Recent reviews by Cwelvius

The game has huge potential and is worth trying, but a lot of the game has literal middle fingers in your face as enemies, so buckle up for some tough gameplay

I'm so pissed at the guy I saw at the top so I will post this review as counter to theirs, while writing roughly what their arguments were about why the game was bad

1. "I can't skip night through rest, game is time consuming" It's a game that bases gameplay around being a nightly defense against waves of zombies, of course you can't skip night. It's like wanting to skip bosses in souls-like games.
2. "Looting is time consuming, animation is dumb" Looting takes about 3 seconds at the beginning of the game, at the end of the day, it's still zombie survival game, so you will need that you vs zombies part. You can't just run through location spamming interact and then loot all to avoid combat.
3. "followers are dumb". Yeah, cuz they're a new addition. I can't really say much more, don't expect a lot from this feature, hopefully they will expand on it in later patches
4. "dumb zombie AI, they attack floor instead of running past traps". That is mostly problem on your end, building in this game is not confusing all the time, but it has it's quirks, you'd have to make some adjustments and they would run past shredder as intended. Never had that problem.
5. "very small radius of spawning zombies and animals even with huge distance view". Distance view =/= spawn rate. Animal meat and skin can be aquired through means of small and big animal traps, so it's not really relevant for them to roam around woods so much. It makes the game less vibrant with life, but it is what it is, it's a bummer. But zombies? Have you been in cities? There's spawn point on almost every building of those, some smaller POIs don't have those, but still, there's alot of zombies. Especially at *NIGHTS* because it's NIGHT of the dead.
6. "hitboxes are buggy, animations are broken". Hitboxes can sometimes be funny when attacking ores or trees, but I've never had better hitboxes when it comes to zombies, if anything, for my advantage. If I had bluetooth attacks from zombies, they were caused by my own lags, not game.
7. "I need processed leather for lower levels of upgrading/reforging, but then I need normal leather". I don't even know where to begin, like. Obviously you need more refined resources as you upgrade something on higher levels?
8. "I can't remove quiver on my leg" It's odd aesthetic choice of the game, but remember, you're a survivor in zombie apocalypse setting. The fact you're not using a bow right now or at all doesn't mean you shouldn't have something like this by your side. As much as it might be effing with your vibe, it's a normal thing that makes sense in such setting. That's just nitpicking on why the game is "bad"
9. "no time skip option while there's nothing to do". There's always something to be done, from improving on your base, base defense or food resources to upgrading your gear, REFORGING not upgrading your gear, studying certain mechanics and what something can give us (coils in game can give us for example additional resistances and abilities, such as chance for setting enemy on fire with each attack, range or melee).
10. "no option to remove parts from your weapons" Yes there is???? That's just straight up skill issue, my guy, I've attached and deattached countless things to my gear
11. I can't even make "basically this" thing here, the guy straight up says he made a mistake by setting no zombies spawn and then had issues with one quest that required him to clear a city that's already been cleared. How can you make problems about no zombie spawns and then admit you set "no zombie spawning" later? wtf.
12. "zombies killed by traps don't count to survivor quests". Not a big deal, but you mentioned it. You can't farm nor cheese them, because survivor quests require you to EXPLORE A HUGE MAP so you move around so you can't just wait for night and kill them while sitting in roughly 2 spots.
13. I think there's a mention that nights are tough in this game. pendulum and cutters are enough to survive first night. Even then, you have plenty of other ways to survive first night. It's not as hard as you describe it, bruh.

Finally, they said "it's a cheap copy of 7 days to die". It's not, it was made because 7 days to die had no real competition and it stayed in one place because they could. This game is amazing and as much as 7 days is more refined (even tho still buggy as hell) we must remember 7d2d IS 10+ YEARS OLD. This game does amazingly for a game that's been out for 4,5y, especially from small development team such as Jackto studios.

