Outward Definitive Edition

要是有脑机接口，这玩意绝对是第二异世界人生。一切都太真实了。你就是个普通人，没有高贵的血统，也没有逆天的背景。所以外界的一切对你来说都是非常致命的。被野兽咬几口就感染了，防御几次攻击就失衡了，学个破魔法也要牺牲自己的生命。作为普通人，你要尽可能的活下去，认真规划好每一个战斗。反正我是乐在其中哈哈哈，天天埋陷阱坑boss

very good game two play with a friend
I really like the Backpack mechanic and the fighting system.
The world is beautiful.
There are many interesting places to discover.
Also you don´t have a map that shows you where you are on it.
It´s a nice game. I can only repeat.

Very cool, but DON'T LOOK UP ANYTHING!!!

Biggest charm for me playing CO-OP was us figuring stuff out along the way, from recipies to weapons and mechanics. Looking stuff up would ruin a BIG part of the experience. Also, damn I suck at combat alone.

One of the best co-op experiences I've ever had, and that was only with the base game. Came back for the definitive edition, and loving the additional DLC content. Best played without looking up anything about the game and enjoying the thrill of discovery and learning about the world the hard way.

Weird game with a very steep learning curve. Nothing in the game tells you that Jam on bread is absolutely critical to your success.

Tips:
Boil bugs.
Fish a lot.
If you aren't sure what it does, magic isn't for you.
Drink water.

Game gets a 6/10 for being a bastard.

A stellar experience that captures the true spirit of exploration and adventure. No game made me feel this like a plucky explorer in a dangerous world. Not only is the setting highly creative and detailed, but the openness is organic and rewards player ingenuity without handholding. So you truly feel like you have progressed, not just mechanically but mentally.

This game is just amazing. It could be called an 'adventure simulator'. It might be a little clunky in combat, but combat isn't the point. The adventure is. And the music... Oh my God the music! One of the best OST out there!

It's difficult for me to recommend this game, not because I didn't like it. In fact, I do like this game, and that's why I have 80 hours into it. But what felt like a novelty at first, becomes tedious after a while. This game is "hard", not due to difficulty, but because it doesn't have any quality of life features to it.

I will say there is a lot to do, and a lot to customize. I enjoyed the combat, the crafting, and the equipment.

There are some clipping issues, no jump (which is weird cause you can dodge roll), and you will be doing a lot of running as travel, which gets bothersome at some point.

Sold game. No jumping in game is a bit different but the mechanic of combat is enjoyable. Will say the traveling gets annoying after awhile, at least there is auto run for the long journeys. Many different play throughs and character build customization so you can put a ton of fun hours into it.

Great Game; I was very hesitant at first I didn't want to play a game that takes muscle memory to win because it is so difficult. That said this game is challenging but most everything can be solved by planning and just playing cautious. The magic system is weird but you get used to it via trial and error and probably the most powerful way to play. The Bows and Daggers are fun all while actually being an awesome way to beat anything in the game. I love the split screen factor and its why i bought the game originally to play with my kid. He is only 7 but he has a blast too, he struggles with some of the stuff and stays away from magic other than summoning a ghost. He likes being a tank with heavy armor and shield he loves just blocking everything. WARNING THE WEATHER IS DEADLY!

This game is something else. It truly gives the vibes of actual surviving, and not being the main character of the story, only a hapless npc. My only problems are:
- Not enough side quests in the areas.
- No matter what you do, your character will look like a diseased molerat.
Otherwise it is a pretty decend game. 8/10

it's a unforgiving survival game with hard combat big open regions to explore and solid build crafting based on weapons and skills and not xp farming. it's one of my favorite survival games and co-op is great! lots of stuff to do and places to explore the only thing i'm not a huge fan of is time based quests but that's also part of the unforgiving survival mechanics. honestly solid 8.5/10 overall

its got a high difficulty curve but once you are past it; its an amazing game. having a friend to assist in fights is the only reason i got past it my self. i'd describe it as a souls like but focused on survival instead of combat

A pretty amazing game all things considered. I remember playing the original version and enjoying it,but it was always lacking. This version fixes just about all my problems I had with the original. As you can see from my playtime as of typing this I genuinely enjoy the game. While the three brother DLC is a little meh since there's a lot of grind involved overall this game has been a blast. It rewards trial and error as well as experimentation and knowledge. The more you learn about the game its mechanics and perks the more your able to travel. The easier your runs become. My first run ever I lost my house and kept spam dying in the winter, after that I decided to play it a bit slowed and grab certain perks that didn't require a breakthrough. What turned into some of the hardest fights in the game for me became somewhat of a joke. Not to mention the modding scene for the game also puts a fun spin on it once you get tired of the base game. The amount of build variety, weapon designs, and lore in this game has me praying outward 2 is here swiftly. If your on the fence about Outward I recommend trying it especially if its ever on sale again. Don't be afraid to look things up if you're really worried about finding items or even builds. This RPG is about having fun not suffering through it for bragging rights. This game is a learning curve that once you've mastered the basics you'll dominate the game easily. Often negative reviews for this game tend to be the difficulty, the lack of true fast travel, or they don't understand how to properly build their character.

