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I am obsessed with this game. Like... chronically so. I've been looking for a survival game like this for a LONG time, but everything else is zombie survival, and Minecraft modding is great but has its limitations and requires maintenance on my part. But this? This is EVERYTHING I've been looking for in a survival game!!! My PC is average, but the graphics are gorgeous and give me no lag, even when there's lots of particles. Making everything I need from the ground up like I would in real life is so addicting. It's grinding with a purpose, and with a tangible result at the end. Hunting is so immersive that I feel like a real hunter-gatherer. I have to actually strategize how I'm going to catch an animal instead of just walking up to it and murking it instantly. I have to plan for the future (read: winter), which makes it all the more immersive. I can't wait to see what else I'm going to discover as I keep playing this game. Five stars is not enough. askdhfaljdghajldhfadjlfhaldjghaljk I love this game!

This game is a jewel.
As someone who loves building all kinds of architecture in that one popular voxel game about mining and crafting, this game's chiselling mechanic, with it's nearly endless possibilities, was a revelation! The intricacy and amount of details you can put into your buildings is amazing. I also really enjoy all the things you can put down in your house, instead of having it all stored inside chests. It creates lively and vibrant places that actually feel like someone lives there.
The crafting is very engaging and demands travelling to find a lot of different resources, which can sometimes become a bit of a drag if you can't find certain resources you need.
The atmosphere this game creates is astonishing. The weather mechanic is gorgeous, the thick clouds, the sun rays, fogs and sandstorms all add so much immersion. I love the wind mechanic, the sound of the winds and the way all the bushes, trees and particles react to it is just beautiful. I love crafting inside my house while listening to the rain drops pattering against the window panes.

I love this game dearly and I can't wait to see how this game develops in the future!

Wonderful game! The mechanics are engaging, I've encountered very little bugs, and it can be extremely difficult if you want it to be, or a peaceful sandbox experience. If you are a fan of hard survival games or sandbox block games, you'll love vintage story!

Now it is very easy to compare Vintage Story to Minecraft, but other than the blocks and crafting, they are nothing alike. At first I thought, “oh just another Minecraft clone,” but as I looked into it more, I became more aware of how different (and hard) this game is. So I bought it and honestly, I simply cannot go back to Minecraft now. Vintage Story is just so much more in depth and complex in all areas, and much slower to, this made me slow down and recognize that in this game, you start out as part of the wildlife, helpless and running for your life. But as you progress, you begin feeling more confident, even something as small as killing a chicken feels like a huge victory, breaking each voxel to create a knife, burning firewood into charcoal, getting your first copper tools, all taking hours each to complete, you feel accomplished and proud of yourself. I’ve only played for about five hours now, but those were some of the best I’ve ever had. This is all that I’ve wanted in a game and more. Thanks for taking the time to read my comment; I hope it has convinced you to buy this game.

Fell in love with the game. Never got deep into any other voxel or even survival games for more than 10 hours, but vintage story is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I feel bad only paying the asking price for such a great experience. I play with everything vanilla but the rifts are turn off for now until they make something more out of them, but the rest of the experience is really incredible. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart to the dev team, you guys are truly building something GREAT. Can't wait for what the future is holding for this amazing project!!!

(if you could make so that drifters would not constantly make noise at night while running against my front door, which sadly IS DRIVING ME INSANE I would re-enable the rifts... Other than that I have no real negative on the ENTIRE experience, and that is saying something, I can be kind of a princess lol)

Writing this after 40~ hours on my first world

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. 

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

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!

This is the most immersive and atmospheric survival game that I've played since Valheim, and it kept me up at night thinking about what challenges I'd take on for the next day after work.  

Its greatest strengths are in in its commitment to faithfully representing the complexities of the physical world (models of rock and ore distributions, biomes, weather, etc) and technology (mixtures of metals to form alloys, forging, mechanical devices, clothing and structural insulation, food spoilage, etc.).  I feel far more accomplishment in learning these complexities than I would in simply grinding my way up another numerical level of skill and unlocking more capabilities, as is the case in other games.

