Lay of the Land
Southern Cross Interactive · 2026 · Adventure, Action, Sandbox, Voxel, RPG
PC
Mostly Positive80% · 1,084
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About Lay of the Land
Embark on a journey through a dangerous and mysterious world where fires spread and burn, sand collapses, water flows, and pockets of gas suffocate. Get a Lay of the Land, explore the world and use the environment to your advantage.How will you survive? Will you use powerful melee weapons and armor to charge into combat? Maybe you like to keep your distance and strike from the shadows? Or will you use powerful spells and become a master of the arcane arts. The choice is yours.Discover many distinct biomes filled with unique locations and wildlife. Explore overgrown ruins, or take on a deadly temple to find the treasure hidden within. Descend down winding caverns or ascend up jagged mountains to uncover the secrets just beyond the ridge.Lay of the Land's procedural world generation uses a layered simulations to create interesting and natural landscapes giving each world a hand designed feel. Water will carve channels through valleys while roads wind their way through the terrain, organically connecting locations together. Use the full power of a voxel based building system to build anything your heart desires. From humble cottages to majestic castles, bring your ideas to life using a variety of procedural tools and decorative elements.Lay of the Land’s procedural shape system goes far beyond simple square walls and roofs. Effortlessly create circular structures with the cylinder tool and atop them with sloped roofs using the cone tool. Naturally raise/lower the terrain with terrain sculpting tools or construct paths by simply drawing directly onto the ground.Enhance your creations with a wide variety of prefabs including windows, fences, slopes, and more. Design and create your own custom prefabs to quickly duplicate decorations or even entire structures with ease. Decorate with an assortment of furnishings such as tables, chairs, shelves and more.Use the fully destructible world to your advantage in emergent encounters with a wide variety of bosses and monsters. Collapse the roof of a cave onto your foes, fell a tree to crush a dangerous monster or blast through a wall to get the drop on your enemies.Wield a wide variety of powerful weapons as you battle and loot for new weapons and gear. Get up close and personal with an array of melee weapons, strike from afar with your arsenal of ranged armaments or master the arcane arts to unleash powerful spells upon your foes.Lay of the Land features a physically based crafting and interaction system. Instead of relying solely on menus, items are physically placed and interacted with in the world. Want to make a basic axe? Lay sticks, rope, and flint on the ground and assemble them into a functional tool. Need to cook food? Simply place it into a campfire and let it cook. Forge new weapons by smelting raw ore, crafting clay molds and casting metal parts. Upgrade your weapons to enhance attributes such as damage, durability, attack speed and more. Infuse them with special elemental effects including fire to burn enemies over time, ice to slow your targets or lightning to chain your attacks to nearby foes.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Decent game however I refunded, controlling the character is too janky for me. Crafting is okay but groundcrafting is just not my thing. I would add a crafting table with a chest attached. Building on itself needs improvement, in the current implementation it takes way too much time to even build something basic. Upon creating my game my start was next to a church, with skeletons so my first death was really quick, maybe add a safe zone for spawning in World generation.
I'd say this is closer to a meh but I'll give an indie dev the roundup. Best looking voxel engine I think I've ever seen but the gameplay is a bit thin. The actual systems aren't bad (though the crafting system where you throw crap into a pile on the ground gets pretty old) so possibly with enough content that could make for enough of a loop that the already charming graphics could sell the experience for longer. As it is it feels a bit pointless to explore the pretty lands with little to find but plenty of loot, more recipes, more reasons to build out your base, maybe some rpg bits and bobs to make fighting enemies more rewarding, etc then I think it could all work well.
Can somebody help me to run this game on my external 5060 ti, its always running on my A770M and i cant switch, i tried everything
After 8 hrs. I uncovered the whole map and had gear that allowed me to kill almost every mob except bosses. The first Boss is a joke. It hit me once and launched me into a tree, stood in place and let me kill it with a wand. There are no challenges. If you want a game for a young kid or you only like building, it is an ok game. Its 20 bucks for a basic Minecraft mod that you can get for free. The only solid win is it was not buggy, Legit your trying to copy a style of game that is already well covered and not adding any challenges or purpose to the game itself. I give it a thumbs down because its not 20 dollars of game play,
Really fun but it will be better with moltyplayer
This is a Mixed review. Treat this like an early access even though it is called a full release, the dev is working on many things to enhance the game. The game itself is beautiful and how every voxel works and is simulated so complex and incredible. Just for that I am recommending the game for you to experience that. There are a lot of good ideas here, I really like the spell system and finding spells around the world, Content wise altho there is some stuff to do. I do feel like atm it is lacking in lots of refinement, the main draw here is the voxel environment and the beautiful visuals, and the building is excellent. But It does need a lot more content on the RPG side for me. The mobs are a bit too samey for me and also their ai is pretty bad hahaha, causing me to lose interest in a lot of things, as they do lack a lot of polish in many areas of the game from the quests, world design, mobs etc, hence why I havent played that much. If you are welling to pay to support a dev and be a part of development I would recommend game, its def something that could be incredible with enough time. If not just wishlist and check back.
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