Well, this is equal part survival and rpg, quite interesting take on both genres, though it's far from brutal realism of stuff like Green Hell, so game is far fully rpg. Though you'd still to have to watch out for hunger, temperature, rest, bunch of afflictions... start is especially rough with any wolf, bandit and big bird being a mortal threat. Inventory management would be an issue all thorough your adventure, as weight you can carry is quite small, even with best travel bag. Lots of mechanics are quite peculiar for rpg - got to drop travel bag before fight to avoid issues with dodging and maneuvering, mana only becomes available after accessing ley line and sacrificing some of your physic, so you'll lose a bit of strength in exchange for mystical powers. Also half of magic is not very strong and needs magic circle of element in question to empower them.

There isn't much in terms of looks, and wasn't even in year of release, even less now, thought it shouldn't be that jarring to the eye.

Audio is okaish, nothing outstanding but serviceable.

Plot is great\good (though maybe closer to good level), though it might not seem to be so at start, but bunch of concepts, bit of branching, look at situation from perspective of various factions is pretty nice.

Learning how things work on your own in Outward is very fun in the early game. Once you have the basics down it becomes difficult to figure out what the game wants you to do next, but the early game is very strong. Hopefully Outward 2 makes it slightly easier to figure out what the players goals are, without resorting to a guide or tutorial.

Good game that forces you to preplan your combat encounters

I just dont get what people find in this game...

On paper we thought its the perfect coop game, RPG, classes, detailed combat, exploration and looting and all with a friend? Sounded perfect!

Wrong...

There are so many design choices that make the game so incredibly tedious, that it just kills all fun and joy.

We needed a shitload of mods just to make it bearable, but here are many of the awful design choices we had to "fix" with mods:

Most classes are made up of passive or extremely situational skills that dont feel impactful at all, you are also limited to 3 classes out of 11.

You only have a single action bar of 8 slots for active abilities, which is not enough, since more than half of all abilities require a specific buff you need to have, so you also need to constantly open your skill book to buff yourself before you can use an ability.

Oh did i tell you the buffs have 3-5min cooldowns and are consumed when you use the combination ability?

Did i also tell you that the ability has also sometimes up to 6min of cooldown and barely has more impact than a normal attack?

The map doesnt really show anything, including the player position, but its not like you miss much, each map seems big but its just incredibly empty.

Enemies dont really respawn and there are only a handful in every area, so it always feels dead and empty everywhere.

The quests are generally barely more than fetch-quests you find in bad MMOs or repeatable quests in other RPGs.

Your carry weight is incredibly small and things are incredibly heavy, so you can barely loot anything, especially when you want to use more than one weapon.

The coop part didnt feel well designed either, since the coop partner gains no quest progress or achievements, you only earn gear and potentially abilities.

All in all the game is an incredible disappointment and i really dont get why people recommend it to others.

We fought our way through and 100% finished the game in almost 65 hours.

I feel robbed of valuable lifetime after finishing this game.

Dont waste your time unless you hate yourself and your coop partner.

This game is a lot of fun. I know you could solo and have a good time, but it really shines with a friend. AND it really can suck your life away cause there's a lot to explore and it's just hard enough to be satisfying without a grind-vibe.

My brother told me to buy it. At First i was hesitant, because the game is not for everyone.

I was positively surprised, playing in CO-OP is a cool adventure, but Solo is boring as hell.....

Combat is neither Good nor Bad , survival part is good , but the World feels empty sometimes.
Graphics is not bad, could be better tho. Overall progression/combat/gearing up is kinda Souls-like.

This combination might not be for everyone i understand .
Solid 6.5/10 from me

There is a lot to be said about this game. There are some systems I really like. Unfortunately, most of the systems I was most looking forward to, had some major flaw.
There's no fast travel, meaning you need to walk everywhere, with no map markers so you'll need to navigate as well. I liked that idea, until I realised the map is inaccurate, the world design feels arbitrary and lifeless, and there is no jumping or climbing, and sprinting is discouraged, all leading to boring traversal. The travel is punishing and walking is slow for immersion - fine. Give us a horse.
The world feels vast... and empty. There are a dozen or so interesting things in the first map alone that most npcs should know about and just don't mention. The writing sets the world up a developed set of societies living in dangerous lands. I cannot fathom how anyone gets anything done when there are bandits outside every city gate, and everything but the city interiors are long lost ruins.
The death scenario system sounds great, until you die two steps from a city gate and get dragged halfway across the map instead two steps back into town.

Things that do work: the resting and repair systems feel good and fair.
The magic is hard. Really hard. If I didn't know better I would say the game doesn't want you to use magic. Every kind of magic has several steps to casting a spell. This being in addition to the arduous task of acquiring mana in the first place. Magic feels earned and powerful because of this.