I might wish for the default settings of the game to be more forgiving, allowing one to layer in more challenge through the Settings options.  Or at least I'd wish to place the spawn location far from wolves and bears by default if the tutorial mode is selected.  For example, I had really wanted my son to take to VS as he did with (that other block game), but he insisted on playing it on the default settings that are rather hardcore because he believed that was how the game was meant to be played.  Alas, despite my advising him he died many times, always starting over from scratch, and eventually burned out before reaching bronze.  I hope to convince him to return to it with me, perhaps in multiplayer co-operative mode.

Best game I've played all year, I wish I had gotten it sooner. There's definitely a learning curve and you have to do a LOT of exploring sometimes, which I normally am not tooo much of a fan of, but this game is different as a good chunk of it is focused on the natural world, and it's made me enjoy discovering new places and leaving the comfort of my base. It's way more fun than your standard survival-craft game and very satisfying. There are a lot of tutorials online if you struggle finding direction on what to do next and how to do it, and is just overall an awesome and refreshing experience with how much low quality stuff is being sold on the market. This is incredibly well polished for being early access, I highly recommend!

PORTUGUESE

Esse jogo é simplesmente fenomenal. Conheci ele depois de procurar jogos parecidos com o antigo mod TerraFirmaCraft, e sinceramente esse jogo é tudo isso e mais um pouco. É um ótimo jogo pra quem curte um desafio e temáticas mais realistas, tem estações, avanços tecnológicos, domesticação e agricultura complexas e o melhor de tudo é que você pode personalizar do jeito que quiser. Não gostou que tem muito pouco minério de cobre? Aumente. Quer mais oceanos? Aumente. Não gosta que o jogo esta fácil? Pasmem, você pode deixar mais difícil.

Um agradecimento ao time do VintageStory por conseguir trazer um preço melhor para nós da América Latina.

This is the best survival game I've ever played. I am very glad I stumbled upon it. Simple as that.

One of the best made survival games I've played in many years, blending arcade realism with deep immersion in a masterful way.

The mechanics are very unique and the vibe is exquisite. Most important the dev team is focused and knows what they're doing. They have bite sized updates planned out, they check in on us regularly to let us know what's happening and keep the community alive. Also it runs on linux and the system requirements are itty bitty for a game of its scale. Check back in a year if you don't like the game as it is, chances are they added/fixed a bunch of stuff in that time.

Truly an incredible game, and not even yet finished.

Vintage Story is not just a game; it’s an experience that every fan of the genre should go through. It offers unique mechanics, deep immersion in the world, visual aesthetics, and balanced difficulty. The growing development team and constant updates make it better and better. If you’re looking for a game that truly captivates and keeps you coming back for more, Vintage Story is the perfect choice.

I've fallen in love with Vintage Story, so much so that I bought it twice! Now playing on my Mac, and it's been an absolute delight. If you're into survival games, this is a must-play. Five stars from me!

I cannot believe I never heard of this game before.

The game feels, so vibrant, alive, beautiful sounds and graphics, amazing performance for such a game.

Lots, and LOTS of things to do. Where do I even begin?

The modding community is very nice. Tons of impressive mods that I already use.

I can see myself play this game for hundreds of hours to come.

I will be looking forward to your future updates!

Great game

best game I have ever played. Even without mods.

Sure, a lot of people will assume Vintage Story is a minecraft clone, and it is in of itself a standalone of a very nice minecraft mod called Terrafirmacraft. 

 But the atmosphere and love and attention to detail in this game is on a totally different level that it feels wrong to compare this game to minecraft at this point. Despite both games being block games, Vintage Story looks, sounds, and feels so much more vibrant, alive, beautiful and engaging. I still like minecraft but Vintage Story has been filling a gap that minecraft has lost to me and that gap is challenge and reward. You can work to get some decent loot in minecraft, sure, after like 5 minutes then you can fight almost the whole world and be at no risk of losing your gear. In Vintage Story you're at the mercy of the world, and you need to work and toil to be able to scrape up a comfortable existence. 

