Smalland: Survive the Wilds

Such a unique experience, late discovering the magic that is Smalland! Don't sleep on it, give it a try - you will not be disappointed. Live out your fairy fantasy in an enormous world

I like The game and its how it is and Playing it is quite fun with a friend but one thing that throws me off is the sounds in the game such as drawing out your sword or something when drawn Out to attack something it makes a awful Roblox Cheap Sound Effect , I love the game just feel as though maybe change the sound effects up a little bit. 10/10 Would Kill lady bugs again!

My husband and I bought this game when it came out. It was ok, all creatures pretty much drop the same items. And gear is locked till you find the npcs. Also you cant swim or glide over water, lost everything from falling right through a log, onto a cliff next to water, my loot was near the water, and i tried getting it back, but there is noway back up at all. So, i tried gliding over the water, it went as far as the other shore and i lost everything over again. Cant even jump onto the waters edge when your drowning. There is nothing you can do. Stupid game imo. Not much content, and content blocked behind npcs you gotta go all over the map to find. Horrible game.

Very weird implementation of multiplayer where you can't really build each bases together or form group/clan. Once a base is claimed it really only should ever be built on by the claimer because when that person logs off everything is inaccessible

Fun game, played to completion. Took me 30 hours but I also had 2 friends to play with, and I also used extra servers to farm mats instead of having to wait, so true completion time should give you about 50 hrs or more. Progression seems pretty well balanced, and the art is super cool. I love all the stylish armor sets and the wings. Even after completing, there's still some stuff left to do. I hope to see expansions adding new bosses and armor sets.

I like the concept of being tiny in a gigantic world. Sadly, this game just isn't that fun for me. Pretty much just a grinding for resources to craft stuff game. You have to keep going farther and farther out to get higher level stuff so walking back to a base you made a while ago gets annoying. Graphics are ok.. for 2025 I would say the graphics aren't the best. Sometimes objects have hard triangular points like on trees and just not very realistic. Overall just kinda boring.

Smallland aims to be a beautiful survival-crafting-game in a cute surrounding of miniature elves in your foregarden. And that beauty and cuteness is a selling point for this game. Howerver the gameplay is clunky and the game feels more like patched together from libraries than being a genuine standalone development. Grumpily I have to rate this a not recommended.

This game is an unpolished gem. The idea itself is like a minimoy excited to see a new world. The npcs are vibrant though
I would like more quests from them and A lot of people complain about having to run around long distances but as a society that has lived underground for most of their story line it makes sense that they have no teleport systems. {If you are really that worried about it you can just put down beds for better spawn points} There are also a few glitches with multiplayer in that my game kept kicking friends but that was very easily fixed by making them spawn in their own world and then spawning into mine. The taming portion is a very unique idea that I really appreciate and playing with friends definitely makes the game feel more full. Would definitely recommend in conjunction with grounded because this has a different path going forward and a different feel that is really whimsical. I cant wait to see whats in store!

Great game. Hits that grounded itch in a new and exciting way.

Honestly its effin' great!
Combat is fun and engaging. You /can/ build as much as you want, but you don't /have to/. You can recruit companions, and each specie has something special to offer, and then there's extra special bonus traits when you're hatching eggs.

Mechanically speaking, it isn't anything revolutionary - most of this stuff you saw elsewhere in other games, however - its very nicely put together here in this one, AND the perspective/theme makes all the difference. Its quite remarkable to glide around jumping from the top of your Great Tree, spot "Giant's Artifacts" (everyday objects) and just admire the sheer size. Its fun to crawl in the sewer pipes, navigate the world and find your way over large obstacles, and basically just cycle between exploration, combat, looting, crafting and upgrading and then all over again.

I got it on very good special, but IMO - even just 15-20% off the base price is more than great value for your money.

I have tried this game and I couldn't find my fun in it. The idea is really good, the graphics are ok, but the manoeuvrability is garbage. I have tried both with the controller and with the mouse-keypad, and neither one them were enjoyable.

Combat is easier with the controller since the character felt a bit more responsive that way, but the camera does not follow the targets, so I found myself often missing my mark, which added another layer of frustration to the already terrible combat system.

I guess I am used to a faster response from the playable character, but this game leans too much toward the realistic speed of movements. So if I am starting a series of hits to produce a combo, I can't just stop and do something else. No, I have to finish the movement, slowly, before I can do anything else. Therefore, the enemies keep hitting me since their flinching time is much shorter than mine, and I end up constantly taking damage.

