V Rising

Gamer game.

Hello everyone, PvE player here. Nice game with a lot of personality and style and a lot of systems to work on to improve your character. Unfortunately, it has 2 problems that overshadow its good sides. First, not much respect for the player's time. You'll spend a lot of time traveling from a teleporter to a location and vice versa, especially if you die often. This could have been solved with a better teleporter density or some consumable for teleporting, but currently you are stuck with traveling long distances. This compounds with the second problem: difficulty tuning. The difficulty curve, for whatever reason, increases steeply as the game progresses. No matter what your skill level and commitment is, you'll either find the beginning boring or the final part punishing, where you have to either fine-tune your character or play very skillfully to overcome your enemies. Be ready to lower the difficulty as time goes on if you still want to give it a try.

Just a great game. Nice fluid combat, good graphics, challenging Bosses and great base-building. Seriously, there's some awesome QoL features like instant replacement of buildables. Haven't seen anything so thought out so far. No demolishing just to replace something. Just build on top of it and get the used resources automatically back! It runs well on Linux and has lots of customization options. Hope a sequel is in the works!

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Had a lot of work done since early release, very impressive progress. Pros: Vibe: Has its own flavor of open world survival craft which melts in Victorian-Dracula era style vibes and art; flipping the standard script of the traditional "good guys hunting bad things" into "what if maybe the 'monsters' of the night are actually the antihero and humanity is the enemy?" The day-night system keeps me thinking about when I'm going to what and where all the while playing into the theme of the game. Building/crafting: I absolutely love the castle building and look forward to spending my free time progressing and designing my base. Devs found a way to make progression/combat/biomes seamless and more deep than expected without over-burdening the player - even when I hit a place of "omg I need so much of this thing to make this" I ended up with what I needed and I didn't have to mindlessly dump all of my free time into that. Boss fights/combat: They nailed it. Its one of the core components of the games design and it works. I'm only about 20 hours in at the time of this review but so far they have felt like a consistent crawl to run progress, and am excited to see the mid-late game combat and weapons style. With an almost pleasantly overwhelming amount of weapon styles and spells (most of which I haven't even unlocked yet) I found myself spending time in between efforts to explore what's-what and a player should have no shortage of what can make their playstyle stand out and define how they play through the game. Survival: Super fun thing that took me a while to notice is the game actually does have a traditional energy/hunger/mana system in a very untraditional way. It snuck up on me, in fact, in the way of the blood/feeding system, which once I realized what was going on there, I smiled and thought it was very clever and cool. Consumables increase stats and bonuses and of course, the flip flop into build/survive by day and hunt/progress by night is a cool mechanic. Cons: Honestly? There's really not much I can say but to be as fair and impartial as possible I gotta try. Maybe the soundtrack? It could be that maybe I haven't figured it out or its me thing but the game could benefit from some raw Victorian style classical bangers that would pair well with your castle building or other aspects of the game. You would expect to be hearing some organ and string orchestra while cutting through the fog and building your eerily beautiful delve on the mountainside but its not there - doesn't make or break the game by any means but its something to consider. Also, one thing for me was the controls. I play keyboard and mouse, so learning to navigate and control my character effectively using the devs system took some adjustments but it absolutely works once you're used to it. I wouldn't suggest any change there, just a heads up to anyone who might by it that you'll be learning a new kind of live control system. Worth it? Hands down. I'll be playing this for quite a while.

Absolute blast, one of my all time favorite games.