Stone Rage

This game has no single player and the online server list is completely empty. This game is unplayable and should not be bought. To be clear, i do not mean the servers are empty of players but rather there are no servers at all.
You would be better off burning your money than buying this games because at least you will get more benefits from that then buy this game.

This is an excellent game, and one that I enjoyed playing....for all of the two hours that I could play. Since then there have been no servers online, and with no solo play mode, nor ability to run my own server, the game is lost....total scam. It don't cost much to buy, but do not waste your money

Do not buy this game, all was fine up till about 6 months ago, now there is no servers to play o, no single player to speak of, an no way to load onto a private server and play, just don't waste your money

SCAM DO NOT BUY!

Bought the game yesterday. Eager to play it today and strangely no servers and there is no way to play the game whatsoever, The absence of single player mode or the possibility to open my own server makes this game a scam. Asking for your refund if you have bought it

There is no single player and no multiplayer servers you cannot play this game what at all you pay to look at the start up screen! dont waste your money

Edit to Below: ....DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!

I've since found that there are no servers now available, and lacking in a solo player/co-op mode, the game is now unplayable. When I complained to Steam about this, they stated that as I had already played the game, they would not refund my money. Poor show of support, it has to be said



Overall, the game is good. You wander through a beautiful world and, as in all survival sandbox games, you harvest resources, craft materials and progress thus. It would be good to see some more choice in the character creation, and female characters would be good too.

I may have missed it yet, but a world map of some form would be very helpful; at least the sun rises in the east, sets in the west and the north of the land seems to be a snowy area, whilst the south is desert...who needs a map?

It is a bit odd to find all the dangerous animals seemingly pierced by a tree and unable to move. Get close enough and they'll still damage you though. it is possible to kill them if you have sufficient arrows, but there ain't much sense of achievement in that, is there. But by far my biggest gripe is that there is only one server up (that I have seen) and very little traffic.

Give it a go...it is only in Alpha yet and if the devs can stay true to their word and keep improving things it should be a great game

I avoided making a Review about this game since it was still such EA, but recent events have pushed my hand. Beware! Do not give Reok your money. He has no intent on finishing the game and has been confronted by many of the games financial backers (continued donators like myself) and instead of properly addressing their numerous concerns.....he's been dropping the ban hammer and then berating the individual he just removed. It's become a lord of the flies situation and forced me to consider legal action with Pillsbury, LLC. 'I' was foolish to continually donate...don't be foolish yourself and buy the game.
Aside from Reok's non-intent to complete the project, using Covid lockdowns as as excuse, the game is horribly unbalanced. Tools and other crafting items take an exorbitant amount of time and RSS to craft, as do the building pieces...and yet the RSS drops are incredibly low. The imbalance of the game doesn't even address sheer incompleteness of it. The game is so bad right now, they had to drop the price just hoping to get anyone to buy it. Nearly all the servers are completely empty...so do not plan on playing with others either. Lastly, be very aware that nearly all the screenshots are done by Devs, on dev branch...and NOT what you will experience in game.....that's called bait and switch. I play lot's of EA, this is not EA...Pre-Alpha is fine....this is still in the concept phase. At the very least....wait till after it's full release (if it ever makes it) before giving Reok your money.

Was not at all intuitive, though marginally functional (just pretty clunky and slow). You start with nothing, which is fair cause this is the stone age we're playing in, but you also start with about 20% food point and it lasts under 5 minutes before you die. Never really got to making much so I can't tell you if it's worth playing once you get past this point, although there are some pretty cool masks and stuff. I also never ran into any animals or edible plants so not much to hunt/forage in that five minutes if I did want to eat something. Haven't played it in a long time, I wonder if any decent updates have come... but I'm not checking anytime soon.

Good game lacks some stuff and can get boring takes a lot of time to gather resources but it plays really well and is quite peaceful 8/10 looking forward to updates in the future.

This game has the potential to be Amazing! Super fun to play with friends. The game has some bugs but its a normal thing to a early access game. Its a beautiful universe with prehistoric landscape filled with dangerous animals, scarce resources, and a harsh climate. You have to explore and craft some weapons and tools to make your life easier.

Very good and addictive openworld games, with a lot of items to gather and craft. However, due to the state of current development, "Stone Rage" still needs a lot of expansion and more fixes. It can currently suffer for AI and graphic glitches.