Anyway, I am sad because I was really looking forward to the mounts and pet system. It really looks like a more mature version of Grounded. Sadly, the fighting system and the controls are not polished enough to my taste for me to enjoy the game.

really nice game amazing graphics nice adventures

Game's a little frustrating at times, but fun overall. Combat is simple and more about being careful than having a lot of skill.

really fun, well designed and nice visuals. We found the multiplayer to be a bit weird. A lot of our tamed creates where attacking each other and we both had to put down and use items in order to learn things Also the game doesn't do a good job explaining things. there are some owls at the start of the game that give small pointers but later if you have questions there is nothing for you to look to in game for instruction. Over all very fun

Great game so far. People compare it to grounded but it's completely different. The only similarity is that you're tiny. This game is way better then grounded. The only thing I would complain about is that it claims to have full controller support but YOU CANT REMAP THE TRIGGERS OR MAP ANY OF THE HOT KEYS TO THE D-PAD. Please get this added ASAP. I seen a video from a year ago on youtube where someone else also couldn't map these.

I like that I can play alone doing "quests" as well as I can play with other online players. Graphics are great in my opinion. It holds my attention and I look forward to playing it.

Overall I would recommend the game because it looks great and I enjoyed playing but I still think it needs things... more bugs for one. I know there's different parts to the maps where you'll encounter new bugs but man, fighting the same water bugs or sawyer bugs in the beginning is really annoying. I also wish there was a better way to get to your encampments such as a fast travel. There's just a few things I wish the game had to make QOL better. I need a way to revive my bugs that die... Winnie the Wasp caused Jellyfish the Nocturnal Ladybug and Sawyer the Sawyer beetle die because she had to attack a spider and bullfrog.

Very fun guided survival game with a challenging endgame, You can customize your world server specs (weather timers, day/night cycles, pet settings). Can be played online or offline which is fantastic if you want to slowly work through your world at your own pace or you can open it up to play with friends!

I love this game. The environment, graphics and music make it very immersive. I do have a continual problem with an error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG that is aggravating but it must have something to do with Unreal Engine 4 because it happens occasionally on one other game which also happens to be UE4. Even with the crashing every 1/2 hour or so it's been a very fun game.

I really enjoyed taming the bug though i do wish for there to be more tames that you can mount and for some of the bugs to have more uses ex ability tp collect more resource etc it would also be better if i could pick items from the mount since i mainly go around using my mount since i'm bad at combat

This is a great game! Highly recommended. Great graphics, great game play loop!

Still haven't fixed flying with controller with (redacted). So will probably never play again but was still worth the investment. Very fun to play.

It's a fundamentally fun game. it's a little rough around the edges, and some balancing decisions are... questionable. But overall, I had fun playing it, which can't be said for a lot of games this year Pick it up on sale, it's definitely worth 3 or 4 hours of play.

You are a bug trying to survive. Good way to spend 210 hours. A lot of armor options maybe too many. New concept of building an army of other trained varmits.

Bought super early access and its a shame to see no real progress has been made throughout the year. Temu grounded lol

Not without issues but is it fun, sure its a pretty good game for what it is.

My friends and I have played a lot of these survival open worldy crafting games. This game just isn't good, and there are many better options to choose from.

The biggest issue is the overall balance: Pets are gamebreakingly overpowered, so you'll feel kinda weak initially before you unlock them. Then you'll just overrun everything in your path instantly.

The world is lazily built: All the great trees are effectively identical and exploration feels fairly meaningless.

The game is janky as heck, with collisions and general movement feel awful. Your pets destroy your traps for some reason. The game feels very unfinished.

And ultimately, I can't help ask myself: Why am i putting up with these layers of bad? the story isn't good. The world isn't good. The combat isn't either. So why are we still playing?

Just go play Grounded. You and your friends will have a far better time.

In the last 20% the game jumps the shark so much that I almost forgot how much I loved the game in the first 15-20 hours. The map is beautiful and fun to explore, the seasons are a great addition. The progress felt right and you get this feeling of accomplishment after every new step. It reminded me of Gothic.

All of this while you slowly realize how underdeveloped the game is. How things don't make sense. The first NPC you meet is a wounded companion sitting against a stone. I was shocked when I came back 10 hours later and he still sat there with a hornet sting in his leg, giving me the very same dialogue from the start (ingame time passed more than a year!).

There are other additions to the game that make no sense at all, like the merchant (who are his customers?). The merchant has a boat huh? Shouldn't I build a boat then to cross the river?! The birds eat me when I cross the river but not the merchant?

