Primal Lands Reviews

Primal Lands is an attempt to use Construct 2 (please don't laugh) to make what seems to be some kind of ripoff of Dwarf Fortress, only completely garbage. You start the game by sacrificing one of your dudes (???) to get some resources, then you can go ahead and instruct your dudes to start building a city or whatever... well, the concept actually isn't terrible, but wow, the implementation is a train wreck, and the train was the dumpster fire express. So that, you know, the train wreck spilled dumpster fires everywhere. That's where we are. But at least this isn't an asset flip, this is a sincere and genuine attempt to make a game, but without the requisite talent, budget, skillset, or even appropriate engine choice to do so. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the Construct 2/Construct 3 game engine/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset sometimes used by amateur developers as it doesn't require advanced game development skills, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities (it's worse than GameMaker Studio!). Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Primal Lands is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

No buttons work. Menu to change the key bindings doest work as well. Cant get past the tutorial to start the game either..game crashes. Dev hasnt updated game in 5 years. Abandoned game apparently. I refunded the game after trying many times to pay it.