Abiotic Factor

I was loving this game, but then suddenly my PC started struggling with it, about 35hrs in. Running it normally causes the game to use 100% of my cpu and running it on the DX11 for lower end makes the game run around 40fps on average but frequently drops to 15 or less. After googling, I found this is common enough that there's plenty of posts about it since mid 2024.
The thing that finally made me give up was when the game randomly deleted the armor I grinded for. Which I also found has happened to plenty of others. Trying the recommended solutions for both problems did me no good.
There's a lot of great stuff here, a very in depth game. I was really having a good time playing this game, but it's very clearly early access and has a lot more work that needs to be done. I'm genuinely upset because I was enjoying this game so much, I really hope they make it playable on non super computers, bc my pc runs just about everything else at the highest graphic levels

Huge breath of fresh air, insanely good with friends! if you have em... I have played almost every survival game you can find and this takes the cake by far!. If you are looking for something to get extremely sucked into and lost beyond imagination this is your game.

This game is so good I don’t even know where to begin. Out of all the interesting tweaks it makes to the survival genre I think the best aspect is simply how emergent and customizable the experience is. You can play it in so many ways; turn down the survival mechanics and only focus on story, max out resource rates and build a mega base, turn up enemy assaults and play it like a tower defense. My personal recommendation is to just buy the game and play it, if it sounds like your thing it won’t disappoint. However, I want to address some misconceptions and nitpicks that negatively affect the replayability. Firstly, this game is not procedurally generated. The map is big but probably not as big as you would hope. For this reason the progression is very linear and its closest comparison is actually Subnautica. Secondly, due to the lack of procedural generation, revisiting respawning resource nodes gets very repetitive. Driving through the same hallways over and over again to collect that one thing you always need for new crafting recipes. This is one area where the 1998 low poly aesthetic gets nauseating. Finally, the linearity and lack of replayability. Once you’ve played through the game and know the paths and locations for everything, there’s little replay incentive beyond challenging yourself and getting immersed in the base building.

Aside from that the survival and base building is pretty top notch. Just throwing this out there but I think the devs could introduce a mode or an end game area that uses wave function collapse to generate spaces that fit the underground research facility theme in an endlessly expandable mode. That would really set his game apart and I would be recommending it to everyone I know.

This is easily the best open world survival craft game I have played in a long time. The further you progress in the game, the more cool things you get to unlock and discover, and the game really opens up around you. Don't let "being indoors" fool you, this game is huge and cool and amazing, and I love it!!!

i highly recommenced getting this game trust me when i say it is fun as a mothers lover because wow i never put this much time into game i have so much stuff i want to say and i fan girl over this entire odreal if you have friends who love half life and others who mine-craft all day and trust me if everyone does there roles this game gets hella fun!!!

This game is phenomenal. Has the graphics vibe of half-life 1, with a levelling system similar to the old (and good) 7 days to die, with the vibe and want to explore every crook and cranny like Fallout New Vegas or Avowed, a fun survival base building compared to subnautica or Valhiem but with its own base building/defending twist of its own and boy does this game have you thinking 'what the hell is that part? well I gotta go deeper now to find it" a lot but never makes it feel like a choir! They'res even some cool portal stuff in it that works really well with the game. I dont wanna spoil any of it. The cherry on top of all this is that there is F***ING FISHING!! this game really does keep getting better.

TheZupMann recommends. This is a must play for anyone, everyone and everything! I'm having so much fun solo but I can see this game being even betting with friends. The crew you get get going would be dope, The house wife, the explorer, builder, defender, "hunter", etc etc etc.

Abiotic Factor is like the Powerpuff of game development!

Crafting an Abiotic Factor Recipe is akin to:-

Theme: Half-Life.
World Building: Rick and Morty.
Trait Progression System: Project Zomboid.
Survival Mechanics: 7 Days to Die.
Interaction Mechanics: Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies.
Developer Quality Updates: Deep Rock Galactic.
Community Manager Aura: Tiny Tina.

The best part about Abiotic Factor is that it is so much more that just the sum of its parts and you don't meet a game like that every dynasty. These Developers (Deep Field Games) are the real deal and this game is geared to go above, to infinity and beyond!

I just played 12 hours straight not realizing the sun rose up 3 hours ago, you tell me how I feel about this game.

