Recent reviews by shlingleman

This game is nice, but unfortunately like animal crossing it doesn't really have a lot of deep systems and mechanics to keep you playing after a few ingame weeks. There's plenty of stuff to do, but once you have all npcs and buildings, there's nothing to progress towards. I think (Steam) Achievements of some kind would be another "list" to complete to add a bit more playtime, or some sort of ambitious multiplayer mode where you can visit other peoples islands

PalWorld is still in early access and thus can't be expected to be completed or without bugs. It is great fun to play, the Pals are by far the best feature about it. The gameplay is a very addicting loop of leveling by catching, building your base and defeating bosses to unlock more stuff. The map is big, but mostly empty apart from Pals and some statues to collect. There is almost no lore or backstory to anything. Unfortunately, the game feels like Craftopia in the sense that it lacks "soul". Most buildings, and all NPCs just feel really out of place and their art style doesn't match at all with how good the pals are looking. Of course I hope that they will just be reworked, but if this game is gonna go down a similar route to Craftopia, we should be prepared for a lot more jankyness and frustration instead of polishing and additions. Game is still fun tho, just worried about its future.

This game feels like a soulless combination of everything that was popular from 2015 to 2020. No systems interact well, everything is buggy and janky. Performance is ♥♥♥♥ and game looks like ass. Can still be fun with friends tho, if you just try to make the best out of it. Sadly, this game seems to have been abandoned even before the release of PalWorld, with minor changes and bugfixes instead of gameplay improvements being a majority of content provided over the last months.

Sea of Thieves can be very funny when playing with friends, especially in the beginning when noone has any clue what to do. However it also doesn't explain itself very well, we didn't know how to play with 4 players in the beginning since only one could join at a time (due to the starting ship being for 1-2 players). We thought we had to grind for a bigger ship first, but you can just grab one whenever. Losing your ship also doesn't really matter, you just get a new one. Also all of the items like food and ammo you store on your ship are lost when restarting the game. I fished and cooked for 30minutes and the next day my whole barrel full of tasty meals was gone. There's also no progression in the game, you can't upgrade your ship, your weapons or your character. You can buy skins, but skins alone aren't enough of a motivation to keep us playing. We played a few missions, digging for treasure, shipment runs for merchants, forts and an underwater dungeon. The enemys are always the same, skeletons with different skins based on their difficulty or phantoms. It was fun for a while, and at one point we had around 20 chests ready to sell. The selling process is very tedious, you can only carry 1 item at a time and so you have to make one trip for each chest, and there are different merchants for every kind of item so sometimes you're also wasting time looking for the right place to sell. There's no "sell all" option so you get actively punished by the game walking in circles for 10 minutes if you loot and quest too much.
We lost interest very quickly, and that definetly wasn't worth the 20 bucks we each had to pay for it.

buggy and coop is trash

it good

it gud

Das Spiel wirft mich jedes mal raus mit dem Fehler "Steam Verbindung getrennt". Ich war noch nicht mal im Hauptmenü.
Als es einmal für mehr als 20 Sekunden funktioniert hat, hab ich nur die Meldung bekommen, dass mein in-game Name "shlingleman" nicht erlaubt ist. Warum auch immer. Grund genug für einen flotten refund dank Steam <3

it looks like ♥♥♥♥ and it's buggy as hell, but it has good gameplay and it's fun with friends, especially for the price

10/10 would step on banana spider again