In conclusion, as some people have already said. This game feels like it has the core of some very good ideas. Ideas I was really looking forward to. But it fails to execute most in some crucial way.

I love this game, but it will not tolerate not being taken seriously. You WILL lose fights if you aren't smart, and from what I've seen, this game doesn't do a Game Over screen on normal mode. Instead, you get dragged off to be held prisoner by intelligent forms of life, and you have to find your way out and get your stuff back. This game is rad as hell.

Had a great start and seemed promising. However, as you leave the very first settlement you will soon discover that nearly the entire world is just empty. No loot, no enemies, no npcs to interact with, just nothing. I spent the last 2 hours of my time played looking for anything to do. I hope it gets worked on, I enjoyed the brutal combat style.

This game is not only an acquired taste, but a game which you have to stick with for a while in order to appreciate it.
However, it is also truly unique in the best sense, and will engage throughout your time with it.

If you find that you always need to feel challenged, and often put games on the hardest settings on your first play through, this game may be for you. Not that this game is necessarily 'hard', but because what you lack in those other games is a sense of engagement that they naturally fail to provide since those games are too afraid to scare you off; this game is not afraid tell you to pull up your socks and pay attention.

Note: This is an indie title made with only a handful of people, I think it's like 3. There is a bit of jank and I have some qualms with how some of the mechanics are handled, however I will give it a pass since there is really no other game that manages to do what this game has done. Best of luck to it's sequel.

Great survival fantasy rpg, abit difficult at start, but when you learn mechanics its great. I was dwelling into the lore in this game and its huge. Amazing questline, long and with multiple outcomes. World itself is beautiful, outlandish and then it struck me:
"They never forgot the destruction of what they believe was their home, and are thus very slow to change. They call The Scourge the "Earth Beasts" and many believe their appearance signaled the beginning of the destruction of Aurai, just as they believe the Scarlet Moon was destroyed. They are, however, perplexed as to why it stopped."
I think the shattered moon on sky is Earth and this is either moon we know. They say in game lore about learning things from Father , Weaver etc. Also you can find many out of place industrial constructions from metal and signs of technology. Most probably magic in this game is for real nanotechnology etc. Anyway lore is big point in this game. Will i play it more? Probably yes, but squishiness of character is abit problematic sometimes with bosses, you can be very powerful due to skills and potions, but it takes alot time. Game is abit too slow paced for me for fantasy rpg, but its only my opinion. I anyway highly advise to check Outward if you search for a game for longer. For me its The Long Dark survival, but Outward is very close in my heart.

So I tend to avoid games with this mixed of a reception as the steam reviews might suggest, but this thing is incredible. The vast majority of negative reviews are either a) It's too hard or b) It doesn't have fast travel - personally I find the difficulty great, no save scumming with interesting defeat scenarios which might result in failing a timed quest, the stakes are great and forces you to act carefully. Outward encourages cheesing whenever possible, every fight is a possible death so run away, set up traps, fire arrows from on top of an inaccessible rock - I find all these cheesy wins so gratifying somehow. And then the fast travel problem, sure it might be nice but again it adds real stakes, travelling is a big decision and feels really significant, and I find the world pretty enough to enjoy wandering through for hours.

Don't want to call this criticism invalid, it certainly alienates some players used to faster paced constant action and stops me from recommending this to everyone - but I would encourage looking past the mixed reception as if you're the right audience this is an 11/10!

This game has been my favourite for years, i have many hours on PC and PS4. I love how many different types of builds that can be made, and the challenge that is surviving. The combat is hard, and unforgiving, but with some patience and a little prep, any fight can be taken on. This game truly shines in the Co-op mode. I am constantly looking for friends to play with because each adventure brings it's own problems and entertainment. Take your time to explore, and enjoy the game.

So much of this game was so close to being great. So many incredible IDEAS for mechanics, but all poorly executed. Every good thing about this game always has a huge caveat. I was only able to finish the game in co-op, because talking and playing with my friend was how I coped with running across the maps for 70% of my game time. My friend built a tank-type character with some of the best armor in the game and the best shield, 175 HP, and would still be killed in just a few seconds. You'll be knocked down and stun-locked while an enemy continues a long chain of attacks that keep damaging you and keep you from taking any action whatsoever. You're forced to travel between regions over and over to finish fetch quests, rotting all of your food in the meantime. We enjoyed playing this game together, but multiplayer really saved the experience for us. There were so many annoyances along the way that once we finished the game and took a look back at our experience, we realized how much of our time was wasted by a game that clearly does not respect your time. Survival mechanics are decent, until you get caught in the boring foraging loop. Enchanting is incredibly creative, but then you get bored of it quick and don't even bother experimenting. The skill system is unique, but the combat very clearly was not built for a lot of builds. The limiting inventory is a breath of fresh air, until you realize that without picking up everything that isn't nailed down, you're not going to get the money you require for anything. Travelling is an adventure, until you realize that there's no point in fighting anything in the overworld and you may as well sprint past everything to the zone exit. While we had fun in the first region and the early game, the rest of the game suffers tremendously. I can not in good conscience recommend this game to anybody.

