Forager

love the game but sad to see that it was abandoned would still recommend it if nya want a chill cozy game

8,5/10 bonked beets

A nice difficult game that will keep you entertained for hours]

I absolutely LOVE Forager, it is a fun grindy kinda game with lots of crafting and advancements. If you like
Terraria or Minecraft or even Stardew Valley, you'll probably love this game too! The game has a fighting aspect like Terraria, mining and gathering like Minecraft, and lots of farming and expanding land like Stardew Valley. If you like a combination of these games and like to grind? Get forager! Plus it's cheap!

Really fun. I do not know what else I should say. Its a great game! It would take me a long time to say how much great things are in the game.

This is an edit, but I said "Its a great game!" I meant to say "It is a great game!".

Near perfect game, my only problem is that some buildings work too slow. But that;s probably a good thing because it gives you more time to play.

this is the game that I comeback every once in 5 months. Its alright, but thats about it. its very mid. Issues being developer being an asshole

This game is addicting to its core, from its gameplay loop, to the sound design, and the bouncy animations.
It's quite fun in the beginning and mid game when there's endless directions to go in, but I find it frustrating/lacking once you have no more levels to gain and nothing to spend your coins on and you're spending hours in the void for what feels like no reward.
This game is all about dominating the land and creatures around you and once that is done with hundreds of droids and nearly 1,000 dmg you're p much done even though there is technically more achievements. I assume mods would make the slog of the end game more enjoyable but I haven't used any myself.
I don't know if I can recommend this game in good conscience however bc there are some poor quality of life choices and VERY big game breaking bugs that have never been fixed to my understanding.
For the bugs, a large one is the sudden complete loss of the ability to use any tools. For pc users I heard pressing Alt can trigger this, but I play on steam deck and I don't believe anyone has ever found a fix. This happened to me in the late game when I already had 100+ droids so it wasn't the end of the world, but if you were to get this bug early on you just literally wouldn't be able to play. Restarting the game, any settings, key remapping, none of that fixed it. For me it just randomly started working again when I was in the void.
Another large glitch is that you can just get stuck when you're in the void, and that is simply the end of your run. This happened to me when I was over 100 levels in so you can imagine the frustration.
As for poor QoL, having your pet's sit button be the same as the interact button is very annoying so you'll just lose it constantly. Also the game incentivizes you to have a bunch of drones, but they clutter the screen so much it's hard to see what is happening or even where you are. Imo one of the most annoying things is placing and removing flooring when it comes to the docks and dirt. Having any structures anywhere near where you want to edit the ground makes the task impossible (as well as digging when there's water nearby), and when one of the achievements is to cover up all the water? Yeah no thanks sorry
Overall it's fun in short bursts, but if you're any sort of completionist stay far away. If you're into modding I might reccomend it, but overall you might want to save your time unless a large QoL update happens.

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Gameplay
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Is It Replayable?
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☑ Yes
☐ No

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☐ Yes
☑ Sometimes
☐ No

Overall Score: 8.17/10

My Comment on This Game:
Very good game! I love the mechanics and the polish on it! I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fun and satisfying game.

Really fun progression especially toward the end

This game is really well made I'll suggest for anyone that wants to like play it feels really fun to have every single thing in the game lmao

Fun game to automate and stuff, boring end-game thou.

I bought this before I realized the lead Developer was a narcissistic bag of cocks. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/04/forager_team_retaliates_after_lead_dev_blames_them_for_cancelled_multiplayer

Don't support the developer of this game, the workers of the game were paid barely next to the minimum while the lead Dev made bank.

Forager is what happens when you take The Legend of Zelda, mix it with Minecraft, and then sprinkle in the kind of obsessive resource-hoarding that would make a raccoon jealous. You start with nothing but a pickaxe and a dream, and before you know it, you’ve bulldozed entire ecosystems, built a fully automated capitalist empire, and are drowning in more gold than a cartoon villain. The gameplay loop is pure dopamine—chop trees, mine rocks, build stuff, repeat—until suddenly, it’s 3 AM, and you realize you’ve spent the last four hours collecting virtual turnips.
The real magic of Forager is how it tricks you into thinking, just one more thing! You set out to build a small farm, and next thing you know, you're managing an army of mining lasers, summoning demons, and questioning whether you’re the hero or just an adorable pixelated tyrant. The game is cute, addicting, and dangerously good at making time disappear. 9/10, would recommend, but only if you don’t have important responsibilities—because Forager will make sure you ignore them all.

