Valorborn

Based on solid idea. But literally unplayable right now. So many bugs. Game breaking bugs.... Soul crushing bugs. For example you clear out a bandit camp for a quest, but the quest won't update itself after you kill everyone. It just get stuck. Any many more like these... Note for devs: Please work more on the building details. A furnace should be smoking out of the chimney and not closed out with stone.

(Quick Edit: After thinking about it for a bit, and then being reminded when looking on the steam page, them charging $25 for this mess is kind of insane, and pushes me even further on the not recommended side of things. It's an absolute MESS for that price and is absolutely not worth $25 at the moment. Charging $5 less than its near-perfectly realized father, Kenshi, is insane and the devs should be ashamed.) I'm 50/50 between recommend and not recommend. I wish there was a mixed option. I Recommend if you want to support the future of a game like this. I do Not Recommend if you're hoping to hop into the game and play it right now. I (initially, but came back and changed it upon remembering that it cost me $25) reviewed as recommended because I don't want to down-vote this game into being abandoned. There is something here. A diamond DEEP DEEP DEEP in the rough. Maybe someone else can find a lot more to enjoy at the moment than I could. This one is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tough for me. I don't review games often. I think about it often, but I'm usually too lazy to type something up. I want to write something while it's fresh in my mind, but also this game legit gave me a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ migraine. I LOVE Kenshi, with all of my heart. As we all likely know, this game is trying to be a medieval Kenshi. Heavily Kenshi inspired. This game is cursed to forever be sat right next to Kenshi on the bench, and that gives this Dev a STEEP uphill battle, and I commend them for taking it on. This game is Kenshi, but only in pale pale imitation, with weights tied to your arms and legs and you're standing in a raging river. It is ROUGH. And the map starts blacked out, but due to glitches and being able to see parts of the blacked out map, it looks drastically smaller and less diverse than Kenshi's map. (I actually feel bad for saying "this game is Kenshi" a moment ago, that is a disservice to Kenshi.) I have not gotten as frustrated at any game as I did at this one, in YEARS. If you want more detail, I'll post more in the comments of this review. I'm not going to type the details here because I just exited the game and am exhausted from it. I have a headache. I've been wanting to get back into making videos for YouTube (I'm not self-promo-ing, just context) and often take notes while I'm playing a game so I can form a narrative for a video down the road, and so I can remember what I did. 85% - 90% of my notes for this game are not narrative. It was literally impossible to "forge my own story." My notes are 85% - 90% frustration at the mechanics. I'm just going to copy/paste the notes I took into the comments here. They are time-stamped so you can literally just follow my experience of 6 hours of playing the game from today. Everything is there chronologically. I hope the dev sticks to it and makes this game what it absolutely can be. But for now, I can't even respectfully call this early access. I truly feel this game needed A LOT more time in the oven before even being released to early access, this should be labelled a "barely playable play test" or something. It's rough. It's frustrating. If I'm not back within this week for some more (if I come back and have a different experience, I'll update this review), it'll probably be a long long time before I launch the game again, granted it not becoming abandoned. But there are also hundreds of other games in my library I want to, and would rather play.) But it's fine, keep my money, Dev. Just make this game great. It could be great. Please make it great, Dev.

This game is so buggy it is unbelievable. The concept is actually actually really cool but the game needs to be worked on more. Your items will glitch and disappear, Characters have trouble using stations or picking up items, the game crashes constantly making things disappear. It is not worth it at all right now until they can actually work on fixing many of the issues.

A buggy mess. Items keep disappearing. The smelter can't be accessed unless it is built on a slope (the foundation gets in the way). So why do I give a positive review? It looks promising, it can become a good game. But bug-fixes should be the top priority for the next 6 months, no more content before what you already have got is functional. I will leave now, and check back in 6 months time. This game needs a lot of work, but it is based on a sound idea.

Slow updates post-launch. Not worth it yet.

broken game,glitchy,bugy,empty....early alfa at its best...dont buy for now

Heard soo much about it, how it is the new Kenshi or whatever. No where near close.. Its expected from a new game have some issues yet some of them are borderline silly. Bannerlord and Cyberpunk was also horrible on release but they quickly get back up, couldnt see same here. Half of the item descriptions are just filler text, couple never loading icons of items, researched clothes are not appearing on tailoring workbench, some faction names are still have fillers. I'll be keep playing to see if it improves or not. Not planning to refund but I wouldnt suggest anyone this almost 1,5 year old game in this state.

If I wanted tedious slow gameplay I would just play Kenshi, great trailer though. The bandit camp you clear just respawns bandits after game-save/some time in game. Every crafting technique from smithing, woodwork, to leather is cumbersome, UI management isn't what I was expecting going into this.