NovaX Reviews

This game is so far from finished that its impossible to get past the first few simple quests. Coconuts? Where. I cut down deciduous tree for palm leaves??? but no coconuts?

On paper this looks like it could be amazing, but that's about where it ends. While it is trying to be a very interesting and fun game, it is falling extremely short. The combat is about as stale as 3-day old toast, the landscape is bland, and the foliage will pop into view at very very short range like something you wouldn't expect from a modern Unreal Engine game. I have immense respect for this being a solo dev project, or at least what appears to be a solo dev project, but the scale they want to reach might be a little out of the developers range of abilities. I would consider this a good learning experience for them in that respect and am ok with them using store assets since it is probably their first project. Pros: - Base building - Character building - Free open world Cons: - Very little to do - No ship building yet - Stale combat - Hunger and Thirst are ridiculously fast - Inventory management is your 2nd most difficult enemy, your first is your hunger and thirst. - No quest markers Suggestions: - Tone back the hunger and thirst! - Tone back food spoilage - Armor is too powerful, of the three enemies, they do like 7 HP damage when you're in max armor. - Workbenches that require fuel (Like the campfire and furnace) should either have a second slot for fuel or better tool tips on how to use them in my opinion. - Maybe have intelligence add to max mana and/or mana regen? - Explain that character skill points raise both your stats and skills or maybe add a separate pool for skill points. Bugs: - If you do a Take All on your corpse and don't have enough space in your inventory to actually take all of it, the leftovers will disappear. Fortunately this only applies to the player's death loot container. - Grog (the one in the long blue glass) says it is supposed to quench thirst better than rum, but it currently causes you to lose 20% of your thirst instead of recover 20% as was probably intended. -Enemies can't use bridges for some reason. Just standing on them will cause them to stand next to them while trying to get you from the ground instead of using the bridge.