missed opportunity. Its sad to see 4 years without update

This game is really fun and I've loved it for a long time but I don't think this game is ever getting an update again lmao. Even if it doesn't it's still really fun I just think it's not as good as it could be (cough, hopfrog if you read your reviews, add multiplayer and nothing else. Just that, I will love you forever)

this game has replayability. wish it had some more content

I tried really REALLY hard to like this game. But the game just really fucking sucks. You feel stuck in the beginning since you only have one square of land to work with. As you open up more squares of land, you really don't get anything new. At first, you get some cool QoL upgrades, but then you just start unlocking new biomes which are literally just fragmented pieces of land. I got to level 25 or so and I kept on doing the same thing: using fish traps to feed myself and upgrading my pick/shovel/etc so I could just continue holding down left click to continue getting more things which allow me to progress ever so slightly. The reason I didn't change up my playstyle, despite having acquired new skills via leveling up is that the skills themselves are simply not that good and boring. After about 23 hours, I am done. I don't think I'll ever come back to this game and It will forever say in my "shitty games" category in my library.

This game starts off fun but the end game is extremely slow. it takes forever to make the materials needed to progress further. I had my fun with my 25 hours. I'm moving on to something else.

This game is unfortunately abandoned. There hasnt been an update since 2019-2020. If you find current gameplay fun then go for it, but dont expect more content unless its mods.

Pretty cool and chill game to become addicted for hours, my only problem it's when it comes to the last achievements like "Coin collector" or "Production Master" which requires a lot of time even if you maximize every little thing you can it just doesn't feel worth the time, and that would probably my only complaint about it.
It's a shame the community never got multiplayer but it's still addicting on solo and fun.

no multiplayer still and locked at 30fps unless your monitor refresh rate is a multiple of 30 frames

Although I haven't played too much, I can tell this little game is incredible. This game is so much fun.

Good gameplay loop, fun not too difficult puzzles, NPCs have some good jokes, all in all a fun lite experience although it gets really grindy by the end with the nuclear stuff.

Some kind of survival game mixed with an idle game. This is the type of game that will suck up all of your time if it is able to get its hooks into you, but I just found this game to be too boring for me. Found myself just sort of not knowing what I should be doing for most of the time, resulting in me just farming for resources with no real goal.

Great game, very grindy and idle based late game, but I like it!!

yeah its a great time sink, though some achievements are just waiting for a seriously long time

This game is really fun and addicting, I always want to unlock the next thing and the next. The music is really good too. I recommend this game to anyone who likes indie games.

casual or even chill game for me. When tired of irl or tired of competitive games. This game would help you to gain your peacefulness lolol. Well the point is the game is good, have option for people who want to relax and also an option for hardcore-ish player? Well u get the point.

One of my first games which makes me very fond of it and I enjoyed the gameplay so I do recommend it. But have in mind that it has many game breaking bugs: my market timers were broken and I had to break them and rebuild them just to reset it, on another save I encountered a different bug where the huge crystal is invisible and lastly its unfortunate that this game didn't get the multiplayer update that was promised.

Forager - Most addictive game ever.

From the moment I started Forager, I was completely hooked. The game’s fast-paced loop of gathering, crafting, and upgrading kept me coming back for more—so much so that I couldn’t put it down and finished it in just one week!

The adorable pixel art style is a huge highlight. The vibrant, colorful graphics and charming character designs make the world delightful to explore, while the simple but polished animations add a lot of personality to the game.

What really stands out, though, is how rewarding the progression feels. Unlocking new skills, expanding your map, and discovering hidden secrets is pure dopamine. The achievements are another strong point; collecting them feels incredibly satisfying and adds an extra layer of motivation to explore every aspect of the game.

However, one small downside is the "Coin Collector" achievement. By the end of the game, it became more of a waiting game, requiring you to leave the game running to farm coins rather than actively engaging with the gameplay. It’s a minor flaw in an otherwise amazing experience.

Forager strikes a perfect balance between relaxation and challenge, making it an absolute must-play for fans of crafting and adventure games. Just be prepared to lose track of time—you won’t want to stop!

I definitely would recommend this game. In my opinion it is like a better version of Minecraft (mixed with Animal crossing new horizons.). In Minecraft I usually find myself bored once I have a nice base and then I stop playing world and eventually delete it. But with Forager the slight story makes the game much more engaging since the story gives me objectives, so then I don't end up having nothing to do. At the very least the game manages to keep me engaged for a longer period of time than Minecraft.

I absolutely love this game!! It's sad that it was abandoned but the gameplay and everything in it is still so much fun!

This game is very relaxing and very fun to play. I am sad that this game is no longer being updated but thank you guys so much for your very hard work.

Forager is the best little game I've ever played. Looking back, it was probably the start of my incremental game addiction, but man it does it so well. Progress, progress, progress. Cute pixel art style. Very fun game, I only wish there were more of it.