P.S. Don't even bother with The Three Brothers DLC, available after beating a faction storyline; There's a bad town-building minigame that takes way too much time, forces you into way too many loading screens, and gives you rewards that don't even matter, considering you've already beaten the game and most of its challenges. The mechanics are not good enough to carry into an endgame.

This game is Dumb, its way too easy to die. The combat sucks, once you die, you go back to town or get locked up or dragged somewhere else. Too hard to buy shit you need. Constantly die and then need to rest and go to bed to regain full health and etc. avoid this game, its dumb.

If you actually read through the game's tutorial, it takes you around an hour to complete it. I had to play the very beginning of the tutorial, quit the game and only try it again a couple days later due to personal reasons, which left me with exactly 100 minutes of playtime when I finished the tutorial. I was lucky that Steam allowed me to refund the game despite having 2.5 hours of gameplay.

From the tutorial alone, I had two thoughts about the game so far: this game does NOT feel good to play, and it may have interesting features. My 50 minutes of actual gameplay proved this right. This game is, and feels, janky. Stiff. From moving the character to attacking with your weapon, the animations are not responsive and ugly looking. The moment you attack an opponent, you notice just how much the combat lacks in impact and feedback. If not for the very subtle blood VFX and hitstop (or screen shake, can't quite remember), your only feedback of dealing and receiving damage would be the GUI. While Outward clearly tries to play into realism, it has such boring, weightless animations that I would not be surprised if those were Mixamo animations or bought assets. Search up some Outward gameplay on youtube and you won't even need to play the game to see it. Looking at it now, I see why the only video in the Steam Page media does not show combat at all.

Now, if you don't mind janky, depressing controls, the game does have some features that seemed fun. Other than inventory management with a weight system, your backpack would also affect combat:
• Having a backpack equipped would slow down your roll (and most likely reduce invincibility-frames), so you'd want to drop your backpack by pressing B before engaging in combat (and, of course, remember to pick it up after you're done);
• You could carry a torch or lantern in your offhand, or hang a lantern on your backpack;
• Every melee weapon that I've tried out had a string of two basic attacks, with an alternative one that changed depending on your last attack. All the alternative attacks I've tried seemed to have the purpose of repositioning, but nothing special, flashy, or good looking;
• There was a variety of helpful skills for combat, some which depended on other skills to prove actually useful, such as setting an area (Sigils) of magic that changed how other magic skills worked as long as you were inside that area.

In the end, Outward seems to have interesting ideas and concepts, but lacks in how it feels. Played for less than three hours and had no fun at all. Would not play again.

Where to start... this game seems like it had a lot of time and love poured into it. The problem is a lot of that love came from people who don't seem to understand game design or what makes a great game. I understand wanting to make a game challenging, even brutally so but the way this game handles it by debuffs, passage of time, and worst of all making you spend 30m+ to get back to where you died makes me wonder if any play testing was actually done. Every punishment or penalty feels like it is designed to not only consume a lot of time, but make you bored while clawing your way back.

Enemies sometimes have absurd amounts of health, hit hard, and pursue aggressively. The only reprieve is that the AI's pathfinding is super jank and can be exploited to the point you wonder if its the only way the devs intended you to win some of these fights.

I feel like I am playing an early-access game that is still in an alpha-state. Not only has this game "released" but has a "Definitive Edition" which implies a major, post-release QoL, visual, and bug fixes. Which is weird because this game often feels like a high-effort, asset-flip. The movement and camera behavior feels like something out of the early 2000s which I think contributes a lot to the clunky feeling.

The jank is just tolerable enough to play but the time spent grinding and the cost of some items is often puzzling. I have been playing this coop; if the difficulty is the same in single-player, I think this game would be absolutely unplayable.

I tried really hard to like this game(as you can see from my playtime), but I wouldn't say that pretty much any of it was particularly fun. I tried to stick it out because I know a couple of friends that swear by it, but as of the time of writing this I would describe my time with the game as an abusive relationship I was always hoping would get better.

I spent hours improving my character, building wealth and equipment and skills, trying to learn and get better at the game, and all I have to show for it is frustration and misery. Even after almost 4 dozen hours playing the game the only thing I can reliably accomplish is fighting the enemies in the starting zone.

