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Got this game 4 days ago and I love it at first your going to struggle but it gets better overtime would recomend.

Kniffliges Survival Pixel Abenteuer. sehr zu empfehlen

It's ok... it's not perfect 5 stars but it's also not bad.

The whole game account setup is annoying, I'd pay the 30% Steam takes if I never had to jump through hoops again!

The game is OK, main menu zooms in and out and you have to delete files to stop it. One of the very few games to give me motion sickness! So that was nice every time I wanted to start up game to play...

In game is nice looking, a lot of stuff isn't explained very well. Get ready to Alt Tab a lot or keep checking mobile. Found out after ages you can pan bony soil and find stuff! In game menu just says "So many bones", so that's a lot of help lol.

Knapping is a huge pain (literally) if you have bad wrists, luckily there is a mod to help called Knapster.

The main game has loads and loads of grind, if you ever played Wurm it's on the same level as that. I honestly find it too much.

So yeah it's "alright", I wouldn't say to people you got to play it, or avoid that! It's nothing special and just average

trashy game system, i'll login with the correct password/gmail, and it blocked my IP address. Cool.

There is alot that can be improved in terms of gameplay, replayability and content, for this i knock 1 star off, i also knock one star because it needs better modding tools to make it easier to make more mods, after all we want to have our own flavor on it!

Looks great, and id love to play, but..

 i bought the game on friday. Its monday now and support isnt answering but the money is withdrawn. I get its a small company, but sending a key should be easy.

Will write a proper review when i finally get access...

This game is an excercise in patience and frustration.

On one hand, i genuinely like and appreciate the dev's honest business practices and i did have a good bit of fun playing the game

On the other hand, its frustrating to play because interesting deep mechanics are separated by 10-20 hours of boring nothingness that barely counts as me doing anything.
I started my savefile, i played the game, took like 12 hours to find enough copper on the surface so that i could make my first pickaxe, turns out i also need a hammer otherwise i cant get more copper without spending an eternity looking for nuggets on the surface again, luckily i had enough for that, then i run out of food because it spoils really fast and regrows really slowly so a big vicinity of my hovel is completely barren of food 12 hours in and i just keep starving to death. Ok. Turns out i had to make a cellar which quarters the spoilage rate of food and cook meals because just basic foods you get from the environment dont stay in your satiation bar for long, and cooked meals stay for a fair bit.

Ok, attempt two, another ten hours of randomly wandering the world looking for enough copper to make a pickaxe and a hammer. I make a cellar and make food this time so i dont starve. Great. Then i start looking for tin to make bronze because i can only mine coal copper and stone with my copper pickaxe. 15 hours of podcast listening later, because the world is very boring and empty to wander in and i still dont have any tin but im seriously fed up with all the pointless time wasting. Also i lost my items because i died and they despawned after like 10 minutes. Amazing.

Ugh. I hate to be a dick, and i am still not sure if im going to ask for a refund, because i like the developer's honest work ethic, and the game was actually fun, when i had something to do, but i cant stand that time is running out, winter is coming, im not making any progress, and most importantly, i feel like my time is wasted with arbitrary bullshit.

I honestly feel ashamed for even writing this but i want people to know while this game is fun, and has an immense potential, it also has issues i havent seen many people mention.
Im probably going to be back in a couple updates to see how things changed.

Also i pirated the game, did the first save i gave up on, came back anyway, started a new playthrough and bought the game around the 15 hour mark into that second save, and realized that i cant even play my savefiles because every world, even if its singleplayer has characters, and my characters were tied to a fake UID, so when i bought the game, my legititimate UID wasnt recognized by the game and each of my two saves asked me to create a new character for that UID, because the original ones used the fake one made up by the cracked copy. So i had to keep playing the pirated version. I even tried to edit the config files to spoof the game into thinking im playing the original character but it didnt work. Asked on the subreddit and on discord and noone helped me change the old character's UID to my new one. Sigh.

