The Gold River Project

Well is average, great looking views. kayaking around is ok, but does lack any pace. The story if you call is that is every loose and at the start you just go, what am i suppose to do? There are better games out there.

cool game

TLDR FOR PEOPLE READING REVIEWS: GIVE IT A TRY BUT REMEMBER ITS PRERELEASE TLDR FOR THE DEVS you guys are doing amazing keep going this is something special The good: Initial reactions: LOVE what the devs are going for, this game is exactly what i was looking for - a survival game for outdoorsy camper types that isnt some crazy freak zombie rerun! Love how from the start you can tell theres something off and an underlying story but so far there feels like a lot im missing (this is good imo as it is survival first). I love the attention put into inital details of reward for curiosity and easily the some of the most beautiful views ive seen in games, i actually just enjoy wandering and looking at stuff in this and there is reward for doing so. The bad: This game needs A LOT of polish in writing this i will try to avoid things the devs have made clear they are working on like optimization and lowering spec requirements, my rig can barely run at 60 fps with my hardware (specs attached) and this would be the first game of this size to pull it off IF you have older gear give it some time in the oven before visiting. I have run into some bugs with weather like fog disappearing then reappearing abruptly entering and exiting buildings. The fishing leaves a lot to be desired and is rather mundane for how good it COULD be I havent seen much spoken on this topic but personally I hope the fishing gets looked into a little more after more important things that have been said are being worked on are finished. AUDIO: Good lord there is some very mismatched audio that needs to be adjusted a little bit, going back to the fishing - the bobber hitting the water and the fish splashing is SO LOUD for me when everything else is perfectly reasonable or too quiet - I got jumpscared by it the first time I made a pole HA First person also needs some love - a lot of missing animations and not seeing your body looking down and just seeing an axe floating around is not ideal but very minor of a problem, spent 10 minutes figuring out if my water and food was bugged but the first person just doesnt have the drinking or eating animation that takes time, just didnt realize the actions were in fact being made. My biggest recommendation is a render distance adjustment in settings of some kind to help with immersion. I am not a programmer and wont pretend to know if thats possible or would even fix the issue and i assume as they keep working on it small things like this will improve but having trees randomly appear while youre running around because the game is back loaded is an immersion breaking pet peeve of mine that i would love to not see. There is also catastrophic frame drops in certain areas that i assume are crosses into seperate areas where new stuff gets loaded and I do prefer this to loading screens but again, I bet with these devs this WILL get figured out they seem to have a real love and fire for their project and i respect it. OVERALL; Love is clearly being put into this game and it feels like a group of guys who love camping and outdoors want to bring it to people in a way that can be more accessible to different groups of people. THE FOUNDATIONS ARE AWESOME but it does still need time in the oven as most people say. I will be waiting and failing to be patient as this game has the grounds to become something truly amazing and possibly one of my favorites but as is I wish the best to the devs and the work they are putting in and it cannot be avoided how much work it needs. I have yet to see an honest review go unresponded to while they haven't been hard focusing optimization which speaks volumes as well and I hope more people hear about and give it a chance as these initial bumps in the road get ironed out on the way to 1.0 full release.

Game still in development progress and needs a lot of optimization, and bug fixes.

well umm!! started out good everything looking ok running great then 3 days of playing got hit with an update today loaded in to no trees or buildings loot boxes hovering everywhere took screen shots of it all reloaded in same thing started new game came back running good i left the game came back same thing happen uninstalled it reinstalled same thing no tress or buildings hate it but this game is broke i really liked playing it till it is fix i wont be back hours wasted progression lost yet again update: bug in purple key bunker found cant progress cant find UV flashlight anywhere to get the codes i had to watch a old video of a streamer had 3 UVs in the toolbox for him i didn't even have a toll box there but when you enter the codes in computer A&B both open the loading doors get blue keycard but now you need T1 T2 & T3 codes yet again you need a UV flashlight to look for the codes but if you can't find one there is another way but its locked behind a door the was suppose to unlock when you enter the codes in A&B the codes at this point i am just done i have reloaded the game out reloaded in checked game files nothing i refuse to wipe for a 6th time in this game i am to far in to it to want to trees still doing the same but go to your campfire and reload the file it will fix it i gave it another chance being the developers help me out but at this point i am getting aggravated this game has to many bug and im just done with it

So far so good> Have watched videos and made some mistakes, but survival games are like that. I don't fully know what happens but i know it will be fun. Check this game out for sure.

Well I didn’t get to experience the bad performance. I started to play thinking it had partial controller support, and controller binding is there in the settings, but the controller just did nothing. Looks nice, but might need some more time in the oven. I’ll try it again in a couple years