Lemme give you an example to explain my frustration with this game:
So I decided I wanted to be a hybrid melee caster, kind've lean into a paladin-esque build. So I go to the magic place where you can gain the ability to cast magic: At the cost of maximum health and stamina, permanently. Okay, I'll just trade a little bit for a little mana, since I won't be using a lot. Then I do a cross country adventure to learn the ability to bless my weapon with holy lightning- sweet! Costs 12 mana. But uh.. Sleeping reduces your maximum mana by up to half. Sleeping by the way, is the most reliable way to recover from losing maximum health/stamina from consuming those resources, so as a melee character you tend to need to sleep. A lot. So my 20 mana is always 10. Not enough to cast the spell- but even if it were, the spell can only be cast if I have another buff which costs me ~8 mana. So any amount of sleep makes me unable to cast my spell without using consumables to get my mana back. Oh, and if you happen to die(Which you will, a lot) that reduces your maximum health/stamina down to ~25% until you sleep or use consumables. I spent 40 minutes farming consumables to try and actually use my abilities, and burned through them in 5 minutes to a series of deaths and being dropped in worse locations after those deaths and was left with nothing to show for that nearly hour of gameplay. Skill issue? Absolutely. That said I've had these spells for over 10 hours of gameplay and I've used them less than ten times because I NEVER have mana. Now sure, I could go DOUBLE my mana and then be able to use my skills one time for every time I fully heal but those skills aren't powerful enough to justify MORE permanent loss of health and stamina.

My only option at this point is to go back to the starting zone where I can confidently win fights and grind money for hours to upgrade my gear and buy new skills OR go spend two hours running around avoiding fighting anything so I can use one of the cheese strats to build up money until I have everything I want but based on my experience so far even if I had the best armor and all the skills I'd probably still lose all my gear to a "your stuff got stolen lol" death event the first time I dared to fight anything that isn't a bandit with a machete. I'm at the point where I have no expectation of enjoyment, and only expect the game to abuse me every time I try to push outside my comfort zone, and I'd rather just play a game that doesn't skill check me every few minutes and then punish me by making me weaker, burning my consumables, half the time dropping me somewhere harder than the place that just killed me, and OCCASIONALLY taking my valuables and hiding them somewhere I need to google and then fight through when I fail one of those skill checks.

Really wanted to love this game as an open world adventure in an interesting world, but while all the basic ideas are there the execution falls really flat.

I like the idea of this game a lot more than playing it. Having to lug around a backpack of supplies like Samwise in Lord of The Rings, brew my own potions, maintain my gear, be prepared for the weather and even take proper care of my injuries and illness. But at every turn the actual execution of these ideas feel like chores.

You never have enough space for supplies so you need to forage, right? But a lot of ingredients for 'common' necessities are mostly in specific areas and far apart. You can't forage while travelling because you need one specific item from a few specific areas to create your basic necessities, so you end up needing to stockpile without the space to.

The combat demands that you meta game your enemies. Enemies have a stagger bar, if it is over 50% they have infinite hyper armour. If it is less than 50% they will stagger to the lightest attacks in the game. This ends up with you just baiting enemies to attack and literally sprint out of range and sprint back to poke away at their HP and stagger until they are below 50% and you can just attack spam. Later in the game the only real change is that you have skills or ranged weapons that hit a lot harder, even oneshot.

So if melee feels bad how about ranged? Well if you pick any ranged option you immediately add to your list of chores. Farm for more ingredients and make ammo or farm for more money and buy ammo. Delegate more of your limited weight to carrying ammunition. Want a gun? Well they have long reload animation so you're once again encouraged to stockpile another bunch of weight to have multiple guns pre-prepared ready to blast. Then after a fight you slowly reload all of them to be ready for the next fight.

Well it's a fantasy game, what about magic? Exact same issue as guns, but worse. For starters you have to sacrifice your MAX stamina and health for every bit of mana. So surely magic must be worth the sacrifice? Absolutely! If you're fine with doing more chores. Spells need everything from resources, setup time, mana/sleep management and a silly amount of walking and exploring to unlock anything more interesting than a small fireball. Your first "spell" is spark, it makes your character do a snap animation and cause a small spark. If you do it while inside a magical sigil it becomes a fireball. So how do you make sigils? You mine specific stones from specific areas and add more chores to your weight delegating. Your ultimate reward? Before any fight you need to stop, set up your sigil, do a slow cumbersome snapping animation and if the enemy only almost died you sprint in a circle avoiding them until the burning kills them. Rinse and repeat with different flavours and colours.

I could go on for ages. At every point where it feels like an adventure climaxes in some way, like unlocking a new weapon type, learning magic, learning alchemy and even finding gear. The excitement is overruled by the realisation that I have more 'stuff' to manage to survive in an empty, near barren world filled with small farmable points of interest to engage with a combat system where I mainly kite slow combat animations until I have enough distance to spam my own slow combat animations. It never feels like my arsenal or skill set expands in any meaningful way. You fight the toughest enemies later in the game the exact same way you felt like you were cheesing the earliest bandits and hyenas, but with slightly more flashy effects or different cumbersome melee animations for more damage.