For some reason I expected at least some conclusion to what happened to the humans. But no, the game is rushed to the point where these things don't matter. Towards the end I realized it wasn't worth the effort and had ultimately dissapointed me. I never beat the endboss because of this, I didn't care anymore. He has no dialogue at all.

But the first 15-20 hours were marvellous enough to recommend it.

These type of games (Valheim, Grounded etc.) suffer all from the same fate. There are engaging and fun until the midgame when you realize how much extra time you have to spend grinding without getting much back.

Here's your review with the additional section added at the end:

I forced myself to endure this game for 22 hours, hoping it would get better. It never did.

If you're looking for a game similar to Grounded, this is not it. The combat is terrible and not fun whatsoever. Every encounter is extremely easy yet unnecessarily long. Parrying is wildly inconsistent; some attacks come out in a few frames, making them nearly impossible to react to, while others take ages.

Progression becomes repetitive almost immediately. You’re forced to grind the same tasks over and over just to get armor with slightly higher defense or weapons with marginally better damage. Unlike other survival games, where different gear provides unique buffs or playstyles, this game lacks variety. There are no unique builds, just a linear progression path that stifles creativity.

The map had the potential to be great. There are plenty of remnants from past civilizations, which add detail and atmosphere to the world. However, these points of interest serve no real purpose, making exploration feel pointless and unrewarding.

Boss fights are laughably easy. Their attack patterns are predictable, and the only challenge comes from their bloated health bars, which just make fights drag on rather than feel engaging.

Crafting and fuel mechanics are tedious, but luckily, you can turn them off, which says a lot about their design.

Building is decent except for the structural support system, which is completely broken. The only thing that provides support is the foundation. Pillars and other supports do absolutely nothing, making the entire system feel useless.

The price of this game is ridiculous. Selling it for $50 CAD is absurd considering the lack of depth and quality. There are so many better games you could get for the same price, so don’t waste your money on this one.

I just 100% completed this game, had a blast the whole way!

People comparing this to Grounded definitely haven’t played both long enough. These are two distinct worlds, and personally, I prefer this one. The taming feature is a lot of fun, and the progression feels constant. I loved the story and was sad when it ended. No crashes, just a few minor bugs, all of which were fixed by simply logging out and back in. Exploration was S-tier, and once you get yourself a scorpion, you’re invincible! :)

My only con: it’s on the shorter side. Took me under 30 hours to complete. If you’re unsure, buy it on sale!

Beautiful game with a "large" world. I am thoroughly enjoying taming all the critters. Survival mechanics aren't terrible and the building system is fairly well done.

Look, I'm just going to be brutally honest here in the most unbiased fashion as possible. And if it triggers you then well, so be it

To start off with, the game has some 'good' points. Scenery can be pretty nice, the bugs make the most adorable noises, and the world 'kinda' does a good job at giving you a feel of perspective scope. Though I say 'kinda' because some items in the world don't exactly add up in this perspective when you actually put the size of the model to scale an dpit it against others. How a bird bath is as tall as a slide, or how a slide is as tall as 2 water spigots, etc etc. And the weather is a bit interesting, even if you only have in truth, 2 seasons.

Mounts are a bit dumb and unrewarding. You can ride a damselfly and a blue tit, but can't ride a dragonfly? Can ride a lizard yet not a toad? etc etc. The inventory on them, if they have one, is accessed by inspecting them, then clicking on inventory, which is a bit irritating. Just give them an inventory tab with a hotkey ... not that hard people. Learn from your predecessors if you'r that inept.

Cooking can be okay at best, yet honestly the better foods don't really do anything that mind-blowing for you in comparison to the very starter meals you make. Only exception is the ones that give you a better cold weather buff. Besides that it felt like a wasted mechanic since you'll just reasonably stick to making the fast and easy starter food anyway for convenience and simplicity. Why make stuff that uses flour, honey crumble, and other bs when I literally can get the same effect from a grilled mushroom or soup?

Base building is a bit rough. sure things snap, and you get most of the building variants ... but despite grass, wood, stone, metal .... they're all just the same. It's just to stare at with no real function. Only one that did have a function, is the bed, and you'll never use it at home. You can just teleport to your tree base and use the beds a sa fast die to travel to other areas.

