Craft The World

It is fun, I put time into it cause it barely ran on a shit laptop I got when my main desktop bricked a few times waiting on fixes and replacements. So it allowed me to keep my sanity when I had nothing else to do in the asscrack of nowhere in a rural state.

Is it the best game you will ever play? No, but why should it be? It is a game to chill out, waste time, and slowly crawl up to a point where nothing stops your dwarves from completing the map and moving on to the next one.

The environments are nice, the creatures differ slightly from map to map, challenges on each one, it does a fine job of just taking up your time in a non-committal way. Cause you can never fully "lose", your dwarves will repopulate (but the new ones are level 1 so they obviously aren't as good), your base stays mostly intact, and you can rebuild until you get to the part of the tech tree where things get stomped.

Obviously newer games do this better, Against the Storm is easily my favorite in this kind of chill build style game. This just focuses more on the individuals more than the community, so its different enough to allow me to have fun and keep putting time into it.

Игра сочетает в себе развитие колонии и песочницу, вроде террарии. В игре высокая вариативность геймплея, что для меня выступает огромным плюсом

I think i need to watch a youtube video first before i seriously play this game lol

Fun game. Ive played about 100 hours and havent beaten the first world

geras zaidimas

I’ve spent over 600 hours in this game. Not because it’s groundbreaking or filled with story twists or gorgeous graphics. But because it showed up for me when life didn’t.

I played Craft The World mostly during the worst parts of my life—when I was unemployed, when COVID hit, when everything felt fragile. This game never asked much from me. Just... build a base, dig deep, collect some resources, and prepare for the next monster wave. That’s it. Simple loops. Comforting loops.

There’s no real story. The goal is to eventually craft a portal to the next world. I think I’ve done that ten times now. Sometimes I’d mod the hell out of it—so much that I’d break the game completely and have to start over. But that was part of the ritual too. Break. Rebuild. Continue.

It was the game I played so I could keep going in real life. When things were too heavy out here, I’d go in there, move little dwarves around, and let that be enough.

And then... I stopped. I came back years later, loaded it up, and something had changed. The game was the same. I wasn’t.

Now I have money. I have a warm bed. I have people. And somehow, I find myself drawn to heavier stories—games that deal with grief, identity, morality. The weight I no longer carry in real life, I now explore in fiction.

Craft The World isn’t less fun. I’ve just moved beyond needing its kind of peace.
But I’ll always be grateful for it. It was my quiet companion through the chaos.
Thank you, little dwarves. You helped me hold on.

Always fun to play

Very nice and unique game.

Long Story short:
Devs seem to be more interested in squeezing out as much Money as possible from this Game by spamming DLC's at the Player. It is such a nice Base Idea with so much room for great stuff! SO MUCH POTENTIAL. ..however the Devs rather keep making mediocre DLC's for money. Shame. Absolute Shame. What a wasted Gem. And yes i like the Base Game because it is a solid good Game. But i can will not Support this money squeezing.

They ruined the game with this new merchant that slows down time, forces your camera to it, destroys all your defences/crops etc. Remove it and I'll remove negative review.

look at the hours lol great game but it kills 100$ mice each time i go on a playing spree .

Mindless entertainment. required in all the shooter games. Well done

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Great game. Still after years getting updates.

This is a pretty fun game.

Dwarfs!

money well spent, very engaging and quite time consuming so it's something to do in your down time and over all just a fun game.

Fun.

I highly recommend the game, not only for features and options for multi-player value but it has a high replay value as well.

Great game with tons of hours of entertainment, highly recommend.

I USED TO make a whole series on YouTube playing this game, when the portals and relic parts first came out, I was hot onto learning their new mechanics. This game has long advanced since then. The higher levels are extremely difficult and its very hard to advance in the game, its a fun strat and a good similar mix to Terraria. This used to be my grind game as a kid as well, on a different account. Playing it now on this one, its just as fun as it used to be, and the achievement hunt has been a thrill. :D

It's not a bad game but it doesn't hold a candle to way better alternatives.

Came back to replay this game with all DLC after a decade… Game is in terrible shape. Far too buggy and now filled with ill-conceived and poorly tested content. Clearly Devs just don’t care about the players anymore, if ever. And if the new annoying and buggy visiting trader is any indication, the Devs are just trolling the players now. While I would have recommended this game 10 years ago, today I would highly recommend you avoid it at all costs UNLESS you are specifically looking for a hard time. What a shame…

I can't tell you exactly why I'm playing this so much, and why it's hooked me so much harder than most Terraria-esc games.