This is coming from a man who utterly despises the open world survival crafting genre that plagues the Steam Store. A lot of them feel very cheap and half baked in a lot of ways but not a single one of those negative feelings apply for this game.

Abiotic is a masterclass on how to do a survival game well and do it right. The game does it by having an actually interesting world to lose yourself in and great pacing that makes sure by the time you even feel the game start to get a bit boring you're already moving on to the next big area.

I cannot recommend this game enough.

After playing the beta/early access version for 6,9 hours, I can honestly say it's already a super fun game!
It's kinda got a similar vibe to Project Zomboid, but in a first person perspective and creatures instead of zombies. More forgiving than PZ, but it makes sense because there's a story and not a big open world.
Would definitely recommend it! :D

Been playing this 2 player coop and it is so hard to stop playing, every time we get used to an area we discover something else to explore. Can’t recommend this gem of a game enough and I can’t wait to see where it goes, the game just screams passion and you can tell that the devs love this project!

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Ok, now for some useful info: this is a survival crafting game that takes heavy inspiration from the original Half Life, as well as the SCP Foundation universe. A wonderfully refreshing hand made world, crafted by devs who clearly love what they're making. It is full of exploration, lore, crafting, and combat.

Playing in a group? There is something for every friend, from the friends that are kinda spooked and want to stay home (base building, crafting, farming.) To the more bloodthirsty types who want to murderize stuff. And the friends with extreme pixel greed who want to hoard anything not nailed down (and even a few things that *are* nailed down.)

The gameplay loop is addictive. And the accessibility features are actually useful. Afraid of needles? This game has got you covered. Emetophobic or arachnophobic? Ditto. Afraid of floating monsters only you can see that stalk you silently through the halls of the facility? Ehhh... no one's perfect I guess.

Have a suggestion for them, feedback, praise, a bug report? There is a link to a report form right there in the menu. So no hunting for a web page. I have played this game for over two hundred hours and I have crashed... no joke... *once.* Not sure I've ever encountered a more stable early access game.

I can't talk about Abiotic Factor without mentioning the Sandbox Settings. Before playing the game you have the opportunity to alter the settings to make it easier or harder. There are a lot of sliders and drop-down menus in here. Stack sizes, carry weight, combat settings, day/night cycle, food spoilage settings, enemy spawns, to more obscure things like 'no crafting mini games' or 'sink refill rate.'

Now, as for plot and progression events: I'm not going to spoil them at all. Because I think a large part of this game is going 'huh, I wonder what killed those guys' before turning a corner and going 'OH GOD, NOPE NOPE NOPE!' And run away half panicking, half giggling. And, if you're not doing that, you're giving certain characters some serious side-eye because you're not sure if they are who they say they are.

If you're even remotely intrigued after reading this, buy the game. It has been a great addition to my library. It is honestly up there with the OG Half life for me.

Nearly everything about this game is great and gives me the same feeling I had when playing Half-Life for the first time over 25 years ago, it COULD be a real gem. And then there's this convoluted mess of a crafting system, where you get spammed with hundreds of different trash items, small stack sizes, little storage room, overly complicated crafting recipes and excessive maintenance for food, drinking and stuff breaking all the time.

All these survival mechanics have become more and more obnoxious with every new game that releases in the genre and Abiotic Factor is the worst offender by far. It feels like a second job, for every 10 minutes of exploration you spend 30 minutes with crafting, picking up trash and annoying inventory management.

I'm only at the beggining of the game so far, but i can already tell that it was made with love from the devs.
There are tons of little details that gives this game a SOUL, something rare nowadays, especially in survival type of games.

Playing this with 2 friends for now, there's not a lot that is explained and it can be a bit confusing at first if you never played a survival game but it's worth it.

Even soloing this game is incredibly interesting and cool!

This is an absolute masterpiece. It's the pinnacle of the survival crafting genre. Outrageously fun with friends. Fantastic art style reminiscent of Half-Life 1.

Words cannot do this game justice, and neither can the pictures on the steam page. This game oozes creativity and is my personal game of the year for 2024. And probably 2025.

Abiotic Factor, as an Early Access indie game, has more content and polish than most Triple-A titles do these days. The dev team is incredibly organized and commucative with regards to the progression of development. The game itself is unique and charming in a way I haven't seen in a while.