Tames are very few, and very disappointing. Adorable to some degree sure! But disappointing. Even after the 'overhaul'. I am happy that the bait system was changed to the trap /egg hatch for sure. give credit where it's due, but thats as best as it gets. You'll never reasonably use them, maybe once or twice, but once you get a damselfly and later on a blue tit, why bother? Answer is, that realistically, you won't ever use the other bugs. Because the game mechanics and traversal pretty much makes you lean very heavily to just flying around. at least ARK gave every tame a function that encouraged the use of other species.

And ending by the way that I found to be completely BS. You go to fight the guy on a giant firewatch tower, who by the way is easy AF to beat with minimal effort and not so much grinding to be done, and you don't even ge to kill him, the bird falling on him kills him .... I've played a lot of games since like Sega Gen and NES ... and I have to say, This is probably the 3rd game with the most disgustingly disappointing end-boss fight I have ever had to get too. Felt exceptionally disheartening and disappointing. You work your way up to him and he just kills himself for you. The weapon reward for it is also pretty bad in comparison to the last actual crafted sword you unlock previously.


All in all, despite many many many issues not yet put in, but you can clearly see other people having, is that this game had some decent potential, and instead of feels like one lazy halfhearted waste of time after another. Even Grounded, a game that this one was supposed to replace, is somehow better ...
Even the story and NPC's felt like a snoozefest. Not because they were bad ... in a way? I actually liked a couple of them/ But because they came off as being thrown in there, input quick objective module tie, and then move on. They lacked any real weight to them, they don't even move around, they have nothing about them thats important aside from the objectives and free gear.

Even the factions, which you grind out for, don't give you anything special. VERY MINOR companion buffs, which you don't even need. and the rest is purely cosmetic. That's it ...

All in all I honestly wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, at least not anymore and not at this current point in time. Maybe if the team gets its act together and it gets fleshed out a lot better I will revisit this and re-post a positive review. But right now it's a hard no.

Fun exploration and critters, though light on story.

i really love this game, from the begining
its so simple, fun & challenging until the early access was over.
now the QoL became unreasonable tbh. from create something instant but now you should wait and pick it up over and over again, it make me furious.

Game has the ability to be great, but there are a LOT of bugs (And not the kind you can tame!)

Even with Friendly fire turned off, you can, and WILL, destroy your own base during raids. AND your tames! I get the game released in Feb of 2024 (about a year ago now,) and yet nothing has been done? This is poor development! Even with friendly fire off, I'm killing my tames while I try to protect my base. That is not okay with me. Overall, the game is good, but this is an issue that almost makes the game unplayable for me. The ONLY times bugs do not take damage, is when they are partied with you. When you're hatching eggs, your tames will nuke your base while 'defending' it, if they chase something over to where you're nesting.

I had 2 tames on a game that I was using as "pack animals", (Sawyer beetles are GREAT early game tames) and I didn't even get a notice that my tames were killed. EVERYTHING on them vanished, as did they. One second they were in my party, the next moment, dusted faster than a Thanos snap.

I'd wait till they fix the glaring issues in the game. Sorry Merge Games. Fix the friendly fire issue, and the fact you kill your bugs while not in a party, and then we'll talk.

I wanna first say that this game is absolutely stunning. From the details on bugs, to the wicked armour sets, everything is very satisfying to gaze upon. It also runs amazing, and I have not had a single issue with lags or crashes. I highly recommend the game for those who love open world survival RPGs but keep playing the same ones, because the perspective of being about an inch tall is such an incredible feeling, and so different from most.
As far as the story line goes, I must agree with some that the ending was a little underwhelming. However, they seem to update regularly and I am hoping they will add more content for after the main quests are done. Although the building/taming/survival aspect is honestly so satisfying that I still play even though I am through the main quest line.

Overall what I love:
- Really pretty world
- Awesome building mechanics
- Satisfying fighting mechanics
- YOU can MOVE your base tree to tree (with tames)! SUPER great feature, and its a large building space (also a cross-server feature)
- Early-Mid story line is creative
- Armour sets are beautiful/ can upgrade the ones you like as you level (same with weapons)
- SOUNDTRACK is really nice and fitting
- "End Boss Fight"

Some things that need improvement:
- Late story-line
- More quests (they do seem to add them)


Future Hopes:
- Hoping they add dye sets!
- Making the Blue-tit more manageable (it has no stop function, just lands)
- Adding more to the Companion tab, should be able to remove from party not just release tame from the tab.

