Age of Survival Reviews

This game is unplayable in current state. Stay away. EDIT: Tried to download the game again on 5th of April 2016, since the changelog looked promising. Upon first launch of the game, the same awkward zebras were there, fewer this time, standing like zombies and then sliding slowly off beside me. I tried to equip the so-called "beating stick" to start resource gathering (this mechanic actually worked last time around), but it was bugged out (the beating stick slot said "11" - while being in the traditional "1" quickbar slot - and upon pressing "1" the number changed to "10", but still no beating stick equipped. Tried to press every single key on keyboard but no beating stick activated, so it was impossible to harvest anything). Quit game. Tried launching the game a second time (wanted to give it a second chance) - now the game world was totally frozen, could not move nor do anything at all). Quit game again. Conclusion: Uninstall game. This game has a long way to go before it is even playable for like 10 minutes. 1 out of 10. Olafr blogs about modding and gaming: http://gamersparadiseolafr.tumblr.com/ Olafr reviews similar games: - Life is Feudal: Your Own. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198031254429/recommended/290080 - ARK: Survival Evolved. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198031254429/recommended/346110 - T.U.G. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198031254429/recommended/277930 Follow Olafr the Viking Steam Curator for reviews of STRATEGY - RPG - SURVIVAL games: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/25341025-Olafr-the-Viking/ Learn more about the Olafr Rating System (1 to 10): http://gamersparadiseolafr.tumblr.com/post/152254235900/olafr-the-viking-rating-system-1-to-10-olafr Compare this game’s rating to other games in the Olafr Rating History: http://gamersparadiseolafr.tumblr.com/post/152254318505/olafr-the-viking-rating-history-olafr-the

You got early acces, and you got too early acces. This is too early to be on steam and way overpriced for what you get. Barely playable and hardly any content.

The game seems nice, with good graphics and sounds but for now doesn't seems ready for playing : -The controls are weird ex: when you crouch it open the crafting table, but in the controls settings never talk about anything on opening that crafting table. -It doesn't seems that we can swim with our head out of watter, but at least we can still take a breath and go back underwather. Well, this is not a big problem, what really got me upset is that you have ONE solo game and you deal with it. Yes ONLY ONE, UNO, UNE, 1 ! You can't delete it nor start a fresh new on it and by the fact erase the old one and since it doesn't have any savinf features because it save your game by itslef (like in 7 days to die), if you drop an item by missclicking while you are discovering for the first time, it is lost :D FOR EVER since it seems that the items dropped don't appear on the ground. So you better not do any mistake in your game or you will simply live with it even if you uninstall and reinstall the game, you will be stuck with the same game you did your mistake in. Of course this can makes me look only like a rage quitting guy but just imagine you couldn't delete nor go back by "exit without saving" your old gbc or gba pokemon game ...... what a pain in the ass would it be? So at the end of the day, Age of Survival seems to have a big potential but if I could restart my real life, I wouldn't had buy the game at this stage of alpha. In short my advice is don't buy it right now and wait to see if it gets anybetter.

At the moment this game is VERY early access, so much so even it is broken to a point it has become unplayable. For 17 Euros there is no excuse for the state this game is currently in. Having said that, is does look great, but at 0.4 FPS it better be. That is all the positive I can say about this game at the moment, since it is quite unplayable. Practically everything is broken, meaning that when you start a game, it is laggy as hell. Now that's not a problem per se, I mean I don't have a really fast processor, and I have to wait a few seconds for the world to load and stabilize even in Minecraft, but in this game the engine doesn't stabilize, it is stuck at less than 1 FPS... So you try lowering the settings to the bare minimum, and that's what I did. Problem is, the game keeps rendering the world while you do this, even in Single player. Then you change the settings and find out you can't reduce the grass...hmkay, np... Usually this is done over the graphics pipeline and my graphics adapter is more than capable of handling that, so you press Save and return to the game...then the game crashes. When you want to quit the game, meaning you close the game using the interfaces in a controlled manner, the game crashes...??? Since I was unable to even walk around, that is about all I can say, there is too much broken and too much questionmarks about the price, the state and the engine chosen to put more faith into this project. But I have seen other teams start off like this and pull out quite succesfully, so I'll wait a few months, give the project some time to mature and give it another try. But bear in mind that this game is running on a personal license for the Unity 3D engine. This means that the developer(s) are allowed to sell only a limited amount of copies. Buyer beware, wait for others like me to check this game out and make sure it is playable, regardless of the content or features. The people from Steam have more on their minds than giving people refunds ;-) Update 18-10-2015: Game is now running at 4.0 FPS (in single player). Game no longer crashes after changing settings, and actually seems to apply those settings now. Starting a single player game takes a long time during which there is no loading bar and the game is registered by Windows as unresponsive, so a bit of a pitfall there (should load stuff asynchronized, so the interface doesn't freeze up). A little bit of hope is growing regarding this project. Update 05-02-2017: Game crashes when clicking Single Player in the main menu. Thought I'd revisit, but it appears it's just the ghost of a shell now...

I decided to try out this game live on stream. We played it for about 13 minutes in total. We could not figure out any of the controls. nothing seemed to work as intended. AND then we decided to vote on what was better, a game we couldn't even play or this. The other game won. Do not recommend.

Probably the worst launch ever. Yes it's EA and it's an Alpha, i could live with bugs. But the bugs aint the biggest problem.. Like the only thing that's implemented is crafting, but the animations suck, multiplayer suck (Cant chat, cant see playernames cant even see servernames in browser, or refresh) Sound goes in and out, FALLDAMAGE WHEN JUMPING- WTF? I actually died from jumping too much on more or less plain ground. I'll wait for a week or two to get a refund tho, and see if there's some good patches coming soon to make this playable. Can NOT recommend this in the state it's in atm.

