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Best game ever!

Lovely Game, Great community.

The graphics are beautiful and the mechanics are new and good, the game has great potential, and I hope it is not wasted ... The game was worth every penny, but it still has its limitations, and as I said, there is still a lot to evolve ! but if you like games with Voxel style and a unique experience, you will probably love this game! some parts of the game I don't like much, but I believe it will improve ... What I like most about this game is the affection and the incredible community, playing with friends makes everything better!

On the first day, I was skeptical. After the whole mess what happened to CubeWorld and the huge disappointment, I was way more careful with building up hype for games in development. 

On the second day, I was becoming more and more interested. Could this game really be a modern, 3D-version of good old UnrealWorld? A realistic, "minecraft-like"-game with immersive mechanics and a huge rewarding feel after passing through gamestages?

On the third day, I did it. I purchased the game, it looked so promising, I simply had to try it for myself. That was exactly one week ago now, and I didn't regret this choice for a single minute, playing every day since then and having a huge blast.

Now this was little bit picked with references to other games, and I don't mean to offend other developers or advertise for other games, but for the sake of making your own decision if you want this game, I find it helpful to have a few comparisons. One thing very unique here for an early access title is its high playability at this early stage, and that mostly bug-free. I myself encountered very very few minor bugs or things I think could/should be tweaked a little, for example a thrown spear sticking in the ground that can continue to hit mobs and sometimes yourself if you walk into it. (For a fun fact, this actually saved my life a couple of times) Nothing gamebreaking and most importantly, no crashes at all! Just a very short freeze once, which resolved itself after a few moments. The developers here are truly meaning what they say in the descriptions. 

As of now, version 1.14 already feels like a complete game in a way. The downside is, now that I delved into it... I can't get enough! I am now addicted to checking these forums each day to check for new updates while speculating/imagining what the full, complete game will look like. If it continues in any way like it did so far, this will become a unique masterpiece.

Thank you for this wonderful gaming experience! I am looking forward to many more weeks/months and even years of amazing fun and joy with this game.

One last bit of references if you should get this game or not: If you find the survival aspect in minecraft too easy and lacking realism and want it to be more like UnrealWorld and Don't Starve, but imo in a better way than Don't Starve did it - try it out. You can refund within 2 weeks or 10 hours of gameplay (whichever comes first, check refund policy) and that is really enough to determine if you like it or not. It is different than minecraft, considerably harder at certain stages, but you also won't be occupied with managing your survival and food all the time as the only thing you do. I find it very balanced in that point. Food will always be a factor to consider, but once you setup a solid base, you will continue to make breakthroughs and progress. It's worth a try, really good title!

Well, when I first watched the trailer I really thought this is to good to be true.

But after a few days I decided to give it a try - and it was worth it. 

However, this game is still in early access, so don't expect a fully complete project.

Just like most of the players, I also came from Minecraft to get something similar, but more challenging. If you know Minecraft, most of the controls are very intuitive. But you should expect to die quite often in the beginning, since you need to watch out for hostile mobs - day and night. You also need to be aware of your hunger. 

The beginning: 
Just like in the old school times of minecraft, you start to build a dirt bunker. Since you can not effort to build a pickaxe in the first days, a cobble bunker will be a product for the future. But after a couple of days you will be able to get copper, which you can smelt into a pickaxe. It is a process way more komplex than in Minecraft, so getting to this point is a much more slower process than you might know. 

Having a pickaxe opens actually a whole new world. You can mine resources much more efficient and in way bigger amounts. While doing so don't forget to eat. 
You can do farming. You need to find vegetables or crops. The fertillity of the soil influences the growing time. But it will take a couple of days anyways, untill you can harvest you first onions - or whatever you have planted. Later in the game, you can automate farming and tool making - but thats definitely a long way ahead, when you start a new world.

The world:
The world is beautiful. There are no biomes like in minecraft. The landscape is actually influenced by the weather and temperature. You actually can divide the world into 3 major climate zones:
1. boreal
2. hot 
3 arctic

Each of these climate zones also has different regions, which can vary drastically. You can have big mountains and flat steppes. The world is quite big, so it will take you a really long time to enter another climate zone (I am not exactly sure how many blocks, but at least a couple 10k from my experience). Although the landscape is quite impressive, it gets a little repetetive after a time. 