For something that's still in Early Access, you wouldn't know it from looking at Abiotic Factor. The bar is raised very high with this one.

I have played so many survival crafting games, Minecraft, Terraria, Valheim, Enshrouded, Rust, Zomboid, Ark, No Mans Sky, Core Keeper, Don't Starve, etc etc. Let me just say that Abiotic Factor is one of THE best, up there with Terraria and Valheim. It is a true standout among the genre, and a fantastic game as a whole. I can't recommend it enough, and is absolutely worth full price even in early access.

It was fun in the beginning, up untill Hydroplant. Grindy, but manageble. In the end game it all goes to bullcrap

OP enemies that deal cubic ton of damage despite you being in the most advanced armor you can have. And it's tricky to even acquire it, cause grind. I am playing duo, mind you
Reactors are game design hell (as well as everything past offices imo).
Why try to change invisibility meta, if you can stick few machinegun enemies that see you regardless and shoot the second you glance from under the cover?
Objectives become more abstract, as in "where the hell do i go" cause map design only gets worse the further you progress.
Skill tree is awful. 60 hours on one save, and none of us two are even close to 20-something, anything. Sprint! Aim! Sneaking! Construction! Despite our playstyles being extremly active in those regards.

I should mention the stupid equipment system.
I haven't felt that on myself (cause didn't grind enough).Near the current end game you have sets of armor that give you bonus for wearing 2 and 4 pieces. Up until you have Exor armor or latest Nuclear one, you constantly swap your leg armor for those exoskeleton legs, because they make the game so much more bearable. Ofc, you only do it out of combat, so you don't sacrifice your defence and bonuses. But. Biometric gloves, or whatever the name is. You have to use them in combat, because you can't fire military weapons, which are abundant in your crates cause you collect them since the very first soldier encounters. You sacrifice your armor and bonuses to be able to use military guns. And they are hella underwhelming. You'll ran out of all ammo soon enough and won't use them anyway cause good luck consistently getting enough ammo. You don't. Why do these gloves exist? Why isn't it just a skill that opens at 15lvl? Why so little ammo? Why do these weapons exist at all? Science made weapons are so much better at everything! Except the grind part. Armor and weapon progression is basically just "grind for new stuff, trash the old stuff", and it doens't affect only the Crystall armor. It doesn't feel like progression for few reasons:
what the hell is going on
you have to grind for lotta stuff to just progress the plot so you move it asside
whatever is going on with crafting menus. It's just a salad of all the stuff you can craft, in no order whatsoever, so you are not even sure if you're crafting NEW and NEEDED stuff, or you've opened something outdated.

Grind. Grind. Grind.
From the beggining to the current end, it's all going back and forth on the map (good luck not getting lost every time) to get stuff here, here, there and there... Killing, trading, scavenging, whatever. Thank god you don't have to worry about water and food in the end game. The only positive side maybe.

I know that this review is barely holding on glue and ductape, but i am just moraly exhausted from trying to go through the last portal world. Turns out we need to grind much more :)
I really want to like this game and it's devs, it was really fun here and there, but holy living hell

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THIS GAME HAS SOUL

Very good game, it's actually a crime this is still considered "early access", however the story is great, the entities and all the creativity is awesome, and not to mention all the skills and such to explore and level. Tons of materials and cool applications in this scientific facility. It takes great inspiration from the SCP universe obviously, but I also kinda relate it to a base builder like project zomboid, especially with all the recipes and skills. Tons of areas and entities/entries to learn about and I find almost all of them interesting.

This game has a stranglehold on me and refuses to let go. A design that turns the entire crafting survival genre on its head, this game is my go-to example of why a solidly crafted, hand-made world will always stand above the procedural generation approach. I have been playing LOTR Return to Moria, and while I've been having fun, I just keep wanting to get back into the Cascade Research Facility to do it all again. At about a hundred hours to solo the current release, full release is most likely standing at somewhere around 120 hours, and I can't wait to get my hands on the remaining content so I can fully complete my knowledge of the facility. It's like a second home, one that I'm always going to return to every few years for the rest of my life.

This is the greatest survival crafting game I have ever played. The theme and the crafted design of the world makes this a amazing experience for a coop play through

I used to be in love with this game, but I'm finding myself far less so with recent updates.
Everything is lovingly crafted and very much on brand for what it's trying to be. The issue is the play experience, particularly solo. Progression stops feeling like progression. Gear is *technically* specialised, but what you're really meant to be doing is upgrading gear and ditching the old stuff. That's fine if it enables more fun play, but enemies only get more tedious, especially in Reactors.