TL;DR
The guy that reviewed the game as "bad" pissed me off because most of his arguments were purely his skill issue. This game isn't the easiest or the most refined games out there, but it surely amazing to play. Remember that it's been made by small studio, so don't expect huge things from it, as some systems are still getting polished, some reworked, some might even be remade, this is a pretty fresh game when you compare it to it's biggest competetitor, 7 days to die. I wouldn't be even surprised if it was made purely because 7 days were so long in alpha and updates were so rare and so small and group of players said "this sucks, we will make our version of it". It's not an easy game, but it's one of the games you might need some wiki to play with, additionally you might want to have a test run of it, then making a normal playthrough of it to understand how everything is.

I hate when people review the game as "bad" because they can't be assed to check the mechanics or anything about the said game.

A lot of people say this game is hard, they consider the game a hateplay. It is a challenging game, for the first run I had died so many times I ended up losing my hardly made 80 silver on day 27, I had character all over the place not knowing what to go, what to build, what to choose. On second play, I decided to play with wiki this time, ignoring the "explore and lose" advice from one of the people who recommended and currently I own about 3k silver, in pretty far land from first location, I've got bunch of skills and I have 2 player houses already, more to come probably. This is definitely one of the games like Stardew Valley, Terraria or other game that requires you to play with wiki opened on alt+tab. When you read about what does what, what can you expect in terms of classes, weapons, it's a lot easier. I call it "modernised gothic" with a lot of walking, pretty cool lore and clunky combat system. When it comes to;

Walking
- There's a lot of it, I do recommend scumbagging and getting 2 coils to get 110 capacity bag so you won't have to go back and forth with loot to sell
- Food and drinks are useful, but carrying them is a lot, carry most valuable food that gives you bonuses on beginning, rest make on your way, carry a cooking pot instead, later you'll have lesser need for it, but still a nice thing to carry
- Be prepared for a lot of enemies, most of times you'd want to avoid them. Especially animals.

Lore
- It's pretty well written, although I haven't finished entire story yet, will update it
[UPDATE]
I dislike how you seem to have set morale when it comes to lore characters, finished the whole Levant quest-chain, Spoilers ahead obviously. Spoilers free opinion at the end.
The fact that we can't join Yzan after we talk to him seems a bit odd to me. It's like we're completely loyal and haven't fought beside him at all. Either kill him or let him betray cyrene, no talk about joining them. Which is a bummer, but it's fine, it's still somewhat well written.
- I do like that characters don't go on monologues, dialogues are voices only with most important things, so you can read for more details or just listen to characters and usually you'll understand
- It's a nice touch to see characters actually have somewhat of problems or discussions

Combat
- It's clunky. Like in retro games clunky. Be careful, because you will die *A lot*.
- Block only when you don't attack, while you attack, opt for dodges
- Parries like in warrior monk tree are amazing, I do recommend to learn them
- First weapons are crappy, later you have some big punchers
- Magic is so great and creative, I really like it
- Ranged weapons are OP and your best friend for opening combat or finishing it

Tl;dr tips
- Play with Wikipedia, this is a game similar to Terraria, Dark souls or Stardew Valley
- At beginning, try your best to fight with brain, a lot more preparations and stuff
- Game is actually easy since nobody has any type of level, bandits don't change, only get a bit better gear, that's all
- get a bandage, go through Cierzo storage, pass some troglodytes (or kill them, your call) and help a man on the beach, you'll keep your first player house, that meaning you'll have player stash
- Get 2 coils, go to mountclam bandit camp, get 110 capacity bag

Lore spoiler free thing I mentioned before;
I dislike how your morale is set from the start, because you can't really be that vengeful adventurer in most scenarios, or an anarchist or a revolutionist, you're a gray morale good guy who is a loyalist no matter what, at lleast in one of the fractions.

Worms armagedon are just tutorial for Hell let Loose

You can fight with katanas without need of dex, that's awesome

This is one of the best games i've ever played, I still come from time to time to play it again, because it's just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good.

Simple yet so nice

This game is like 30 minutes of gaming even at first try, yet this just stormed the internet and community

Bruh we need more of those

I run, i cut, i kick, i jump, i kill, i are Kranuch

*zdobądź kryształ argonowy* o, Yay, zdobyłem w końcu to choler-... *wychodzisz z misji i dostajesz podwojone surowce bonus* ... Kill me.

You can have everything in this game, touch of woman included