Stonehearth Reviews

PEAK but lags after 40 people

dead abandoned game

Something like a cross between Minecraft and a city builder, I adore this game. Been following it since beta. You can see by the 331 hours I've clocked in, I love every second of this game.

really fun to play and i like the mechanisms of the game. would love to see more games like this come out. the multiplayer is a plus.

So incredibly fun. But has one main problem. Is horribly optimized and will eat all the memory it can. I love this game, Have for years. If someone somewhere had the time to try fix the code somehow someway and fix the memory leak etc this game would be so much better. You would be able to actually build big cities. Grab it if on discount. Its fun, expecially with the mods and the blueprints from others. But be prepared to lag about 30min-3 hours in. Hot tip is press f5 every now and then. And save then exit and load back in to somewhat manage it

It's developers dont care about the game anymore It's so underdeveloped its insane that even 1 mod can make this game so good. But because of the bad optimisation it results in low FPS (~40), while my CPU aint being used more than 30% and my GPU not more than 20%

This game is like Ark: survival evolved, the idea is great, but the execution is terrible and it has two main problems: 1 this game is not finished nor optimized, you will need a NASA computer to be able to run it with more than 15 people in your ''town'' 2 The information about how to interact with the game is not provided to you and the game design dosen't make you learn essensial things for your people to survive properly

I got thinking about Stonehearth after writing some reviews for other games I'm conflicted about. Stonehearth is a warm and cosy colony sim with simple but satisfying building tools, great ambience, and just enough variety in craft and furniture to prevent boredom but avoid overwhelming menus of stuff. [b]But the game is completely and utterly busted.[/b] I haven't even been able to get it to work with ACE, to be honest, and while that's probably down to my impatience... I shouldn't [i]have[/i] to set up mods to play a game for longer than an hour. Why does it feel like every other game I take a fancy to needs me to sit down and spend an age just getting it to run well? [u]Yay:[/u] [list] [*]The vision of the game itself is wonderful, and if you're a fan of city builders and sandbox games where you can just potter about building for your sweet little hearthlings to live and work in, you'd enjoy the 2 hours of gameplay you get before a crash. [*]Style is adorable. [*]The music is chill and pretty cute. [*]There's a little bit of combat and story in the game to add a bit more depth to the gameplay, but nothing too intrusive. [*]Credit where its due, there has been a lot of graft put in by ACE to get it working for folk. Maybe you'd have more luck than me getting it functional? Because it is, admittedly, a cracking game when it works. [/list] [u]Nay:[/u] [list] [*]If you're like me and simply could not figure out, or could not be bothered, to get it set up properly with mods / system adjustments, you'll get about 2 hours of playtime before you need to reset everything because you've got errors coming out of your nose. [*]We're never going to see the game in a polished state. [*]The tools, while simple, can get finicky to use for more complex builds, and it can be hard to adjust your camera to see what you're doing. [*]You'll probably regret spending the money eventually. [*]You'll forever wonder about what this game [i]could[/i] have been, which sucks. [/list] [u]All in all…[/u] I've pretty much sequestered this game to my 'Broken' folder so that every time I search for it, I get a reminder to my future self about what I've got to look forward to once I build something grander than 4x4 house, or when I dare to invite an extra hearthling to my settlement. By the sounds of things, Stonehearth's development (or lack thereof in the end) was a hot mess, and the game reflects as such now.

They already abandoned the game it a dead game has no update and a ton of bug and randomly magical crash it might fun in early game but it not last long until the game crash so do not buy it

A game abandoned by Radiant. Even though it's out of early access, the game's performance and contents say otherwise. Game constantly breaks, your hearthlings(citizens) constantly idling despite having a compatible task queued up, and poor performance despite a beefy rig. The first hour is usually fine, fun even. But after that the game will start breaking, requiring you to unstuck your hearthlings or reload the game to get things working again This game by no means playable, yet it is here, out of early access. Without many promised contents met in their stretch goals. I say avoid