I was, in all sincerity going to give this a thumbs up. After the latest 2 "fixes," I just can't. Still way too many bugs and glitches to name. The game has rendering issues. For some reason after any hotfix, there is a server wipe. So, with every update this game does, you have to start over. To me, that is simply too much.

I definitely like this game. I love the concept of this game. It has great potential. But it is a bit bare bones at the moment. I can see it having a decent future.
That being said. The grind? I don't mind a bit of grind, but this game is out of order. C'mon, devs why make a game painfully hard to get resources? And I stress painful! I was the only player on the Aussie servers and I still had trouble finding enough resources. What would happen if there were lots of people on the servers? Gathering nodes would be impossible. And don't get me started on chopping trees for logs??? OMG just increase the amount of logs given per tree already. You need to increase the amount of resources given drastically! Especially from trees! You have to increase the amount of logs. Nodes are scarce. Not to mention stone. Run miles and miles to gather stone to upgrade a couple of walls! Tools wear out too quickly. How many axes must one craft to build a house? Too many that's what! And doing something simple like building an adequate base, will take you days upon DAYS! So painful!
And those storage boxes cost way too much in wood. What are guys thinking? (30 logs for a medium size box 50 for a large) You must be kidding! Outrageous! Then the storage boxes hold so little. Why? You almost need another base just to store your storage boxes.
I spent hours upon hours building a 2x3 base mostly up to stone level. It was almost complete. It was fine when I logged in this morning. It was very satisfying to have it almost complete! (By the way the building mechanics are pretty cool! Well done.
I just logged on this afternoon to find my base half decayed and a lot of my loot gone. Oh, Thanks for the latest update! I love that one! :( Could have at least warned players of the importance of the decay bench! Which of course I hadn't crafted. I didn't really understand what it was for until seeing half my base and contents gone. Now I know! Nice one fellas!
And the thought of having to rebuild my newly built base under such painful conditions. Hmmm? No No No No No! There is no way in hell I am going to grind out another base again any time soon! I wont be back until you sort out some of the balancing issues. Work on the resource balancing please. That should be a priority!
You should not have bought in the decay system before getting the resource balance issue sorted out. Such a bad decision to bring that out so early! ! That update presently has killed the game for me. You should have concentrated on getting balancing correct first. Considering the servers are pretty quiet it was nice to see some signs of life as the decay system did not start until shortly after I started playing. There were old bases around which kind of made it feel like there was some life around the server. I am all for the decay system. I get it. But Who the hell wants to spend 8 hours a day gathering resources just to upkeep a base. My base decayed so quickly.
So that all being said. This game has a lot of promise to become something great!
I will be keeping an eye on it and checking back in the future. But for now I am going to take a long needed rest as my 35 hours was accumulated in just a few days.

Another point to note for the devs is when a base decays, the foundations and floor should decay last. At least that way all the loot doesn't disappear immediately. I may have kept playing if my foundation and storage boxes were still there. But I lost too much, and I cannot grind that out again.


Given time this game has the ingredients to become something special. I recommend giving this game a chance. I am eager to see what future updates bring. Hopefully more logs.

Do not forget that this game is in early access.
Another survival game, this one on the theme of the prehistoric period.
There are good and bad.
Graphics and gameplay are good.
More craft and animals are needed to make the game more interesting.
Structures require a lot of resources and farming.

Nevertheless this game has a very promising early start.

For a game written by a group of enthusiasts who are NOT backed by any game developer, I must say I like what I see. 
Stone Rage is in early access and some may criticize the early access release and or long development time but as I wrote above (see the first paragraph), you need to generate funds to enlist a dedicated full-time team to work on the game.

I bought the game on release day and thoroughly enjoyed the concept. The Devs are constantly keeping us up to date with the latest developments and ladders of progression. I was amazed to watch one of the devs working on a bone knife and the time and effort it took to create. The landscapes are gorgeous with sunrises and sunsets that equal the beauty of the game.
If you are looking to play a finished game and complain that it is not, THEN STOP RIGHT THERE, no need to go any further, this isn't finished, BUT if you want to experience a game set in the stone (r)age and it's evolving creation, then HOP-ON and enjoy the ride. 

