Yosemite Forest Ranger

So, I'm going to lightly recommend this game because there is enough exploration elements and walking simulator goodness to overcome the rather dull (so far) storytelling. The tapes did nothing for me but I very much enjoyed making soup and warming up inside and exploring the abandoned national park. If more survival elements get added before release buy it. If it stays as is and just adds more tapes well.... Edit, so several months have passed and the updates are almost non-existent. No reason to keep this on my hard drive.

A very enjoyable game, especially in its current early release form. It is the devs first game, and much more fleshed out than a lot of first games. The graphics are great, the scenery is beautiful, the forests, mountains, river. There are seasons as is usual. The map is much larger than I had thought it would be at this stage. So far I have encountered very few bugs, occasionally sound stops and requires a reload to get it going again, but the dev and his team are aware of this and already working on it. The game is set in the early 1980's, and as a Forest Ranger the game starts with you driving along a road and then oops, you lose control of your non power steering car and crunch. You're fine, but now you have to walk everywhere. There is a short tutorial, it is typical of the survival genre in that you need to look after your HP, food, temperature and thirst. There is a stamina bar also. The game has crafting, exploration, a story line. Very good voice acting, with our guy havi...

Absolutely beautiful game was so fun to stream amazing cooking and foraging. I am so excited to see where this game goes because right now just WOW!!!

Great looking game to play and relax with! Pick this up and support a small developer who's clearly putting in the work on this one.

Great work in progress! I know this solo dev is constantly working on improving and bug fixing this game. The open world is really nice and looks just like the Yosemite area. I look forward to continuing to play and anticipate the new updates!

Beautiful open world game, really could get lost in here. I think the sounds and interactions feel really clean and snappy, keep up the good work, look forward to exploring more... deep in the woods :)

I think this game needs some refocusing. If the true hook is to explore Yosemite and uncover a story, why are there survival mechanics thrown in? Feels like it is trying to be two very different things at once. Also, the non-existent tutorial made it very hard to know what to do next, and when I did find something, the interact system made it pretty difficult to enjoy. I have lots of respect for volunteer devs doing work purely for passion, but this needs some changes.

I've edited my review after further development: I respect and admire the vision but this project probably shouldn't exist. If you're starting from square one to make a video game and you don't know how to make a video game, it's best to start small. This could have just been "American Park Ranger" in a smaller fictional setting and it would have been a more realistic project. I really want this game to be good but it simply isn't. Essentially everything is janky. When I first bought this game, it didn't function at all. Now, with some great optimization fixes the game functions and I can experience bushes rendering at roughly fifty feet distance, broken physics, no walk animation, no instruction or goals, arbitrary invisible boundaries that don't make sense, and more. I honestly can't list everything wrong with the game or I'd be here all day. I won't even begin with more nuanced inaccuracies with the setting. This should not have been released for early access without a lot more fu...

This game needs MAJOR Work. I just logged out after standing on the starter road trying to make the game not LAGG so much. the game needs major optimizing. No need to fry my pc over a 3$ game. I'd ask for a refund but its 3$ so i support your game. and ill change my review when the game is better. Tell now. NO WAY.. ® Vats Gaming ™ ======================================================================= Processor Information: CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-core Processor CPU Family: 0x17 CPU Model: 0x1 CPU Stepping: 0x1 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 3800 Mhz 16 logical processors 8 physical processors HyperThreading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Supported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported AES: Supported AVX: Supported AVX2: Supported AVX512F: Unsupported AVX512PF: Unsupported AVX512ER: U...

Fun and relaxing game, in the Early access. A very enjoyable game. I like how is story progress and return me in my time where we have cassettes and VHS. Regarding some bugs have, but it is Early access and it is normal. Regarding bug what I was have in game is mostly about inventory where you want to put some food or wood or things in slot what I want it is wanky but it is not major so much. Other was sometimes when you want to cook and you pick up recipe and start to cook, the object like mushroom don't want to transfer from inventory to oven.. Overall game is really enjoyable.. Thank you Dev for return in year when I was born :D