Wayward Reviews

Honestly, as someone who started playing the free version of this game before this one came out, and to this day likes that version a lot and was very excited to see some new things added to the game: i wish they had kept the controls more similar to the free version and just expanded the items, crafting recipes, etc within that format, i think this version of the game is a lot clunkier and it is harder to get into a flow state with it. Which sucks because it's awesome to see so many new things to craft and plants and to have the disassemble feature.

I want to enjoy Wayward, but it fails at the most important aspect of crafting games: Interface. Item icons are extremely difficult to tell apart, there are way too many of them and simple actions are too convoluted. It's a shame, because clearly a lot of work has been done to make it customizable, but as it stands the game is painful to play. A big design flaw for a game like this is the crafting recipe discovery. You will only gain the recipe after gathering the necessary items, but your inventory is weight-limited, and even with storage in chests this becomes an issue - figuring out what to do with items will often require having a wiki open. After failing to get recipe for a tin bar because of some random missing item I decided to give up.