Potential:
What I would love to see are big multiplayer server, in which resources actually have a value. You can have certain stones or woods only have from certain areas. Since the world is so big, it just doesen't make sense in single player to travel that far, only for getting a certain stone. Multiplayer could benefit from those distances. One big plus is the creation of custom blocks with a chisel. You can combine up to four different blocks into one custom block. You can make a statue, your indivudual furniture or a really impressive house facade. But having those things in singleplayer gets quite boring after a time, since you can not show or share it. 
Making custom blocks as a profession in multiplayer server and trading resources, could lead into to a interesting simulation. 

Conclusion:
I am really looking forward in which direction the game develops. It is a game which can offer so much depth. In the current state, the game is in a good position to become something great. Sometimes the game feels a little empty, because of it's repetitive landspace and the relatively few mobs. But the road map offers everybody a good overview what will be implemented hopefully soon. 
 

Realistic Minecraft Hardcore? Yes

the best survival game

Beautiful game, so much detail and soul put into it. Will definitely be keeping my eye on this games development. 

The best game i ever played!

Это лучшее во что я играл и буду продолжать играть надеюсь я дождусь дальнейших обновлений ))))

It's just insane how much stuff you are able to do in this game already, and game developers are active with the community most of the time via forum and discord.

Game that doesn't need many mobs with incredible ai to be challenging. Just a wildlife and nature trying to knock you down (which does many times) are the real challenge here - AND I LOVE IT!
I'm not going to talk about the mechanics of survival etc. You should check it out yourself - there is too much to talk about anyway. Current state of the game (after not that much time in-development compared to the other survival-like games) is beyond acceptable to have fun with.

I searched for a immersive and hardcore survival experience. And this is perfect in every shape or form. Highly recommended.

Only thing I would like to see in the game are maybe rivers. Then nature would feel even more complete than it already is.

I LOVE this game; I have 52+ hours in it and it just keeps getting better! I literally do not have one bad thing to say about this game; it's flipping AWESOME. If you're looking for a survival, challenging, exciting, loose story driven game, come and join us.

Always wanted a survival game like this that was challenging, loving it so far still early access and extremely playable, has a lot of content , runs really good performance wise and I love the ambient sounds,  looking forward to the future of this game!

Ich bin dank Juliusvanvern im März 2020 auf das Spiel aufmerksam geworden und seitdem absolut süchtig. Jedes Update bringt neue Features mit sich, es bleibt immer spannend und sowohl als Einzelspieler, als auch im Multiplayer und auf Servern mit anderen Spielern kann man sich echt kreativ austoben,... Das Chiseling/Meißeln ist ein echtes Highlight *-* Man benötigt für das Spiel keinen High-End-Computer, ich selbst spiele auf einem älteren Büro-Laptop... - ich kann wirklich jedem empfehlen es einfach mal zu testen

This review comes from the perspective of a yearlong fan but also an active Moderator for one of the many server/communities in VS.

The time spent playing this game has easily clocked triple digits - yet the full scope of all the mechanics available has yet to be experienced. This scope does include mods as the typical server (exception : Mudwall) is continuously evolving with different mod combinations. The possible game styles available are seemingly limitless and the integration with normal game-play is nothing short of seamless. All this amazing madding potential under-shadows the level of depth, engagement, and subtle complexity that already holds the base game up as a fully satisfying standalone title.(returning example : Mudwall Server)

This doesn't go without a personal regret. The amount of time I'd spent this year - playing this game - pushed my almost gaming addiction into a real world problem. This problem was enough to force me to take a serious look at what (little) benefit most games gave - and whether the cost to my life was worth it. In the end almost all games were cut and the few that remained on the short list were because of community. VS, is the only game that offered something more than just a friend group however and now sits as the only game that is welcome on my daily ToDo.

As expected with communities and the ability to engage - there's a place for every kind of player out there. The excitement of combat and adventure, the satisfaction from meaningful progression, the engaging nature of role play, and the unrivalled creative potential that building mechanics have to offer in this game. These are but a few core gameplay avenues that players can have access too when playing. Different servers will have tailored experiences suited to serve on play style or another. My personal server is with a growing role-play community called MoonDrop. Come visit sometime.