Have played on Forager for 24 hours - best way to describe it would be a finite stardew valley * factorio sim, with a few fetch quests for special items, a couple of one and done dungeons, and a couple of puzzle rooms per each of the five base biomes, some of which are found in "towers" others of which are found on the map. You build structures to combine resources, and then build stronger structures which combine these into stronger resources - you optomise these and upgrade them to make them faster - you can build path and rail routes around the map. Is a good first "engine builder"*"farming sim" to introduce someone to the genre, I'll come back to it in the future as there is the ability to collect and exchange high level resources for items which summon "secret entities" on the map - i won't spoil this but they make the game interesting once you've reached the higher end of your capabilites. Fun little acheivement hunter game once all the main stuff is done.

Forager

Forager is an indie, open-world survival crafting game, blending elements from Stardew Valley, Terraria, and Factorio, with a touch of idle progression similar to Cookie Clicker.

Although I’m not usually a fan of idle games, I was really impressed with Forager. Its gameplay loop is engaging, offering a satisfying sense of progression as you play to complete various in-game feats. The action is hooking, supported by cheerful music and sound effects. The game is packed with content, and its greatest strength is the rewarding progression system that keeps the experience fresh and enjoyable.

On the downside, the late-game grind can become repetitive and tedious, and the audio, while charming at first, may feel monotonous during longer play sessions.

Despite these minor issues, I loved the game. After spending 152 hours 100% completing Forager, I can confidently recommend it to anyone who enjoys engaging, progression-based games.

great game and only takes around 30 hours to 100% the game

W GAME
Open sandbox game, lots to do, fun and entertaining, keeps me busy for HOURS
I've wanted to play it for years, and it was SO WORTH IT BUYING THE GAME
I stop playing and instantly want to get back on

I love the art style! This game is way more complexity than I thought it would. The puzzles are fun even though I suck at puzzles and usually hate them in other games. I really love the idea of building an empire in game. I also loved seeing the comic about how forager came to be.

fun game, neat artstyle, cool npc-interactions, not too much endgame grind, very simple gamemechanics

to summarize: very enjoyable

I have minor nitpicks that have come up over the course of my playtime, but I will say that I seem to really love this style of game.

A similar game called Outpath was one that I really got into and basically did everything you could during my playtime. I had no idea at the time but I'm sure it was heavily inspired by this game as a lot of the elements were present in that game as well (including weapons but Outpath doesn't really have hostile mobs so they didn't feel as impactful). That being said, from trying that game first there were some things I missed having, like being able to select a custom amount during crafting, rather than only being able to do Half or Max of your capacity. Having to worry about inventory was a needless stressor but I guess you could argue it was valuable in limiting hoarding-behaviors early on. Yet this is almost a game about hoarding, cause almost everything has a use down the line.

Overall, I had fun with it!

Please play this game. But first, this game is for people willing to devote 100+ hours into 100%ing this game,
and people who wont quit because the first part of the game is a little boring. Ok, why you should play, this game is beautiful and the are style fits perfectly, and so does the music, you need a toaster to play, and its cheap as hell. But, of course it cant all be good, the biggest con is that the developer left the game behind and i think he didnt pay his workers or something, but that is really it. So in summary, if you devote maybe 5 or less hours of boring sand collection to get the slime pickaxe and shovel then this game will be super fun. The community is still sort of active but new videos come out weekly. Do I think you should this game? yes 100%. I've almost 100%ed the game and thats really the only thing to do/objective and it may take afking overnight, but if you're willing to do that. just buy it. stop looking at reviews.

very cool and very snazzy
its basically a mobile game without the adds and way more fleshed out,

5 staw :3

For whatever reason, this has become my go-to chill game. When I don’t feel like thinking too hard or don’t have the energy for my other games, I just default to this one.

Does that count as a recommendation? I think so. If you’re looking for something that keeps your mind occupied without being too challenging—just a game to relax with—then I definitely recommend it for you!

Fun grind game with some awesome and hard puzzles

it was fun but its too much for me the resource was abundant but it get to overwhelmingly effect me because i cant gather it fast enough so it just like a jungle and i cant handle it rofl. but dont get me wrong it was fun but its just too much for me to keep gathering resource when my inventory management was shit (it may me just be because i dont know whats good/usefull or useless). thanks ! feel free to gave me more information about the game!

Deleted my late game saves 4 times in total. Unable to recover them. Not worth playing for a 5th time for the last achievements.

A very hard negative review to give, the game IS fun, but hoooooooo boy it gets tedious fast

I absolutely LOVE this game. It has everything I have been craving for in a game that I got bored with in other games because I completed them. I just wanna explore, mine, forage, and craft... love the skill tree. I love that it doesn't hold your hand on unlocking stuff so you need to do a bit of figuring it out or google if you are stuck on a riddle. Warning: Highly Addictive. You will spend too much time on this game if you aren't careful!

Nice game, 100% achievements after 52h, but with the mods you can have much more fun for more time.