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0.8 hrs last two weeks / 72.9 hrs on record (15.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: 26 Jan @ 11:21pm
Updated: 27 Jan @ 12:35am

Early Access Review
Most negative reviews go like this:
"Go play palworld or Valheim and they have like 1-5 Hour playtime on record. Not even taking into consideration that valheim is on steam for a few years and enshrouded just started it's own journey. It's an objectively unfair comparison. Let me be clear and less biased than most negative reviews.


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This game has quite a lot of content already, in fact more than many games that charge you full price such as DIABLO 4.
NPC's for your own home are only placeable once perserver it seems. Yes, it would be nice if npc's were placable once per flame (maybe) so that every house has them but this is not game breaking as you can just fast travel to said locations. Thus not a hard con.
Quite some different types of enemies, elites and bosses for a new early access in this price range. You can loot them for new recipes, crafting materials or equipment.
Fighting said enemies is fine but the combat could be a bit less stale and clunky for some people. Perhaps more combos or abilities could help.
The graphics are pretty good and stylized, it's enough for a good atmosphere and game experience, it has detailed scenery but don't expect UE5 level of realism. The performance is good as long as you meet the system requirements or overshoot them.
Said performance should be better for the minimum required specs.
You have different biomes to explore, each new biome will provide new stuff such as minerals, wood and so on. Keep in mind that things respawn after around 3 in game days such as miasma trees and the ground that you terraformed. Loot also respawns. Only applies outside of your fire range.
No con here IMO, as respawn of terrain so far and so on allows you to fix things and as stated in PRO you are able to manipuate this by placing a fire. Things inside of the radius of the fire will not be changed.
I honestly did not build enough to come to a conclusion - review will be updated
I honestly did not build enough to come to a conclusion - review will be updated
Yes, this game has it's flaws but I my opinion it is worth the money (if you like this genre).
Most comparisons to valheim and palworld are absurd and if you want to make them enshrouded is better in almost every regard. Palworld's map is empty and and the servers are dogwater compared to this game, pal world barely had variety in biomes. Valheim had way less enemies and things to do than enshrouded at the start of early access. Just to name a few things. Every game is fun in it's own way and I don't like these comparisons but if you want to make them, they lose to enshrouded objectively. The only difference is hype. Enshrouded got unlucky timing with the release date to the hype of palworld.
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