[h1]My Experience so far[/h1] Currently the game starts you in the middle of a Jungle with no tool or weapons. Even after the 0.0.0.1.2.9 Patch which noted that you do now start with a default tool, the Beating Stick, this is not the case though, at least for me in SP. Your character does not attack or do anything without anything in its hands, which is fine. I'm just mentioning it so you know there is nothing wrong with your controls when you hit the attack/action keys without anything on you. To get started crafting you must find one of a Villages which are located somewhere near the beach areas. When you walk around and see gigantic Rock formations, walk to those as the Villages are usually close by. Though, depending on where you spawn, finding a Village did take me anything from 5 minutes to 40 minutes. When you find the Village you will find your first Log, pick it up and using the crafting diagrams provided by the devs in the "Day one Survival guide" announcement start making some sticks. The 4 sticks will then let you make the "Beating Stick" which will be your first tool. the Beating Stick, which is a branch, lets you now fell trees and mine small rock formations for rocks and ore, diamonds, sapphire, sulfur, etc.. Ones you have a few rocks and made some more sticks, you can make the stone hammer which is a slightly better tool, chopping trees a little faster, I think, though that could be just my imagination. Crafting your first building is a little time consuming as you need 4 -8 logs for each item, such as walls, doorways, walls with window holes, foundations, etc.. Placing them is easy and very straight forward. At this point I played 2 satisfying hours of doing the basics of this game. According to the crafting diagrams and the devs, there is tons of items already in the game, but I only found a few, such as plants or potatoes, which are plants you just hit with your stick/hammer and then pick up, similar to the potato plants in Stranded Deep. You can craft a workbench as well but it takes 10 x Iron Ore. Iron Ore I was only able to get from destroying the small rock formations. Though Iron Ore is only a chance and those rock formations are scarce so that will take you a good while. Up to this point this all sounds great, while the game didn't really offer anything unique on functionality or features yet, I was looking forward to its more complex and unique crafting features, like tailoring, or making a reloading table, workbench , etc.. As I got ready to get more wood, one of the trees ragdolled out and smacked me in the face, killing me instantly while the Tree continue to fly across the map. Dying, spawned me somewhere random in the Jungle, though I was able to keep everything I had on me which was OK, so of we go find our base. After another 30m I finally reached the Village again I started my base in. As I reached the Village the game crashed. That's OK, no problem, it is Early Access. When I logged back into the game I was re-spawned in the middle of the Jungle starting from scratch. I just lost 2-3 hours of gameplay. Assuming this was only due to the crash I spent the next 1-2 hours re-doing everything I already had done, just to get back to the point I can continue grinding for Iron Ore. It was late, I played for 4 hours now and needed a break. So I exited the game to the main menu and had some food. When I got back I clicked to continue my single player. I was now again looking at a screen with all my items and work gone. Wiped. [h1]Conclusion[/h1] While the game seems to offer so much in functionality already, the only way right now you can experience it is by playing a massive session and hoping the game doesn't crash. For me the close to 6 hours I spent on this game so far were walking and wood chopping/mining without any feeling of progress or the ability to continue at a later point. While I was on the fence for a while, it was for that single reason that I cannot recommend the game in this current state. I know Early Access games contain bugs but the game is selling for €15 at this time (after the 15% discount) and I feel it is not worth that price at this time in the current state it is in. Ones the issue is fixed and I can save my state and can continue my game to access the other crafting diagrams from Workbenches, Looms, Reloading Stations, etc.... I shall re-visit my review of this game and re-evaluate it. [h1]EA Disclaimer[/h1] Before anyone starts mentioning "This is EA, relax, the game will eventually be OK" I do NOT buy or review EA games for promises, awesome road maps, developer’s best intentions or things that might make it into the game at some stage. Those are values I take into account when supporting game developers on Kickstarter but not when buying EA games on STEAM :) EA games, I buy and review for what I get right now, taking very, very much into consideration that bugs are acceptable in EA but also take into consideration that the developer felt the game was ready and in a good enough state to be going to the public and be worth the price specified.

Stay away from this "game"! I opted in on the EA on release day. It started as a nice looking project but in a short time from it's EA release turned to garbage. This is one of those titles that you really should wait until it's released. The selling argument for this game during and it's first release as EA sounded promising. However the updates since then has been a real disappointment. So do your self and your wallet a favor and stay as far away as you can from this title. It crashes, it has awful graphics and is just plain boring.

I bought the game months ago after watching a video of gameplay, even now the gameplay doesn't meet as advertised, nor are the updates significant or regular. This is a subpar product that a game company just used the bare minimum to generate a profit and hope nobody would notice. Do not buy this game. Even now, almost everything in this game are tweaked public domain models. Avoid. Avoid like the plague.

Let me start with the CONS: -Animations are broken -Crafting doesn't work at all (can't even make a stick with logs) -Sound is broken -No in game chat -No player names above players -No animals -No food -Found water and could not drink it (broken) -Game crashes from simple things like, accessing the settings tab. -No save data, so expect that when you try and load back onto a server it will start you over -A wierd crowd of people defending this game (the worst I've ever seen) -Multiple crash issues due to using simple game mechanics -Graphics are terrible PROS: -None at the moment Alpha or not this game was released in an extremly broken state. I'll update this review upon further inspection of the game. Dev's I know you do your best and I support small gaming firms....but this game is not ready for release.