Overall, great game and well worth the money.

this game has been extremely fun to play, I've read reviews that complain about bugs late game, but in early to mid game i haven't found a single one. the combat feels satisfying, the progression system always keeps you looking for more, and the story is kind of just a bonus really. even ignoring it for the first 10 hrs has been fun and jumping back into it just adds more depth to the game. 100% recommend to anyone who likes survival games especially if you like creating entire zoos worth of animals just for fun.

This game is great, and honestly, I don't know why people say that its worse than grounded. In my opinion, its the polar opposite. The combat feels so smooth, its got hours of play time, the parrying feels cleaner, the story is good, the quests make sense, and it feels very refreshing to play.

I had magical time as a little sprite fighting against gargantuan garden miniature-life and battling it out amidst the torrential mild showers

So far, I've been enjoying this game!
However, I think a big reason I'm enjoying it is that I didn't come in expecting a game with a story, or much direction as to where to go and what to do. If I had been expecting those things, I definitely would have been disappointed.
I came into this wanting to play a game where I get to build bases as a little guy, experiencing what it would be like to be the size of a faerie. And this game 1000% delivered on that! It has a really intuitive base building system, cute lizards, good character customization, and a lot of options when it comes to the difficulty of your world.
It's definitely lacking in several aspects, but it's still in early access, so that makes sense right now! I'm excited to see what they add and improve in the future!

I thought this would be a mix between ARK and Grounded - NO

But this is neither. It's not even close to any of those games.

You're thrown into the middle of a story-line where it feels like you've missed the first half. There is only one objective on your map so you'll run around aimlessly. The story is lackluster
I died. Several times. Each time forcing you back to start. The games default setting will clean out your inventory. Whats the point of starting over every 10-15 minute?

GUI is clunky, inventory management doesn't work very well, controls are bad, movement and fighting is clunky, game gets lag-spikes

After an hour I finally managed to find a location where I could build a house, bed and respawn-point, but I was attacked by a queen bee five times my level. I was killed and forced back to square one.

The game captures the essence of both exploration and survival, with the game's dynamic environments and intricate survival mechanics. The unique perspective of being a small creature in a vast world really enhances the sense of exploration and adventure.

The game was pretty, had a good story, was difficult at times but it made it more fun. We really enjoyed playing this and will continue for a bit to complete some side-quests.

This is a hard game to recommend. The early and mid game are a blast, the base building is fun. The sheer amount of tames and mounts are awesome, even if their stats at different levels don't seem to translate correctly (how does my level 96 black hornet with a higher hp stat have less health than my level 44 hornet with a lower hp stat??). But as I'm getting towards the end I'm seeing more and more bugs and not the good kind. Turrets are reactivating after being deactivated and there's no way to shut them off again. This makes flying over the Amber Valley, a huge area where everything is spread far apart, infuriating. The bird mount is a hot mess and doesn't ascend. Mine is currently trapped on some stairs with no option to go up. For something that is so hard to obtain in game, that's pretty inexcusable. And these are bugs that have been known about for a long time, some since 2023, and still they haven't been resolved. I don't expect they ever will be.

For that reason I can only recommend buying this game if it's on sale, and temper your expectations for the late game.

Update: I got stuck on the final tower in a way that absolutely shouldn't have happened. It honestly feels as if there was no thought put into the late game content here. It's not satisfying to leave the game unfinished because I'm utterly frustrated at this point so I'm changing my review to not recommend.

Much less interesting then a Grounded. Looks more like a rust-like game with much less interesting story or PvE.

Smalland feels like a very early access game. I can't help but compare it to Grounded which is a similar game. Grounded outshines Smalland in every single aspect besides having the ability to tame/mount insects but even the ability to do so is rather mediocre.

Starting off with the UI/UX - Trying to pet your bugs is needlessly frustrating as they bob and weave around, constantly resetting your selection to the top of the list. Looting and issuing commands to the insects uses the same hotkey. This means looting will have you frequently command your bugs to wait which can be irritating to deal with as you fight insect after insect wondering where your pets are and why they aren't with you fighting. The Byakugan vision mechanic that lets you see resources and enemies basically requires you to be right up on top of them to see anything.

Insect control - the extent of the commands you can give to a bug is to follow or to wait. You cannot tell them to attack what you attack. You cannot tell them to NOT attack. You can have a damselfly, the Yamcha of the game, try to take on enemies that will kill it in one hit all while you blow your whistle to call it back to you to no avail. You also cannot ride most of the flying insects.

Survival mechanics appear to be more of a suggestion than a mechanic - Cooking recipes don't really offer anything useful. Steak mushrooms can carry you throughout the entire game. You can boost your character's tolerance for cold weather through changing gear or eating meals. Unfortunately, cold weather takes a while to have more than mild impact and doesn't last long enough to be meaningful.