After 21 hours of single-player and co-op, I have a singular fond memory of this game where the game caught myself and my friend unawares with its injury and weather system simultaneously and we had to claw our way back to town in a suddenly hostile environment with my friend dealing with a worsening infection. And every time I boot up the game since I just recall the amount of farming, cheesing and busy work it took to even start our first failed adventure and the knowledge that at the hypothetical successful end of said adventure, nothing of interest was waiting.

If you're content with not being able to play through every last piece of content in a single playthrough and enjoy the finer mechanics that most games would make entirely optional, this will be your dream game. It's a harsh game that will force you to relearn your approach to playing video games, but doing so will open a whole new realm of opportunities for exciting emergent gameplay. Even if you don't currently think that this sort of game would keep your interest, I would highly recommend that you at least give this unique adventure an earnest attempt, with the foreknowledge that failure is not the end.

This is a great game that I am quitting. I recommend it but the survival mechanics make it very hard to play. Great depth, crafting system(s), magic is rad(very ritualistic), the world is cool. But you can't adventure long without your max health/stamina depleting(yes there are ways around this but it's all time-consuming and takes away from the adventuring). Death is inevitable and frequent which is a plus in my book, and often ends in interesting scenarios, many of which will kill you in short order. If you're looking for something in-depth that requires a lot of prep time for a little journey, this game is for you. I put in about 50 hours and don't regret that, but I am done with it.

Ultimately a positive review, the game has great ambition and does a lot of really cool things, and notably a lot of very different things. Maybe it's not quite its own genre but it is an experience very unique to itself. I liked it.

I've had this game for some time now and finally sat down to give it a go.

The major appeal would have to be the flexibility in the type of characters you can construct by acquiring skills and spells.

There are 13 different class teachers in the definative edition.

While you can learn all of the skills below each classes "line," for the upper, most powerful skills/spells, you may only choose 3 main classes to specialize in.

This allows for a multitude of different character styles, engaging both your creative mind as well as your logical.

The "outworld" areas are harsh, but as your knowledge of the game expands, your survivability greatly increases.

It is missing 2 incredible things, however, other games like enshrouded or new world, were also missing those same things.

In fact, there has only been 1 rpg that had everything that a player could want. But it was a text adventure, and no graphics game has yet created those 2 things in their game yet.
So I can't fault them for that.

This game starts out really fun, its very forgiving with just the right amount of challenge. But once you leave the starting area and start travelling to the other areas, it quickly becomes tedious. This is because there is no storage except the starting area and there is no fast travel options. (with exception of the Merchants, which is very expensive and are not normally going in the direction you want to go) You also get very limited storage in you backpack, so you will be running around overweight and out of stamina, which is really just crawling slowly to your destination. Add to this that the zones ALL reset when travelling between them and after 7 days. So, if you try to work around the lack of storage by making a camp with cooking and alchemy and a bag on the ground for your equipment, it will all disappear in 7 days and you will lose EVERYTHING, including unique items, which you cannot get back. Needless to say, this is BS that players have been complaining about since the initial release, and after several add-ons and a definitive edition release, it has not been changed. Don't waste your time. it's not worth the frustration. There are better games out there where the Devs listen to the community.

This game isn't hard. It's just clunky. Fable 1 had better reactivty 20 years ago.
This game is annoying. The first quest you get is a deadline and the game doesn't pause in menus or dialogue.
Want health back? Spend time sleeping. Died to the clunky combat? Days went by.
I could stomach it maybe if it had production value, but it doesn't. It looks like shit. NPC's sometimes have audio, but for some reason they only talk the first and last words of their dialogue box. The first town has NPC houses, but you can't enter any of them.
Not gonna waste another minute on this.

Yo this game is amazing. It's way better and more complex than it first seems. Reminds me of Kenshi.
I feel sorry for all the ppl who didn't give it a proper chance.
To some, early game combat might seem unsatisfactory, but that's because you suck and don't have any Skills yet. Use the 'push kick'! Melee is not hard to learn and its better than Elden Ring imo - everything but the graphics is better than ER, nj.
Combat overall is pretty sophisticated and better than most RPG games. I'm not joking, this game is a hidden gem.

This game shines because it has a comprehensive Magic and Skills system to give you tons of variation and builds.
There's a massive amount of Weapons and Armors, including tons of sets. Combine a set with your favorite skills or spells and change it up as you go and learn. Hundreds of Builds online to get an idea from.
This adds huge replayability. you can replay this a dozen+ times differently and lots of ppl online talking about their 'nth' playthru. Oh, and you can Gift items to your next playthru char in a cool way thru the Legacy system.

You can be SpellSword, a Runic mage, Hex mage, Assassin, Hunter, Knight, Brawler, and more, and combine 3 different specialized branches, plus the general skills from each trainer.

There's: Enchanting. Alchemy. Crafting. Cooking. Factions. Skill Trainers. Bosses. Arenas. 6 big map areas. Legacy stuff, and more.

