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I want to love this game but its just not fun,  I regret buying it.

Could have treated my gf to a nice dinner but now I have a $22 digital paperweight

[Edit: Dev response from Tyron, 1/26/2026]
As our refund policy states, if you don't like our game then we don't want your money. We're happy to accept a refund request when you send one in through our support ticket system.

Vintage Story stands out to me as a great survival game because it refuses to hand‑hold you, and that’s exactly what makes it brilliant. Its survival systems aren’t just “features” — they’re interconnected layers that demand attention, experimentation, and actual problem‑solving. Everything has weight and consequence. Food spoils, seasons matter, metallurgy is a genuine craft, and even basic tools feel earned rather than given.

What makes it feel like the perfect survival game to me is how these mechanics create a world that pushes back just enough to make every victory meaningful, no matter how small. You don’t just survive in Vintage Story — you learn it, adapt to it, and eventually thrive because you understand how its systems fit together.

For people who want a survival experience that respects their intelligence and rewards curiosity, Vintage Story is in a league of its own.

I love Vintage Story! The game is absolutely amazing. There is so much to do and learn about. Highly recommend.

I don´t like survival games without a deep story, so when I played Minecraft in creative mode, I found that this game is different from the story; you can do things that are real and learn something new about how we made bronze or other things. Yeah, you can be irritated by some aspects, but in the end, it has its own charm. As a programmer in Unity and Unreal Engine, I have to admire how perfectly this game is made on its own engine.

This game has really brilliant ideas and mechanics that I really love and i hope to change my review in future because at the moment it is negative, it is not normal that you have to make hundreds of clicks to make the most simple objects, if you want 3 chests you could get tendinitis. When after 30 hours I had the materials to make my objects but i choose, different times, to go in creative and take the objects from there I understood that there was a problem. (And i played the game with a lot simplified settings because from the tutorial i would always have starved to death simply because i spawned in an area without mushrooms or berries)

Me and my wife bought this after it had been on my radar for about a year. The first night we had it, we played over 11 hours straight, until 4 in the morning. This game is everything I have ever wanted, in terms of challenge, survival, customization, everything. One click modding, complete control over the world settings, a simple and intuitive crafting guide and gameplay guide built right into the game, everything just works. For $22 this is a steal. 

Until this godawful website gets a complete and total revamp AND whatever service they are using to deliver keys gets completely scrapped, DO NOT BUY ON THIS WEBSITE. 

There is a chance you will just flat out not receive your key, for multiple days, all the while support is showing absolutely zero signs of life, leaving you with no game but the money is locked up in limbo. You cannot even issue a refund and then purchase from Humble, where you will actually get your key, because as I said, support is showing absolutely zero signs of life. 

Either buy on Humble (or Itch, when that gets added back) where they wont just flat out scam you lol. 

I would love to tell you how great this game is, but I literally cannot play it.

Any game with enough content to make me go 'Wait we can do this?" several times in an hour is a win in my books.
Stable and well made multiplayer. A dedicated server build that can run on a raspberry pi. Do wish the game had a better guide system, since I had to look things up multiple times (Not a big fan of text tutorials)

Incredible detailed gameplay, fun and interesting story that doesent get in your way, exploration feels amazing and survival feels like your actually trying to survive. Horror elements that I didnt initially know about but were a welcome surprise that enriched gameplay.

Only issue was memory leaks, 16G's of ram felt like it would be enough but unfortunately you have to sacifice alot of visual fidelity to make it work properly.

Very good game, looking forward to playing through further updates!

Best game, easy modding, creativity surplus. 10/10

Vintage story is an admirable technical achievement in diegetic game play with an engaging first two ages that are not only novel but also immersive. Unfortunately the game has to chase these high for the remainder of its length as tedium set in as the player is forced to fumble around to enter the copper age, block by having to restart the game because of the time waste the default generation is.

To start metal work you need to find 60 copper nuggets (for 2 different picks and a hammer) (which takes approximately 15+ copper zones depending on how rich the nugget spawn is) this task is so tedious and so annoying it becomes a filter for the player who is forced between looking at rocks for hours and hours on end or being gaslit into thinking they’re lagging in single player because panning may or may not have a random duration (but has a set sound effect which is shorter than the max panning duration), not to mention this too will be a task you have to sit for hours to even get the 20 nuggets needed for a single ingot.

Unfortunately metal is a key resource in progression for the remaining ages so this riga ma roll of looking for tiny rocks while avoiding heat seeking bears, wolves and inventory filling seems to be a load bearing part of the game.

And I don’t think ore procurement is the only issue. Wax, salt, flax and who knows what else is so dependant on world generation that it could save or loose the player tens of hours across a play through assuming they even know where to look.