Currently the game feels very unfinished. Limited resources and detail to the world. The crafting is boring because it tells you what all the required items are needed to make an item. So no learning. Basically it's running about looking for limited resources which graphically don't look much different from the terrain. Threat in the game seems to be none to the point I threw myself of a cliff just to feel somthing (and of course died). No single player, you are forced into playing on a server.
The game does however have potential and I may well revist it in a year or so time (currently refunded). But as at the end of August 2020, I can not recommend this game. Rather wait and see if it gets improved or if the developers take the money and run (I hope not the latter as this could be a great game).

Has resource balance problems with needing 30 wood logs for a floor and 20 for a club. Spent near my whole time finding the resources i needed to build a house with bushes and rocks all being Random Gen with what you get. Keep having to make a new axe cos it breaks so easy(Upgraded Axe lasts a little longer but not worth the time or resources). Big animals seem to be stuck in trees. Cant remove tree stumps and i managed to get stuck over 5 times so i had to kill myself. Theres areas of the map that has no sound. I know its a EA game but i think it been released to soon with very little content and some of the stuff thats in the game you can't use but don't know that until you waste your time making it. I will update my review as time passes and hope that the Dev's stick at it and it gets better.

Windows 10 ONLY game. People without windows 10 cant get on the servers.

05/08/2021 - DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. It is not playable at the current time, and has not been for a while.

Would not advise getting this right now it is very very basic even for an early alpha. Seems very little to do in the game apart from spending 3 hours gathering wood and fibre etc. to build a small house. Resource gathering is badly balanced didnt see one other person on the pvp server we tried. Save your money and maybe check to see if it gets any better but considering it took 5 years to produce this i would doubt it.

Game's current state is too much ''barebones''. There is no depth and nothing to do in pve servers. Also, I didnt like the invisible walls on the map. For now just no. Im gonna check again after 6 months.

This is an initial review based upon the Closed testing build of Stone Rage - Alpha v0.2- Played in July/August 2020

All potential buyers should know that this survival game is loosely orientated around the Stone Age era, and aims to balance technologies of the period against a game with enough functionality to keep things fun. For example, there is some building available that may not be considered historically accurate at time of my review, but remember this is a game and as it stands- it's hell of a lot of fun. (If you take offence at constructing buildings that are not 100% historically accurate this is perhaps not for you, but you will be missing out I assure you.)

The game itself:
I and a few friends sunk literally hours into this over a few days of closed testing. (We effectively made it our own community event!) We lost sleep as a consequence. All the major facets of a really good survival game are there already, in fact i'ts bloody well polished considering this was before EA release!

Whats in the game at this stage?
- Multiple tiers of weapons and tools
- Multiple tiers of building styles.
- Some animals to hunt- lots more to come.
- Multiple biomes, Forest, Desert etc
- Anti-cheat system (in-house written I believe)- R+ so take note other AAA developers!

A couple of things not there just yet:
- Clan/Guild mechanics (for general building ownership, but the 6 of us playing together worked around this- doors could be placed & have players granted access via an upgrade tool, so that really was not an issue. We just elected who did the building and who did the gathering etc.
- Some form of Animal summoning/taming (So intrigued & excited for this..)

A note on the Developers because this is important when considering EA purchases:
As part of this testing phase the developers wanted to stress test the servers and get as many folks online as possible to gather overall data on server load before this goes out to the masses on Steam. To everyone’s satisfaction "we broke it". Within minutes they adjusted settings and brought the servers back up. Lots of data was gathered during this phase that will only lead to performance improvements. Throughout the testing process they also engaged their testers on their discord. I have to say this is one brave set of developers- they handed out testing keys to anyone that wanted one- with no NDAs preventing negative/unfair content being publicly released and this goes to show that even at this stage- it puts some other EA projects to shame. I took the time to report a few bugs, and within a few hours these were acknowledged, listed and assigned on their GitHub. Many are now fixed.

Want to see what we got up to?:

Check out my buddy Bloodstalker101 recording on Twitch when we played during testing- https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696734147

As you will see there is the odd issue, but we still had an absolute blast- and the issues we encountered are already being addressed by the devs. Else join the devs discord yourself and you will see how actively engaging and responsive they are, not to mention what’s still to come!

To close- I really can’t find a major fault in this game considering what state it's currently in and the size of the dev team, and its my choice to purchase it after its release is because i want to see it go further. Well done Mountainwheel Games, and thanks for letting me play a small part in your project!