Eco

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This game is make or break depending on who you play with and the daily expenditure limit is a choice. I like it on paper, not really in practice. I'd still recommend it.

The ultimate COOP simulator. It can put you through all kind of emotions depending who you play with and how good the serverwide coop is. The main reason why a server would fail is bad coop. You have to balance industry with nature, treat each other with respect and most of all COOPERATION IS KEY!. I was lucky enough toexeprincing killing the comet on the second server, The first one collapsed and was reset due to bad coop. But the feeling of finally defeating that comet after alot of hard work (and theres going to be) is fantastic!. i hope everyone who plays this game get to get that feeling :).

Heres some gametips.
1. If you cut a tree, ALWAYS remove the treestump do trees can regrow
2. Dont leave Garbage or tailings laying about, Put em down deep in the ground or later on in a
special pollution container. Garbage can be burnt by a smelter in a blast furnace.
3. Dont have polluting industries near farmlands or treefarms.
4. As soon as you can, use a waterfilter to prevent groundpollution from industries.
5 ALWAYS strive to achive cooperation with EVERYONE on the server, not just with the people in your own community.
6, Try to avoid hoarding money or items, keep trade fair and open.

Love the game, but my PC can't handle the game well. Mainly when I go to place land claims down.

worth the time for young people and gamers great economics great building and lots of great people too meet

This game definitely needs more optimisation however the concept of the trading systems, farming/mining, the way people have to grind in the game definitely suits the modern day era of games.

Although this game is based on economic and political aspects and no raiding type system like the big games around at the moment, I think it’s something good in terms of how unique it is, right now there isn’t a game like this but it does lag quite a bit even with the best rigs available, I assume it’s a server related issue?

As time goes on I would love to see cross play added and the game to be available on consoles, this will greatly increase the number of people that are willing to play on a regular basis.

The game does have regular updates and it isn’t the best for beginners but there is plenty of videos on the internet to get people the knowledge they need.

Player greed is actually quite big, recent updates with the blacksmith has reduced the impact early on in the game however as soon as trucks, engines and basic industrial stuff comes into play the players generally split apart in terms of wealth.

I would definitely like to see a price cap option put in place for when servers have a government setup allowing people to have fixed prices instead of having 4000% profit because they made the first digger.

Other than that I would highly recommend the game as well for this game to actually be better we would need more people in servers regularly

A cool concept and quite educational. It can take a bit to wrap your head around some of the mechanics of the game but overall is a very enjoyable educational game.

TERRIBLE tutorial, which for some reason, you don't earn any experience during... so after 7hours of playing I finally finished the tutorial, and now I can gain experience... so all the gameplay I've done up until now (including chopping down about 20trees, mining about 200blocks, picking about 300vegetables and building a triple story house) didn't result in me gaining any experience... fantastic!

The hauling system is also really idiotic because if you are carrying 16logs, and 5logs are on the ground, then you can't pick up just 4logs to get to your 20logs carrying max... you have to go deposit your 16logs before you can pick up the 5logs, thus resulting in many unnecessary trips throughout the game.

The fact that the game has such a terribly terrible tutorial after 7years is just baffling. I simply don't have any enthusiasm for a game that has such a massively glaring issue right at the start of the game... if the devs care so little for the start of the game then the chances are that the rest of the game is going to be equally trash.

Do not buy this game. Seven years early access. I played it originally in 2021; four years later game is still in Early Access and doesn't manage more than 1000 players in a month. Terrible performance, constant crashing. Laggy servers due to "staff" using custom modules for themselves that do nothing to improve gameplay.

If you have a custom server to play with friends, this game might have potential but the performance issues that arise after the early game with no change in optimization in FOUR YEARS shows the effort being put into this game by SLG.

A true simulator of human teamwork. Those who don't play nice together, fail.

Love this game. Very chill and relaxing game if you like simple logistics. Wish the fishing scene was more built out since it feels very basic. Love putting together shops and competing with other businesses.

eco is an amazing game working really more as a social experiment than anything. I love the need to work together and build skills communities and even governments to save the planet. Truly an amazing experience and the game has been well optimized since I last played.

