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Vintage story is the game I had always hoped Minecraft would become during it's Beta.

Where Minecraft diverged to be a more meaningless, creative-driven building game, Vintage Story actually puts purpose behind everything you do, and emphasizes survival in a harsh, brutal and yet stunning environment. The various gameplay mechanics all intertwine to create a world where you can feel genuinely accomplished after having built yourself a humble shelter, and where elaborate architecture is a luxury that comes after many hard-fought battles. 

No longer will you feel vague emptiness after having built the house of your dreams, instead you will see your accomplishments and be proud of how far you've come. 

If you crave more interesting, engaging and challenging gameplay, Vintage Story will give you just that. It will give you a much more grand reason to build that home of your dreams, either alone, or while challenging the wilderness with your friends.

If you love survival games that actually challenge you, Vintage Story is a game you need to check out. At first glance, it might remind you of Minecraft, but trust me, this game takes things to a whole new level—more depth, more realism, and a lot more ways to die (in the best way possible). VS has a beautiful, handcrafted feel. The voxel-based world is detailed, with gorgeous lighting, realistic seasons, and biomes that feel alive. Don’t expect flashy, high-end graphics—this game thrives on atmosphere. This isn’t your typical "punch tree, get wood" survival game. Here, you have to think. Tools break, food spoils, and winter is brutal if you're not prepared. The crafting system is hands-on—knapping stone tools and smithing metal require actual effort, not just clicking a recipe. Vintage Story makes survival feel like an actual accomplishment. If you don't store food properly, you'll starve. If you don’t build shelter, you'll freeze. And if you wander into a cave unprepared? The nightmare creatures lurking below will remind you why that was a bad idea. This is not a casual game—it demands patience and learning. But if you're into deep survival mechanics and love games that reward effort, Vintage Story is a gem. It has an amazing community, mod support, and continuous updates from passionate developers.

I think it is a must-play for survival fans!
And don't forget to grab your buddies, the game becomes even more interesting with them!

Bye.

A hidden gem that I was so fortunate to have found 

One of the best games i've ever played. It's as fast or slow as you want it to be. Supports a ton of different playstyles and has some really interesting mechanics, my favorite being blacksmithing. They just added Elk Mounts, very Mononoke. HUGE FAN!

With its clearly dedicated development team, Vintage story offers an experience you may be familiar with; A hardcore, open world survival game with various RPG elements, and is often compared to one of the largest games in history that I'm sure you know of called Minecraft, this is not a good comparison to make, but I shall try to do so here. Whilst its true they may look similar, a more inexperienced gamer may even confuse the two games from visuals alone, as Minecraft (MC) is historically a highly modded game, with various texture packs. That being said the core gameplay, goals you make for yourself and overall vibe of the game are wildly different.
I have played hundreds, possibly even thousands of hours of Minecraft and nothing, that is to say no mod pack, ever came close to the experience vintage story provides, it is utterly unique. I discovered this game existed a handful of years ago but only recently took the plunge and bought it, I do not regret this decision. I was just about to download and play the latest modpack for our old favourite block game Minecraft when, an impulse took hold, a need for change, for improvement, and that's when I remembered, Vintage Story.
 

So with my game code bought and client account created, I downloaded and launched VS, with only a vague idea of what to expect as my only knowledge of the game was a hazy memory of a short YouTube video showcasing the game from a few years ago, but I had my years of experience in MC to help me right? I knew I'd need wood to start with but its not as simple as just punching a tree, no. not here. In VS to harvest wood you must first, run blindly through the forests and plains until you find yourself some flint stones, at which point you'll have to knap your own tools. Here is where all of my knowledge relating to MC became redundant, Vintage story is a voxel based game designed in a custom game engine, if that didn't already peak your interest it should. Anyway, you may think that sounds rather tedious but I assure you it wasn't, there's a rather heavy focus on exploration because unlike in MC there is actual lore and worldbuilding in the default game mode of vintage story, there is in fact, a story to be told. Ruins to be discovered, NPC's to be found and traded with, also books or scrolls that reveal stories of the past. "What happened here?", "What happened to the world?", "What is going to happen?", "what on earth is that giant creature in the distance?", these are all questions you may find yourself asking as you discover the various secrets of vintage story whilst simply trying to find sticks and stones in your first hours of gameplay. 
Vintage story has much to offer in the long-term too, progression is undoubtedly slow but feels so much more rewarding than MC's progression, even in modpacks Minecraft's progression feels tedious and overall less fulfilling than even making a simple copper ingot in VS. Then there's the endless YouTube tutorials you need to watch to familiarise yourself with each mod, so that you can actually progress in a Minecraft modpack. My point being, when I play a MC modpack, I really don't feel anything anymore when I get those diamonds or make that armour set that lets me swim in lava etc. which is a shame because the effort it takes to reach those heights is no small feat, often taking hours of gameplay for the average person whereas, in Vintage Story every torch, each copper nugget and all of the animals around me, are important, things matter in VS. A contributing factor to this may very well be the extremely in depth weather system, that forces you to brave harsh weather such as lightning storms or strong wind that blows with such force, your character has to shade their eyes, presumably from the small bits of sand, dust and other such matter that would be picked up by such a gale in the real world, you can really feel the wind on your W key its quite the experience. Then there's the seasons, fully realised and well thought out these changing conditions force you to adapt and create a seasonal change in what materials you have available, needless too say, winter is coming. and you must prepare.