Even food has this issue. Locating, Growing and hunting for food takes time both to collect and to replenish. worlds that have less food spawns due to unlucky biome distribution can and will lead to a lack of food on one world and another world having enough food to support a 12 course feast by day 3.

The player being forced into the world gen struggle funnel for every path of progression leads to the game feeling uncomfortably linear and made me feel as if I was marking off a checklist of chores lead me to felt burnt out on motivation to continue a play session or worse tempt me into deleting the world. I shouldn’t feel the urge to restart and re balance the game myself every time I’m inconvenienced, but sometimes I feel the game pushing me in this direction. and I'm basically cheating even though all I'm doing is trying to bypass bad world gen and a game that clearly lacks the checks and balances to make a worlds with consistent difficulty even when using the same world gen parameters.

TLDR: world gen too inconsistent leading to widely different difficulty experiences even when using the same settings, Combined with the need to constantly search for hyper specific, uncommon items in sometime comically large quantities leads to a frustrating experience.

I tend to be a very picky gamer, or play a game for a bit and then never touch it again. Not the case with Vintage Story. I've had the game for a couple of years, now, and I can safely say it is my most reliably played, most thoroughly enjoyed, and most frequently played game.

Almost every world I create ends up with hundreds of hours in it, and I've had over a dozen worlds, at this point. I have easily put 3500 or more hours into this game, and I will be putting many, many more in, for many years into the future.

This game is also one of few I have bought several copies of, just to give to my friends.

lwk amazing game i love it more than MC. maybe a bit harsh, but FIRE

yay yay yay i love brewing beer and making cheese yay yay yay 

i love survival the harsh winters are fun!!! i love pickling my food and putting it into milk barrel and making cheese!!!!! funnest game on my computer!!!

i am goingto buy this for my friend!!! and we will play together!!!! and we will have fun 2gether!!!! yay yay yay!!!!!!

heheheheheheheheheh i lvoe video games they are so fun and i love this video gmae so fun so fun so fun

anyways yeah if you love gameplay focused and lore-heavy games that are realistic (but not too realistic!) then this is the game for you!!

The best game absolutely ever

Every detail and the engine being so optimized is awesome as hell + the community spectacular. Still encountering issues from os to os and config to config for hosting to play with my gf as i got her the game also, she adores it and Dave .

This game killed Minecraft for me and i will be here from here on out playing this masterpiece of game filled with the best talent ever to make such a heavily optimized game.

Honestly trying to get everyone i have ever spoken to about a gaming on this. my friends keep trying to drag me to minecraft but VS is life now. I've always enjoyed a little challenge and wilderness survival and this game has that in spades, but the best part is starting from literally nothing to having Automation and full plate armor and bringing down what is essentially a god. ive put about 60 hrs into one server with my fiance smithing and building while she makes clothes and food and goes on adventures with me and im still not done, then when you bring in the modding and how easy it is compared to a lot of other platforms (I built a wheellock pistol and enchanted it so it shoots fire bullets now) I genuinely cannot recommend this game enough.

I believe I have had opportunity to try out every feature from stone knives to night vision goggles and I would summarize the game as simply outstanding.  I am especially fond of sail boats and look forward to more interaction between them and the weather.  Chef's kiss for decks icing over in a snow storm.

This game made Minecraft look like a knockoff! Love this game, everything is fun to do, there's so much to explore, so much to do- even the difficult things are fun, like for example making steel, and other stuff kinda like the sort!

Keep up the incredible work Anego!

I bought the game and this is my first time I've played it... what a masterpiece! I want to see this game evolve even further with future updates. Great job, developers! Keep it up! 

Perfect, cant wait for more updates to make it better!

love the game, i bet it would be good with friends sadly though my friends don't have it, but i love the game play and features, so many opportunity's in this game and a lot of in depth mechanics

Honestly, a near perfect game. the only thing that'd make it perfect is friends that have enough attention span to learn to play it lol

Fantastic survival game! I love the look and feel of everything, from the environment and weather, to the deep level of detail of making things. I also like the DEV's ethics. No ads, no selling data, no pay to win, independent, lots of mods if you like, and constant updates. Game is priced super competitively. I truly cannot find any fault, which is rare for modern games. Well done to the team! If you're curious about it as I was, just buy the game, you wont be disappointed!

I absolutely adore this game. I find it incredibly endearing and love the complexity of the mechanics. I hope they add more detailed and interactable mechanics to the point of obtuseness. I feel like it gives the world a lot of interactibility.

I love that the game is actually difficult and takes time, it feels more natural and gives the game a sort of relaxed flavour that you can't get in modern games. I will write a longer review once I'm through with most of the vanilla base game, but nevertheless, this game is a game of passion and brilliance.

Very good