by
Elhazout
» 12 Jul 2017, 16:03
After ~85+ hours of playtime i can say that this game is nothing more than a pretty facade as of now. I looks more like side product of Life is Feudal MMO / YO. Can this game call itself full release? Ofc not, its early beta at best.
But we need to talk about something else, if we tag this game as a sandbox city builder with first person mode and unlimited modding potential. This game is more than ready to fulfill all your dreams. Base core is done really well, minus few minor things. Its game for people who love to tinker with various setups, configs and other scripts. Something similar to Factorio freedom to mod whatever you want to make game better. Worth every penny.
But if we tag this game as survival city builder/colony like Banished, RimWorld, Oxygen not included and so on. Life is Feudal: Forest Village is broken unfinished mess that pretends everything is ok, but fails at everything you can imagine.
Some examples:
1) Current exchange rates not only makes everything worthless but also brakes the whole survival gameplay (Some items gives you infinite value just letting you trade rare and expensive items into raw material and double or triple your items in seconds, other items are so cheap its not even worth making them like 1 vegetable pie cost 2 vegetables and so on). Ofc you could say use mods to solve this problem but that's just laziness from developer side. I should use mods to add something or make game easier or harder but not fix base game.
2) Food consumption. Game have set amount of calories your people demand but game rounds everything in such odd way that some food items become better due to this and idea of choice goes to bin and whole concept of balanced diet / calorie system become pointless. Like whats the point to bake pies if your people consume more food calorie wise? And no matter what pie you will offer they gonna eat just 1 and go back to work.
3) In game statistics. None. How can a game call itself a city builder, survival or management game if it does not have even basic tools to check how your colony needs and productivity over time. Its first thing you would do creating this type of game.
As a base game it goes back into played and forgotten library soon.
As you very own sandbox game its 8/10, as survival city/colony building game its 1/10, tried once and done with it kinda game.