I liked this game, but you notice it's still under development and some features are not 100% finished yet. It still was very cool to play and a fun experience with friends. For me personally I wish the combat system would be a bit better, for example more weapon types and a better sniper. It can get a bit repetetive, but I am sure once the story is done this won't be a problem anymore. :D

Gathering and building is nice, but the Gunplay is the worst I've experienced, to the point that it alone made me stop playing and leaving this review.

I really wanted to like this game, the idea/concept seems incredibly fun.

However, the experience is really hurt by multiple issues.

Seeing the same areas over and over. This is a combination of the same depot areas, the same void areas, always seeing the same distant void creature. It gets boring very fast. Definitely need to amp up the variety in generation and the different things you can see.

Adding in random events like encountering massive void creature that u can actually see in detail not just a shadow in the distance is a must. I don't think many people who see the title VOIDTRAIN expect the main antagonist to be dudes with guns. Need more void creatures/monsters. For example the pedestal you can find at every depot. First time I saw that I was 10000 percent convinced we'd be able to summon some void monsters by putting the correct offerings or maybe even playing a song? NOPE its just to open chests that give you basic ass resources...needs more creativity this is too basic and not rewarding.

Add more explorable areas with the hook system, so often my friends and I would actively look for any area we can explore but never anything that wasnt being pushed directly by the game.

Crafting system is not in fashion with modern games that don't need you to have all items ON your character as long as its in a chest nearby. Yes the game has somewhat a solution for this by the ruflememo but you can't assign one to EVERY work station and when you are expanding/decorating the train its ♥♥♥♥ to have to constantly run back to chests for certain items. Just make it so if its in a cehst then its taken into account.

Also death having NO punishment whatsoever trivializes the entire survival aspect of the game. I'm sorry but nobody is going to take a survival game seriously if dying has no actual drawback. In my opinion the dev should just implement a death screen and force you to load your last save.

Also music needs better sequencing, too often the music abruptly changes for no clear reason. Half the time we'd think a boss/void monster was incoming from how harsh it was lol.

My friend and I will keep exploring the game and hope to see more but from what other negative review state its clear we will be seeing A LOT of the same. The game hasn't finalized and I think the final chapter update is coming so maybe many things will be overhauled to fix the above issues. Fingers crossed. Its a fun game but its far from being what it could be.

The positive? Arena was a really unexpected thing and we loved that. We love the train companions, the building is fun (apart from having to fetch items), the maintenance of the train is on point, tech tree seems fair with lots of flexibility in ways to gain research points. Again the concept is great and I think with more love this game could really go big