Basic materials are another issue. There's a mechanic to automatically gather some basic resources, but shocker, it's locked behind crafting some endgame stuff so what's the point? You run out of basic but only in certain places resources, you run back to those places to gather them. This is especially egregious with needing a VERY limited resource to craft ammo appropriate for the Reactors.

The game is neat. It's a very cool effort by a passionate team. It is, unfortunately, just not very fun.

Amazing game, only thing I think would make it better is workshop modding.

I'll just hop on the bandwagon of literally everyone else and say that this game is fantastic.

I have a co-op game going on a buddy's dedicated server, as well as a solo game I am progressing through, and I gotta tell ya: I'm having equal amounts of fun in both.

The pacing and progression are where Abiotic Factor shines. It is the pinnacle of game design. You can go at your own speed, even with friends. There is just the right amount of finite farmable material in each zone before the game nudges you towards the story objective, ensuring that you won't feel the tedium of grinding for the same items without seeing yourself advance. And the way Abiotic Factor weaves in the lore with its progression really makes it feel as if it's one giant tutorial introducing the player to that next weapon or step in the right direction. What's more is that the game lets the player(s) figure out how things work. A quirky and vague description for most items/deployables means the player must apply the tried and true practice of science by putting their inventions to use to figure out their exact function. The vast amount of weapons and base-building leave a plethora of customization that cater to players of any type. Out of my co-op group, I enjoy heavy blunt weapons and armor, tanking damage, while running up to enemies. My buddy prefers guns and projectiles, focusing almost entirely on his ranged combat potential. Another friend likes the stealthy approach and grinds out his sneaking skill where he can. And still, another comrade prefers base-building/optimization, putting his Satisfactory skills to great use. Abiotic Factor allows every one of us to fit a role by giving us complete autonomy over own progression, tailored to our preference.

In addition to all this, Abiotic Factor's level design is second only to one; the game in which the exposition is loosely based on: Half-Life. Twisting hallways and winding vents lead players up and around, until they pay just enough attention to realize that they're overlooking the beginning of an area it just took them 30 minutes to fight through. The way in which the devs have created each sector is compact, yet expansive, by never truly showing the player just how close they are to the start of their journey until that door gets opened. Then the sight of familiarity sets in that it's magnificent, walled-up loop. Half-Life did this in spades, with glass hallways above famed corridors that took you five deaths and all your ammo to plow through maybe twenty minutes prior. Abiotic Factor is no different, having seemingly taken this exact page out of it's inspiration's book.

Any complaints I have about the game seem negligible, with almost all of them being player-induced. No major bugs as of yet. I have experienced about an average crash of once per session, but the game saves so frequently and loads up so fast that the crash only costs me about a minute or two of time.

So there you have it: Abiotic Factor is a true gem of the survival genre that no fan should sleep on. The levels will make you feel confused, but never lost. The progression will make you feel smart, but never on top of the world. If you're a survival/sci-fi fan and are on the fence about this game, take my advice: bite the bullet, get the game, invite a buddy (unless solo is your thing), and let yourself be surprised with what Abiotic Factor has to offer.

This is one of the best games I've played in the last five years, I have only one thing to say to the developers of this wonderful game. Buff the pizza, I beg of you, on my life. Just please make the pizza better. We spent 28 hours on a fresh save, to get pizza, and it was so mid, that I'm have a religious crisis. Please buff the pizza, or I might not be able to find my way to heaven, thank you

I have played this game for 418 hours as of April 3, 2025. If that's not a glowing endorsement for this game, I don't know what is. Much love to Zagg and the team. <3

This is the best game that I would never not play, because its really not bad that its great and cool ya know. comparing it to an amazing game like assassin's creed shadows, like. There's no comparison. Like I wouldn't not want to not play it, I think you'd be mega missing out not wanting to not play it; Wtf do you mean I'm talking in circles?

Fantastic gameplay that creates an aura of playful fear and excitement. No real issues that weren't corrected within a week by the attentive devs.

Definitely worth every penny.

Nice game when played with good friends, its worth getting used to the slightly clunky feeling at first as the game makes it easy to get around later.