This game is full of things to keep you busy. Love the play style

I played the game with some of my friends. Even tho we failed to destroy the Meteor it was very fun. I'm already looking forward to our second playthrough.
I must say it took a while in the beginning to really get going but it's the fun of it in my opinion.
I really recommend it.

Actually a very decent game where cooperation between roles is required, though all this is highly dependant on server settings.

Absolutely love this game. 11/10

I am someone who comes from a Minecraft background so I tried not to have any expectations with this. Everything about this game is effectively 'better' imo in this game than it is in Minecraft. The ONLY thing I would change would be the co-op-tability about this game. Make more of an incentive for people to join in larger groups. I play solo & just changed the xp rates a smidge to give me like .25-1xp per xp I get from my characters skills so I can level-up and unlock the other skills. I'm still relativly new to this game with only 24 hours at the moment but I have 2 hand-made buildings and am working on building my first hand-made road from the deep forest to the beach. I do really love the casualness to this game. I can have it running & sit down for like 5-15 minutes and play then get up and do my workouts or fold laundry so the casualness of this game is god-tier.

THE MUSIC IS AMAZING 11/10 OST.

The only other hangups I have about this game, if they were resolved, would transform the game from what it is into something its not. I 'like' combat but only if its a core component of the game & its not in this game. Hunting is pretty cool and I don't consider that 'combat' because you don't have a 'health bar' in this game but have a hunger graph which is definitely very interesting to figure out. Each character has different favorite foods and its up to you to pay attention to what message pops up when you eat to find out your created character's favorite foods, then load up on them and you're set.

Other tips would be to not worry so much about metal ores or stuff like that starting out because you can pretty much DO anything when you start. Just focus on creating a cool looking world, do the tutorial and just have fun!

HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend this game to all casual world-builders out there.

This game is deeply infuriating, would highly recommend

MTX shop (Cosmetics currently, however that does mean it could change for the worse or better), only female and feminine males can be created for your character.

I've spent over 170 hours playing this game, and while the concept is fantastic—especially the community, the trading system, and the whole "saving the planet" aspect—there are some major issues.

Despite being released in 2018, the game still suffers from severe bugs that significantly impact gameplay. Frequent glitches leave players stuck, official servers experience major lag, inputs often go unregistered, and hunting is completely broken.

If these issues were fixed, the game would be amazing. Unfortunately, its current state ruins the experience, and the player base is too small to sustain long-term engagement—even official servers see a sharp drop in players after just a few days.

Do not be fooled -> this is the most pvp you will have that feels like real life ;)

The game is one of my favourites. It's got a good skill system and keeps you busy. Though I'm not the biggest fan of the multiplayer side of it, I am quite fond of creating new maps and attempting to go as far as possible by myself. It does take a lot of work and many hours of labour to move forward science-wise, so do keep that in mind, if you plan on not working with 30 other players. I have spend over 800 hours in this game over 2 accounts and they keep updating and improving the game. I recommend it wholeheartedly, to anyone.

The premise of the game is reasonably simple - you're on a world, that will be destroyed by an asteroid in 30 days. You must get technologically advanced enough to discover lasers, make them, and use them to destroy the asteroid. You also have to do so while not destroying the planet (not killing all the animals/plants of certain species; not polluting too much)
The game is ultimately a crafting game where you grind out materials (logs, stones that you grind) in order to make them into crafted materials (that are then used for other crafts and so on). This game is played best with a group of people. It is nearly impossible to win playing alone as almost all crafts are skill-locked and you need a 'star' to unlock them. Depending on how you set up your game, you will manage around 5-10 stars, and you need way more than that to unlock everything and win. There are plenty of public servers to join in order to do so.
Personally, I really like the game because it can scratch the itch of "I want to play something but I don't want to invest a lot of thinking in it, I want to just go break rocks" while also scratching the itch of "if I strategize with what items I'm selling to the neighbors, I can make more money". It's simple and easy when you want and can turn into spreadsheets if you also want. I highly recommend for people who love crafting games, but don't want to survival craft - just a chill n' craft.

