Rekindling Reviews

I picked this game up last night while browsing for something to cure my boredom, and honestly I expected it to be hot garbage. The game itself is a great idea and I can see it going quite a few places. While it is in Early Access and I should expect low content and bugs, there are a lot of tiny annoying ones. Such as not being able to leave a building menu or character sheet with escape as it brings up the main menu, and you can't press escape to close the main menu (not game breaking but annoying). There are a few others like this with simple clicking errors on the developer's end that make you stop and think for a second. Overall pretty good, but I would wait until a few update unless you have a job.

I come back to this game occasionally to see if it's any better than when I bought it 2 years ago. I have at least 5 hours in this game so I don't know why it says my time is so low. Anyway... yeah, it's better than it was when I bought it. But it's still not fun. Here are some things that make me not want to play again in the future: - It took 6 in game days to build a room with 3 cots, a fire, a butcher table, and a lab. By day 9 they still haven't finished the floor. That's way too long. - Zombies punch through walls... Have you ever tried to punch through a wooden wall or a log? It's not something most people are going to be able to accomplish but apparently a zombie can do it in a few minutes. - Killed a fox, set two pawns to high priority for the butchering job, and the fox corpse just rotted in my storage. Nobody butchered the fox. - The pawns all suck. They each get two bad traits and two good traits. There is never a pawn that isn't half terrible. I could go on but those are some major points that are really far behind almost every other colony sim I've ever played. I don't mind that the style is derivative since completely original ideas and graphics have been few and far between for at least 20 years in the industry (Rimworld is derived in style from Prison Architect for the dummies calling every top-down colony sim a "Rimworld rip off"). The only thing I care about is whether or not the game is enjoyable. Considering that every time I give Rekindling another shot I spend more time browsing the internet on my phone than I do looking up at the screen after the first 5 minutes, that's going to be a no from me. It's just not fun.

I can't recommend this game. It's obviously a Rimworld rip-off, but I was more than willing to overlook that fact. If it provided unique game play I would have no issue with it. It doesn't. It has survival mode which is basically a bunch of ZMI (zombies) infected creatures attack at night killing all the local creatures, breaking through barriers (including mining areas for some monsters), and basically just being a nuisance. The AI in this game is... not good at all. Even with priorities they may go hunt zombies, attack on sight, or just watch as their fellow survivalist just gets pummeled. Pretty much a given your people are going to get sick. The character creation is basically a few stats: Building | Mining | Harvesting | Farming | Medical | Science. Then you get 4 character traits. One is positive, one is bad, and two are a mix between good/bad. You can often roll things like a character w/ high medical or builder and refuses to be a doctor or build. Not very well thought out. I could ignore this, just keep rolling until you get the character traits/stats you want. The issue is the AI is stupid. Build orders, when they harvest, how they execute jobs... is just inefficient. If you want to be efficient you'd basically have to continually pause and right click your survivor to manually set jobs... just not really fun. It's a bare bone Rimworld (Early Access) with bad AI. Just buy Rimworld, if it's too complicated for you -- use a mod to customize it.

I have never played a management resource game before, so I went into Rekindling completely blind. I think a lot of the gameplay mechanics expect you to kind of know how to play without explicitly telling you what to do, which was definitely frustrating. That being said, it's fun and I did enjoy it once I figured out the basics. Easily the nicest part is that the dev is super responsive. I sent a slew of bugs over and they were fixed by the next update. Some of the things that I don't love are just aesthetic, so I wouldn't want them to impact my overall review, but I don't care for the graphics style or music very much. Neither of those impact the gameplay though. Overall, you can tell a lot of work has gone into this game and it was a lot of fun to mess around with once I figured out what I was doing.

Its a good game but I'm starting to think this game has been abandoned because it has been a long time since there last update. *Edit: ok thank you for telling me!

This is a first impressions. I plan to play more and watch the game go through development. I will also change my review over the coarse of development. 5-7-19 0.24 Short answer is yes, i recommend it. Long answer: Rekindling is “SFS Studios” take on the colony building gener. It takes some ideas from similar games and even adds things of its own. As of know the game is short, but is still enjoyable if you have a few minutes to play. Even tho it is early access I have not come across to many bugs. The simplistic design of the game makes it easy for any pc to run and the price is a good start for what it is. I did not play the other titles by “SFS Studios” but i looked back and found out that their previous released game Inevitability is still receiving updates meaning the devs will most likely not abandoned this game for a long while. The only issue i really have is guns dont have sounds(that could be a bug tho), other then that small things like animals just walking into your houses, and if you remove a bed while someone is sleeping on it they get stuck for a few seconds when they wake up. Overall I can't wait to see how this progresses and hope for the best for the dev(s).

I accidentally stumbled on this game, read the description and looked at the price...with all the expensive EA games I've purchased (which is a large majority of my game library), I figured why not give it a try. I have been having a blast. It's not Rimworld, but has a similar look. Plenty of content right now to keep me busy trying to sustain my lil settlement, and have not personally encountered any bugs yet. Not entirely sure what the end game goals are, but hopefully this will turn into a syfy~ish process where we build and educate our society to find a remedy to the fatal virus. :-) The DEVS...outstanding response and reactions to community so far...which is the best foundation to building a great game and fan base in my opinion. Also, there has already been a nice update since I made the purchase. Conclusion, if you are a fan of Rimworld type of gameplay....this game has alot to offer in the way of nice graphics, good amount of content for early access, and most importantly no annoying bugs that forces you to restart every 20 minutes. Absolutely cannot wait to see what we see in the future.

I walked into the discord and I requested the ability to craft bear cloaks. I few weeks later, I got a message saying we now have bear cloaks. 10/10 studio

Big fan of Rimworld, Rise to Ruins, Gnomoria and other similar titles so I definitely had to pick Rekindling up. Rekindling isn't as in-depth as Rimworld, but it's on its way. The current state of the game can provide you with many hours of enjoyment and the dev has been putting out substantial updates weekly. The game is priced at an extremely affordable price and I'm glad I picked it up. Looking for the future success of this one!

If Rimworld was a back scratcher with a pearl handle and a silver rod, Rekindling would be a good stick with a nice wide end on it for itching. I'm not calling it a knock off by any means just very similar. You manager resources, plan and build a community while everything tries to kill you. Here's the thing, so far it's fun if not as in depth as the previously mentioned game. It's Early Access though and I think it's a really good start. I enjoy playing it, have recommended it to friends. I'd say for the price point you cannot go wrong.