The first game of it's kind to really click with me. the exploration is amazing, I get lost constantly and keep finding new routes to different areas.

Equipment is satisfying to explore, some of the early weapons make you feel like an industrious scientific pirate making due with what's on hand, the late game weapons make you feel like the one true Free man.

My only complaint is a lack of "middle" options for scientific weapons. you've either got a small quick snappy handgun, or a two handed beast that needs to eat special ammo to bring the slaughter. the only "middle ground" is found within military weapons brought in by outside forces. I'd love to see a laser rifle or a faster bolt thrower

This game is genuinely the best survival game I've played in years, and its amazing to play with friends.

Abiotic Factor will be my GOTY for 2025 once 1.0 releases.

This is Early Access done right - the quantity and quality of the content is incredible.

The level design is incredibly well done, with intention put into each Sector, which continues to improve through updates as we approach launch. The map design rewards exploration, the convenience and sheer scale of the Cascade Research Facility is a treat.

Abiotic Factor is the perfect blend of sandbox and linearity, the story is from another dimension, or perhaps many. Despite this, the player is afforded every opportunity to take over the games setting, building bases that have substantial creative freedom for, this is especially true if you enable the Sandbox settings and adjust them to your liking - which doesn't disable achievements - a great feeling.

Despite its Early Access status, Abiotic Factor has already exceeded my expectations and far outpaces many AAA games without breaking a sweat. I am eagerly anticipating the full release of this game and look forward to any further love and attention this masterpiece can be afforded and explored in 1.1 and beyond!

I've typed this much and I still haven't mentioned the best thing about Abiotic Factor.

THE CO-OP!!!

Co-op is expertly integrated and makes playing through the game and all it has to offer with friends an absolute experience to remember. It is important to remember that the story is a great part of this game, and is integral to learning the mechanics and progressing through the setting, so I would advise against players joining part-way through on their first play-through to not spoil the experience. Solo play is no less enjoyable for this, and can be more immersive as you have complete freedom to immerse yourself in the sheer amount of lore tucked away in this game.

Combat is interesting and also rewards exploration and creativity. Combat is deeply connected to the Crafting System, and the most innovative Scientists will find a solution to any problem they encounter. Scientists should be advised that running head first into situations you are unprepared for will reward equally fast consequences.

You should be cautious if you get overconfident in the Character Creation settings, your Scientist is likely more frail than you expect - if you are adverse to the sounds of breaking bones, your Scientist should take care when launching themselves through the facility without thought. Having a Fanny Pack as a trade-off is pretty cool tho.

I am absolutely confident that I will be satisfied with the release of this full game, and will update this review should I be wrong. Abiotic Factor and the incredible team at Deep Field are excellent and I hope that they continue to nurture this game. Their Youtube Channel also contains a great amount of additional content from the progress of this games development as well as further lore.

The only reason I've typed this much is because I think this game is a 10/10, 5 out of 5 stars, an exceptional game regardless of whatever metric you measure game quality by.

This is how it feels to be a Half-Life 1 scientist npc.

There are so many fun and creative things you can do. A fun mixture of survival-story-coop.

It's been 100 hours with Abiotic Factor and I am still exploring new areas, I'm still exploring the plot, I'm still uncovering new items to build, and yet I still have interest and purpose to return to older areas in the game.

Abiotic Factor is a Survival game. But instead of surviving in the typical jungles, fields, bountiful forests while wielding axes and swords, you're going to be surviving a black-ops science lab that's a lot like Black Mesa of Half-Life fame crossed with Secure/Contain/Protect lore, and you're going to be doing it as a weak science nerd.

If you have played (and enjoyed!) survival games before then you should enjoy this. Notable comparisons include Grounded! and Green Hell, moreso the former. Extra points if you are a science nerd yourself! Extra-extra points if you are familiar with SCP Lore and/or have played through Half Life 1 or 2.

I love Deep Field Games' writing and character building and everything. I love how this product is soundly supporting local development through the New Zealand Centre for Digital Excellence and I appreciate that company for what it stands for.

Personally, every digital penny spent on Abiotic Factor has been more than worth it. I highly recommend.

Disclosure: This game is multiplayer friendly (even encouraged!) but I have only played single player. Also, I play with the support of a guide as is my playstyle these days. Finally, my biggest complaint of the game is what I would call the "Recipe Discovery Sequence", whereby new recipes are discovered through a puzzle element where you may or may not have all the puzzle pieces. I do not like that so I turned it off in world settings.