Amazing game. I shot animals, and dug up rocks for days. 10/10

If your thinking yeah awesome ill start building my world..... no its long its all in real time and you cant learn skills but once a day so your dependant on having other people playing with a common goal.... this game is great in theory but when you try to play .... it just dosent work im not waiting 33 days to be able to have all the skills ... i wish i could refund this i spent 10 hours trying to learn the crafting i made everything i was able to craft and stone walled waiting on a 24 clock to tick.... no thank you

I really want to love this game - creating a society in which you have to work together to achieve an ultimate goal while not destroying the environment? Yes please! I was ready to forgive the weak graphics for that.

But it's just so unwieldy! Even basic things such as building are completely random. My very friendly server neighbours brought me a lot of building material so I could directly start with a brick house. But the elements just don't snap into each other and it's inexplicable what I'm doing wrong. Also, if you want to renovate your house to go to a higher tier, you have to replace EVERY. SINGLE. BLOCK. individually.

I hope it will get better as it moves through early access.

One of the best games I have ever played. Alternative reality that can stuck you for a long time. Graceful

If you enjoy building and open world games you will love this game.

it was a nice game, but now it is buggy, weird and the animations are not great, i dont know when it became this bad because i revisited it after many years.

When you lay down to sleep in your tent your characteer does not even close his eyes instead he looks at you in a weird way and his leg is bugging through the blanket.
When you open a door it opens in low fps but i play on max settings.
The pickup animation is not great it is very slow.
The eating animation is also very slow.
The proportions are not right (hand is to big)
This game takes a lot of time to do things and yet they made everthing even slower with this st***d animations.
That was not the case years ago, it is in early acccess since 7 years now and this is just crazy for a game that was also selling to schools for 500 $ for ''education''.
I played almost 2 ours yesterday after revisiting and im done with this game already.
So i would not recommend.

Really fun game and very interesting mechanics, the only down side is how quickly servers will sometimes die out. Absolutely would buy especially if on sale

After 80 hours of intense gaming, I would give 4/5 this game. Idea is brilliant, gameplay is interesting (for those who like this kind of games ofc.) graphics is advanced minecraft, might be better, but still base building is great. Trade system is something that kept me going in this game. On official servers where you have limited time of playing on server is interesting idea, so you cant actually slack and mess around. You just have to focus and play smart all the time and use that time to do right stuff and all things you can do are so much.

Bad thing is bugs, lags, delay in arrow shoting, random server disconection, animals walk or crawl on sea.. but the creators of the game have to make something that will draw a lot more people on servers.. lack of people after 4,5 days or even more is really bad thing.. cause way I figured this game or server wipe cant function without everyday active people.. so.. thats it.

My friend describes the game well as being "insanely crunchy". Indeed, the moment-to-moment gameplay is a little janky, and everyone I've ever tried to introduce the game to has been confused with the UI and crafting systems. However, I've never played a game that lets you build a society in quite the same level of depth as Eco. It's truly impressive, and I hope the developers can continue to build on it over time!

i love this game. i generally download it after a patch, play it for about 15 hours straight and then not touch it for 6 months. but the gameplay is very fun and ive met a few people playing it. really enjoyed when they added towns and stuff, though i feel bad now when i abandon my house. but overall this game is very fun and well worth it.

Tutorial alone took a couple hours, game is full to the brim with unnecessarily clunky mechanics

Honestly, just a decent game to play by myself, sure playing solo has it's issues and isn't the easiest thing to do but it's worth it, although the music does remind me of minecraft a little too much but that could be my weird brain associating the two.

Best game to relax after a hard working day (in RL)
Best game for both children and grown ups
Best game to socialize with people from different parts of the world

The tutorial is screwed up just enough that you get passed your 2 hours before encountering bugs that do not let you advance further.

CONTEXT
Some of my gaming buddies wanted to try this. We ultimately decided on a different game for now, but I was still curious about trying Eco to scout ahead for our next game. If nothing else, I love the premise, and it sounded like it had some really neat details in terms of how the world works. I thought I might have fun playing on my own.

SINGLE PLAYER? --> good luck
I tried starting the game. There's no single player option. When I tried to play solo, it asked me when I wanted to play (hours and days of the week) in order to find a server that fit my playstyle. It asked me how long I wanted to play for a single session -- one or two or three hours at a time? I was like, "Uhm, I don't want to commit right now. Just let me dink around." Nope. You MUST use a server.

