devs are in constant communication with their players, they really listen to what their players want and they patch this game all the time. If a YouTube video is more than a month old then ignore it. They patch this game so often that old videos are out of date. As for the game itself, I won't spoil anything. I will just say, this game is a huge mystery. You go on a camping holiday with some friends to the Gold River. When you get there, your friends are gone and you will start finding lots of things that are hard to explain but make you want to search to figure out what the hell is going on. This game does not hold your hand. Besides a few scattered notes and maps, it is up to you to explore. If you like survival games, then do yourself a favour and give this one a go. I have never played a survival game that had me more intrigued to see where it is going than this one.

Your team has something brewing, unfortunately your game is so buggy it is almost unplayable. I appreciate your team responding to reviews but a lot of what was flagged as a bug persists today. Our group of 3 experiences issues getting into the same lobby, frame/stuttering issues, DC'ing and loss of inventory upon return, inability to remove campfire pings, etc. I'll be checking back in here in the future to see if your team has fixed this game enough to play it co-op with my friends and see if the review changes then, but as of right now I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone looking to play co-op. From what I've seen online, the game looks to play better when playing solo. I would focus on fixing what you guys have over adding content and marketing this out now...we weren't able to even enjoy the current amount of content that's out. And it seems like there is a lot of it.

Has lots of potential, has plenty of content. Fixing the bugs and optimization should be the real focus for this dev team.

Played through a dozen or more times and everytime I try to return to a saved game, the entire world is pooched! Tried every fix, dirx drivers, putting saved files in another folder, and today I spent $1600.00 to upgrade my computer and the game STILL wipes out my saved files! Very fun game but this bug is just not worth it!

it makes the game pointless when you have collected, created lots of items then save the game only to return to find all those items gone.

Game is Ok. Overpriced for what it is though currently. I can see the price if it was generally finished but there's no real "end game." First playthrough rushed through and got to winter with my duo in about 7 hours or so. Played again now solo and have been slowly exploring the map but the game just feels like half done. Understand its a work in progress but from the different stages ive seen of others videos there is a lot of cut content as of now. Used to be other "humans" in the game in bunkers that were removed, You get ammo for guns that are non existent anymore it seems. Close to 30 hours now and the loot boxes consist of cloth and rope in about every building outside sunshine camp aside from the car battery, meds or gas can here and there, ive seen 2 pumas, a deer and 3 wolves in about 20 hours now. Craftables at workbenches that arent even in the game. Look forward to playing when its finished but as of now its a little boring and repetitive. Would be nice to see some type of journal map feature, or a findable in game map, either of which could be updated when you visit a POI so that you have some sense of the area rather than trying to memorize the rivers and forests, I understand the adventure aspect in not having a map right away, but adding a craftable map or something just adds to the immersion.

I'm only in for about 5 hrs an the game isn't terrible an quite fun to adventure an grind for the clues an achievements , but as of now i have to stop playing the game till my friend is able to play with as well. Because now if i load into the saved game solo all the doors that have been unlocked by my friend are now lock an to get the key to open the locked door is behind the locked door an the loot doesn't respond.... so now i am just stuck an cant continue i really hope the developers see my bug report an this comment. Cause as of right now i don't wanna recommend this game. :(

This game is frustrating, clunky movement, poor optimization and filled with bugs. I might return to this game when it has a few more updates. There's maps posted but it would be nice to have a map on your own and be able to use markers instead of having to find plastic to craft them. I get that this is a survival game but even 7 days to die has a map. I'd rather play 7 days to die then play this. You guys have something here but its not ready. Maybe ill play on release. Keep up the good work. Ultimately I got frustrated game play wise, not a lot of progression even when I've found a ton of loot at the Sun Camp. I know the trading camp is the key to getting more recipes but at this point this is a pretty grind heavy game. 7 days to die wasn't this bad.