Combat - clunky and insects have far too much health. Turning their health bars down to 50% or so made the length of fights feel more reasonable. Combat with your insects feel like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's free roam mode where your Pokemon will just go around fighting every random thing that moves but you can't tell them to return.

Movement - also feels rather clunky. Mounted insect controls feel reminiscent of 1990s controls. Your insects will also frequently push you around and can cause you to fall off narrow ledges and paths. You would also expect spiders and geckos and such to be able to walk on walls and carry you but no, they cannot and are limited to the same ground you walk.

Combat levels - all creatures in the game have combat levels including you. Levels do not have any noticeable impact in the game. You can kill a level 88 grasshopper with the same difficulty as a level 5 grasshopper. Your level 45 wasp will struggle to take down a level 15 stag beetle. You can be level 100 and only double your base max health from 100 to 200 (enemies can do 40+ damage to you in a single hit).

Crafting vs building - your crafting benches will pull from chests in a (small) area around it. If you try to build, you must have the components in your inventory as they will not pull from storage chests.

Empty map - There's really nothing of interest around the map. See that tent with the dead human body in it? Nothing there but a cockroach (the cockroaches in this game are absolutely fucking huge btw). What about that rusted truck? Nothing but another cockroach. Occasionally and excitingly, you might find a bottle cap in these kinds of locations.

All in all, while the game is not bad, the game is simply not good and isn't enjoyable enough for me to recommend it.

Score: 5/10

Smallands offers an intriguing concept: a miniature survival adventure in a vast, insect-filled world. Unfortunately, its execution leaves much to be desired. From the very start, the game’s balance feels off. Swarms of aggressive bugs attack immediately, making the early game feel frustrating rather than challenging. It’s a steep curve that’s not rewarded with meaningful progression—most attractive items, like a standout weapon and appealing armor, become available only after defeating a major boss. By the time you obtain them, they are useless as you've completed the game.

Resource gathering is another sore point. Iron and clay, for instance, are hard to come by, turning their acquisition into a grindy mission rather than a rewarding milestone. Pets, one of Smallands’ unique features, also disappoint. Not only do they tend to attack friends’ allies mid-battle, causing confusion, but they also have a habit of running into your own traps, damaging themselves and adding to the player’s frustration.

The game does have its moments of charm. The world design is creative, and the concept of a tiny perspective within a larger natural environment is compelling. However, the gameplay mechanics, balance issues, and poorly implemented pet system make it difficult to fully enjoy what should have been a whimsical and challenging survival experience.

Last time I played my armor had wings, I was on a cliff when I signed out, now there is no way for me to get down with out dying, and because of that I cannot recover my gear.
I wish I hadn't wasted my time, playing it again.

Terrible hitching as well, do your self a favor and play grounded instead.

Fun and enjoyable in scalable world ;). The creature taming variety is excellent and one hopes to see more in the future in a new map. The single player storyline is not long but a challenge if one is to speed run. The story is mostly to help one progress with the survival build and hinting to new areas of resources. I have only played this as a single player and did originally see the main goal is to have large colonies of players in different fractions casing after a conquest play. Still have to fully understand concept of world events which really does not effect the world so much, or even why one would chase them? The weather dynamics is a beauty, with few certain resources only showing up during a certain season. The NPCs are very static, would like to see maybe just some sound interaction with them at least. Caring of pets is simple, with minor compulsive behaviour to ensure 100% pet loyalty for bonus traits, this for most part takes a lot of game time if you have many pets. It would be interesting if the allowable number of pets can be increased. This I am sure is doable, just unsure as I am only about 65%. The hidden unique creatures on the map are fun Easter eggs as well as the hidden geo builds or character decals. 100% Archivement completion of this game is doable. Build mechanics are great with basic geometric, that very artistic people can make super unique builds. Home builds in tree communities is an interesting key feature, but also allows to claim land on the ground. The most fun really comes with exploring, jumping, climbing and flying the world. I also wouldn't expect to also have small feelings for insect pet on adventures that you really do not wish to have die, as there is no fix point saves only auto saves.

This game is pretty ok. Grounded like with some of Ark's mounts and grinding, with none of Grounded its polish. It also has Ark its JANK. WHY. WHY. Does the "f" button have so many actions bound to it. And why can I not change it. I swear controlling mounts and looting drops is the biggest headache.