The game has a mod management button on the main menu. I think that sentence alone tells you all you'd want to know about modding in Vintage Story, its built in, and although you currently can't browse mods to download whilst in-game, I have no doubt that is a feature that will be implemented one day. The community that surrounds vintage story is very cosy, it feels like we're all gathering around the same warm light to do the same thing, have fun and as such the modding community is booming, mods are often updated and well designed, more often than not slotting right into the Vintage Story vibe and the best part is that the developers seemingly pay attention to these mods and take inspiration when updating the core game. I don't believe I need to make any comparisons to Minecraft in this department aside from perhaps mentioning that there are multiple launchers you could use to find mods for and play modded Minecraft, its all in one place here, no confusion, its simple to mod VS and there's even a dedicated tool for creating mods for vintage story created by the developers, and support is always available for creators in the vintage story official discord.
Oh I almost forgot, remember those endless YouTube vids you'd need to watch for a MC modpack? yea you can forget that in VS, there is an in game handbook that goes over all of the mechanics and crafting recipes within the game by default, these descriptions are very useful and guided my experience through the game, as even mods often have clear descriptions and tutorials for everything the mod offers, as well as hints towards future updates. This handbook even comes with the feature of simply clicking H whilst hovering your mouse over an item in your inventory, to bring up all the crafting recipes and information associated with the item, its amazing.

Overall I can highly recommend Vintage story to any who have enjoyed Minecraft in the past and have "grown out of it" or anyone looking for an in depth hardcore survival game with some RPG elements, which reminds me, I never mentioned that there are classes with class specific crafts and benefits to choose from when you create your character in vintage story, oh yeah, that's all a thing. I have very high hopes for this game and although it has been in public development for almost 10 years at time of writing this, they are a small, independent development team with the game not listed on major sites like the steam market, so it often goes unnoticed, despite this there is a large content filled update (1.20.0) coming out soon. I firmly believe all vintage story needs is more people, we need a larger community to motivate the dev team to keep going! because this Vintage Story is something special and must be nurtured.

Thank you for reading.  

The game is looking great, but the installation process on Mac so far was not the best. It would be nice if the web-site had a short instruction on how to launch unverified executable on MacOS. Also, there are cases when UI is slightly broken (when content of a window doesn't fit) especially in graphics settings. And it would be nice to change resolution to something specific and not just arbitrary scaling value.

Easily the best game in the survival-crafting genre and its not even complete. The ability to customize your game-play experience before starting a world means that the game can be accessible to anyone of any skill level. Progression is slow-paced but not overly complex and the in-game survival handbook shows you all the recipes and guides you need to succeed. Mod support is great too.

Я не жалею денег, потраченных на эту игру. Она действительно хорошая. Надеюсь следующих обновления расшириться кулинария, чтобы можно было делать, например, пирожки или на зиму из ягод варенье. Также былобы прикольно, если добавили возможность создавать для хранения пищи стеклянные банки и прочее. Ну и также убавить агрессивность животных летом, весной, осенью и прикрутили зимой. и была возможность найти медведя в берлоге, например, а волки передвигались большими стаями, а летом, как и сейчас. да и вообще добавить оленей, ежиков для антуража. Но и сейчас игра прекрасна. Но есть один минус. чтобы купить эту игру в России, пришлось поднапрячься. Просто я мог и дальше на пиратке играть. Но хочется немного поддержать авторов игры.

Bought on 06/26/2024, I recall hearing about this game few months back but didnt do a go ahead cause of the price, than once again around 6/26 I saw it up and said F it clearly this is a sign. This is actually proudly my second time outright paying for a game cause it seemed so nice. And the first game I ever bought out of pocket (Counter Strike) was just because, but this one was a full on commitment to me watching the care this community and dev put onto the game. All the games I played were either free or pirated. I never even picked up MC because of regrets since my childhood days, and slowly watching the game fall apart and move away from its player base. This is why is love Vintage Story, I hope they stay indie for ever to come. Love you mom

Brilliant game! Where do I start:

The crafting mechanics are amazing, and I love how every material has a way to be shaped into what you want, from stone tools, to pots and forging!

I love how the world interacts with itself and the player! Animals hunt animals, wolves stay in groups and will get aggressive if you go near them, some game will try to defend itself from being hunted, other animals will want to eat your crops and more.

Speaking of crops, the farming in this game is in depth. You can't just plant wherever and whenever. You will want a fertile soil, you should see if it lacks any nutriens, if it's moist, if it's too cold or warm, nutriens will get exhausted and should replenish over time.

Mining is the next big thing because you'll need to prospect for the ores you need. It's not as simple as games like minecraft, where you find iron and you're set, it'll be long before that happens in this game! One of the game's main aspects is the ages you go through, like copper age, which is hard enough to get to, but oh so rewarding when you're there. Every accomplishment in this game feels amazing because you've worked so hard for it!

And the final thing I want to note is how polished this game is! I haven't encountered a single bug yet and everything just works as it is supposed to! I love how the developers aren't rushed to develop the game and therefore offer a refined, yet "unfinished" product. I can't wait to see what comes next in the VS universe, kudos to the devs, this game deserves more attention! 5 stars experience!

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.

Realistic Minecraft Hardcore? Yes

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!

the best survival game

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

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

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.

AWW SUPER BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS

i want play vintage story !!

thank you !!!

I dont know how exactly i found that game.. .but i love it!

I don't like Minecraft.

But this. This is good.

Absolutely don't regret buying this game. It just feels perfect for me, the systems and mechanics in this game is fantastic and i really feel so alive playing this game 

The lore in this game isn't finished but its still great if you find it

If you have some money to spare for these amazing devs i highly recommend playing this game. Especially with a friend

As im writing this i am going through my second winter

I wish everyone in here and the dev team a Merry Christmas

And thank you Anego Studios for creating this game we all enjoy

Awesome game. not much more to say! Just one thing. WHERES MY FUCKING CLAY OMG THIS IS SOOOO HARD TO FINNDDDDDD

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.