38 hours in, second time im giving up. I hate doing this.

the game's aesthetics are very good, the gameplay is realistic and enjoyable, but there isn't that much to do after the main progression right now

Habe es bei you tube gesehen,finde es interessant,kann es leider nicht spielen,da ich keinen link bekommen habe um es zu aktivieren

Website sucks and the sign up process is terrible. you have to make two accounts. one for the website and one for the game itself.

dog shit website dog shit purchasing process. You're all so proud of being independent and having your own infrastructure but it all works and runs like shit. give me my fucking money back 

Es ist erstmal ein ziemlicher Krampf das Spiel überhaupt herunterladen zu können.

Man soll sich ERST auf der Seite anmelden, DANN auf eine Bestätigungs-eMail warten, die irgendwann nach über 12 Stunden mal eintrudelt. DANN kann man seine eMail-Adresse bestätigen um dann WIEDER auf die NÄCHSTE eMail zu warten, die das Download-Passwort (WTF!!??) enthält, und die irgendwie auch nicht auftaucht ??????? WAS SOLL DAS ???

Sowas ist absolut nicht mehr zeitgemäß (und ehrlich gesagt auch ziemlich lächerlich) !! Wenn man ein Spiel zum Download kauft und bezahlt, möchte man eigentlich nicht noch tagelang warten bis man es ENDLICH downloaden kann... ist euer 56k-Modem kaputt oder was stimmt da nicht ?? Vielleicht sollte man bei solchen Schwierigkeiten doch mal darüber nachdenken, ob es nicht besser wäre, sowas über einen funktionierenden Weg auf anderen Plattformen zu vermarkten !!

Im übrigen ist der Preis doch recht unverschämt, selbst wenn das Game noch so viel Spaß machen würde, es ist trotzdem in weiten Teilen "geklaut" und der Programmieraufwand ist DEUTLICH geringer als bei bekannten Titeln, die man auf den etablierten Plattformen im Angebot sogar noch günstiger bekommt... Fahrrad fahren ist auch toll, aber will man deswegen dafür soviel bezahlen wie für ein neues Auto ??

The games great. No notes. The server hosting is archaic. You claim to be doing soo fine financially, and use that as an excuse for not putting your game on steam. So I'm forced to either shill over 12 bucks a month, or use Upnp which sucks absolute nuts. 

[Edit: Dev response from Tyron, 11/5/2025]
There are 3rd party hosting providers for less than 12 bucks a month - https://wiki.vintagestory.at/List_of_server_hosting_providers
Hamachi should also work just fine to host a server. Our game does not ship with a launcher. Account setup is required only once if you do not log in elsewhere, as your local login session does not expire.

[Edit Brayg] Bro still think we use hamachi in the big 2025. Youre right about the launcher (obv you'd be right) that was my bad I hadn't relaunched the game until after i left the review. 

The survival aspect is AMAZING!!! The only thing holding my review back from being 5 stars is the combat.

Combat in this game doesn't feel right. Armor feels WAAAAY heavier than it should be. Plate armor slows your character down twice as much, which is a MASSIVE downside. Sure, plate armor in medieval times was cumbersome, but it was more exhausting rather than causing a significant loss of speed.

Shields in this game feel like you're not even using them. They "auto-block" attacks whenever you're fighting, which, to me, makes it feel like I'm gambling rather than actually fighting.

Overall, the combat feels pretty bland and watered down. People say, "There's no need for combat in a survival game," but COMBAT is what makes survival. You're fighting for your life, and you need to do whatever it takes to defend your land from enemies or animals. If combat isn't a main focus, then what's the point of having it in the first place? As it stands, all I see in Vintage Story is just a "farming simulator."

All this game needs is a combat overhaul because let me say this:

This game has the potential to be better than Minecraft if they take what makes Minecraft fun and make those mechanics even better. And COMBAT is one of those.

would be nice if u could play the game when u buy it not wait 48 hours for support ticket

How the Fu*k do I download this sh*t.