Is it because guiding the dwarves to do all the stuff I usually do manually in Terraria works for me?
Is it because I have a dozen dwarves doing various things at once which speeds the gameplay process?
Is it because of the spite I get every time my base is demolished and dwarves wiped out by a random invasion group is somehow fueling me instead of making me just quit the game like usual?

I go through a cycle of just enjoying myself for several hours. Then something goes down and I close up for the night. Then reopen it thirty minutes later. Then close it thirty minutes after that. Then repeat until something untangles and we're back to a half-dozen hours of just enjoying myself again.

If that sounds like fun, then grab the game.

Its a time waster, and I enjoy it.

I bought this early access and while the game has come along nicely and greatly but I just seem to not be able to get a grasp on this game and I love complicated games. Just something that it seems my dwarves are never equipped enough to deal with the first invasion.

It was a good game for the price. i bought the big bundle for 20 bucks and fill like i really could have skipped the bundle. if you have a friend you just need the 1 pack for multi player. the rest of the packs seems very weak and waste of money. but the base game was worth the price. i got 14 hours of gameplay enjoyed it. 8/10 but i have no desire to play it again. which is fine.
Also it played very good with a friend.

good game, fun, But to get proper FPS you cant play in full-screen

TAMAHAAA!

Very well balanced game, love it.

It is a fun game, a bit slow passed for progress but hectic to play, so mods are pretty much needed to make it more than a curiousity.

This is one of those games that is always installed and I binge play then take a break, rinse and repeat. They keep adding DLCs so the game is always evolving. I find the game satisfying, relaxing, and fun.

Yes

mmm miners

Very minimalist and mobile-like, yet still enjoyable.

Updates still coming after 11 years.

Even after so many years, still getting updates and still a superb game

she craft on my the till i world

I don't normally do reviews, but after *another* update, 10 years after release, I have to give credit to the developers.

This is a great game, clearly made and maintained with love.

Gather, Build, Develop, Fight, this game does it well. Plenty of creativity opportunity with your builds as well as problems to solve. With a wealth of mods, you'll keep coming back for more!

I bought this for my oldest son and I years and years ago because it was one of the only games at the time to offer multiplayer and be acceptable for him and I at his age.

I didn't expect to fall in love with it the way I have. And with mods, it's an even better experience. My hours on record should show that what I say is true. It does get a little old for me these days, especially since my son has moved on to other things and there's not really anyone to build *for*, but I still find myself enjoying it alone occasionally and I'm currently reinstalling it to spend a few more hours there this month while I write this.

It's worth the money at full price if you're into it (especially so if you have friends who are also) and it's even more worth it on sale. And you can return it if you don't play it for 2 hours, so give the devs some money so I can get the sequel before I die, please.

yes

Dev is a bit greedy on the DLC side, but the game is excellent and DLCs are nice on 80% sale. You start small, build better armor, tools, dig deeper, get bigger and so on. Truly nice ambients and interesting levels. Do not like some of the achievements since they were made for base game and now they seem almost impossible...

Hidden Gem not many people know about.

In this game you manage a colony of dwarves, ordering them to collect resources, build a base and fight waves of monsters that come periodically.
These types of games can be super satisfying and suprisingly engaging, but they often struggle with being too complex or technical. This game fixes that issue, with pretty approachable and simple controls and mechanics.

If you want to chill for an hour or two building a sick castle, commanding an army to fight monsters and sending them to the caves to mine, this is your game!

Though it is complete B.S that you gotta buy A D.L.C for Multiplayer (wtf?).

Would be a lot better if all the DLC worked in multiplayer. Wouldn't suggest if you intend to experience everything with a friend. As a single-player experience it is enjoyable.

Not bad, but shallow.

challenging on hard mode but much fun

awesome game.

seems i never reviewed this game. i cant recommend any game in the whole world more than this. this game is a game that lets time fly. i have completed it about 10 times. i really would like more maps or a craft the world 2.

Be advised, the game is incredibly frustrating.

I've got over a hundred hours of play and haven't completed the first level yet. Not so much due to being difficult as being that you need to grind a lot to make progress. Plus there are many distractions along the way, which you don't realise have distracted you until you realise you haven't made much progress.

Not to mention, Dwarf Fortress levels of stupidity from your dwarfs. 'Yes, I'll remove the item I'm standing on even though I'll take damage from the fall'. 'Ooh, that skeleton dropped a bone - I must get that, despite not being able to get back to the stockpile if I do'.

All in all though, if you can get past that - and the micromanagement required - its a fun game.

Most of the DLCs aren't worth the price (IMHO) but the base game is definitely worth the price and the time for anyone who likes management sims like Evil Genius, Rimworld, Oxygen Not Included, etc etc.