This community in mind - the great reward that VS brings to the table is the strong creative collaboration between players, servers, modders, and *especially* the developers themselves. The potential for this game is through the roof and so is the ease of learning for any budding developers wanting to try their hand at it. So much is being unlocked on the back of this fantastic and robust engine that at times it's hard to even keep up. Best of all - this game is still thick with unrealised future features and - stable as it is - is still quite aways from finishing(if it ever will). On top of this - Tyron and his lovely crew are pushing out big updates that make the worlds most popular voxel game developers seem irredeemably incompetent.

Vintage story is not the future of what video games can be - but it's a damn sight closer than we've ever been.

I bought this game in February 2020 and I still play it on occasion. It's definitely worth 18 euro. Honestly I think it would be a good value at 30-40 euro as well.

I like to think of this as the "adult" version of Minecraft, even though it's not really like Minecraft at all. Yes, this game looks similar at first glance because it's a procedural generated world made up of blocks. You gather resources, build, and survive. There's a 3x3 crafting grid like in Minecraft which is used for some things but there's also a much more intricate crafting system when it comes to cooking, clayworking, smelting, blacksmithing, and leatherworking.

You place your clay on the ground and you shape each layer of the thing you're making voxel by voxel. You put the raw, unfired clay into a pit kiln and light it on fire so the clay can cook and harden. If you want to make a pickaxe, you must first build a mold out of clay, cook it in the pit kiln, then place it on the ground or on a table. You also need to make a crucible out of clay and do the same thing. You put the crucible on a firepit, add your copper nuggets, and light the fire. The fire has to be hot enough to melt copper which means you can't use sticks as a fuel source. You have to make charcoal or use brown or black coal.

Once the crucible is full of molten copper, you pour it into the pickaxe mold you made earlier. Once the copper cools, you have a pickaxe head. Open the crafting grid and place it in there and put one stick under it.

Some things can't be made with molds. So you have to build an anvil. You create an anvil mold out of clay, pour your molten metal in, and let it cool. Then you pour molten metal into ingot molds to make ingots. Those can be re-heated on a forge so they can be worked on the anvil. Then you use a hammer (which you have to make using a hammer mold) to shape the ingot, voxel by voxel, until it has the correct shape for whatever you're making.

In Minecraft you'd just take a few diamonds or iron ingots, plop them in the crafting grid with some sticks and you have tools. That's boring. Leatherworking and cooking have different mechanics which are also more complex than Minecraft.

I've spent a lot of time talking about the crafting aspects of it but you can also grow crops, fruit trees, raise bees (and collect honey), and breed animals. Each new generation of animal you breed gets tamer and tamer. Eventually they won't be afraid of you at all. You can bake pies and bread, make soups and stews, make jam, beer, and preserve meat.

Food spoils over time so you have to find ways to preserve it. Jam lasts longer than the berries you use to make it, cured meat lasts longer than normal cooked meat, and you can put soups and stews in crocks in a cellar to make them last longer. And you have to do this or you will be very hungry when winter comes and your crops die.

I really enjoy the depth and level of detail this game has.

I don't have too much play time just yet but after seeing the amount of detail and care put into this game I had to leave a review!
After recent events with another popular sandbox block building game (which I will not get into here). I felt like I needed to move away from it a bit and explore other open world sandbox options, at first I saw this game as another "clone" which for a while kept me away. However after reading more into the game and finally deciding to try it for myself I found that while this game does hold some resemblances and inspiration from another popular game it can clearly be seen it is far from a "clone", it is a very unique game offering immersive survival mechanics and engaging gameplay, the game is backed by amazing players, and devs who truly care about their project and players! If you are on the fence about it defiantly give it a try!

I have had a ton of fun with the game so far and even made a few videos about it. Moreover, the developers just keep adding more to this detailed and vibrant experience - certainly recommended.

boyfriend is mad at me for getting him into it. #sorrynotsorry. love it 

I'm really enjoying this game, it's a grind - but an enjoyable one, the progression feels rewarding.
It's difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it everything really starts to stand out with just how good it is, a lot of small details & everything feels great together.

Definitely worth the buy, both the full game & supporter.

I haven't gotten COMPLETELY engrossed in a game in a long time. I can't stop playing Vintage Story. It's like playing old Minecraft all over again, only it runs better and looks better. If you like survival games and don't mind the block-y Minecraft-y look BUY THIS. The devs and community are super helpful and friendly. Plus the game was built with modding in mind. Be warned though: IT IS ADDICTING.

Great game!!!!! Looking forward for future updates!

Very fun game. Lots to do, and fun with friends. Looking forward to future updates!