While the game is ultra cool in the first few hours, it gets stale super quick. Once you realize there is no incentive to do anything, it boils down to just "minecraft with extra steps" I do understand that this is a sandbox game and that apparently that means you need to set your own goals, but that is stupid. If there are enemies in a game they should pose an actual threat. You're totally save in a 1x2 whole during the nights. No need to get fancy building materials either, dirt will suffice. The game is advertised to put more realism into the game but ultimately fails to implement a reasoning behind all of it's items. Why would I build medieval style walls and cities, when a hole in the ground is just as save? Why would I search for materials, hours on end, when a flint spear is enough? Why would I explore the world when there is nothing to see aside from lore text and ruins that hold items I can get anywhere else? Why would I bother with animal breeding and cooking, when berries and meat do the job? Why would I care about stat boosts via balanced diet when there's no threat? Why would I bother fighting Drifters, when all they drop is Flax fiber?

The idea of the game is great, execution is very poor as of now. Who knows, maybe in a couple of years it will be great, but I doubt that. Probably just going to be minecraft with extra steps.

If you make survival mechanics, enemies and story, do them right... Right now there's no reason to do anything whatsoever aside from Collecting/Building just for the sake of it. We already got minecraft for that tho.

bad

I bought the key, but there are no links anywhere to download the game itself. 

[Edit: Dev response from Tyron, 8/26/2025]
As stated in multiple places on our sites - if you did not receive the game key, please contact us using our contact form at the bottom or our support ticket system. More often than not, emails do not get delivered due to a mistyped email address.
 

parece q o site e o sistema pra baixar/logar no jogo foi feito pra vc não querer jogar. meu ip foi bloqueado pq o jogo disse que mina senha estava errada, sendo que não estava errada!

!!!!!STAY CLEAR OF THIS COMPANY!!!!!

Unfortunately this has been the worst company i have ever had to deal with. I watched countless videos of this game and was excited to try the game, however after making my purchase i was sent multiple emails all at once wanting me to make two accounts for this game not just the usual one. I didnt understand why they would do that yet I created an account on both with the same email and same passwords. After spending 20 Euros for the game (which you can only buy through their own website) i downloaded the game and was prompted with a log in. I attempted to log in and was told my password was incorrect. I reached out for support and explained this all very clearly to the staff yet I was just sent two links to change my passwords. I did this changed both passwords and ensured both were the same once again. I loaded the game and was once again unable to login to my account. Ive had no resolve and have had to ask for a refund as i am physically unable to play this game and the company didnt want to look into their own database and realise there was something wrong on their end. i didnt want to ask for a refund for this game and i still havent been provided said refund yet this company has been the most impossible company to ever deal with.

!!!!!STAY CLEAR OF THIS COMPANY!!!!!


[Response from @Tyron, Feb 2, 2025]: Sorry to hear that you were having troubles getting your login sorted out. We have thousands of users successfully logging in every day without issue, so I am not sure why were not able to log in. I would recommend using a password manager and copy&pasting your password into the game client during login so you cannot accidentally mistype.

Probably the worst spent 20 euros in my entire life.

Never liked Minecraft.  I'm not sure why I thought I'd like this.  Just not my cup of tea.  Forced first-person view is a game killer for me.

Everything about it is perfect. I can only describe it as a miracle creation, something came together... the elements aligned... It is like the comets, the cosmic orchestra that is up there over your head... The immense, enormous void is working all for one thing, to tell you one thing...

Gas and rock, and purity, and nothing.

I will say this... When I see Vintage Story... and I mean every single time I look at the lines, the colors, the shapes that make up the world...

I see perfection.

Do I find perfection in many things?

Some things, I would say... Some things are perfect... and this is one of them. I can look at the little tuft of hair on Erel's head... it is the perfect shade... The flickering blue gear in the Seraph’s hand...
How could a mere mortal even MAKE this?