There's tons of awesome mods and major mods that add a lot more to the game or alter something you don't like. There's also a combat mod to make the slight 'clunky' melee go away if you like it. Download R2modman and search for popular mods. Big modding community, I've already made a mod.

Don't like the quest timers? mod for that. Fast travel or run faster? mod. Want more backpack weight? More weapons / armors / skills / enchants..? mods. Active modding community still.

TLDR Whatever minor complaints ppl have are solved with mods. Don't let that hold you back. It's the same with practically every RPG game...

This game is a great idea that wasn't executed very well. Will happily continue to play co-op but would never attempt to play solo. Don't regret my purchase for $5 but highly advise against paying full price for this game especially if you don't have someone to play it with.

Combat is impossibly clunky - All animations are clunky/unnatural, they don't look or feel good in the slightest. Chaining skills/attacks/blocking is non existent as transitions are slow and not smooth at all. Enemies are way more agile than you no matter what. Potions/other actions during combat? forget about it bc ur animation locked - it feels like the game wants to imitate dark souls but does it in all the worst ways

Economy is abysmally stacked against you - I just never seem to have enough money for anything, maybe it's because combat is so bad that it's hard to earn anything besides temporarily becoming a fish merchant to fund ur dream of being a traveling merc (I suppose thats an interesting rp angle since this game is so realism focused...ig?)

Skills are... odd - Again looping back to bad combat skills are clunky, animations take forever and look unnatural. On top of that there aren't skill trees in the traditional sense, there are trainers spread around that may or may not have the skills you want which means if u wanna be an axe wielding warrrior, great! U can hang around the first town and grab some useful skills. Wanna be an assassin? You are skill-less until the three towns away.

The disease and weather survival aspect is not as bad as everyone says it is... kinda - Besides getting diseased from unfair combat with, say a wild dog, diseases and weather isn't that bad, and I like the hardcore survival. It's quite manageable if u are mindful of the teas and remedies and how to craft them.

Roleplay part of the RPG could be better - would be nice to have some roleplay mechanics such as interacting with nameless npcs in ways such as theft, murder, random encounters on the roads between cities, bounties, etc. For a game so focused on realism, everything is so scripted. However, it is understandable that this is probably a small dev and something like that may be out of their scope. This is less a complaint about the game and more something I would like to see in the future.

This game fills a very specific niche that I wold love more than anything to have - hyper realistic fantasy co-op rpg. I love the idea that you are not some powerful chosen one whose godlike strengths are just waiting to be unlocked. U are just some nobody from a small town looking for adventure. The main complain is the combat system and all other complaints mostly just stem from it which is unfortunate bc, in a game like this, combat is (or should be) the main gameplay. Especially as someone who thirsts for any game that will let me use a rapier+dagger combo, it is so disappointing that not only dual-wielding is not the smooth cohesive playstyle it should be, but there's only one rapier in the game and it's not even end-game worthy to boot. I'll happily settle for sword+dagger if the comabt system is good but it just is not in this game.

This game is PAINFUL but I love it.

I picked this game up quite a while ago. Put roughly 15 hrs in the game and decided the game doesnt suck, I'm just bad at it and I dont wanna play. Or maybe it does suck, idk.

Well I recently came back to it and really put a real effort into the game and I'm glad I did.

For anyone who's stuck in that rut in the beginning where everything is kicking your ass and you're hating the game, it's okay. Everyone who enjoys this game went through it too. Growing pains.

Just wait until you spend those breakthrough points and start getting a build going with some appropriate gear. The game starts to open up at that point and its fun.

But remember, dying is part of the game. It's okay to give up on a dungeon and just die.

Such a unique game and I'm glad I came back to it.

Chunky in the best way, charming and very well fleshed out worldbuilding. Not the most polished experience, but unique and well done in the things it is aiming to accomplish.

If I could leave a neutral review I would. I recommend it ONLY for its uniqueness. There are many things to like about this game, the Co-Op which is rare to see in a non survival/crafting RPG like this, the clunky yet good variety of weapons and armors, And the unique take on skills and stats. I for one had a good time playing Co-Op (which is really the only good way to play this game.)

But there is so so much wrong with this game as well. The game overall clearly was rushed and unfinished, I heard that the developers ran out of money and it shows. Towns, NPC's and Quests are hollow and have no depth, The overworld is barren with very little landmarks or things to do in it, The game has terrible load screens for entering everywhere...

But probably the worst part of the game is the walking. You walk everywhere, there is no fast travel, which I am fine with, but unlike games that handled this better (Like Morrowind) there is no viable way to get from Biome to Biome other than a caravan that randomly chooses towns to drop you off at.

There are many more problems I could point out with the game, Like the DLC's which are pure tedium. But for whatever reason I still had a decent time playing this game, and if you can get it for under $10, can look past the jank and quality issues and have a buddy to play with, you can have fun with it.