GAME CREATION
It took a sec for me to start a new local server. It took a while for the server to start. Along the way, it again asked me what days of the week and what times I'd be playing, and how long I wanted to play for a given session. It also asked if I wanted to limit other players' playtimes to one, two or three hours per day. If they tried playing longer, then their character would get exhausted and wouldn't be able to make further progress. The rationale given was to prevent some players from getting more experience than other players. It asked me how much I wanted to limit my skill progression so I'll depend more on other players. Yep, the game is telling me again that solo players aren't welcome. I limited myself to ten different professions, whatever that meant.

CHARACTER CREATION
The character creation choices feel like male characters were an afterthought. I'm a guy, and I felt like the characters seemed some combination of being childish, effeminate, non-binary or fairy-like. The clothing choices were few (e.g. two "shirt" options and only four "bottom" options, plus socks and three options for "shoes"). There's beards and mustaches for males, though all types of body hair (beards, mustaches, head-hair, and eyelashes) are forced to be the same color. The longest pants that are available are capris (3/4 length).

GRAPHICS
I have the best GPU and CPU money can buy, but as soon as I jumped into a world, my computer fan went nuts even on moderately-high settings. That tells me that they have a ton of optimization to do. Granted, it's still early release. I assume this will be a priority for them. Right now, the graphics look like eye candy for kids. It made me feel as though I at 38 am not in the target age-group. Nothing is subtle. Everything is brightly-colored and stands out from everything else in a way that was visually very busy. I think they were trying to make it too visually appealing and they overshot.

WORLD
The world felt like a modded version of Minecraft in some ways. It's all very blocky. There's water. You can jump over blocks and swim in water. There are lots of things you can pick up and eat. There's a robust nutrition system that looks interesting. (I like that.) There are lots of nearby blocks that look like they might contain some kind of ore. Ok, cool...if a bit too convenient. It felt like I was being placed in this perfect, utopic starting place where everything I'd need for a long time would be within 30 blocks of where it placed me. (I'm sure that's not true, but it still felt a bit too resource-heavy where I spawned.)

BUGS
There was a sort of tooltip-style tutorial: "Do these 5 things and check the boxes before we give you the next tooltip." I looked up, down, moved around, and tried to press F5 to change to 3rd player perspective, as I was told to do. Nothing. I checked the controls to see what key was linked to this action, and it listed F5. I tried remapping it to F5 by pressing F5, and it warned me that F5 was already being used for this action. (True.) Regardless, pressing F5 had no effect whatsoever.

I tried closing the game and restarting it. When I jumped back on my own server, it had me download the map. Again, with an uber-high-end computer, it took about half a minute to do so on a brand new map. It feels so awkward having to download a map from my own computer. I think it should have been designed better.

I tried dinking around a little more, but I was already frustrated at it because of the character creation, and as these bugs piled up, I realized I had less and less interest in the game.

CONCLUSION
I ultimately asked for a refund.

If my gaming friends are still interested, I'll point them to this review. If they all want to try it, I'll play with them. I'm sure multiplayer play will be better. After all, the game seems to assume it. I won't be eager, though.

I'd like to try this game again. It looks like it has potential, but right now it feels like it's geared for kids and does not support solo play natively. I hope to try it again, and I hope that I'll be able to change my rating and edit this review.

The game still has bugs... the keys don't always work to show the commands. There are glitches in it. It runs very hot on my gamer laptop. I like the graphics but they are not always correct. It is a very slow game....

The game itself is okay fun better with more people ofc. but holy balls the new maintenance system sucks major butt...

Not for people that cannot work together with others. Very fun game with the right people.

I really enjoy this game! This is perfect for all alike who want to make a community grow and flourish. This is a great game to do to relax and unwind. Love to play this with my husband as well. Over 1200 hours on this game

Been out for so many years now, and they're yet to solve their biggest issue; Significant player drop off after the first day of any server.
This game can be playable in singleplayer, but it's 100% designed around multiplayer situations.

For now; don't bother with community servers unless you're an established group of friends. Servers die off after the first week leaving a small group of players to carry the whole servers industry.

Additionally, the build system sucks ass, and there's an xp multiplier system that penalises you for building with different materials other than what tier you're at. Want to build a stone wall, or a wood floor in your metal tier house? sure; but now your xp multiplier is shot.