 But why is that so important for the gameplay cycle? I made an iron pick in minecraft, cool, sure, I can go get some diamonds woohoo. I get an iron pick in Vintage Story? This thing is the fruit of literal hours of prospecting, mining, blooming, and shaping the metal into a pick. It's a real achievement, and by that I worked Hard to get this one single tool. This alone made this very simple experience into a level of being special that is dripping from all places in this game. It makes you Love your work, your progress. All of your work is slower and harder but it Means something. Your house is your pride and joy, your armor is your lifeline, even your meals are a satisfaction that just makes all of that work so worth it when you get there, I hardly ever feel this in minecraft anymore, minecraft is just more of an arcade, a game to kill time and play for the sake of nostalgia but Vintage Story fills that nostalgia in many more ways than modern minecraft can for me. That reason is because Vintage Story is a hard, hard game.

 It's not unfairly difficult either, in their 2022 trailer it even says in the beginning "If you only do what is easy, your life will be hard" and that very much applies to the gameplay here, you work hard to live peacefully in this game and that's just something I cannot stop loving. This game in its early access state is such an accomplishment in what it does that I cannot recommend this even more, and I haven't even got into the atmosphere, the community, the QOL features, the sound design, everything else in this game truly has love put into it by a small indie dev, versus the mass produced slop of weak updates made by a corporation that sadly overshadows minecraft now.

 Get this game, I guarantee starting out will be difficult, confusing and perilous, but that's the journey, that's what I miss from old minecraft. You will love it here, thank you for reading my review.  

This is my favorite game of this year by far. Normally in sandbox survival games I just get bored after a week but this game has kept my interest for way longer and shows no signs of losing it. The clayworking, smithing, and mechanical power systems are really well put together and I can't wait to see how this game evolves as more features from the roadmap are added.

I find it a difficult task to speak about just how good this game really is. It's an experience, One unlike any other. I tried to write this review at least 5 times. For me, it's that difficult to do justice. This is very easily one of the most important video games to exist in the last 2 decades in my opinion. I've played almost every "sandbox open world survival" game that's on offer. None of them come close to the experience you get from Vintage Story. And none of them ever will. 

Love this game!

TL;DR - more than a Minecraft clone, its a voxel adventure well worth the price of admission. Come join us on the official public server once you learn the basics!

Now to my itemized list...

Mods - Superb integration, easy to manage, tons of variety and a very active community

Servers - The built-in claims system & other QoL features make server play a breeze. I love the fast travel systems that make city building a cool experience. I would like to see additional trade systems for offline trading... traders & AH do work but fees make it pretty painful to use on a big server this is an area of improvement, but honestly you add a couple mods & this issue is solved

Animals are infinitely more interactive than competitors and successfully domesticating a herd is fabulously worthwhile

Mobs are terrifying and dangerous. Almost too much so LOL. Love that armor levels can make it so you can handle them but I think a brewing system with buffs and etc would level the playing field a ton. This is on the roadmap & I hope that it isn't too far away!

Crafting is solid, the 3x3 grid is a standard now & that makes it unremarkable but there are a ton of alternate crafting methods for advanced materials that are way more fun. Smithing your own tools is extremely satisfying, 10/10 would Smith forever if I had a friend group big enough to keep feeding me materials lol  

Cooking & storing foods is its own challenge that I really enjoy. I can see why some could see tedium in it, but I love survival challenges and this one is perfectly manageable once you get the hang of it, and there's tons of tools for preservation as you progress, like salt for pickling and etc.

Overall - 10/10. I have areas for growth, sure, but they are minor enough that I can't knock off any rating and I am excited that the devs are improving constantly  

Ps. RIP Hytale, we hardly knew ya. Long live Vintage Story!!!