Witanlore: Dreamtime

Another abandoned Early Access failure.

I LOVED the idea that modders were making a full game. So, I purchased it as soon as it became available even though I was not interested in the characters and knew nothing of the story. I just wanted to help them succeed. I have bought games from modders in the past and they were as good as anything out there. But these guys took my money and didn't even deliver a decent tutorial. I bought the game for full price long before it went to less than a buck. Since they promised a lot of things and took our money, then abandoned it, if they had any integrity, they would provide full refunds. It is NOT in Early Access. They walked away from the project once they took our money. Almost everything in the description is a lie. It is nowhere near a game at all, not even a short one. It is a crime called theft. They should be ashamed of themselves for stealing our money. The page and ability to buy it at ANY price should be removed.

Brought this on sale, but hadn't played it as I wanted to wait until it was more developed. I see now it seems to have been abandoned so I thought i'd try it out of interest. Not worth even buying on sale. First most annoying thing is it should be renamed Witanlore: Loadtimes. As I spent most of the time loading the game, takes much longer than any other game even the most recent ones. Then somehow lags a bit even if the graphics aren't that good and my pc runs all the recent games at high quality. I get into the game finally, open a chest and equip some armor I found in it. Suddenly I can't move my character anymore, I can just look around at the npc standing in front of me that the game is telling me to talk to. Alt-F4.. never to go back to the game again.

It's not even playable yet. Not even close.

I'm all for early access, and I understand that means one will be "testing" a game that is still in development, but come on people! Here's my 47 minutes of gameplay: 1. Install (it installed with "corrupted data" and I had to verify over 85 files before I could play) 2. Make a character. (The avatar didn't save the first time and I had to start over.) 3. Make a character. (There's really no explanation of what the classes are, but it's pretty classic "warrior, rogue, etc." 4. Try to play. (I got as far as walking to a chest next to where one spawns into the world, opening it, and mucking around in my inventory. Apparently this was "out of order, for what the tutorial expected, or something, because I then found I could no longer move - at all.) 5. Try to figure out why I can't move. (No answer was forthcoming) 6. Uninstall. Just...yikes. The art and music was beautiful. I never got to play the game. I don't know why the WASD that worked just fine to walk me over to the chest I opened suddenly disengaged or whatever, but now I cannot move. That means I cannot play. I want my buck back. Just...geeze.

Neat story and basis for the game. Very interesting graphics. In early access late 2017, but this game has the potential to be a kick-ass game!

This game is still in early access! I will not support early access because they will probably never finished