Easily one of the most unique action adventure games I have every had the pleasure of playing. From the survival mechanics to the magic system, I can not get enough of it. Only bad thing about it is how long I have to wait for the sequel to come out.

Loved this game one of the better games ive played last/ this year . Very good looking basicly no bugs server works great no crashes. Problem 1# i would say its TOO HARD it can be easily compared with dark souls franchise because how hard it is. I would recomend i would even insist you playing this game with a friend its MUCH more easyer this way. Keep in mind that some achievements only work for host so this is second thing whats wrong with this game. Everything else was really good. Took me 64 hours to finish every achievement playing DUO. But there are much more places that i havent explored so this game can easily rank much more hours different builds and so on.

Really fun game for 7$. Can't wait to play outward 2. Only thing I would change is to add an option for reseting skills

The formula that this game follows tricks you when you step into it, it seems to be a vast expansive world where a different adventure and story is behind every door, or mountain. But in my 80 hours of playing this I have found myself sorely disappointed in this game due to its vast shallowness. Every quest is the exact same, every humanoid enemy is the same, and all the monsters or animals are exceedingly annoying. When i first played i was excited to play a game with souls-like combat, and survival mechanics but as I played on i realized that these two were done moronically bad. The combat gets more and more annoying when you realize that every enemy is essentially at least a mini boss if you're in the right area, taking far too much health to form any type of pattern recognition for their attacks, leaving you dead. But no not even the sweet release of death can be granted to you, you are teleported on a giant map with multiple debuffs, and a realization of all the load screens you're gonna have to go through before you fight the a boss again is waaaay to long if you want to play this game at a good pace and continue working a full time job. This game loves wasting your time which i would love if i wasn't doing the same thing over and over again with little difference even when i progress.

I shall say though that I had some things i did love about the game, the maps was well done, by not having a character marker it escalated the feel of the adventure and your knowledge of the map. And mixed with loot being abundant and in EVERY corner gives you that feeling of paving your own path through the world.

In conclusion outward is a vast but shallow waste of your time, do not buy this game if you have responsibillities, if you don't then this game will be right up your alley.

This would be a dream game for me - the jank is tolerable and you get a game that feels like real adventuring - you mind the weather, have to plan each journey etc... but the timed quest system is abysmal and as far as I know not possible to turn off, I guess the developers simply chose to die on this hill instead of making that optional.

This is one of THE best RPG games ever made of ALL time.

Mana and magic are entirely unique mechanics in this game, you don't start a mage, you need to pilgrimage to the mage mecca and exchange total health points for mana. This is really sick.

You don't just cast spells, you acquire sigils and cast them in combos to cast spells, kinda like arks fatalis but without drawing with a mouse.


Combat is unforgiving, punishing, you need to eat, drink, set up camp, sleep, cook, etc.

if you fail to dispatch bandits they can capture you and bring you to their prison cells.

they can rob you, take your stuff and now you're back to square one.

The only thing this game is missing is reliable fast travel systems and/or mounts. There is NO reason someone should be walking across these maps more than once, but you will have to, and you do it on foot.

and because of this, EVERY time i play thru this game; I farm for a pearlbird mask and mastertrader garbs. Because these are the only armor items that give you total % increase in movement speed, and thus these are the defacto best items in the game.

i dont use other armor, because they dont allow you more movementspeed. I don't want less movement speed because this game forces you to walk everywhere.

This becomes a problem in CoOp too because your buddy isn't gonna get lucky with the games loot tables and drop a pearl mask early for them too, so now you have one guy unable to keep up with the other, because the movementspeed is that broke. it will disrupt your co op partners gameplay, and it will funnel you into the distinct decision to use these same items as well.. because.. well.. you don't want to move slow.

this is the ONLY problem this game has. there is a small amount of clunk to the game, but not enough to disrupt the experience of the game itself.

Because of this movement speed issue i'm gonna have to give it an 8/10.

if this game got horse dlc or an update that added mounts or town fast travel for a price, it'd be an instant 10/10. but due to the spacious scale of the maps, it sours the journey from A to B after awhile.

tldr; this is a must play for RPG enjoyers, Co Op game fans, this is one of the most unique RPGs ever made.

I've been running back and forth between 2 major cities because I forgot a few things playing with a friend. Took us like 4 real world hours to do that. Traveling is grueling, combat scales when you play with 2 people and everything in the game is not meant to be easy at all. This is a hardcore wiki game so make sure you're ready to learn before you even set foot in it, there's a million tips and tricks to barely alleviate some of the artificial difficulty this game provides.

If cock and ball torture is your kink this game is for you.
If challenging clunky game play is your reason to live this game is for you.
If you get headaches easily and you cower in the face of difficulty this game is not for you, seriously I think only a very select few would ever dare play this game start to finish so be warned and have an open mind.

I'd play with mods to avoid the terrible mechanics this game has to offer and save a lot of hours to enjoy the story. look up Thunderstore mod manager to get started