This and Grounded will make you judge every other survival game more harshly. It is the most interesting and best co-op survival game around. I love all the lore, the crafting gets easier as you progress, and the portal worlds allow for endless possibilities for future updates (which they have proven by continuing to add new portal worlds).

My only negative is how I can't make Go-Kart track into a circle.

10/10 - This glorious half-life doppelgänger is an action-packed multiplayer adventure through portals and hallways. Everyone needs to play this game!

This might be the best survival game I have ever played! The game is not even finished yet but there is still so much content in the game already!
This is a MUST play if you enjoy survival games!
10/10

I refunded this... but I am still going to recommend it. Why did I return it? I couldn't get over the graphics and I didn't have anyone to play it with so it just wasn't right for me. BUT,...I am going to recommend it. You can tell a lot of love and care has gone into it, I WANTED to love it. The Devs are great and even enjoyed watching the little update videos they put out. This is a great example of how to build a game and community. 100% wish this game the best, just wasn't for me.

Is this for you? Maybe, if you don't mind the graphics and like survival games you will likely love this.

If Half Life 1 had a 7 Days to Die mode and im all for it.
its actually fire..
like what are you waiting for? Haven't you seen the reviews? Go and get the game already!

THIS GAME IS SO GOOD!
THE TRAILER REALLY DOESNT GIVE IT JUSTICE AT ALL!
Half Life, mixed with System Shock, a touch of SCP entities, crafting, base building, RPG mechanics... And you play as a scientist! And you can have a Ridiculous Tie™! Combat is great, graphics are okay; great even, if you take in account that they probably wanted it to look like Half Life 1, it's stylized! The game gets creepy at some points, and that makes it 10 times better for me, being a horror fan! Electricity mechanic.. you can build defenses.. amazing networking, i play with a friend from America and he does not experience any lag! The main menu really hides how good this game actually is! Absolutely love it and a must play from me! 10/10!

My buddy and I have been in a game slump for a while after playing nearly every decent survival game we've come across (e.g., Valheim, Sons of the Forest, Icarus). We love the genre and the many hours of gameplay these types of games provide us to play, chill, and grind at our own pace, though there's only so much tree-chopping and base-building one can tolerate before things get stale. Enter: Abiotic Factor. Holy moly, what an absolute breath of fresh air. This game adds so many unique concepts to the survival genre while still managing to be familiar that we're now 10-hours in and cannot wait for the next time we boot up.

I absolutely cannot recommend this game enough, and we fully understand why it has carried "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews since launch. The less you know, the better. Go in blind, don't look anything up, and use that over-exercised scientist brain of yours to puzzle your way out.

If the "potato graphics" are the only thing holding you back: I get it... I like high polys and rich textures as much as the next person, but we're enjoying the game all the same and it's simply not a barrier to immersion (just like Valheim, imo).

We've also had no bugs to speak of except pots/pans and their contents being a little difficult to interact with at times and needing a bit of finagling to target.

If I just absolutely had to be critical of any aspect of the game thus far, its "worst" feature is the voice acting, and yet even that becomes immediately nostalgic (a la Half Life) and endearing (small studio working with what they've got).

Great job, Deep Field -- I can't wait to see what more you have in store for us!

Considering how much content this game has, it's surprising that it's still in Early Access. Ever since my friend and I started playing this game, we have entirely forgotten about the existence of other games. We've finished the game but we still haven't seen everything the game has to offer! We've started a new save on harder mode but with more players :)) Looking forward to the future updates!

Do you enjoy Half-Life 1's aesthetic and linear progression? Do you enjoy survival games like 7 Days to Die? Congratulations, you just found your new favorite game.

Abiotic Factor takes the survival formula, polishes it a little, and sprinkles some horror elements and references onto it. Problems I had with certain survival games were solved in a clever manner here, and the game is not afraid to keep you on your toes - there'll ALWAYS be something new that you're gonna die to. Sometimes this works to its detriment (looking at you, Ikea and Order village), but I've been having far more fun with this game than not, and I always look forward to exploring the next area together with my friend.

You should buy it! Maybe you'll get rid of the feeling that someone's watching you.

