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It's like Terraria 1.0. The game's been up for 5 years now, with nothing really significant to show for it. Temper your expectations, because this game is a mile wide and a knee deep. Due to it being top-view, creating beautiful, tall buildings is out of the question, and this severely limits design. So what is in it, really?

There's just half the bosses of Terraria, instanced "small maps" that you load in and out of, and some few armour tiers. There's the the stronghold that you can build up, but you literally can just take a single day to flesh it out fully self-sufficient, and then leave it at that and let the workers fill up your chest with stuff you aren't going to use.

The updates are slow, the content is literally half of base Terraria's, and the modding community is non-existent. Can you blame them though?

Plays well, but performance is absolutely HORRENDOUS. This is a low poly, low-fidelity game and it shouldn't run at less than 120 FPS on a 7800xt.

EDIT: Retracting negative review. While Sony is still trash, credit where it's due. Hopefully this also makes the devs focus on the bugs instead of nerfing stuff to the ground.

MAJOUR ORDER COMPLETED.

EDIT: Almost finished with the game. The sidequests are absolutely enjoyable, even as good quality as the story. But how it's cut so short, progresses weirdly too fast with no prior context if you actually just play it specifically, and then there's so many plotholes that clearly were cleaned up in a rushed manner resulting in an unsatisfying story.

The whole questline doesn't even ease you into other unique classes if you don't go out of your way to interact with the world and look at every nook and cranny. You'd expect the story quest to actually bring you to other places, but alas, the progression is all over the place and clearly the main story was meant to take you around the world, but was cut short. Add to this the very bad polish optimization, AI, vicinity dialogue, and it just makes it obvious this game was released way too early, maybe 50-70% done.

The game performs far, FAR worse than my bard who rolled a 1 on Performance Check.

P.S. Even people with the BEST hardware money can buy are stuttering like mad in main cities.

It's a feature-packed game that's like a mini-BG3 in terms of freedom. Remember those old Roguelike/openworld hybrids like Elona? This is like it, but while the graphics are updated, there is an extreme lack of polish in the UI, translation, and lack of soundwork makes the visual and UX feedback extremely poor.

I'd still recommend this because of just how content packed this is, but if they took time to clean up all those I mentioned, this potentially has better chance to reach more people and in turn net them more sales.

P.S. There is a workshop, which makes this very moddable, but 99% of the mods are Chinese. This is of course in no way the developer's fault, but you need to be aware of this before giving in to the "the game is extremely moddable anyways" mindset.

EDIT 2: It's almost 2 weeks post-launch and there are still a ret@rded amount of connection issues, matchmaking issues, connection drops, ZERO crossplay, bugs that prevent linking SBAs properly, to name a few. These aren't just "rare bugs", they can happen at the most crucial times that can unnecessarily lengthen an otherwise 3-5 minute raid.

Aside from the fact that the localization was done by id!0t Tiktokers that use "smores" and "crowbars" and every other real-life reference inside a game that is STRICTLY confined within its own world, the game still has problems.

These are 2 majour issues that prevent the game from becoming really, REALLY great. @CYGAMES: You can't just contract developers and then fire them after you've released said game. You need to take into account that the game will have bugs and you need postlaunch support.

P.S. Fire your localization team.

This feels like a non-indie game so far. I mean 91act isn't exactly a small company, sure, but it's still made by a smaller "indie"-sized team within them.

I just wish they'd have released more characters in the future. Still, due to how the team of developers working on this game clearly is really working towards making this game great (and it shows), I highly recommend it.

The 2nd hit of EVERY MELEE ATTACK does not register, despite visual indication that the swing CLEARLY should have hit. This is frustrating as it makes kiting virtually confusing.

Had great ideas but ultimately unfinished. The game has a lot of things that lack a mechanic/function that makes it usable. For example, the very first thing you are taught is you can have monkeys work for you. The problem is, there is no way for you to make them stand still and give them the tool in advance. They need to first see something done, and you really can't tell pre-organize your monkeys to plan out how many you want to do certain stuff.

There is a massive amount of QoL that is lacking in this game. I can't believe this was made in 2020.

Extremely bad optimization. Unpolished AI. Paperdoll mannequin "NPCs" in hubs. AND THEN TAKING A 1 MONTH LEAVE when the game is so broken in a lot of places, WHILST HAVING THE AUDACITY to call it a "SHORT HOLIDAY BREAK"?

Made a f**kton of money, made sure to get long leaves to burn it all, and then release these small hotfixes that barely address anything that have a delay of A MONTH between each other.