Prozacookies

I don’t know who writes these reviews, but I’m convinced it has to be the developers of the game & their families or something. This game is absolute garbage. It’s ugly, it’s clunky, & it’s beyond tedious. When I started the game, there was no tutorial whatsoever so I had absolutely no idea what was going on or how to play the game at all. Time starts moving quickly & my guy character is already sick, so I’m walking around this tiny dingy house just picking up random things that I have no idea how to use. It takes forever to just get up or down a single flight of stairs because the game is just so clunky & poorly designed, you will just keep walking past the stairs instead of using them. Even if you ignore the multiple annoying flaws like that, and somehow manage to figure out how to play & what to craft with zero story information or tutorial at all, it is still just not fun in any small way whatsoever. I wish I could get a refund but Nintendo eshop doesn’t offer those for awful games apparently, so I figured I would write an actually honest & helpful review to hopefully help someone else avoid wasting their money on this dumpster fire.

This isn’t the absolute worst game I purchased recently on the Nintendo eshop deals/sales page, but it isn’t very great or fun either. I started off having high hopes for this game as it sounds fun & is interesting visually, but it quickly became pretty underwhelming. There is a tutorial, but it isn’t very clear, it wasn’t near comprehensive enough & left me with a lot of questions & unable to understand basic gameplay functions. You leave the little starting area after being told how to walk, pick things up, & shoo away crows. Then you get on the raft, which is incredibly fragile & takes a lot of damage very easily (and you have no idea how to fix it, because of course the tutorial didn’t bother to cover something so basic & important), and float down the river to various places. The first place I came to had aggressive boars, but I had no idea how to handle them, because again, the tutorial didn’t even mention weapons or combat. I managed to make both a knife & a hammer, but had no option of actually using them to defend myself, and two separate traps that didn’t have any effect on the boar. It’s not fun to have to constantly guess at basic gameplay functions because the tutorial is so shoddy. That’s not making a fun, challenging game, it’s making some unnecessary, frustrating guesswork that doesn’t even make any sense. A knife, hammer, or traps are all things that should have helped. In addition, your hunger, thirst, temperature, & exhaustion level deteriorate at a ridiculously fast pace, especially compared to the actual resources available most of the time. There are rain & storms constantly forcing you to sleep indoors immediately (depleting your hunger & thirst even more) or get sick. For all the effort you go through to gather supplies, craft a snare, find a place with rabbits, build that snare, wait, catch a rabbit, skin a rabbit, build a fire, & then cook the rabbit- it doesn’t even fill your hunger up halfway. It’s just overall frustrating, stressful, and boring, on repeat, indefinitely. If you’re looking for a fun survival or exploration game, this isn’t it. If I could return it, I would.