I hope they fix at minimum their player burn-out because this game has great potential.

The game is ok, its EA and it shows as not every profession is fleshed out properly. They lumped the painter in with scientist which shows they ran out ideas there, its a weird placement for a profession.

Some craft recipes dont make sense like the bookshelf needing high tier lumber and paper when you already can make boards and dowels at a lower tier. The point of a bookshelf is its storage is to put books into you dont make it already filled with books.

There are weird gamified choices that make no sense like room tier level. It doesn't matter if I make my house out of crap wood or top quality wood the stuff inside should still function the same. Glad I could mod the game to remove this weird restriction but only for my sever, I would be stuck with that bad design if I play on any other.

There is weird inconsistancy with stack sizes like dirt. You can hold 10 in your hands, store 10 in a wheelbarrow but only store 5 in stockpile and only dig up and carry 1 with a shovel. They really should all be the same number across the board its another gamified thing existing for no valid reason. Also when you compare dirt to other blocks like building materials you get even weirder stack sizes of 15 or 20, who knows why you can only carry and stack 15 mortared stone when you carry and stack 20 bricks, they are very similar and would weigh about the same yet have a different stack sizes.

The game also has some weirdness with encouraging the player to increase theer house xp multiplier like having 3 toilets in your bathroom, its out of place and feels like the game is telling you how to build your rooms also bloating up the space needed for those rooms.

This game takes a while to get good and I'm not confident enough I will like it. But Steam's refund policy is 2 hours, and it has taken me almost that long to figure out some very basics. and im simply not confident enough i'll like it to go over that 2 hour allotment. If only there was some limited demo of the game that let me play around and learn the mechanics without a timer

Eco is one of the most unique, interesting games I've ever played. On the surface, it looks like any other block based survival game, but when you dig deeper, you find that's just a veneer - the real game is actually about developing community. That's not really a skill that most games require or gamify, and you'll have very different experiences of the game depending on the community you find yourself falling into. Nevertheless, Eco is a masterpiece filled with unique concepts, and clearly a labor of love.

The building requirements are excessive and cannot be disabled.

To put down 95 percent of crafting tables they have to be built inside a room, and each crafting table calls for a specific tier room. The tier of the room is based on the material that's being used (adobe, wood, lumber, bricks, concrete etc) and you HAVE to use slanted roofs (so forget about underground bases it's not going to happen). This restriction makes all buildings needing to be built with the same boring boxy concept.

If you have any sort of open hole in your roof or you're missing a door it is no longer considered a room and the crafting tables won't function. Certain crafting tables that have exhaust stacks STILL require to be inside a room but also requires a hole in the roof to ventilate. But if there's a hole in the roof then the room is no longer considered a room so the table does not function. It's obvious that the dev's want a building built in an extremely specific way because they can't figure out how to code it in a way that allows for a variety of different style buildings

Its a pretty decent game, very social and very time taxing game. I would def recommend playing this over a vacation as this game runs for a long time.

it's a good game to pass time and have fun with other folks

Players are helpful and the game is fun once you understand what to do. Teaming up with neighbors is a blast.

Server connections can drop out often, making a long-running game difficult to catch, but if you miss some time on it, you might not be as close to the apocalypse endgame as you otherwise would. Eating food and gathering resources can be very slow.

it is a very awesome game, economy systen, ecology system, simulations of real world scenarios (grounp and air pollution), law system, government system.

this game is minecraft on steroids, it is what minecraft should have been from the start, endless gameplay, play however you want to play it.

i have 40 survival games and this is my favorite, a game of peace and chill to just build and evolve. i play almost all survival games singleplayer mode but i do recommend 3-5 players because there is so much to do and it just makes the progress faster.

i am hosting my own server and playing with high difficulty solo mode and just my go to game to chill and relax and enjoy, the game has come a long way and is still beeing developed and these developers are very good at what they do, you will haave a good game for a long time and the game is just getting better and better.

what would you do if you could be the boss of an entire planet? or maybe co boss with 2 cities? how would you run it?

many games teaches us alot of things in real life, this game learns alot about politics and government, and how to be green, and economy :)

9 of 10 stars, the missing star is because of the graphics, it could be better but atleast it beats minecraft by miles. you get used to the graphics and its a beautifull world still