Vagabond

Played for a little under 7 hours so far. Still figuring some things out, like how on earth to obtain linen fibers so I can get into tailoring. I'm also hunting for 4 onions for a specific quest, and while I seem to find all sorts of other veggies and fruit this item hasn't been seen so far. This reminds me quite a bit of Stardew Valley, but without the narrative focus. Admittedly, I have not progressed the main quest at all. I started in the middle of nowhere, found a town, and started pilfering what I could to scrape enough coin together to buy an axe. Then I went to chopping trees. From there, picked up side quests and snowballed into getting into cooking, carpentry, smithing, and accruing enough gold to buy a house (once I had enough town rep). All said, it's pretty relaxing. Combat is very simple. I can see the vision here and would be interested to see what the final product will look like. Fishing is not present as far as I can tell, though there are fishing skills. Maybe I just haven't found it yet. I'm iffy on recommending this because I think more work needs to be done in order to expand the game play loop. However, for $15 I don't think it's a bad purchase. If more…

I'll start by saying that I enjoyed what little of the game I got to play, but... Loading a saved game, yes, any saved game, will crash the game, and there hasn't been an update since february (version 0.8.0). I don't know if all users have the same problem, but reading through the discussions I can see I'm not alone in this, and I certainly can't recommend a game that can't be played. Hope the bug gets fixed, but until then I'm getting a refund.

This game is extremely simple, and not in a good way. After a while, it just becomes boring. I can see the potential, but in its current state it needs a serious rework. A lot of basic mechanics require a ridiculous amount of farming to level up, but since the game offers almost no challenge, farming quickly becomes a chore. The worst part is that you do not even need most of these upgrades to finish the game, so there is very little incentive to engage with the system at all. The concept itself is great. A 2D Elder Scrolls-style game sounded really charming and honestly got me interested. Unfortunately, the execution falls short. Most dungeons feel the same, enemies barely differ in their behavior, and combat becomes repetitive very quickly. There is one ranged enemy, but the rest just run straight at you and die on your weapon. The only real difference between weapons is their range. The main quest is very basic and quite tedious. There are no real twists and no final boss. Side quests are not much better. You have to complete several of them just to move the main story forward, and the rewards are minimal. Not that rewards matter much when the game is already this easy. To b…

The game was fun for a bit, but there are LOTS of room for improvement in every aspect of the game and the Dev hasn't updated the game in a year so I simply cannot recommend it as it seems the game will never be finished. Crap like this makes it hard to trust small game developers with my money.

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The roots of a fun, open-world RPG are here, but not much more. The game is very basic, as is the progression. But hey, I got 8 hours out of it before I got bored, so I can't knock it too hard. Hopefully the developer will keep adding content and systems, but over 2 years into Early Access I'm not holding my breath. This is a neutral "I would buy on sale only" rec.