This game is honestly super good. I highly recommend even at full price.

[Good]
It’s a different take on a survival game that ends up putting it in a niche genre. You make your base craft your items etc as a scientist trapped underground in a secretive lab. plenty of exploring to do, and it guides you through the zones as you accomplish the story. Much less open ended than survival games such as ark.
It has a unique art style, the different zones are very different and interesting. I usually don’t care about story but the story is pretty interesting. Very easy to play with friends. You can tell the devs spent a lot of time and effort working on the game.

[the bad]
There are some things I genuinely disliked about the game. They are currently working on 1.0 so some of these may get addressed. Worth noting that many of these are nit picking, and the game is almost perfect.
-buggy. The game can be slightly buggy and there were a few times where items in storage/inventory would randomly disappear or enemies would take abnormally long to respawn.

-late game armor options kind of suck in my opinion. You end up having the option to use a full armor set, or to use late game items that offer essential capabilities but offer worse armor than starting armor. (Arm wraps required to use guns, bionic legs for fall damage etc). IMO arm wraps and bionic legs shouldn’t take an armor slot.

-ladders: ladders are the bane of my existence…

-in game map: almost unusably bad. The world can get really confusing at times as it’s so large. it would be a huge quality of life addition to have a working map. The current version is like a shadow outline without indicators of any kind.

-bullets can’t be crafted

-performance issues: I have an extremely high end pc (i9 14th gen and 4090), and was hosting for two friends. End game was very laggy and had a few crashes. This is particularly strong when accessing storage containers and using auto sort.

-Skill perks: are not great but I’ve heard they are being overhauled.

-set bonuses: most suck/far too situational

-lacking some crafting QOL: can only use “go to previous recipe” once. Additionally, there are times when you want to craft item one, but for that you need to craft item two, and for that you need to craft item three. One button to craft all requirements would be nice.

-late game storage: gets a little annoying. There are a TON of different items in the game. Especially when opening inventories causes lag it’s annoying to go through 10 different containers to just find the solder. Would like some way to store everything in one container/be able to pull out any time from storage to your personal inventory.

-unsure if this was a bug but items don’t often respawn making resources really hard to come by late game. Especially when we end up wanting to craft multiple versions of them (for each of us to use)

Phenomenal game. A must play if you are into survival games and if you have played Half-Life you will feel like you are back in Black Mesa. This game will constantly have you wanting to come back to play. Just when you think you got a grasp on what you are fighting and where you are going, the game will throw a curveball and surprise you. Like many survival games, the beginning might be a little daunting. It does a good job alleviating alot of stress that might come with survival games at the start, and will have you in a flow state where hunger isn't a pressing issue. Alot of depth to crafting and discovering new recipes. Many different skill sets, armour sets and weapons that allow that players to have different play styles. Such a great amount of content for its price point. 10/10.

One of the greatest games I've ever played. It takes a little time to get into the flow but wow what an amazing piece of work by the devs. So many little puzzles, content, and items will keep you constantly discovering new things. I think it will also appeal to a lot of different types of gamers. Its got a great blend of crafting, horror, survival, comedy, and fps. Certainly one of the best value games on Steam too, incredible amount of content for $20-30. It's best experienced as a coop game, unless you play a lot of solo RPGs then you'll probably be fine. Regardless it should really be talked about more, this game deserves some awards. 10/10.

One of the best, if not the best, Survivalcrafter game I played. Some might say im biased because im a huge Half-Life fanboy and i have a unhealthy obsession with "hidden" research facilities since HL1. But its save to say that they really tried to break up the scenario in creative ways which makes exploring so much fun. Not many games make me want to continue to explore the world because theres always unexpected stuff around the next corner.

The game is a little slow for the first little but then it gets really addicting! Graphics could use some work but that really does not detract from the game.

If you don't think you'd like this game because it's not procedural generated:
THINK AGAIN.
I was skeptical about it as I'm a huge fan of Minecraft, Valheim, and No Man's Sky. Honestly, the hand-crafted map design is incredible and I think I actually prefer it more. This game is extremely fun and the game play is super addicting. It's totally playable solo also. Personally: The trailers on steam are fine but I feel like they don't do the game justice. There's so much incredible atmosphere and level design that they don't show (not sure how they would to be fair). If you enjoy crafting/ survival games GIVE THIS GAME A SHOT.