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I was very sceptical about the game but after a while i started to love it.

Keep up that good work!

I had some doubts at first, but the second I got playing. Just wow. I'm amazed by the features this game has. Survival is not easy, the building is fantastic and the game looks and feels spectacular. Also, If there is a feature in the game that you think should be there is a huge array of mods that bring things like; thirst or custom world generation to the game.

comprei o jogo, porém, ele trava muito e não consigo jogar e para piorar, ele  fecha

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

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!

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

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 Its monday now and support isnt answering but the money is withdrawn.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.

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

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 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

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 ??

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.

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 

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

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!

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.

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