Homebound: New Beginnings
Argonaut Entertainment · 2024 · Exploration, Sandbox, Fishing, Farming Sim, RPG
PC
Mixed50% · 10
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About Homebound: New Beginnings
Hunting the past of your ancestry you find yourself washed up on the lands of Solaria. You can feel the magic flowing through the land and the many creatures living alongside one another but there is a tear in the land, the creatures are at ends, there is distrust among the people, can an outsider heal the damage that was done many years ago and discover the secrets of the Solarian Islands.
Survive - Build - Thrive(The below describes the planned versions of these features that are being worked towards, while in Early Access these features will exist in simpler forms and grow along the way.)
Survive
Landing astray you need to get your bearings. Farm, fish, cook and fight to survive in the wilderness of a magic land.
Your ancestors journal will come in handy but not everything in this land is edible be ready for wild magic, will the herbs let you fly or put you to sleep for the day? Better do your research.
Build
Build complex structures to attract companions to join you and your budding townships, with enough time you'll be able to grow prosperous towns all over Solarian that feed into one another. On the island of the Grave you could build a place of prayer, blessing your towns with the inspiration of the dead, or maybe you're a combatant who prefers to sacrifice demons at the Gravelands to earn your blessing.
Thrive
You've begun to heal the lands but surviving isn't enough, you can have a wood axe but without proper technique you can't craft a Master-grade tool, perfect your crafts and learn from the neighbours to evolve into the territory of thriving.
The islands of Solaria are waiting so get on the ship before it's too late.
Survive - Build - Thrive(The below describes the planned versions of these features that are being worked towards, while in Early Access these features will exist in simpler forms and grow along the way.)
Survive
Landing astray you need to get your bearings. Farm, fish, cook and fight to survive in the wilderness of a magic land.
Your ancestors journal will come in handy but not everything in this land is edible be ready for wild magic, will the herbs let you fly or put you to sleep for the day? Better do your research.
Build
Build complex structures to attract companions to join you and your budding townships, with enough time you'll be able to grow prosperous towns all over Solarian that feed into one another. On the island of the Grave you could build a place of prayer, blessing your towns with the inspiration of the dead, or maybe you're a combatant who prefers to sacrifice demons at the Gravelands to earn your blessing.
Thrive
You've begun to heal the lands but surviving isn't enough, you can have a wood axe but without proper technique you can't craft a Master-grade tool, perfect your crafts and learn from the neighbours to evolve into the territory of thriving.
The islands of Solaria are waiting so get on the ship before it's too late.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players overwhelmingly criticize this game as a poorly made asset flip with mismatched tags, no meaningful content, and broken mechanics like unintended flying exploits. A few note it has brief novelty appeal as a comedic experience with friends, but the consensus is that it's unpolished, buggy, and fundamentally unfinished, with one reviewer noting the developer appeared to abandon it in Early Access.
[h3] I'm currently doing a challenge to play through a free game in every single category on steam. I then give an honest review using ChatGPT. [/h3] Game: 52 / 447 [b] Category: Pirates [/b] "Pirates? What Pirates?" This game has nothing to do with pirates—fix your tags! In fact, it barely has anything to do with anything. It’s an empty, unpolished mess, cobbled together with asset store models and zero effort. You can literally jump and punch your way into flying—because physics apparently walked the plank. There’s no content, no polish, and no reason to even give this a shot. The trailer makes it look like some grand adventure, but in reality, it’s just an empty shell of a game. Skip this one—it’s not even worth the curiosity download.3 found this helpful
[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] "Homebound: New Beginnings" is one of literally thousands of creatively bankrupt asset flips infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere.[/quote] This is a laughably bad Unreal asset flip, the developer went on a shopping spree on the Unreal Marketplace and dumped a bunch of stock assets on an ARPG game blueprint, couldn't work out how to make any of it actually work properly, so dumped it into Early Access and walked away. A bizarre thing for anyone to do, but this happens a lot... people think they can somehow magically become game developers thanks to asset stores, discover they can't, and publish the crap anyway. Steam Direct is a disaster. So, "Homebound: New Beginnings" is partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Little, if anything in this game is the creation of the "developer". While there's no up front price for this asset flip, the other problem with asset flips is that when developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do an…2 found this helpful
This game is so god awful that's it actually good. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who wants to goof off with some friends for about 30 minutes. Tip: press B and then click of the ? box to exit a lot of the menus2 found this helpful
game is bugy game macks me sleepy hard to control the game needs a lot of fixing i will be delting game sorrey1 found this helpful
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