The negative reviews on this game are honestly astounding in how inaccurate they are (there's even someone talking about levels which don't exist in this game). This is primarily due to a rough start to the game (notice the time played in the negative reviews vs the positive reviews) which is fair but all these people talking about how they feel like they do no damage, their weapon swings carry no weight, and there's no progress are complaining because they haven't experienced the progress yet. As this game can be compared to Dark Souls, it's like reading the reviews of people who never got out of the Undead Parish complaining about the drake on the bridge being impossible to beat.

Ultimately, this game is dependent on experience and accumulated knowledge. Knowing how to make money, where to find skills, crafting recipes, attack animations for the various enemies, how to deal with environmental issues and sickness, etc are all key to this game and sadly, that makes a steep barrier to entry which is, itself a valid critique. Just temper those negative reviews with the understanding that all the gameplay elements they complain about have solutions those reviewing are not aware of.

If you're interested in trying Outward, just understand the game actually has no grinding besides the accumulation of personal skill and knowledge and that the early game without those will be rough. Come up with clever solutions to problems, make use of things like status effects against enemies you lack the damage to properly fight, and do not feel restricted to any particular routes or locations. If you struggle with an area or don't want to address it then, simply don't and go explore somewhere else.

神！好玩，游戏内容丰富的可以掩盖它贫瘠的建模，一定要和朋友玩。

我清楚记得刚玩这个游戏，不敌鸡哥玩着玩着物资给打没了，倒在了野外，醒来发现自己在雯戴尔牢子里，md预警说想出狱就得打黑工，狱友A说有路子能出去，你得给我找蘑菇，蘑菇在狱友B手里，狱友B说蘑菇有那鸡蛋来换，鸡蛋在狱友C手里，狱友C有鸡蛋但是想要个铁锹，就这么套娃。我伙伴说md你注意到这个这个坑没有（刚来的就看到了），咱们干了这么几天的活，啥也没有，不行跳了吧试试。确实富贵险中求，这黑工打不了一点，我俩一合计就跳了，再次醒来就在一片海滩上，赌对了！嗨呀，满口呼吸的都是自由的芬芳。

地图很大，但是没有传送和坐骑，导致后面95%时间都在跑路，尤其是跨区域的。

这个游戏设定随时间耐力上限会降低，血上限也会随受伤降低，这两个都可以睡觉回复或者吃料理和药，对了这个游戏前期回血手段非常慢，打了绷带一秒回0.5滴血，生命药水25银币一瓶，前期根本买不起。除了这个，游戏中释放魔法所需的法力居然不能睡觉恢复，只能吃特定料理和药。

而且法术很多都是需要组合释放，相当于我要释放火球术，必须先放个聚集火元素，然后释放火球术，不然伤害低的可怜，学到技能一点也爽不起来，而且很多法术是要消耗材料的。

同时这个游戏背包容量有限制，导致不能无脑拿所有战利品，很多背包装上会导致翻滚死慢。

这些问题中最不能接受的是没有坐骑！！！十几小时游戏，有十个小时在跑图，都有魔法了没有传送我都能忍，没有坐骑是真的恶心人，跑的慢的要死，还得不时停下回耐力，纯纯的折磨。

所以这个游戏应该叫做马拉松世界，如果你喜欢马拉松比赛，请无脑入，这个游戏通关可能需要上百小时，你有90%的时间在马拉松。